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  French Business Law in Translation

  George A. Bermann and Pierre Kirch
  2008

  By adding the relevant French text in a column directly across from the translation into English, this 2nd edition has a whole new dimension which makes it an invaluable resource in legal linguistics for international practitioners and academics.

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  Introduction to French Law

  George A. Bermann and Etienne Picard
  2008

  French law displays many features that set it apart in a world class of its own. It can be said to proceed from a number of independent streams that coexist despite apparent contradiction. More than half of the 2283 articles... (Read more)

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  Termites in the Trading System: How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade

  Jagdish N. Bhagwati
  2008

  Jagdish Bhagwati, the internationally renowned economist who uniquely combines a reputation as the leading scholar of international trade with a substantial presence in public policy on the important issues of the day, shines here a critical light on Preferential Trade... (Read more)

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  Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century

  Philip Chase Bobbitt
  2008

  Philip Bobbitt follows his magisterial Shield of Achilles with an equally provocative analysis of the West’s struggle against terror. Boldly stating that the primary driver of terrorism is not Islam but the emergence of market states (like the U.S. and... (Read more)

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  Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict

  Michael W. Doyle
  2008

  Does the United States have the right to defend itself by striking first, or must it wait until an attack is in progress? Is the Bush Doctrine of aggressive preventive action a justified and legal recourse against threats posed by... (Read more)

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  Tort Liability for Human Rights Abuses

  George P. Fletcher
  2008

  Advancing a bold theory of the relevance of tort law in the fight against human rights abuses, celebrated US law professor George Fletcher here challenges the community of international lawyers to think again about how they can use the Alien... (Read more)

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  Defending Humanity: When Force is Justified and Why

  George P. Fletcher and Jens David Ohlin
  2008

  In Defending Humanity, internationally acclaimed legal scholar George P. Fletcher and Jens David Ohlin, a leading expert on international criminal law, tackle one of the most important and controversial questions of our time: When is war justified? When a nation... (Read more)

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  The Law of Environmental Justice: Theories and Procedures to Address Disproportionate Risks

  Michael B. Gerrard and Sheila R. Foster
  2008

  Environmental justice is the concept that minority and low-income individuals, communities and populations should not be disproportionately exposed to environmental hazards, and that they should share fully in making the decisions that affect their environment. The Law of Environmental Justice... (Read more)

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  100 Million Unnecessary Returns: A Simple, Fair, and Competitive Tax Plan for the United States

  Michael J. Graetz
  2008

  To most Americans, the United States tax code has become a vast and confounding puzzle. In 1940, the instructions to the form 1040 were about four pages long. Today they have ballooned to more than a hundred pages, and the... (Read more)

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  Law and Judicial Duty

  Philip A. Hamburger
  2008

  Law and Judicial Duty traces the early history of what is today called “judicial review.” Working from previously unexplored evidence, Hamburger questions the very concept of judicial review. Although decisions holding statutes unconstitutional are these days considered instances of a... (Read more)

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  The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives

  Michael A. Heller
  2008

  Twenty-five new runways would eliminate most air travel delays in America; fifty patent owners are blocking a major drug company from creating a cancer cure; 90 percent of our broadcast spectrum sits idle while American cell phone service suffers. These... (Read more)

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  The Genesis of the GATT

  Douglas A. Irwin, Petros C. Mavroidis, and Alan O. Sykes
  2008

  This book is part of a wider project that aims to propose a model GATT that makes good economic sense without undoing its current basic structure. It asks: What does the historical record indicate about the aims and objectives of... (Read more)

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  The Law and Economics of Contingent Protection in the WTO

  Petros C. Mavroidis, Patrick A. Messerin, and Jasper M. Wauters
  2008

  In this important book, three of the leading authors in the field of international economic law discuss the law and economics of the three most frequently used contingent protection instruments: anti-dumping, countervailing measures, and safeguards. When discussing countervailing measures, the... (Read more)

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  Law & Capitalism: What Corporate Crises Reveal about Legal Systems and Economic Development around the World

  Curtis J. Milhaupt and Katharina Pistor
  2008

  Recent high-profile corporate scandals – such as those involving Enron in the United States, Yukos in Russia, and Livedoor in Japan – demonstrate challenges to legal regulation of business practices in capitalist economies. Setting forth a new analytic framework for... (Read more)

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  Family Law Stories

  Carol Sanger
  2008

  Family Law Stories presents the back stories – historical, procedural, personal and political – of eleven significant family law cases. The essays, written by leading family law scholars, cover four main areas: marriage (Reynolds, Loving, Goodridge), parenting and custody (Troxel),... (Read more)

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  Rethinking Juvenile Justice

  Elizabeth S. Scott and Laurence Steinberg
  2008

  What should we do with teenagers who commit crimes? Are they children whose offenses are the result of immaturity and circumstances, or are they in fact criminals? “Adult time for adult crime” has been the justice system’s mantra for the... (Read more)

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  The Grammar of Criminal Law: American, Comparative, and International, Vol. 1: Foundations

  George P. Fletcher
  2007

  The Grammar of Criminal Law is a 3-volume work that addresses the field of international and comparative criminal law, with its primary focus on the issues of international concern, ranging from genocide, to domestic efforts to combat terrorism, to torture,... (Read more)

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  WTO Law and Developing Countries

  George A. Bermann and Petros C. Mavroidis
  2007

  Examining developing countries within the WTO, it's easy to see there is a disconnect between what was expected from the WTO and what is actually being done for the developing countries. This book examines the different aspects of law within... (Read more)

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  Employment Law Stories

  Samuel Estreicher and Gillian L. Lester
  2007

  Employment law is emerging as an important practice area. This title provides behind-the-scenes descriptions of the landmark cases; the litigants, the lawyers, the strategy; that helped shape this growing field. This account of emerging law is designed to help the... (Read more)

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  Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age

  Bernard E. Harcourt
  2007

  From random security checks at airports to the use of risk assessment in sentencing, actuarial methods are being used more than ever to determine whom law enforcement officials target and punish. And with the exception of racial profiling on our... (Read more)

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  Criminal Law and the Regulation of Vice

  Franklin E. Zimring and Bernard E. Harcourt
  2007

  This book creates an advanced course in substantive criminal law organized around considering whether vice behaviors – gambling, narcotics, commercial and deviate sexual practices, pornography, drinking – are the proper subjects of criminal prohibition, and, if so, with what means... (Read more)

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  The Limits of Leviathan

  Robert E. Scott and Paul B. Stephan
  2006

  Much of international law, like much of contract, is enforced not by independent sanctions but rather through cooperative interaction among the parties, with repeat dealings, reputation, and a preference for reciprocity doing most of the enforcement work. Originally published in... (Read more)

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  Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy

  Bernard E. Harcourt
  2006

  Legal and public policies concerning youth gun violence tend to rely heavily on crime reports, survey data, and statistical methods. Rarely is attention given to the young voices belonging to those who carry high-powered semiautomatic handguns. In Language of the... (Read more)

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  Trade and Human Health and Safety

  George A. Bermann and Petros C. Mavroidis
  2006

  Developing countries comprise the majority of the membership of the World Trade Organization. Many developing countries believe that the welfare gains that were supposed to ensue from the establishment of the WTO and the results of the Uruguay Round remain... (Read more)

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  Gatekeepers: The Professions and Corporate Governance

  John C. Coffee Jr.
  2006

  In the wake of a series of corporate governance disasters in the US and Europe which have gained almost mythic status – Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphia, HealthSouth, Parmalat – one question has not yet been addressed. A number of 'gatekeeping'... (Read more)