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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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Law and Economics of Contingent Protection in International Trade
Kyle W. Bagwell, George A. Bermann, and Petros C. Mavroidis 2013The 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... (read more)
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Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries
Jagdish N. Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya 2013In 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... (read more)
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The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made
Philip Chase Bobbitt 2013Few 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... (read more)
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Fletcher's Essays on Criminal Law
Russell L. Christopher and George P. Fletcher 2013While 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... (read more)
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Regulation of Foreign Investment: Challenges to International Harmonization
Zdeněk Drábek and Petros C. Mavroidis 2013The 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... (read more)
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Disability and Equality Law
Elizabeth F. Emens and Michael Ashley Stein 2013This 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... (read more)
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Contracts: Cases and Materials
E. Allen Farnsworth, Carol Sanger, Neil B. Cohen, Richard R.W. Brooks, and Larry T. Garvin 2013This 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... (read more)
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Threatened Island Nations: Legal Implications of Rising Seas and a Changing Climate
Michael B. Gerrard and Gregory E. Wannier 2013Rising 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... (read more)
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Sexuality and Equality Law
Suzanne B. Goldberg 2013Sexual 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... (read more)
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Statutory and Common Law Interpretation
Kent Greenawalt 2013As 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... (read more)
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The Law of the World Trade Organization (WTO): Documents, Cases and Analysis
Petros C. Mavroidis and Mark Wu 2013This 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... (read more)
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Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience
W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael T. Taussig 2013Mic check! Mic check! Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In Occupy, W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt,... (read more)
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Economics of Bankruptcy
Edward R. Morrison 2013This timely book surveys seminal contributions to the economics of bankruptcy. It offers a comprehensive compilation of work by both legal scholars and economists working in the fields of corporate and consumer finance.... (read more)
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The Health Care Case: The Supreme Court's Decision and Its Implications
Nathaniel Persily, Gillian E. Metzger, and Trevor W. Morrison 2013The Supreme Court's decision in the Health Care Case, NFIB v. Sebelius, gripped the nation's attention during the spring of 2012. No one could have predicted the strange coalition of justices and arguments... (read more)
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Personalizzare il Welfare
Riccardo Prandini and Charles F. Sabel 2013Part of the Sociologia e Politiche Sociali series.
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Esperimenti di Nuova Democrazia: Tra Globalizzazione e Localizzazione
Charles F. Sabel and Riccardo Prandini 2013Esperimenti di Nuova Democrazia: Tra Globalizzazione e Localizzazione
Come possiamo mantenere l’idea di democrazia, quando sta diventando la giustificazione per centri decisionali globali? Come possiamo uscire dal disagio della democrazia contemporanea che richiama... (read more)
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The Regulatory Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis
Eilís Ferran, Niamh Moloney, Jennifer G. Hill, and John C. Coffee Jr. 2012The EU and the US responded to the global financial crisis by changing the rules for the functioning of financial services and markets and by establishing new oversight bodies. With the US Dodd-Frank... (read more)
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The Indian Constitution
Madhav Khosla 2012Part of the Oxford India Short Introductions series.
The Oxford India Short Introductions are concise, stimulating, and accessible guides to different aspects of India. Combining authoritative analysis, new ideas, and diverse perspectives, they... (read more)
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India's Reforms: How they Produced Inclusive Growth
Jagdish N. Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya 2012Part of the Studies in Indian Economic Policies series.
When India embraced systematic economic reforms in 1991 and began opening its economy to both domestic and foreign competition, critics argued that they had... (read more)
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