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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 last twenty years. But locking up so many young people puts a strain on... (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 the WTO and how the developing countries are reacting to the Doha Developmental round,... (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 student understand that, well before appellate judges are involved, the basic narrative and 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, and to other international crimes. The first volume is devoted to foundational issues. 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 highways and streets, most people favor these methods because they believe they’re a more... (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 of enforcement and punishment. Vice behaviors have been the subject of radical changes over... (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 largely elusive. Though often aggregated under the ubiquitous banner developing countries, their multilateral trade... (Read more)

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  Making War & Building Peace: United Nations Peace Operations

  Michael W. Doyle and Nicholas Sambanis
  2006

  Making War and Building Peace examines how well United Nations peacekeeping missions work after civil war. Statistically analyzing all civil wars since 1945, the book compares peace processes that had UN involvement to those that didn’t. Michael Doyle and Nicholas Sambanis argue that each mission must be designed to fit the conflict, with the... (Read more)

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  Corporate Governance Lessons from Transition Economy Reforms

  Merritt B. Fox and Michael A. Heller
  2006

  Corporate Governance Lessons from Transition Economy Reforms explores a timely topic at the intersection of economics, law, and policy reform. To date, most sophisticated theoretical work on corporate governance has focused on advanced market economies. In post-socialist countries, corporate finance and transition economics scholars have often done little more than convey the received theory... (Read more)

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  Intellectual Property Stories

  Jane C. Ginsburg and Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss
  2006

  This book brings famous cases to life by telling the true, never-heard-before stories behind landmark Intellectual Property cases. It is organized into six chapters, each drawing on cases in patents, copyrights, trademarks, or unfair competition, to illustrate the problems encountered in intellectual property law. The works, inventions, and marks at issue in these cases... (Read more)

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  Framing Contract Law: An Economic Perspective

  Victor P. Goldberg
  2006

  The central theme of this book is that an economic framework – incorporating such concepts as information asymmetry, moral hazard, and adaptation to changed circumstances – is appropriate for contract interpretation, analyzing contract disputes, and developing contract doctrine. The value of the approach is demonstrated through the close analysis of major contract cases. In... (Read more)

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  Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World

  Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu
  2006

  Is the Internet erasing national borders? Will the future of the Net be set by Internet engineers, rogue programmers, the United Nations, or powerful countries? Who's really in control of what's happening on the Net?

  In this provocative new book, Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu tell the fascinating story of the Internet's challenge to... (Read more)

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  Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight Over Taxing Inherited Wealth

  Michael J. Graetz and Ian Shapiro
  2006

  This fast-paced book by Yale professors Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro unravels the following mystery: How is it that the estate tax, which has been on the books continuously since 1916 and is paid by only the wealthiest two percent of Americans, was repealed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support? The mystery is all... (Read more)

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  Religion and the Constitution

  Kent Greenawalt
  2006

  Balancing respect for religious conviction and the values of liberal democracy is a daunting challenge for judges and lawmakers, particularly when religious groups seek exemption from laws that govern others. Should members of religious sects be able to use peyote in worship? Should pacifists be forced to take part in military service when there... (Read more)

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  Charging Ahead: The Growth and Regulation of Payment Card Markets around the World

  Ronald J. Mann
  2006

  This book tells the story of credit cards around the world: why people use them, the effects on the economies of the nations where they prevail, why they are used so differently around the world, and what should be done to respond to the problems they cause. It includes a wealth of data from... (Read more)

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  International Copyright and Neighboring Rights: The Berne Convention and Beyond

  Sam Ricketson and Jane C. Ginsburg
  2006

  This commentary deals with the history and development of the major international agreements affecting copyright and related rights, including the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works 1886-1970, the Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Phonogram Producers and Broadcasting Organisations 1961, the WIPO Copyright and Performances and Phonograms Treaties 1996... (Read more)

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  Administrative Law Stories

  Peter L. Strauss
  2006

  Essay after essay in this fascinating book explores the statutory and historical setting of the cases discussed, rather than mere doctrine, examining in detail lawyers' judgments and tactics. Many use recently revealed papers of Supreme Court Justices to discuss often surprising elements of the decision by the Court. Students can learn a good deal... (Read more)

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  Legislation: Understanding and Using Statutes

  Peter L. Strauss
  2006

  This book's focus makes statutes, and the processes that produce them, the primary consideration. Traditional teaching materials tend to make statutes and the circumstances of their creation secondary; students encounter the legislative process and legislative materials chiefly, sometimes exclusively, through the eyes of judges. In contrast, two of the three principal chapters of this... (Read more)

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  Party Autonomy: Constitutional and International Law Limits in Comparative Perspective

  George A. Bermann
  2005

  Through comparative law, this volume treats the question of the restrictions on private autonomy that increasingly flow from international treaties and national constitutions. While limitations on private autonomy traditionally found their basis in various doctrines in the relevant private law field (such as contracts, property or trusts and estates), it is "higher" law –... (Read more)

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  American Law in a Global Context: The Basics

  George P. Fletcher and Stephen M. Sheppard
  2005

  American Law in a Global Context is an elegant and erudite introduction to the American legal system from a global perspective. It covers the law and lawyering tools taught in the first year of law school, explaining the underlying concepts and techniques of the common law used in U.S. legal practice. The ideas central... (Read more)

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  Does God Belong in Public Schools?

  Kent Greenawalt
  2005

  Controversial Supreme Court decisions have barred organized school prayer, but neither the Court nor public policy exclude religion from schools altogether. In this book, one of America’s leading constitutional scholars asks what role religion ought to play in public schools. Kent Greenawalt explores many of the most divisive issues in educational debate, including teaching... (Read more)

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  The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade: A Commentary

  Petros C. Mavroidis
  2005

  This commentary provides a clear explanation and analysis of the legal provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Even since the formation of the WTO, the GATT remains a central document in international trade law, and many of its provisions are referred to in the various WTO agreements. Mavroidis examines relevant... (Read more)

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  The WTO and International Trade Law/Dispute Settlement

  Petros C. Mavroidis and Alan O. Sykes
  2005

  The system of dispute resolution within the WTO and its evolution over time have attracted the attention of numerous scholars. This volume brings together a selection of papers by prominent scholars working in a range of disciplines.

  The collection is divided into six parts. The first addresses broad questions about the scope and function... (Read more)

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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)

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  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)