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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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The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy
Angela B. Cornell and Mark Barenberg 2022
We are currently witnessing some of the greatest challenges to democratic regimes since the 1930s, with democratic institutions losing ground in numerous countries throughout the world. At the same time organized labor has been under assault worldwide, with steep declines... (Read more)
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Trademark and Unfair Competition Law: Cases and Materials
Jane C. Ginsburg, Jessica Litman, and Mary Kevlin 2022
In the three decades since the first edition, both the number of stand-alone trademarks courses offered in U.S. law schools and the quantity of trademark law scholarship have vastly expanded. The growth of the Internet has fundamentally challenged trademark law... (Read more)
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Advanced Introduction to Landmark Criminal Cases
George P. Fletcher 2021
This engaging and accessible book focuses on high-profile criminal trials and examines the strategy of the lawyers, the reasons for conviction or acquittal, as well as the social importance of these famous cases.
Key features include:
- An in-depth examination... (Read more)
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The Struggle for Human Rights: Essays in Honour of Philip Alston
Nehal Bhuta, Florian Hoffmann, Sarah Knuckey, Frédéric Mégret, and Margaret Satterthwaite 2021
The Struggle for Human Rights evaluates the themes of law, politics, and practice which together define international human rights practice and scholarship. Taking as it's inspiration the 40 year career of international human rights advocate Philip Alston, this book of... (Read more)
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Purchasing Submission: Conditions, Power, and Freedom
Philip A. Hamburger 2021
The federal government increasingly regulates by using money and other benefits to induce private parties and states to submit to its conditions. It thereby enjoys a formidable power, which sidesteps a wide range of constitutional and political limits.
Conditions are... (Read more)
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Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago
Joseph D. Kearney and Thomas W. Merrill 2021
How did Chicago, a city known for commerce, come to have such a splendid public waterfront – its most treasured asset? Lakefront reveals a story of social, political, and legal conflict in which private and public rights have clashed repeatedly... (Read more)
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How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights is Tearing America Apart
Jamal Greene 2021
You have the right to remain silent – and the right to free speech. The right to worship, and to doubt. The right to be free from discrimination, and to hate. The right to life, and the right to own... (Read more)
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Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives
Michael A. Heller and James Salzman 2021
A hidden set of rules governs who owns what – explaining everything from whether you can recline your airplane seat to why HBO lets you borrow a password illegally – and in this lively and entertaining guide, two acclaimed law... (Read more)
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The Cambridge Handbook of Copyright Limitations and Exceptions
Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Ng-Loy Wee Loon, and Haochen Sun 2021
While copyright law is ordinarily thought to consist primarily of exclusive rights, the regime's various exemptions and immunities from liability for copyright infringement form an integral part of its functioning, and serve to balance copyright's grant of a private benefit... (Read more)
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Transnational Litigation in a Nutshell
George A. Bermann, William S. Dodge, and Donald Earl Childress III 2021
This title identifies and explores recurring issues of jurisdiction, procedure, and choice of law entailed in the resolution of transnational disputes in U.S. courts. It covers the sources of transnational litigation law in the United States, personal and subject matter... (Read more)
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China and the WTO: Why Multilateralism Still Matters
Petros C. Mavroidis and André Sapir 2021
China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 was rightly hailed as a huge step forward in international cooperation. However, China’s participation in the WTO has been anything but smooth, with China alienating some of its trading partners,... (Read more)
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The Regulation of International Trade, Vol. 3: The General Agreement on Trade in Services
Petros C. Mavroidis 2020
The previous two volumes in The Regulation of International Trade analyzed the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the first successful agreement to generate multilateral trade liberalization, and the World Trade Organization (WTO), for which the GATT laid the... (Read more)
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The Cambridge Handbook of International and Comparative Trademark Law
Irene Calboli and Jane C. Ginsburg 2020
Trade in goods and services has historically resisted territorial confinement, but trademark protection remains territorial, albeit within an increasingly important framework of multilateral treaties. Trademark law therefore demands that practitioners, policy-makers and academics understand principles of international and comparative law.... (Read more)
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The Restatement and Beyond: The Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Foreign Relations Law
Paul B. Stephan and Sarah H. Cleveland 2020
Reflecting on the Fourth Restatement of the Foreign Relations Law, these essays provide a comprehensive survey of the most significant issues in contemporary U.S. foreign relations law. They review the context and assumptions on which that work relied, critique its... (Read more)
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Corporate Crime and Punishment: The Crisis of Underenforcement
John C. Coffee Jr. 2020
In the early 2000s, federal enforcement efforts sent white collar criminals at Enron and WorldCom to prison. But since the 2008 financial collapse, this famously hasn't happened. Corporations have been permitted to enter into deferred prosecution agreements and avoid criminal... (Read more)
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Burrow-Giles v. Sarony (US 1884): Copyright Protection for Photographs, and Concepts of Authorship in an Age of Machines
Jane C. Ginsburg 2020
Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony produced one of the Supreme Court’s first interpretations of the term “writings” of “authors” in the Constitution’s “copyright clause.” But Burrow-Giles also stands out in U.S. copyright jurisprudence for its analysis of the impact of... (Read more)
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Critique and Praxis: A Radical Critical Philosophy of Illusions, Values, and Action
Bernard E. Harcourt 2020
Critical philosophy has always challenged the division between theory and practice. At its best, it aims to turn contemplation into emancipation, seeking to transform society in pursuit of equality, autonomy, and human flourishing. Yet today’s critical theory often seems to... (Read more)
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La Société d’exposition: Désir et désobéissance à l’ère numérique
Bernard E. Harcourt 2020
Bernard E. Harcourt propose une critique puissante de notre nouvelle transparence virtuelle. Il livre une analyse de ce que les technologies big data font à nos vies, et de la manière dont elles s’y introduisent, et révèle l’ampleur de notre... (Read more)
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