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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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Experimentalist Governance in the European Union: Towards a New Architecture
Charles F. Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin 2010This 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... (read more)
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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Tim Wu 2010Analyzing 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... (read more)
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Skilled Immigration Today: Prospects, Problems, and Policies
Jagdish N. Bhagwati and Gordon H. Hanson 2009Skilled 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... (read more)
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Multijuralism: Manifestations, Causes, and Consequences
Albert Breton, Anne Des Ormeaux, Katharina Pistor, and Pierre Salmon 2009At 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... (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 2009Children 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... (read more)
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The Bond: A Novel
George P. Fletcher 2009Adam 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,... (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 2009The 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... (read more)
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Human Rights
Louis Henken, Sarah H. Cleveland, Laurence R. Helfer, Gerald L. Neuman, and Diane L. Orentlicher 2009This 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... (read more)
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A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom
Jedediah S. Purdy 2009In 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... (read more)
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Between Authority and Interpretation: On the Theory of Law and Practical Reason
Joseph Raz 2009In 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... (read more)
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The Authority of Law: Essays on Law and Morality
Joseph Raz 2009This 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... (read more)
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The Fetha Nagast/The Law of the Kings
Paulos Tzadua and Peter L. Strauss 2009The 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... (read more)
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Employment Law
Samuel Estreicher and Gillian L. Lester 2008This textbook is a one-volume treatment of the basic analytical structure and legal policy issues informing U.S. employment law. The full range of the subject matter is examined with chapters on defining employees... (read more)
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Experimental Law and Economics
Jennifer H. Arlen and Eric L. Talley 2008During 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... (read more)
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Trade Marks and Brands: An Interdisciplinary Critique
Lionel Bently, Jennifer Davis, and Jane C. Ginsburg 2008Developments 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:... (read more)
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French Business Law in Translation
George A. Bermann and Pierre Kirch 2008By 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... (read more)
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