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The Bond: A Novel
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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Experimental Law and Economics
Jennifer H. Arlen and Eric L. Talley 2008
During the last two decades, researchers in the field of experimental law and economics have made significant contributions to our knowledge of human behaviour and its interaction with legal and regulatory environments. This collection of previously published papers examines the... (read more)
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Trade Marks and Brands: An Interdisciplinary Critique
Lionel Bently, Jennifer Davis, and Jane C. Ginsburg 2008
Developments in trade marks law have called into question a variety of basic features, as well as bolder extensions, of legal protection. Other disciplines can help us think about fundamental issues such as: what is a trade mark? What does... (read more)
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French Business Law in Translation
George A. Bermann and Pierre Kirch 2008
By adding the relevant French text in a column directly across from the translation into English, this 2nd edition has a whole new dimension which makes it an invaluable resource in legal linguistics for international practitioners and academics.
The selection... (read more)
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Introduction to French Law
George A. Bermann and Etienne Picard 2008
French law displays many features that set it apart in a world class of its own. It can be said to proceed from a number of independent streams that coexist despite apparent contradiction. More than half of the 2283 articles... (read more)
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Termites in the Trading System: How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade
Jagdish N. Bhagwati 2008
Jagdish Bhagwati, the internationally renowned economist who uniquely combines a reputation as the leading scholar of international trade with a substantial presence in public policy on the important issues of the day, shines here a critical light on Preferential Trade... (read more)
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Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century
Philip Chase Bobbitt 2008
Philip Bobbitt follows his magisterial Shield of Achilles with an equally provocative analysis of the West’s struggle against terror. Boldly stating that the primary driver of terrorism is not Islam but the emergence of market states (like the U.S. and... (read more)
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Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict
Michael W. Doyle 2008
Does the United States have the right to defend itself by striking first, or must it wait until an attack is in progress? Is the Bush Doctrine of aggressive preventive action a justified and legal recourse against threats posed by... (read more)
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Tort Liability for Human Rights Abuses
George P. Fletcher 2008
Advancing a bold theory of the relevance of tort law in the fight against human rights abuses, celebrated US law professor George Fletcher here challenges the community of international lawyers to think again about how they can use the Alien... (read more)
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Defending Humanity: When Force is Justified and Why
George P. Fletcher and Jens David Ohlin 2008
In Defending Humanity, internationally acclaimed legal scholar George P. Fletcher and Jens David Ohlin, a leading expert on international criminal law, tackle one of the most important and controversial questions of our time: When is war justified? When a nation... (read more)
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The Law of Environmental Justice: Theories and Procedures to Address Disproportionate Risks
Michael B. Gerrard and Sheila R. Foster 2008
Environmental justice is the concept that minority and low-income individuals, communities and populations should not be disproportionately exposed to environmental hazards, and that they should share fully in making the decisions that affect their environment. The Law of Environmental Justice... (read more)
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100 Million Unnecessary Returns: A Simple, Fair, and Competitive Tax Plan for the United States
Michael J. Graetz 2008
To most Americans, the United States tax code has become a vast and confounding puzzle. In 1940, the instructions to the form 1040 were about four pages long. Today they have ballooned to more than a hundred pages, and the... (read more)
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Law and Judicial Duty
Philip A. Hamburger 2008
Law and Judicial Duty traces the early history of what is today called “judicial review.” Working from previously unexplored evidence, Hamburger questions the very concept of judicial review. Although decisions holding statutes unconstitutional are these days considered instances of a... (read more)
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The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives
Michael A. Heller 2008
Twenty-five new runways would eliminate most air travel delays in America; fifty patent owners are blocking a major drug company from creating a cancer cure; 90 percent of our broadcast spectrum sits idle while American cell phone service suffers. These... (read more)
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The Genesis of the GATT
Douglas A. Irwin, Petros C. Mavroidis, and Alan O. Sykes 2008
This book is part of a wider project that aims to propose a model GATT that makes good economic sense without undoing its current basic structure. It asks: What does the historical record indicate about the aims and objectives of... (read more)
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The Law and Economics of Contingent Protection in the WTO
Petros C. Mavroidis, Patrick A. Messerin, and Jasper M. Wauters 2008
In this important book, three of the leading authors in the field of international economic law discuss the law and economics of the three most frequently used contingent protection instruments: anti-dumping, countervailing measures, and safeguards. When discussing countervailing measures, the... (read more)
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Law & Capitalism: What Corporate Crises Reveal about Legal Systems and Economic Development around the World
Curtis J. Milhaupt and Katharina Pistor 2008
Recent high-profile corporate scandals – such as those involving Enron in the United States, Yukos in Russia, and Livedoor in Japan – demonstrate challenges to legal regulation of business practices in capitalist economies. Setting forth a new analytic framework for... (read more)
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Family Law Stories
Carol Sanger 2008
Family Law Stories presents the back stories – historical, procedural, personal and political – of eleven significant family law cases. The essays, written by leading family law scholars, cover four main areas: marriage (Reynolds, Loving, Goodridge), parenting and custody (Troxel),... (read more)
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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... (read more)
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