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Regulating the Visible Hand?: The Institutional Implications of Chinese State Capitalism
Benjamin L. Liebman and Curtis J. Milhaupt 2015
The economic and geopolitical implications of China's rise have been the subject of vast commentary. However, the institutional implications of China's transformative development under state capitalism have not been examined extensively and comprehensively. Regulating the Visible Hand? The Institutional Implications... (Read more)
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The World Trade Organization: Law, Practice, and Policy
Mitsuo Matsushita, Thomas J. Schoenbaum, Petros C. Mavroidis, and Michael Hahn 2015
The WTO is one of the most important intergovernmental organizations in the world, yet the way in which it functions as an organization and the scope of its authority and power are still poorly understood. This comprehensively revised new edition... (Read more)
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After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene
Jedediah S. Purdy 2015
Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists have called this new planetary epoch the Anthropocene, the Age of Humans. The geological strata we are now creating record... (Read more)
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Intellectual Property at the Edge: The Contested Contours of IP
Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss and Jane C. Ginsburg 2014
Intellectual Property at the Edge addresses both newly formed intellectual property rights and those which have lurked on the fringes, unadmitted to the established IP canon. It provides a basis for studying and discussing the history of these emerging rights... (Read more)
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Global Climate Change and U.S. Law
Michael B. Gerrard and Jody Freeman 2014
A vast body of U.S. law relevant to climate change has developed since publication of the first edition of Global Climate Change and U.S. Law in 2007, even while Congress has failed to pass a new comprehensive statute to address... (Read more)
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Legal Methods
Jane C. Ginsburg 2014
This updated casebook serves a course in introduction to legal reasoning. It is designed to initiate students in the legal methods of case law analysis and statutory interpretation. In a course of this kind, students should acquire or refine the... (Read more)
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Is Administrative Law Unlawful?
Philip A. Hamburger 2014
Is administrative law unlawful? This provocative question has become all the more significant with the expansion of the modern administrative state. While the federal government traditionally could constrain liberty only through acts of Congress and the courts, the executive branch... (Read more)
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Drones and Targeted Killings: Ethics, Law, Politics
Sarah Knuckey 2014
Drones and Targeted Killings: Ethics, Law, and Politics is a unique collection of sources that reveal the dilemmas, concerns, and issues surrounding the use of drone strikes and targeted killings. The anthology was developed with an understanding that readers need... (Read more)
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The Wrong Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution
James S. Liebman 2014
In 1989, Texas executed Carlos DeLuna, a poor Hispanic man with childlike intelligence, for the murder of Wanda Lopez, a convenience store clerk. His execution passed unnoticed for years until a team of Columbia Law School faculty and students almost... (Read more)
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Defining Federal Crimes
Daniel C. Richman, Kate Stith, and William J. Stuntz 2014
This book is the first to frame federal criminal law as a distinctive world created and shaped by the interplay between the three branches of the federal government. It provides an overview of basic doctrine while inviting students to explore... (Read more)
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An Improbable Life
Michael I. Sovern 2014
Columbia University began the second half of the twentieth century in decline, bottoming out with the student riots of 1968. Yet by the close of the century, the institution had regained its stature as one of the greatest universities in... (Read more)
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Legal Methods: Understanding and Using Cases and Statutes
Peter L. Strauss 2014
How should students begin their legal education? Professor Peter Strauss's innovative materials build on a Columbia Law School commitment reaching back to Karl Llewellyn's Bramble Bush – that legal education should start with orientation to the materials lawyers use and... (Read more)
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Intellectual Property and the Common Law
Shyamkrishna Balganesh 2013
In this volume, leading scholars of intellectual property and information policy examine what the common law – understood as a method of reasoning, an approach to rule making, and a body of substantive law – can contribute to discussions about... (Read more)
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Law and Economics of Contingent Protection in International Trade
Kyle W. Bagwell, George A. Bermann, and Petros C. Mavroidis 2013
The book discusses the regulatory framework of contingent protection in the World Trade Organization – antidumping, countervailing duties, and safeguards – as well as an economic analysis of these instruments. The book’s various chapters illuminate the basic functioning of all... (Read more)
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Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries
Jagdish N. Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya 2013
In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru’s pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk liberalization of the 1990s. So which strategy best addresses India’s, and by extension... (Read more)
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The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made
Philip Chase Bobbitt 2013
Few books in the history of the world have had a stronger, more lasting, or more errant impact than Machiavelli’s The Prince. One of its first interpreters called it “a courtier’s Koran.” A copy was found in Napoleon’s abandoned coach... (Read more)
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Fletcher's Essays on Criminal Law
Russell L. Christopher and George P. Fletcher 2013
While George Fletcher's book, Rethinking Criminal Law, is justly celebrated as the most widely cited and influential book on criminal law, his articles and essays have been comparatively overlooked. But it is in these essays where Fletcher hones and polishes... (Read more)
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Regulations of Foreign Investment: Challenges to International Harmonization
Zdeněk Drábek and Petros C. Mavroidis 2013
The main aim of this book is to assess the importance of international rules for foreign direct investment and the major challenges to international harmonization of those rules. Particular attention is paid to the most controversial and contentious issues with... (Read more)
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Disability and Equality Law
Elizabeth F. Emens and Michael Ashley Stein 2013
This interdisciplinary collection of essays addresses the theoretical, practical and legal dimensions of equality for persons with disabilities. The issues covered include the central problem of defining disability and impairment; the dilemma of same versus different treatment; the balance between... (Read more)
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Contracts: Cases and Materials
E. Allen Farnsworth, Carol Sanger, Neil B. Cohen, Richard R.W. Brooks, and Larry T. Garvin 2013
This classic casebook offers first-year students a solid and inviting introduction to contract law, recognizing both the English and American common law traditions and bringing them into our age of statutes, most particularly the Uniform Commercial Code. This casebook features... (Read more)
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Threatened Island Nations: Legal Implications of Rising Seas and a Changing Climate
Michael B. Gerrard and Gregory E. Wannier 2013
Rising seas are endangering the habitability and very existence of several small island nations, mostly in the Pacific and Indian oceans. This is the first book to focus on the myriad legal issues posed by this tragic situation: If a... (Read more)
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Sexuality and Equality Law
Suzanne B. Goldberg 2013
Sexual rules and regulations are among society’s oldest yet it is only in recent decades that this once-stigmatized field has become the focus of scholarly attention. This volume, which includes some of the most thought-provoking and hard-to-find essays in the... (Read more)
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Statutory and Common Law Interpretation
Kent Greenawalt 2013
As Kent Greenwalt's second volume on aspects of legal interpretation, this book analyzes statutory and common law interpretation and compares the two. In respect to statutory interpretation, it first asks whether judges are "faithful agents" of the legislature or "independent... (Read more)
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The Law of the World Trade Organization (WTO): Documents, Cases and Analysis
Petros C. Mavroidis and Mark Wu 2013
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... (Read more)
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Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience
W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael T. Taussig 2013
Mic check! Mic check! Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In Occupy, W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig take the protestors’ lead... (Read more)
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