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Marriage at the Crossroads: Law, Policy, and the Brave New World of Twenty-First-Century Families
Elizabeth S. Scott and Marsha Garrison 2012
The institution of marriage is at a crossroads. Across most of the industrialized world, unmarried cohabitation and nonmarital births have skyrocketed while marriage rates are at record lows. These trends mask a new, idealized vision of marriage as a marker... (read more)
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A Modern Approach to Evidence: Text, Problems, Transcripts, and Cases
Richard O. Lempert, Samuel R. Gross, James S. Liebman, John H. Blume, Stephan Landsman, and Frederic I. Lederer 2011
This is the updated edition of the textbook that pioneered the teaching of Evidence using problems rather than appellate opinions. The text explores the Rules of Evidence and their rationales in a straightforward fashion without hiding the ball or ignoring... (read more)
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Preferential Trade Agreements: A Law and Economics Analysis
Kyle W. Bagwell and Petros C. Mavroidis 2011
This volume assembles a stellar group of scholars and experts to examine preferential trade agreements (PTAs), a topic that has time and again attracted the interest of analysts. It presents a discussion of the evolving economic analysis regarding PTAs and... (read more)
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Mandatory Rules of Law in International Arbitration
George A. Bermann and Loukas A. Mistelis 2011
The notion of mandatory rules of law has long been of interest in private international law. It is no wonder that the subject has also emerged as something of a preoccupation of those who are involved in the world of... (read more)
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Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs
Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig, and Justin McCrary 2011
Criminal justice expenditures have more than doubled since the 1980s, dramatically increasing costs to the public. With state and local revenue shortfalls resulting from the recent recession, the question of whether crime control can be accomplished either with fewer resources... (read more)
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Bioethics Mediation: A Guide to Shaping Shared Solutions
Nancy Neveloff Dubler and Carol B. Liebman 2011
Bioethics Mediation offers stories about patients, families, and health care providers enmeshed in conflict as they wrestle with decisions about life and death. It provides guidance for those charged with supporting the patient's traditional and religious commitments and personal wishes.... (read more)
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My Life in Seven Languages: A Linguistic Memoir
George P. Fletcher 2011
George P. Fletcher is considered to be one of today’s leading legal scholars in the fields of torts and criminal law, in particular, comparative and international criminal law. Reflecting on the events in his personal and professional life during the... (read more)
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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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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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Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open: A Free Press for a New Century
Lee C. Bollinger 2010
Lee Bollinger is one of our foremost experts on the First Amendment--both an erudite scholar and elegant advocate. In this sweeping account, he explores the troubled history of a free press in America and looks toward the challenges ahead.
The... (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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Business Organization and Finance: Legal and Economic Principles
William A. Klein, John C. Coffee Jr., and Frank Partnoy 2010
Klein, Coffee, and Partnoy's Business Organization and Finance, Legal and Economic Principles, 11th explains the basic economic elements and legal principles of business organization and finance. It is the best additional resource to assign to students for background. It distills... (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: Prospects, Problems, and Policies
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.
... (read more)
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