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  Who's Qualified?

  Lani Guinier and Susan P. Sturm
  2001

  Affirmative action originated as a plan to correct the historical disadvantage of women and people of color-to make the system more fair. Yet, for over twenty years, it has been repeatedly attacked for being unfair to whites, and even un-American.

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  Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing

  Bernard E. Harcourt
  2001

  This is the first book to challenge the “broken-windows” theory of crime, which argues that permitting minor misdemeanors, such as loitering and vagrancy, to go unpunished only encourages more serious crime. The theory has revolutionized policing in the United States... (Read more)

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  The WTO Case Law of 2001-2011

  Henrik Horn and Petros C. Mavroidis
  2001

  The American Law Institute project on WTO Law undertakes yearly analysis of the case law from the adjudicating bodies of the WTO. Reporters' Studies for each year cover a wide range of WTO law cases, whose coverage ranges from classic... (Read more)

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  Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Puerto Rico, American Expansion, and the Constitution

  Christina Duffy Ponsa-Kraus and Burke Marshall
  2001

  In this groundbreaking study of American imperialism, leading legal scholars address the problem of the U.S. territories. Foreign in a Domestic Sense will redefine the boundaries of constitutional scholarship.

  More than four million U.S. citizens currently live in five “unincorporated”... (Read more)

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  What's Left of Theory?: New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory

  Judith Butler, John Guillory, and Kendall Thomas
  2000

  “For several years,” write the editors of What’s Left of Theory, “a debate on the politics of theory has been conducted energetically within literary studies. The terms of the debate, however, are far from clear. What is meant by politics?... (Read more)

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  Regulatory Barriers and the Principle of Non-discrimination in World Trade Law: Past, Present, and Future: The World Trade Forum, Vol. 2

  Thomas Cottier and Petros C. Mavroidis
  2000

  The University of Michigan Press is pleased to announce the second volume in an annual series, the World Trade Forum. The Forum's members include scholars, lawyers, and government and business practitioners working in the area of international trade, law, and... (Read more)

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  The Changing Borders of Juvenile Justice: Transfer of Adolescents to the Criminal Court

  Jeffrey A. Fagan and Franklin E. Zimring
  2000

  Since the 1960s, recurring cycles of political activism over youth crime have motivated efforts to remove adolescents from the juvenile court. Periodic surges of crime – youth violence in the 1970s, the spread of gangs in the 1980s, and more... (Read more)

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  Rethinking Criminal Law

  George P. Fletcher
  2000

  This is a reprint of a book first published by Little, Brown in 1978. George Fletcher is working on a new edition, which will be published by Oxford in three volumes, the first of which is scheduled to appear in... (Read more)

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  The Jurisprudential Foundations of Corporate and Commercial Law

  Jody S. Kraus and Steven D. Walt
  2000

  This collection, first published in 2000, brings together essays by some of the most prominent scholars currently writing in commercial law theory. The essays address the foundations of efficiency analysis as the dominant theoretical paradigm in contemporary corporate and commercial... (Read more)

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  Intellectual Property Rights in Emerging Markets

  Clarisa Long
  2000

  The debate over international intellectual property rights has become an important foreign policy issue for many industrialized countries, and particularly for the United States. US companies complain that they have suffered greatly from the lack of rigorous and uniform international... (Read more)

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  Workin' Hard for the Money: The Social and Economic Lives of Women Drug Sellers

  Ira Sommers, Deborah Baskin, and Jeffrey A. Fagan
  2000

  This book examines women's participation in the cocaine/crack economy of New York City. All the women are or were long-term drug dealers, not those who casually dealt drugs. In order to be included in the authors' study, a person had... (Read more)

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  Trading Blocs: Alternative Approaches to Analyzing Preferential Trade Agreements

  Jagdish Bhagwati, Pravin Krishna, and Arvind Panagariya
  1999

  This volume will enable graduate students, scholars of PTAs, and policymakers concerned with trade liberalization to grasp the analytical relationships among the sometimes disparate contributions of nearly a half century of theoretical research on PTAs.

