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The Law of Clean Energy: Efficiency and Renewables
Michael B. Gerrard 2011
The framework of U.S. laws governing energy efficiency and renewable energy is one of fragmentation across levels of government, regions of the country, types of energy resources, regulatory techniques, and policy objectives. Those who attempt to navigate these various laws... (Read more)
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The End of Energy: The Unmaking of America's Environment, Security, and Independence
Michael J. Graetz 2011
Americans take for granted that when we flip a switch the light will go on, when we turn up the thermostat the room will get warm, and when we pull up to the pump gas will be plentiful and relatively... (Read more)
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The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order
Bernard E. Harcourt 2011
It is widely believed today that the free market is the best mechanism ever invented to efficiently allocate resources in society. Just as fundamental as faith in the free market is the belief that government has a legitimate and competent... (Read more)
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Electronic Commerce
Ronald J. Mann 2011
The only casebook dealing with e-commerce, Electronic Commerce, Fourth Edition, utilizes problems to expound a transactional approach to electronic commerce. Written by Ronald J. Mann, a preeminent and prolific Commercial Law scholar, this system-oriented text is structured around the hypothetical... (Read more)
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Payment Systems and Other Financial Transactions: Cases, Materials, and Problems
Ronald J. Mann 2011
Written by Ronald J. Mann, one of the country’s leading Commercial Law scholars, Payment Systems and Other Financial Transactions continues to deliver clear, detailed practical explanations of how payment systems actually work. Using a systems approach, the text and problems... (Read more)
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From Normativity to Responsibility
Joseph Raz 2011
What are our duties or rights? How should we act? What are we responsible for? How do we determine the answers to these questions? Joseph Raz examines and explains the philosophical issues underlying these everyday quandaries. He explores the nature... (Read more)
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The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Property
Thomas W. Merrill and Henry E. Smith 2010
The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Property provides both a bird's eye overview of property law and an introduction to how property law affects larger concerns with individual autonomy, personhood, and economic organization. Written by two authorities on property law,... (Read more)
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Copyright and Piracy: An Interdisciplinary Critique
Lionel Bently, Jennifer Davis, and Jane C. Ginsburg 2010
Copyright has been the subject of interdisciplinary inquiry, but generally from the perspective of ‘authorship'. This volume takes a different tack, examining the concept of infringement and its cousins, imitation and inspiration, from a variety of approaches. Rather than proposing... (Read more)
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Legal Interpretation: Perspectives from Other Disciplines and Private Texts
Kent Greenawalt 2010
In Legal Interpretation, Kent Greenawalt focuses on the complex and multi-faceted topic of textual interpretation of the law. All law needs to be interpreted, and there are many ways to do it. But what sorts of questions must one seek... (Read more)
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Commons and Anticommons
Michael A. Heller 2010
This two-volume collection brings together the most important articles on the tragedies of the commons and anticommons. The first volume presents the bedrock articles that define commons and anticommons theory, from Aristotle to the present. The second volume continues with... (Read more)
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The Law of Green Buildings: Regulatory and Legal Issues in Design, Construction, Operations, and Financing
J. Cullen Howe and Michael B. Gerrard 2010
Buildings and the built environment use vast amounts of energy and other resources in construction, operation, and demolition. In 2009, the residential and commercial building sector was responsible for more than 50 percent of total annual U.S. energy consumption and... (Read more)
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The Law of the World Trade Organization (WTO): Documents, Cases, and Analysis
Petros C. Mavroidis, George A. Bermann, and Mark Wu 2010
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)
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The Meaning of Property: Freedom, Community, and the Legal Imagination
Jedediah S. Purdy 2010
In his latest book, Jedediah Purdy takes up a question of deep and lasting importance: why is property ownership a value to society? His answer returns us to the foundations of American society and enables us to interpret the writings... (Read more)
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Experimentalist Governance in the European Union: Towards a New Architecture
Charles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin 2010
This book advances a novel interpretation of EU governance. Its central claim is that the EU's regulatory successes within – and increasingly beyond – its borders rest on the emergence of a recursive process of framework rule making and revision... (Read more)
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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Tim Wu 2010
Analyzing the strategic maneuvers of today’s great information powers–Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&T – Tim Wu uncovers a time-honored pattern in which invention begets industry and industry begets empire.
It is easy to forget that every development in... (Read more)
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Skilled Immigration Today
Jagdish N. Bhagwati and Gordon H. Hanson 2009
Skilled immigration into rich countries and competition for talent and professional skills are of major concern among nations today. Comprehensive immigration reform addressed to illegal immigration predictably foundered in Congress last year. This revived the question of skilled immigration and... (Read more)
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Multijuralism: Manifestations, Causes, and Consequences
Albert Breton, Anne Des Ormeaux, Katharina Pistor, and Pierre Salmon 2009
At one level of generality, multijuralism is the coexistence of two or more legal systems or sub-systems within a broader normative legal order to which they adhere, such as the existence of civil and common law systems within the EU.... (Read more)
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Children in the Legal System: Cases and Materials
Samuel M. Davis, Elizabeth S. Scott, Walter Wadlington, and Charles H. Whitebread 2009
Children in the Legal System focuses on what has been accomplished through legislation and judicial action since the Juvenile Justice Standards were published. General coverage of the juvenile justice system reflects the significant changes and new trends in this field.
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The Bond
George P. Fletcher 2009
Adam Gross, philosopher-cum-lawyer, teaches at an Ivy League law school in New York. Good looking, cultivated, bohemian, he was once considered the rising star of his faculty, but that was a decade ago, and times have changed. Doing the job... (Read more)
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50 Years Later: The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education: Reflections and Colloquy
Jack Greenberg and Kendall Thomas 2009
The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education presents historical commentary on the impact of the ruling by the attorneys from the case including Jack Greenberg, Robert Carter, Constance Baker Motley along plus former President Bill Clinton and Justice Ruth... (Read more)
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Human Rights
Louis Henken, Sarah H. Cleveland, Laurence R. Helfer, Gerald L. Neuman, and Diane L. Orentlicher 2009
This casebook provides a comprehensive, accessible, and up-to-date analysis of international human rights law. It emphasizes the relationship between the international, regional, and national legal systems (with a particular focus on the United States), features an intellectual and historical development... (Read more)
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A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom
Jedediah S. Purdy 2009
In A Tolerable Anarchy, Jedediah Purdy traces the history of the American understanding of freedom, an ideal that has inspired the country’s best – and worst – moments, from independence and emancipation to war and economic uncertainty. Working from portraits... (Read more)
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Between Authority and Interpretation: On the Theory of Law and Practical Reason
Joseph Raz 2009
In this book Joseph Raz develops his views on some of the central questions in practical philosophy: legal, political, and moral. The book provides an overview of Raz's work on jurisprudence and the nature of law in the context of... (Read more)
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The Authority of Law: Essays on Law and Morality
Joseph Raz 2009
This classic collection of essays, first published in 1979, has had an enduring influence on philosophical work on the nature of law and its relation to morality. Raz begins by presenting an analysis of the concept of authority and what... (Read more)
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The Fetha Nagast/The Law of the Kings
Paulos Tzadua and Peter L. Strauss 2009
The Fetha Nagast, or The Law of the Kings, is the foundation of Ethiopian law, and was perhaps the first written law of sub-Saharan Africa. Derived from Roman Law and church canons of the Eastern Rite, it was brought up... (Read more)
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