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Gender and Rights

Deborah L. Rhode and Carol Sanger
2005

Gender and Rights presents twenty-five essays by leading international scholars and advocates the relationship between rights and gender inequality. The essays are organized into six categories: rights, sources of harm and well-being, work, family, violence and political process and participation. Particular attention is paid throughout to the relationship between cultural practices and legal rights.... (Read more)
Law and Governance in an Enlarged European Union

George A. Bermann and Katharina Pistor
2004

This book's principal aim is to critically address the institutional and substantive legal issues resulting from European enlargement, chiefly those relating to the legal foundations on which the enlarged Union is being built. The accession of new Member States creates the potential for a stronger and more powerful Europe. Realising this potential, however, will... (Read more)
In Defense of Globalization

Jagdish Bhagwati
2004

The riot-torn meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999 was only the most dramatic sign of the intensely passionate debate now raging over globalization, which critics blame for everything from child labor to environmental degradation, cultural homogenization, and a host of other ills afflicting poorer nations.

Now Jagdish Bhagwati, the internationally... (Read more)
Introduction to Law and Legal Reasoning

Jane C. Ginsburg
2004

This course book serves an undergraduate course in introduction to legal reasoning. It is designed to initiate students in the legal methods of case law analysis and statutory interpretation, prompting students to take a critical distance from the wielding of the methods. It helps students acquire or refine the techniques of close reading, analogizing,... (Read more)
Convergence and Persistence in Corporate Governance

Jeffery N. Gordon and Mark J. Roe
2004

Corporate governance is on the reform agenda all over the world. How will global economic integration affect the different systems of corporate ownership and governance? Is the Anglo-American model of shareholder capitalism destined to become the template for a converging global corporate governance standard or will the differences persist? This reader contains classic work... (Read more)
Foundations of Intellectual Property

Robert P. Merges and Jane C. Ginsburg
2004

This book is meant to provide a ... collection of commentaries on the topic of intellectual property. [The] goal has been to bring together ... influential writings on patent, copyright, trademark and design protection, beginning with early material from the seventeenth century and continuing into the contemporary law review literature.
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Dispute Settlement in the World Trade Organization: Practice and Procedure

David Palmeter and Petros C. Mavroidis
2004

David Palmeter and Petros Mavroidis review all WTO dispute settlement provisions and their interpretation in WTO jurisprudence in this extensively revised new edition. Carefully written for a wide readership, the volume is essential for professionals, practitioners, diplomats and government lawyers. The book comprises the only comprehensive system of compulsory third party adjudication in international... (Read more)
Democratic Vistas: Reflections on the Life of American Democracy

Jedediah S. Purdy
2004

In this thought-provoking collection, leading scholars explore democracy in the United States from a sweeping variety of perspectives. A dozen contributors consider the nature and prospects of democracy as it relates to the American experience – free markets, religion, family life, the Cold War, higher education, and more. These probing essays bring American democracy... (Read more)
Transnational Litigation in a Nutshell

George A. Bermann
2003

This title identifies and explores recurring problems caused by private cross-border disputes, while presenting the solutions that appear to be emerging, whether in the form of legislation, case law, treaty or Restatement enumeration. It covers personal and subject matter jurisdiction, parallel litigation, choice of forum, choice of law, extraterritorial discovery, extraterritorial provisional relief, recognition... (Read more)
Intellectual Property: Trade, Competition, and Sustainable Development: The World Trade Forum: Volume 3

Thomas Cottier and Petros C. Mavroidis
2003

The incorporation of intellectual property protection into the WTO international trading system has been a milestone in international economic law and has added a new dimension to trade regulation – new rights and obligations and new challenges alike. The contributors, leading scholars and practitioners in the field, provide insights into the legal relationship of... (Read more)
The Role of the Judge in International Trade Regulation: Experience and Lessons for the WTO: The World Trade Forum: Volume 4

Thomas Cottier and Petros C. Mavroidis
2003

The WTO is generally seen as a key actor of globalization and, as such, has been the point of convergence of popular irritation worldwide. Many of the reproaches addressed to the WTO show civil society's concern with what is perceived as a democratic deficit in the way the organization operates. The main fear is... (Read more)
Foundations of International Income Taxation

Michael J. Graetz
2003

This law school casebook extracts materials from scholarly literature on international income tax law and provides context for these materials, to enhance an understanding of the institutions that shape this area of law and underlying policy debates. Designed for use as a principal text, it may also be used as supplemental reading, with topics... (Read more)
Guns, Crime, and Punishment in America

Bernard E. Harcourt
2003

Guns, Crime, and Punishment in America assembles a diverse group of the nation's leading authorities on guns and gun violence to present the most up-to-date research currently available. Exploring such controversial issues as gun- tracing initiatives, the possible extension of the Brady Bill, gun-oriented policing, federal law enforcement initiatives such as "Project Exile," and... (Read more)
Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World

Jedediah S. Purdy
2003

Having risen to national attention with his first book, For Common Things, Jedediah Purdy now cements his claim to being one of the most arresting public intellectuals of his generation. In Being America, Purdy turns his erudition and unique perspective to America’s relationship with a world that both admires and hates it.

