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Liberal Peace: Selected Essays

Michael W. Doyle
2012

Comprising essays by Michael W. Doyle, Liberal Peace examines the special significance of liberalism for international relations.

The volume begins by outlining the two legacies of liberalism in international relations – how and why liberal states have maintained peace among themselves while at the same time being prone to making war against non-liberal states.... (Read more)
Copyright Law

Jane C. Ginsburg and Robert A. Gorman
2012

This title provides a clear and thorough exploration of the doctrinal and policy issues in American copyright law. In a style accessible to both students and practitioners, it covers every major topic in basic copyright courses: history, formalities, exclusive rights, fair use, civil and criminal enforcement, and federal preemption of state law. The authors... (Read more)
The Three and a Half Minute Transaction: Boilerplate and the Limits of Contract Design

Mitu Gulati and Robert E. Scott
2012

Boilerplate language in contracts tends to stick around long after its origins and purpose have been forgotten. Usually there are no serious repercussions, but sometimes it can cause unexpected problems. Such was the case with the obscure pari passu clause in cross-border sovereign debt contracts, until a novel judicial interpretation rattled international finance by... (Read more)
Legal and Economic Principles of World Trade Law: The Genesis of the GATT, the Economics of Trade Agreements, Border Instruments, and National Treatment

Henrik Horn and Petros C. Mavroidis
2012

The World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement covers the vast majority of international commerce in goods and services. The Agreement covers not only measures that directly affect trade, such as import tariffs and import quotas, but potentially almost any type of internal measure with an impact on trade. Thus WTO legal texts are by necessity... (Read more)
Trade in Goods: The GATT and the Other WTO Agreements Regulating Trade in Goods

Petros C. Mavroidis
2012

This new edition of Trade in Goods is an authoritative work on international trade by one of the most influential scholars in the field. It provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of every WTO agreement dealing with trade in goods. The focus of the book is on the reasoning behind the various WTO agreements... (Read more)
Export Pioneers in Latin America

Charles F. Sabel, Eduardo Fernández-Arias, Ricardo Hausmann, Andrés Rodriguez-Clare, and Ernesto Stein
2012

Why do some new export activities succeed while others do not? Why are some not even attempted? In this book, distinguished research teams analyze eleven cases of new export endeavors in six Latin American countries to learn how export pioneers are born and jump-start a virtuous process leading to economic transformation.

The case studies... (Read more)
Marriage at the Crossroads: Law, Policy, and the Brave New World of Twenty-First-Century Families

Elizabeth S. Scott and Marsha Garrison
2012

The institution of marriage is at a crossroads. Across most of the industrialized world, unmarried cohabitation and nonmarital births have skyrocketed while marriage rates are at record lows. These trends mask a new, idealized vision of marriage as a marker of success as well as a growing class divide in childbearing behavior: the children... (Read more)
Preferential Trade Agreements: A Law and Economics Analysis

Kyle W. Bagwell and Petros C. Mavroidis
2011

This volume assembles a stellar group of scholars and experts to examine preferential trade agreements (PTAs), a topic that has time and again attracted the interest of analysts. It presents a discussion of the evolving economic analysis regarding PTAs and the various dysfunctions that continually place them among the priority items for (re)negotiation by... (Read more)
Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs

Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig, and Justin McCrary
2011

Criminal justice expenditures have more than doubled since the 1980s, dramatically increasing costs to the public. With state and local revenue shortfalls resulting from the recent recession, the question of whether crime control can be accomplished either with fewer resources or by investing those resources in areas other than the criminal justice system is... (Read more)
Bioethics Mediation: A Guide to Shaping Shared Solutions

Nancy Neveloff Dubler and Carol B. Liebman
2011

Bioethics Mediation offers stories about patients, families, and health care providers enmeshed in conflict as they wrestle with decisions about life and death. It provides guidance for those charged with supporting the patient's traditional and religious commitments and personal wishes. Today's medical system, without intervention, privileges those within shared cultures of communication and disadvantages... (Read more)
My Life in Seven Languages

George P. Fletcher
2011

George P. Fletcher is considered to be one of today’s leading legal scholars in the fields of torts and criminal law, in particular, comparative and international criminal law. Reflecting on the events in his personal and professional life during the past 70 years, the linguistic dimension clearly dominates and overshadows these activities.

