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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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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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Congress Overwhelmed The Decline in Congressional Capacity and Prospects for Reform
ISBN: PB: 9780226702575, ISBN: HB: 9780226702438, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 line drawings, 43 tables
Congress today is falling short. Fewer bills, worse oversight, and more dysfunction. But why? In a new volume of essays, the contributors investigate an underappreciated reason Congress is struggling: it doesn't have the internal capacity to do what...
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Church State Corporation Construing Religion in US Law
ISBN: PB: 9780226454696, ISBN: HB: 9780226454559, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones
Church and state: a simple phrase that reflects one of the most famous and fraught relationships in the history of the United States. But what exactly is "the church," and how is it understood in US law today? In "Church State Corporation", religion...
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Alaska Constitution
ISBN: PB: 9781602234109, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2020
100 pp., 16.5x10.7 cm
The Alaska Constitution, ratified by the people in 1956, became operative with the proclamation of statehood on January 3, 1959. The constitution was drafted by fifty-five delegates who convened at the University of Alaska to determine the authority...
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Medical Monopoly Intellectual Property Rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry
ISBN: PB: 9780226710228, ISBN: HB: 9780226108186, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, April 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
During much of the nineteenth century, physicians and pharmacists alike considered medical patenting and the use of trademarks by drug manufacturers unethical forms of monopoly; physicians who prescribed patented drugs could be, and were, ostracized...
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Union by Law Filipino American Labor Activists, Rights Radicalism, and Racial Capitalism
ISBN: PB: 9780226679907, ISBN: HB: 9780226679877, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
Laborers in American West Coast agricultural fields and Alaska salmon canneries. There, they found themselves confined to exploitative low-wage jobs in racially segregated workplaces as well as subjected to vigilante violence and other forms of ethni...
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