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  • French Business Law in Translation by George A. Bermann and Pierre Kirch

    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.

    The selection... (Read more)

  • Introduction to French Law by George A. Bermann and Etienne Picard

    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)

  • Termites in the Trading System: How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade by Jagdish N. Bhagwati

    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)

  • Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century by Philip Chase Bobbitt

    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)

  • Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict by Michael W. Doyle

    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)

  • Tort Liability for Human Rights Abuses by George P. Fletcher

    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)

  • Defending Humanity: When Force is Justified and Why by George P. Fletcher and Jens David Ohlin

    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)

  • The Law of Environmental Justice: Theories and Procedures to Address Disproportionate Risks by Michael B. Gerrard and Sheila R. Foster

    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)

  • 100 Million Unnecessary Returns: A Simple, Fair, and Competitive Tax Plan for the United States by Michael J. Graetz

    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)

  • Law and Judicial Duty by Philip A. Hamburger

    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)

  • The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives by Michael A. Heller

    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)

  • The Genesis of the GATT by Douglas A. Irwin, Petros C. Mavroidis, and Alan O. Sykes

    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)

  • The Law and Economics of Contingent Protection in the WTO by Petros C. Mavroidis, Patrick A. Messerin, and Jasper M. Wauters

    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)

  • Law & Capitalism: What Corporate Crises Reveal about Legal Systems and Economic Development around the World by Curtis J. Milhaupt and Katharina Pistor

    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)

  • Family Law Stories by Carol Sanger

    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)

  • Rethinking Juvenile Justice by Elizabeth S. Scott and Laurence Steinberg

    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)

  • The Grammar of Criminal Law: American, Comparative, and International, Vol. 1: Foundations by George P. Fletcher

    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)

  • WTO Law and Developing Countries by George A. Bermann and Petros C. Mavroidis

    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)

  • Employment Law Stories by Samuel Estreicher and Gillian L. Lester

    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)

  • Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age by Bernard E. Harcourt

    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)

  • Criminal Law and the Regulation of Vice by Franklin E. Zimring and Bernard E. Harcourt

    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)

  • The Limits of Leviathan by Robert E. Scott and Paul B. Stephan

    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)

  • Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy by Bernard E. Harcourt

    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)

  • Trade and Human Health and Safety by George A. Bermann and Petros C. Mavroidis

    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)

  • Gatekeepers: The Professions and Corporate Governance by John C. Coffee Jr.

    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)

 

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