Purdy has... (Read more)
The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History

Philip Chase Bobbitt
2002

The Shield of Achilles is a classic inquiry into the nature of the State, its origin in war, and its drive for peace and legitimacy. Philip Bobbitt, a professor of constitutional law and a historian of nuclear strategy, has served in the White House, the Senate, the State Department, and the National Security Council... (Read more)
The Dynamics of Coercion: American Foreign Policy and the Limits of Military Might

Daniel L. Byman and Matthew C. Waxman
2002

This book examines how the United States uses limited military force and other means to influence adversaries and potential adversaries. It reviews when limited force can and cannot work and examines a range of current challenges, including those of guerrilla groups or minor powers armed with nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons. It also looks... (Read more)
Romantics at War: Glory and Guilt in the Age of Terrorism

George P. Fletcher
2002

America is at war with terrorism. Terrorists must be brought to justice.

We hear these phrases together so often that we rarely pause to reflect on the dramatic differences between the demands of war and the demands of justice, differences so deep that the pursuit of one often comes at the expense of the... (Read more)
Separation of Church and State

Philip A. Hamburger
2002

In a powerful challenge to conventional wisdom, Philip Hamburger argues that the separation of church and state has no historical foundation in the First Amendment. The detailed evidence assembled here shows that eighteenth-century Americans almost never invoked this principle. Although Thomas Jefferson and others retrospectively claimed that the First Amendment separated church and state,... (Read more)
European Integration and International Co-ordination: Studies in Transnational Economic Law in Honour of Claus-Dieter Ehlermann

Armin Von Bogdandy, Petros C. Mavroidis, and Yves Mény
2002

Claus-Dieter Ehlermann is widely regarded as among the most knowledgeable, far-sighted, and creative shapers, practitioners, and scholars of European law. Among the prominent legal roles he has played in his influential career, his leadership of the Legal Service of the European Commission is perhaps the best known. This liber amicorum appears as his term... (Read more)
Transatlantic Regulatory Co-operation: Legal Problems and Political Prospects

George A. Bermann, Matthias Herdegen, and Peter L. Lindseth
2001

This book offers a comprehensive account of the transatlantic regulatory cooperation phenomenon: its causes and political context in a globalizing economy, its theoretical understanding, its relationship to trade and competition, its implications for democracy, and its likely directions in the future.
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The Wind of the Hundred Days

Jagdish Bhagwati
2001

In The Wind of the Hundred Days, a new collection of public policy essays, Jagdish Bhagwati applies his characteristic wit and accessible style to the subject of globalization. Notably, he argues that the true Clinton scandal lay in the administration's mismanagement of globalization – resulting in the paradox of immense domestic policy success combined... (Read more)
Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy

George P. Fletcher
2001

Americans hate and distrust their government. At the same time, Americans love and trust their government. These contradictory attitudes are resolved by Fletcher's novel interpretation of constitutional history. He argues that we have two constitutions – still living side by side – one that caters to freedom and fear, the other that satisfied our... (Read more)
Can We Put an End to Sweatshops?: A New Democracy Forum on Raising Global Labor Standard

Archon Fung, Dara O'Rourke, and Charles F. Sabel
2001

The MIT scholar who broke the news about Nike's sweatshops argues, with two colleagues, that consumer choices can improve workers' lives globally Seventy-five percent of Americans say they would avoid retailers whom they knew sold goods produced in sweatshops. And almost 90 percent said they would pay at least an extra dollar on a... (Read more)
Who's Qualified?

Lani Guinier and Susan P. Sturm
2001

Affirmative action originated as a plan to correct the historical disadvantage of women and people of color-to make the system more fair. Yet, for over twenty years, it has been repeatedly attacked for being unfair to whites, and even un-American.

Guinier and Sturm begin with a critique of affirmative action as it stands now,... (Read more)
Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing

Bernard E. Harcourt
2001

This is the first book to challenge the “broken-windows” theory of crime, which argues that permitting minor misdemeanors, such as loitering and vagrancy, to go unpunished only encourages more serious crime. The theory has revolutionized policing in the United States and abroad, with its emphasis on policies that crack down on disorderly conduct and... (Read more)