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BigLaw Money and Meaning in the Modern Law Firm
ISBN: PB: 9780226742137, ISBN: HB: 9780226741949, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 figures
The Great Recession intensified large law firms' emphasis on financial performance, leading to claims that lawyers in these firms were now guided by business rather than professional values. Based on interviews with more than 250 partners in large fi...
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£78,00
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Wildlife as Property Owners A New Conception of Animal Rights
ISBN: PB: 9780226571362, ISBN: HB: 9780226571225, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Humankind coexists with every other living thing. People drink the same water, breathe the same air, and share the same land as other animals. Yet, property law reflects a general assumption that only people can own land. The effects of this presumpt...
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£76,00
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Patent Politics Life Forms, Markets, and the Public Interest in the United States and Europe
ISBN: PB: 9780226759135, ISBN: HB: 9780226437859, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
Over the past thirty years, the world's patent systems have experienced pressure from civil society like never before. From farmers to patient advocates, new voices are arguing that patents impact public health, economic inequality, morality – and de...
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Rights of the Defenseless Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America
ISBN: PB: 9780226760605, ISBN: HB: 9780226652016, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
280 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 14 halftones
In 1877, the American Humane Society was formed as the national organization for animal and child protection. Thirty years later, there were 354 anticruelty organizations chartered in the United States, nearly 200 of which were similarly invested in...
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How to Do Things with Legal Doctrine
ISBN: PB: 9780226726243, ISBN: HB: 9780226726106, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 tables
Legal doctrine – the creation of doctrinal concepts, arguments, and legal regimes built on the foundation of written law – is the currency of contemporary law. Yet law students, lawyers, and judges often take doctrine for granted, without asking even...
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£72,00
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How to Save a Constitutional Democracy
ISBN: PB: 9780226755076, ISBN: HB: 9780226564388, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 3 tables
Democracies are in danger. Around the world, a rising wave of populist leaders threatens to erode the core structures of democratic self rule. In the United States, the election of Donald Trump marked a decisive turning point for many. What kind of p...
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Marriage Equality From Outlaws to In-Laws
ISBN: HB: 9780300221817, Yale University Press, August 2020
1040 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
As a legal scholar who first argued in the early 1990s for a right to gay marriage, William N. Eskridge Jr. has been on the front lines of the debate over same?sex marriage for decades. In this book, Eskridge and his coauthor, Christopher R. Riano, o...
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Patents for Power Intellectual Property Law and the Diffusion of Military Technology
ISBN: HB: 9780226716527, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 3 tables
In an era when knowledge can travel with astonishing speed, the need for analysis of intellectual property (IP) law – and its focus on patents, trade secrets, trademarks, and issues of copyright – has never been greater. But as Robert M. Farley and D...
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What's Legit? Critiques of Law and Strategies of Rights
ISBN: PB: 9783035802436, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Once considered a stepchild of social theory, legal criticism has recently received a great deal of attention, perpetuating what has always been an ambivalent relationship. On the one hand, law is praised for being a cultural achievement, on the othe...
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Taking Back the Constitution Activist Judges and the Next Age of American Law
ISBN: HB: 9780300245981, Yale University Press, July 2020
320 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 black&white illus.
The Supreme Court has never simply evaluated laws and arguments in light of permanent and immutable constitutional meanings, and social, moral, and yes, political ideas have always played into Supreme Court justices' impressions of how they think a c...
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