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Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age

Bernard E. Harcourt
2015

Social 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 daily. Exploiting our boundless desire to access... (read more)
Federal Habeas Corpus Practice and Procedure

Randy A. Hertz and James S. Liebman
2015

Federal 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 newest edition includes comprehensive coverage of:
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)

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)

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)

Basic Documents Supplement to International Law: Cases and Materials

Lori Fisler Damrosch and Sean D. Murphy
2014

This 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 reference for anyone working in the field... (read more)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

An Improbable Life: My Sixty Years at Columbia and Other Adventures

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Regulation 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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)