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Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology
Anu Bradford 2023
The global battle among the three dominant digital powers—the United States, China, and the European Union — is intensifying. All three regimes are racing to regulate tech companies, with each advancing a competing vision for the digital economy while attempting... (read more)
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The End of Family Court: How Abolishing the Court Brings Justice to Children and Families
Jane M. Spinak 2023
Part of the Families, Law, and Society series.
At the turn of the twentieth century, American social reformers created the first juvenile court. They imagined a therapeutic court where informality, specially trained public servants, and a kindly, all-knowing judge would... (read more)
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Social Parenthood in Comparative Perspective
Clare Huntington, Christiane von Bary, and Courtney G. Joslin 2023
Part of the Families, Law, and Society series.
What makes a person a parent? Around the world, same-sex couples are raising children; parents are separating and re-partnering, creating blended families; and children are living with grandparents, family friends, and other... (read more)
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Commercial Finance: A Transactional Approach
Ronald J. Mann 2023
The Commercial Finance book is designed to update (and replace) the course on "Secured Credit" traditionally taught in law school. By shifting the focus to commercial finance from Article 9, and by shifting the materials to emphasize pro-active document design... (read more)
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Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory
Bernard E. Harcourt 2023
Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate change. There is, however, another path — cooperation democracy. From consumer co-ops to credit unions, worker cooperatives to insurance mutuals, nonprofits to mutual aid,... (read more)
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How to Save the World in (Six Not-So-Easy) Steps: Bringing Out the Best in Nonprofits
David M. Schizer 2023
A must-read for anyone who loves nonprofits but worries about inefficiency, infighting, and inertia, How to Save the World in Six (Not So Easy) Steps is the definitive guide to advancing the mission effectively and mobilizing support.
The US has... (read more)
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Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War
Michael W. Doyle 2023
By 1990, the first Cold War was ending. The Berlin Wall had fallen and the Warsaw Pact was crumbling; following Russia’s lead, cries for democracy were being embraced by a young Chinese populace. The post-Cold War years were a time... (read more)
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Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal for Climate Mitigation: The Legal Framework
Romany M. Webb, Korey Silverman-Roati, and Michael B. Gerrard 2023
Examining the existing legal framework for ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR), this forward-thinking book highlights potential legal challenges and opportunities associated with using the ocean to remove and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. It describes five commonly discussed ocean... (read more)
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Twilight Issues in International Arbitration: Latent Choice of Law Challenges
George A. Bermann 2023
Twilight Issues in International Arbitration brings together the most frequently recurring issues of arbitral practice and procedure that arbitral tribunals regularly confront. There are many issues of arbitral practice that remain largely unaddressed, or poorly addressed, in the sources to... (read more)
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A Legacy of Discrimination: The Essential Constitutionality of Affirmative Action
Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone 2023
A timely defense of affirmative action policies that offers a more nuanced understanding of how centuries of invidious racism, discrimination, and segregation in the United States led to and justifies such policies from both a moral and constitutional perspective.
Since... (read more)
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Global Climate Change and U.S. Law
Michael B. Gerrard, Jody Freeman, and Michael Burger 2023
This book is a comprehensive treatise on the U.S. laws that are relevant to climate change. It covers federal, state, and local statutes and regulations, as well as international agreements. Their evolution is traced and their current impact on U.S.... (read more)
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Contract Law and Theory
Robert E. Scott and Jody S. Kraus 2023
Contract Law and Theory, the leading theoretical casebook on contracts, is based on clear, discernible themes and patterns that underlie much of contract law, and as it develops them explicitly, the student is invited to develop a working model of... (read more)
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Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy
Morgan Ricks, Ganesh Sitaraman, Shelley Welton, and Lev Menand 2022
This book studies the law of networks, platforms, and utilities (NPUs). For many years, this field was known as "regulated industries." Before that, it was called "the law of public utilities," "the law of public service corporations," and "the law... (read more)
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Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of our Democracy
Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone 2022
One of the most fiercely debated issues of this era is what to do about "bad" speech-hate speech, disinformation and propaganda campaigns, and incitement of violence-on the internet, and in particular speech on social media platforms such as Facebook and... (read more)
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International Copyright and Neighbouring Rights: The Berne Convention and Beyond
Sam Ricketson and Jane C. Ginsburg 2022
This comprehensive volume examines the international framework concerned with the protection of copyright and neighbouring rights. The focal point of this commentary is the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works 1886, which was last revised in... (read more)
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Fixing the Climate: Strategies for an Uncertain World
Charles F. Sabel and David G. Victor 2022
Global climate diplomacy — from the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement — is not working. Despite decades of sustained negotiations by world leaders, the climate crisis continues to worsen. The solution is within our grasp — but we will... (read more)
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Wesley Hohfeld a Century Later: Edited Work, Select Personal Papers, and Original Commentaries
Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Ted M. Sichelman, and Henry E. Smith 2022
Wesley Hohfeld is known the world over as the legal theorist who famously developed a taxonomy of legal concepts. His contributions to legal thinking have stood the test of time, remaining relevant nearly a century after they were first published.... (read more)
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The WTO Dispute Settlement System: How, Why and Where?
Petros C. Mavroidis 2022
This incisive book provides a comprehensive overview of the WTO dispute settlement practice from 1995 up until the present day, illustrating the need for it to be resurrected from its current state of crisis. The WTO Dispute Settlement System will... (read more)
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Direct: The Rise of the Middleman Economy and the Revolution Underway
Kathryn Judge 2022
Finance expert, law professor, and fellow overwhelmed consumer Kathryn Judge investigates the surprising ways that middlemen have taken control of the economy at the expense of the rest of us, and provides practical guidance about how to regain control, find... (read more)
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The Sources of WTO Law and Their Interpretation: Is the New OK, OK?
Petros C. Mavroidis 2022
In this incisive book, Petros C. Mavroidis examines the complex practice of interpreting the various sources of World Trade Organization (WTO) law. Written by a leading expert in WTO scholarship, the book serves as a broad grounding in the legal... (read more)
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The Fed Unbound: Central Banking in a Time of Crisis
Lev Menand 2022
The Federal Reserve, the U.S. central bank, was built for a monetary system composed primarily of investor-owned, government-chartered banks. But over the years, the erosion of banking law and the rise of alternative forms of money created outside of the... (read more)
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The Chevron Doctrine: Its Rise and Fall, and the Future of the Administrative State
Thomas W. Merrill 2022
The Constitution makes Congress the principal federal lawmaker. But for a variety of reasons, including partisan gridlock, Congress increasingly fails to keep up with the challenges facing our society. Power has inevitably shifted to the executive branch agencies that interpret... (read more)
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The Future Law of Armed Conflict
Matthew C. Waxman and Thomas W. Oakley 2022
Warfare is changing - and rapidly. New technologies, new geopolitical alignments, new interests and vulnerabilities, and other developments are changing how, why, and by whom conflict will be waged. Just as militaries must plan ahead for an environment in which... (read more)
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Cases and Materials on State and Local Government Law
Richard Briffault, Laurie Reynolds, Nestor M. Davidson, Erin A. Scharff, and Rick Su 2022
Like its predecessors, the 9th Edition focuses on the critical roles played by states and local governments and the complex structure of our state-local system. It challenges students to understand the values that inform the distribution of powers between states... (read more)
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Cases and Materials on Corporations
John C. Coffee Jr., Ronald J. Gilson, and Brian J.M. Quinn 2022
With this edition, we have made a determined effort to shrink our size without reducing our coverage. New material however has been added in all chapters. A description of some of the new material follows. In Chapter I, recognizing that... (read more)
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