Growing up... (Read more)
The Law of Clean Energy: Efficiency and Renewables

Michael B. Gerrard
2011

The framework of U.S. laws governing energy efficiency and renewable energy is one of fragmentation across levels of government, regions of the country, types of energy resources, regulatory techniques, and policy objectives. Those who attempt to navigate these various laws and accomplish a substantive objective, such as building a project, must be prepared to... (Read more)
The End of Energy: The Unmaking of America's Environment, Security, and Independence

Michael J. Graetz
2011

Americans take for granted that when we flip a switch the light will go on, when we turn up the thermostat the room will get warm, and when we pull up to the pump gas will be plentiful and relatively cheap. In The End of Energy, Michael Graetz shows us that we have been... (Read more)
The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order

Bernard E. Harcourt
2011

It is widely believed today that the free market is the best mechanism ever invented to efficiently allocate resources in society. Just as fundamental as faith in the free market is the belief that government has a legitimate and competent role in policing and the punishment arena. This curious incendiary combination of free market... (Read more)
Electronic Commerce

Ronald J. Mann
2011

The only casebook dealing with e-commerce, Electronic Commerce, Fourth Edition, utilizes problems to expound a transactional approach to electronic commerce. Written by Ronald J. Mann, a preeminent and prolific Commercial Law scholar, this system-oriented text is structured around the hypothetical representation of a technology company.

The new edition has been meticulously updated with the... (Read more)
Payment Systems and Other Financial Transactions: Cases, Materials, and Problems

Ronald J. Mann
2011

Written by Ronald J. Mann, one of the country’s leading Commercial Law scholars, Payment Systems and Other Financial Transactions continues to deliver clear, detailed practical explanations of how payment systems actually work. Using a systems approach, the text and problems focus on rules that are applied in practice. Easily adapted to any 50-minute, 75-minute,... (Read more)
From Normativity to Responsibility

Joseph Raz
2011

What are our duties or rights? How should we act? What are we responsible for? How do we determine the answers to these questions? Joseph Raz examines and explains the philosophical issues underlying these everyday quandaries. He explores the nature of normativity – namely, the fact that we believe and feel we should behave... (Read more)
Copyright and Piracy: An Interdisciplinary Critique

Lionel A.F. Bently, Jennifer Davis, and Jane C. Ginsburg
2010

Copyright has been the subject of interdisciplinary inquiry, but generally from the perspective of ‘authorship'. This volume takes a different tack, examining the concept of infringement and its cousins, imitation and inspiration, from a variety of approaches. Rather than proposing a litany of discrete chapters each independently covering a different discipline, the Editors have... (Read more)
Legal Interpretation: Perspectives from Other Disciplines and Private Texts

Kent Greenawalt
2010

In Legal Interpretation, Kent Greenawalt focuses on the complex and multi-faceted topic of textual interpretation of the law. All law needs to be interpreted, and there are many ways to do it. But what sorts of questions must one seek to answer in interpreting law and what approach should one take in each case?... (Read more)
Commons and Anticommons

Michael A. Heller
2010

This two-volume collection brings together the most important articles on the tragedies of the commons and anticommons. The first volume presents the bedrock articles that define commons and anticommons theory, from Aristotle to the present. The second volume continues with cutting edge property theory and applications. A judicious selection of articles shows how commons... (Read more)
The Law of Green Buildings: Regulatory and Legal Issues in Design, Construction, Operations, and Financing

J. Cullen Howe and Michael B. Gerrard
2010

Buildings and the built environment use vast amounts of energy and other resources in construction, operation, and demolition. In 2009, the residential and commercial building sector was responsible for more than 50 percent of total annual U.S. energy consumption and 74 percent of total U.S. electricity consumption. Beyond that, buildings are responsible for significant... (Read more)
The Law of the World Trade Organization (WTO): Documents, Cases, and Analysis

Petros C. Mavroidis, George A. Bermann, and Mark Wu
2010

This volume discusses the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the global forum for trade liberalization. It discusses in exhaustive manner the legal framework governing international trade that evolves out of the treaty regime and elaborates upon the major case law issued by the WTO. It further includes references to academic scholarship critiquing... (Read more)
The Meaning of Property: Freedom, Community, and the Legal Imagination

Jedediah S. Purdy
2010

In his latest book, Jedediah Purdy takes up a question of deep and lasting importance: why is property ownership a value to society? His answer returns us to the foundations of American society and enables us to interpret the writings of the patron saint of liberal economics, Adam Smith, in a wholly new light.
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Experimentalist Governance in the European Union: Towards a New Architecture

Charles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin
2010

This book advances a novel interpretation of EU governance. Its central claim is that the EU's regulatory successes within – and increasingly beyond – its borders rest on the emergence of a recursive process of framework rule making and revision by European and national actors across a wide range of policy domains. In this... (Read more)
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

Tim Wu
2010

Analyzing the strategic maneuvers of today’s great information powers–Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&T – Tim Wu uncovers a time-honored pattern in which invention begets industry and industry begets empire.

It is easy to forget that every development in the history of the American information industry–from the telephone to radio to film –... (Read more)