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The Choice Theory of Contracts
Hanoch Dagan and Michael A. Heller 2017This concise landmark in law and jurisprudence offers the first coherent, liberal account of contract law. The Choice Theory of Contracts answers the field's most pressing questions: what is the 'freedom' in 'freedom... (read more)
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Guide on the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards: New York, 1958
Emmanuel Gaillard and George A. Bermann 2017The Guide on the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards provides a detailed analysis of the judicial interpretation and application of the New York Convention by reference to case... (read more)
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The Internationalization of Government Procurement Regulation
Aris C. Georgopulos, Bernard M. Hoekman, and Petros C. Mavroidis 2017As governments are major buyers of goods and services, foreign companies are keen to be able to participate in procurement opportunities on an equal footing with national firms. This has given rise to... (read more)
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Copyright: Cases and Materials
Robert A. Gorman, Jane C. Ginsburg, and R. Anthony Reese 2017With stimulating questions and discussion problems, comprehensive notes, and teachable and well-edited cases as its hallmarks, this is the authoritative law school casebook for the study of copyright law. The book presents up-to-date... (read more)
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When Free Exercise and Nonestablishment Conflict
Kent Greenawalt 2017The First Amendment to the United States Constitution begins: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Taken as a whole, this statement has the... (read more)
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The Administrative Threat
Philip A. Hamburger 2017Government agencies regulate Americans in the full range of their lives, including their political participation, their economic endeavors, and their personal lives. As a result, administrative power is a pervasive feature of American... (read more)
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Bankruptcy and the U.S. Supreme Court
Ronald J. Mann 2017In this illuminating work, Ronald J. Mann offers readers a comprehensive study of bankruptcy cases in the Supreme Court of the United States. He provides detailed case studies based on the Justices' private... (read more)
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Property: Principles and Policies
Thomas W. Merrill and Henry E. Smith 2017This revised casebook is designed for a “building block” Property course that serves as a student’s foundation for the rest of law school and beyond. Avoiding the typical hodge-podge of issues, the book... (read more)
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About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America
Carol Sanger 2017One of the most private decisions a woman can make, abortion is also one of the most contentious topics in American civic life. Protested at rallies and politicized in party platforms, terminating pregnancy... (read more)
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Employment Law: Cases and Materials
Steven L. Willborn, Stewart J. Schwab, John F. Burton Jr., and Gillian L. Lester 2017The Sixth Edition of Employment Law will continue the volume’s focus on important unifying themes in employment law, such as the struggle for authority in the workplace between employers, employees, and the government,... (read more)
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The World Trade System: Trends and Challenges
Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Pravin Krishna, and Arvind Panagariya 2016When the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) metamorphosed into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1994, it seemed that the third pillar of the international economic superstructure was finally in place.... (read more)
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Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships
Clare Huntington 20162015 Prose Award Honorable Mention for Law and Legal Studies
Exploring the connection between families and inequality, Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships argues that the legal regulation of families stands... (read more)
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The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution
Sujit Choudry, Madhav Khosla, and Pratap Bhanu Mehta 2016The Indian Constitution is one of the world's longest and most important political texts. Its birth, over six decades ago, signalled the arrival of the first major post-colonial constitution and the world's largest... (read more)
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The Regulation of International Trade, Vol. 2: The WTO Agreements on Trade in Goods
Petros C. Mavroidis 2016The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) has extended its institutional arsenal since the Kennedy round in the early 1960s. The current institutional design is the outcome of the Uruguay round and... (read more)
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The Transformation of Human Rights Fact-Finding
Philip G. Alston and Sarah Knuckey 2016Fact-finding is at the heart of human rights advocacy, and is often at the center of international controversies about alleged government abuses. In recent years, human rights fact-finding has greatly proliferated and become... (read more)
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Principles of Financial Regulation
John Armour, Dan Awrey, Paul Davies, Luca Enriques, Jeffrey N. Gordon, Colin Mayer, and Jennifer Payne 2016The financial crisis of 2007-9 revealed serious failings in the regulation of financial institutions and markets, and prompted a fundamental reconsideration of the design of financial regulation. As the financial system has become... (read more)
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Freedom of Speech in the History of Ideas: Landmark Cases, Historic Essays, and Recent Developments
Vincent A. Blasi 2016This accessible and engaging book, with a focus on historical developments, basic principles, landmark cases, and contemporary issues without elaborating on the doctrinal matrix in full lawyerly detail, is well-suited for a political... (read more)
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Follow the Money: Essays on International Taxation
Michael J. Graetz 2016Publicity about tax avoidance techniques of multinational corporations and wealthy individuals has moved discussion of international income taxation from the backrooms of law and accounting firms to the front pages of news organizations... (read more)
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The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right
Michael J. Graetz and Linda Greenhouse 2016When Richard Nixon campaigned for the presidency in 1968 he promised to change the Supreme Court. With four appointments to the court, including Warren E. Burger as the chief justice, he did just... (read more)
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Exemptions: Necessary, Justified, or Misguided?
Kent Greenawalt 2016Should laws apply equally to everyone, or should some individuals and organizations be granted exemptions because of conflicting religious or moral convictions? In recent years, this question has become intensely controversial in America.... (read more)
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From the Bottom Up: Selected Essays
Kent Greenawalt 2016Kent Greenawalt's From the Bottom Up constitutes a collection of articles and essays written over the last five decades of his career. They cover a wide range of topics, many of which address... (read more)
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The World Trade Organization: Law, Economics, and Politics
Bernard M. Hoekman and Petros C. Mavroidis 2016The World Trade Organization (WTO) is one of the most important international organizations in existence today. It contains a set of disciplines that affect the ability of governments to impose trade restrictions, and... (read more)
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Administrative Justice in the United States
Peter L. Strauss 2016The noted Administrative Law scholar Professor Peter L. Strauss of Columbia Law School has now completed the Third Edition of his Administrative Justice in the United States, addressing the issues of administrative law... (read more)
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Congress at Work: A Documentary Supplement for Courses in Legislation
Peter L. Strauss 2016Casebooks on Legislation typically omit legislative materials, as such, giving students little if any chance to work directly with statutes and the processes that create them. Yet lawyers may become intimately involved in... (read more)
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The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Tim Wu 2016Ours is often called an information economy, but at a moment when access to information is virtually unlimited, our attention has become the ultimate commodity. In nearly every moment of our waking lives,... (read more)
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