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The Regulation of International Trade, Vol. 1: GATT
Petros C. Mavroidis 2015The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was created alongside other towering achievements of the post-World War II era, including the United Nations, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. GATT,... (read more)
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Governing Access to Essential Resources
Katharina Pistor and Olivier De Schutter 2015Essential resources do more than satisfy people's needs. They ensure a dignified existence. Since the competition for essential resources, particularly fresh water and arable land, is increasing and standard legal institutions, such as... (read more)
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Unstable Constitutionalism: Law and Politics in South Asia
Mark Tushnet and Madhav Khosla 2015Although the field of constitutional law has become increasingly comparative in recent years, its geographic focus has remained limited. South Asia, despite being the site of the world's largest democracy and a vibrant... (read more)
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Entrepreneurial Litigation: Its Rise, Fall, and Future
John C. Coffee Jr. 2015Uniquely in the United States, lawyers litigate large cases on behalf of many claimants who could not afford to sue individually. In these class actions, attorneys act typically as risk-taking entrepreneurs, effectively hiring... (read more)
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The Question of Intervention: John Stuart Mill and the Responsibility to Protect
Michael W. Doyle 2015The question of when or if a nation should intervene in another country’s affairs is one of the most important concerns in today’s volatile world. Taking John Stuart Mill’s famous 1859 essay “A... (read more)
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Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality
Katherine M. Franke 2015The staggering string of victories by the gay rights movement’s campaign for marriage equality raises questions not only about how gay people have been able to successfully deploy marriage to elevate their social... (read more)
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International Copyright Law: U.S. and E.U. Perspectives: Text and Cases
Jane C. Ginsburg and Edouard Treppoz 2015International copyright law is a complex and evolving field, of manifest and increasing economic significance. Its intellectual challenges derive from the interlocking relationships of multiple international instruments and national or regional laws and... (read more)
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Cases and Materials on European Union Law
Roger J. Goebel, Eleanor M. Fox, George A. Bermann, Jeffery Atik, Frank Emmert, and Damien Gerard 2015This classic casebook presents the governance and judicial structure of the European Union, together with its major substantive law fields of concern to students and practitioners, all as updated by the 2009 Treaty... (read more)
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Rethinking Contract Law and Contract Design
Victor P. Goldberg 2015Rethinking Contract Law and Contract Design presents a rich array of ideas that reassess the law and economics of contractual relations. Victor P. Goldberg uses a transactional framework to critically analyse and re-evaluate... (read more)
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Interpreting the Constitution
Kent Greenawalt 2015This third volume about legal interpretation focuses on the interpretation of a constitution, most specifically that of the United States of America. In what may be unique, it combines a generalized account of... (read more)
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Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age
Bernard E. Harcourt 2015Social media compile data on users, retailers mine information on consumers, Internet giants create dossiers of who we know and what we do, and intelligence agencies collect all this, plus billions of communications... (read more)
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Federal Habeas Corpus Practice and Procedure
Randy A. Hertz and James S. Liebman 2015Federal Habeas Corpus Practice and Procedure is a two-volume set consisting of practical advice and analysis of U.S. Supreme Court cases written by subject matter experts Randy Hertz and James S. Liebman. The... (read more)
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Regulating the Visible Hand?: The Institutional Implications of Chinese State Capitalism
Benjamin L. Liebman and Curtis J. Milhaupt 2015The 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.... (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 2015The 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... (read more)
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After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene
Jedediah S. Purdy 2015Nature 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... (read more)
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Letters for a Nation: From Jawaharlal Nehru to His Chief Ministers, 1947-1963
Madhav Khosla and Jawaharlal Nehru 2014In October 1947, two months after he became independent India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru wrote the first of his fortnightly letters to the heads of the country’s provincial governments-a tradition that he... (read more)
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Basic Documents Supplement to International Law: Cases and Materials
Lori Fisler Damrosch and Sean D. Murphy 2014This up-to-date collection of documents is designed primarily for use in conjunction with Damrosch and Murphy 's International Law: Cases and Materials, Seventh Edition (2019). This Documents Supplement also provides a handy general... (read more)
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Intellectual Property at the Edge: The Contested Contours of IP
Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss and Jane C. Ginsburg 2014Intellectual 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... (read more)
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Legal Methods
Jane C. Ginsburg 2014This 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... (read more)
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Is Administrative Law Unlawful?
Philip A. Hamburger 2014Is 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... (read more)
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Drones and Targeted Killings: Ethics, Law, Politics
Sarah Knuckey 2014Drones 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... (read more)
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The Wrong Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution
James S. Liebman 2014In 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... (read more)
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An Improbable Life: My Sixty Years at Columbia and Other Adventures
Michael I. Sovern 2014Columbia 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... (read more)
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Legal Methods: Understanding and Using Cases and Statutes
Peter L. Strauss 2014How 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... (read more)
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Intellectual Property and the Common Law
Shyamkrishna Balganesh 2013In 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... (read more)
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