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The Three and a Half Minute Transaction: Boilerplate and the Limits of Contract Design
Mitu Gulati and Robert E. Scott 2012Boilerplate language in contracts tends to stick around long after its origins and purpose have been forgotten. Usually there are no serious repercussions, but sometimes it can cause unexpected problems. Such was the... (read more)
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Legal and Economic Principles of World Trade Law: The Genesis of the GATT, the Economics of Trade Agreements, Border Instruments, and National Treatment
Henrik Horn and Petros C. Mavroidis 2012The World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement covers the vast majority of international commerce in goods and services. The Agreement covers not only measures that directly affect trade, such as import tariffs and import... (read more)
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Commercial Transactions: A Systems Approach
Lynn M. LoPucki, Elizabeth Warren, Daniel L. Keating, and Ronald J. Mann 2012Commercial Transactions: A Systems Approach explores the nuances of transaction law from a systems’ perspective, examining the infrastructure that supports commercial transactions and how lawyers apply the law in real-world situations. The outstanding... (read more)
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Trade in Goods: The GATT and the Other WTO Agreements Regulating Trade in Goods
Petros C. Mavroidis 2012This new edition of Trade in Goods is an authoritative work on international trade by one of the most influential scholars in the field. It provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of every... (read more)
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Export Pioneers in Latin America
Charles F. Sabel, Eduardo Fernández-Arias, Ricardo Hausmann, Andrés Rodriguez-Clare, and Ernesto Stein 2012Why do some new export activities succeed while others do not? Why are some not even attempted? In this book, distinguished research teams analyze eleven cases of new export endeavors in six Latin... (read more)
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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 2012The 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,... (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 2011This 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... (read more)
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Preferential Trade Agreements: A Law and Economics Analysis
Kyle W. Bagwell and Petros C. Mavroidis 2011This 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... (read more)
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Mandatory Rules of Law in International Arbitration
George A. Bermann and Loukas A. Mistelis 2011The 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... (read more)
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Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs
Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig, and Justin McCrary 2011Criminal 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... (read more)
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Bioethics Mediation: A Guide to Shaping Shared Solutions
Nancy Neveloff Dubler and Carol B. Liebman 2011Bioethics 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... (read more)
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My Life in Seven Languages: A Linguistic Memoir
George P. Fletcher 2011George 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... (read more)
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The Law of Clean Energy: Efficiency and Renewables
Michael B. Gerrard 2011The 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... (read more)
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The End of Energy: The Unmaking of America's Environment, Security, and Independence
Michael J. Graetz 2011Americans 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... (read more)
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The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order
Bernard E. Harcourt 2011It 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... (read more)
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Electronic Commerce
Ronald J. Mann 2011The 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... (read more)
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From Normativity to Responsibility
Joseph Raz 2011What 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... (read more)
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The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Property
Thomas W. Merrill and Henry E. Smith 2010The 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.... (read more)
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Copyright and Piracy: An Interdisciplinary Critique
Lionel Bently, Jennifer Davis, and Jane C. Ginsburg 2010Copyright 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... (read more)
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Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open: A Free Press for a New Century
Lee C. Bollinger 2010Lee 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... (read more)
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Legal Interpretation: Perspectives from Other Disciplines and Private Texts
Kent Greenawalt 2010In 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... (read more)
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Commons and Anticommons
Michael A. Heller 2010This 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... (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 2010Buildings 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... (read more)
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Business Organization and Finance: Legal and Economic Principles
William A. Klein, John C. Coffee Jr., and Frank Partnoy 2010Klein, 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... (read more)
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The Meaning of Property: Freedom, Community, and the Legal Imagination
Jedediah S. Purdy 2010In 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... (read more)
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