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State as a Work of Art The Cultural Origins of the Constitution

Slauter Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226761961, ISBN: HB: 9780226761954, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
392 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 5 line illus.

The founding of the United States after the American Revolution was so deliberate, so inspired, and so monumental in scope that the key actors considered this new government to be a work of art framed from natural rights. Recognizing the artificial n...

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Death of the American Trial

Burns Robert P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226081274, ISBN: HB: 9780226081267, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
200 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm

In "The Death of the American Trial", distinguished legal scholar Robert P. Burns makes an impassioned case for reversing the rapid decline of the trial before we lose one of our public culture's greatest achievements. As a practice that is adapted f...

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Judicial Power of the Purse How Courts Fund National Defense in Times of Crisis

Staudt Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780226771144, ISBN: HB: 9780226771120, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
216 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 16 tables, 10 line illus.

Congress and the president are not the only branches that deal with fiscal issues in times of war. In this innovative book, Nancy Staudt focuses on the role of federal courts in fiscal matters during warfare and high-cost national defense emergencies...

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Piracy The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates

Johns Adrian

ISBN: PB: 9780226401195, ISBN: HB: 9780226401188, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
640 pp., 22.4x15.5 cm, 40 halftones

Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of Ameri...

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Habeas for the Twenty-First Century Uses, Abuses, and the Future of the Great Writ

King Nancy J., Hoffmann Joseph L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226436975, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
272 pp., 23.1x16 cm, 2 tables, 8 line illus.

For centuries, the writ of habeas corpus has served as an important safeguard against miscarriages of justice, and today it remains at the center of some of the most contentious issues of our time – among them terrorism, immigration, crime, and the d...

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Theory of Rules

Llewellyn Karl N.

ISBN: HB: 9780226487953, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
168 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm

Karl N. Llewellyn was one of the founders and major figures of legal realism, and his many keen insights have a central place in American law and legal understanding. Key to Llewellyn's thinking was his conception of rules, put forward in his numerou...

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Meaning of Property Freedom, Community, and the Legal Imagination

Purdy Jedediah

ISBN: PB: 9780300171440, Yale University Press, March 2011
240 pp., 22.6x14.7 cm

In 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 and enables us to interpret the writings of the patron s...

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Regulation versus Litigation Perspectives from Economics and Law

Kessler Daniel P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226432205, ISBN: HB: 9780226432182, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2011
344 pp., 23.4x15.7 cm, 54 tables, 19 line illus.

The efficacy of various political institutions is the subject of intense debate between proponents of broad legislative standards enforced through litigation and those who prefer regulation by administrative agencies. This book explores the trade-off...

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Constitutional Sentiments

Sajo Andras

ISBN: HB: 9780300139266, Yale University Press, January 2011
352 pp., 23.8x15.8 cm

The Constitution was written to shape human behaviour and affairs, and it does so by appealing to people's hearts, not only their minds. This title presents an interdisciplinary analysis that focuses on the emotions that underlie constitutional law,...

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Specializing the Courts

Baum Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9780226039558, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
296 pp., 22.4x15 cm, 11 tables

Most Americans think that judges should be, and are, generalists who decide a wide array of cases. Nonetheless, we now have specialized courts in many key policy areas".Specializing the Courts" provides the first comprehensive analysis of this growin...

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