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Law
Dignity of Commerce Markets and the Moral Foundations of Contract Law
Oman Nathan B.
ISBN: HB: 9780226415529, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Why should the law care about enforcing contracts? We tend to think of a contract as the legal embodiment of a moral obligation to keep a promise. When two parties enter into a transaction, they are obligated as moral beings to play out the transacti...
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Issues in Law and Economics
Winter Harold
ISBN: PB: 9780226249629, ISBN: HB: 9780226249599, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Is file-sharing destroying the music industry? Should the courts encourage breach of contract? Does the threat of malpractice lawsuits cause doctors to provide too much medical care? Do judges discriminate when sentencing? With "Issues in Law and Eco...
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Wasting a Crisis Why Securities Regulation Fails
Mahoney Paul G.
ISBN: PB: 9780226420998, ISBN: HB: 9780226236513, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 7 line drawings, 22 tables
The recent financial crisis led to sweeping reforms that inspired countless references to the financial reforms of the New Deal. Comparable to the reforms of the New Deal in both scope and scale, the 2,300-page Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 – the main regul...
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General
Working Law Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights
Edelman Lauren B.
ISBN: PB: 9780226400761, ISBN: HB: 9780226400624, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 figures, 4 tables
Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, virtually all companies have antidiscrimination policies in place. Although these policies represent some progress, women and minorities remain underrepresented within the workplace as a whole and even more...
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Grasping Hand "Kelo v. City of New London" and the Limits of Eminent Domain
Somin Ilya
ISBN: PB: 9780226422169, ISBN: HB: 9780226256603, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 1 line drawing, 10 tables
In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that the city of New London, Connecticut, could condemn fifteen residential properties in order to transfer them to a new private owner. Although the Fifth Amendment only permits the taking of private property for "pu...
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Untrodden Ground How Presidents Interpret the Constitution
Bruff Harold H.
ISBN: PB: 9780226418261, ISBN: HB: 9780226211107, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
550 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
When Thomas Jefferson struck a deal for the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, he knew he was adding a new national power to those specified in the Constitution, but he also believed his actions were in the nation's best interest. His successors would follo...
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Difficult Transition The Nepal Papers
Sharma Mandira, Tamang Seira
ISBN: HB: 9789385932052, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2016
320 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Nepal, because it was never directly colonized, is seen as something of an outlier on the subcontinent, but the country could not remain totally immune to the influence of colonialism in its neighborhood. A "Difficult Transition" shows that, in addit...
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Myth of the Litigious Society Why We Don't Sue
Engel David M.
ISBN: HB: 9780226305042, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
248 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 5 figures, 1 table
Why do Americans seem to sue at the slightest provocation? The answer may surprise you: we don't! For every "Whiplash Charlie" who sees a car accident as a chance to make millions, for every McDonald's customer to pursue a claim over a too-hot cup of...
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Supreme Court Review 2015
Hutchinson Dennis J., Strauss David A., Stone Geoffrey R.
ISBN: HB: 9780226392219, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For more than fifty years, "The Supreme Court Review" has won acclaim for providing a sustained and authoritative survey of the implications of the Court's most significant decisions".The Supreme Court Review" is an in-depth annual critique of the Su...
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Policing Immigrants Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines
Provine Doris Marie, Varsanyi Monica W., Lewis Paul G., Decker Scott H.
ISBN: PB: 9780226363189, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 maps, 4 figures, 13 tables
The United States deported nearly two million illegal immigrants during the first five years of the Obama presidency – more than during any previous administration. President Obama stands accused by activists of being "deporter in chief". Yet despite...
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