  The recent proliferation of free... (Read more)

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  Air Power as a Coercive Instrument

  Daniel L. Byman, Matthew C. Waxman, and Eric V. Larsen
  1999

  Coercion – the use of threatened force to induce an adversary to change its behavior – is a critical function of the U.S. military. U.S. forces have recently fought in the Balkans, the Persian Gulf, and the Horn of Africa... (Read more)

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  The U.S. Income Tax: What It Is, How It Got That Way, and Where We Go From Here

  Michael J. Graetz
  1999

  A lively history of the American income tax system and the recent revulsion it has spurred in the American public reveals how the tax evolved, how it became a political tool, what the alternatives are, and who most benefits from... (Read more)

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  True Security: Rethinking American Social Insurance

  Michael J. Graetz and Jerry L. Mashaw
  1999

  Social insurance in the United States – including the Social Security Act of 1935 and the Medicare, Medicaid, and disability insurance programs that were added later – may be the greatest triumph of American domestic policy. But true security has... (Read more)

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  Legislation: Statutory Interpretation: 20 Questions

  Kent Greenawalt
  1999

  This book gives an overview of the field of statutory interpretation for the law student. It examines the subject through questions that help show how Legislation is crafted. Part of the University Casebook Series, it features expertly edited cases, text... (Read more)

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  The Role of Law and Legal Institutions in Asian Economic Development, 1960-1995

  Katharina Pistor and Philip A. Wellons
  1999

  This book explores the role of law and legal institutions in economic development. It investigates the period from 1960 to 1995, an era of rapid growth and socio-economic transformation. The study draws on the experience of six Asian countries: the... (Read more)

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  For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today

  Jedediah S. Purdy
  1999

  Jedediah Purdy calls For Common Things his “letter of love for the world’s possibilities.” Indeed, these pages – which garnered a flurry of attention among readers and in the media – constitute a passionate and persuasive testament to the value... (Read more)

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  Engaging Reason: On the Theory of Value and Action

  Joseph Raz
  1999

  Joseph Raz presents a penetrating exploration of the interdependence of value, reason, and the will. The essays illuminate a wide range of questions concerning fundamental aspects of human thought and action. The book is a summation of many years of... (Read more)

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  Practical Reason and Norms

  Joseph Raz
  1999

  This book focuses on three problems: In what way are rules normative, and how do they differ from ordinary reasons? What makes normative systems systematic? What distinguishes legal systems, and in what consists their normativity? All three questions are answered... (Read more)

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  A Stream of Windows: Unsettling Reflections on Trade, Immigration, and Democracy

  Jagdish Bhagwati
  1998

  Jagdish Bhagwati firmly believes that those who work at the frontiers of economics should also get down into the trenches of public policy in the only way they can: through advocacy. His frequent writings in leading newspapers and magazines are... (Read more)

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  The Uruguay Round and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Arthur Dunkel

  Jagdish Bhagwati and Mathias Hirsch
  1998

  Greatly admired by the world community of policymakers and scholars of international trade, Arthur Dunkel is credited with having saved the Uruguay Round from failure. This volume--whose authors include the most distinguished trade policymakers and eminent academics from international economics... (Read more)

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  State Trading in the Twenty-First Century: The World Trade Forum, Vol. 1

  Thomas Cottier and Petros C. Mavroidis
  1998

  The University of Michigan Press is pleased to announce the first volume in an annual series, The World Trade Forum. The Forum's members include scholars, lawyers, and government and business practitioners working in the area of international trade, law, and... (Read more)

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  Basic Concepts of Criminal Law

  George P. Fletcher
  1998

  In the United States today criminal justice can vary from state to state, as various states alter the Modern Penal Code to suit their own local preferences and concerns. In Eastern Europe, the post-Communist countries are quickly adopting new criminal... (Read more)

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  Capitalism with a Comrade's Face

  Roman Frydman, Kenneth Murphy, and Andrzej Rapaczynski
  1998

  Are nations that are journeying away from communism succeeding in becoming free-market democracies? In what ways do decades of totalitarian rule continue to distort the institutional shape of these societies? Which of communism's legacies may remain as permanent features of... (Read more)