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What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know

Joan C. Williams

An essential resource for any working woman, What Works for Women at Work is a comprehensive and insightful guide for mastering office politics as a woman. Authored by Joan C. Williams, one of the nation’s most-cited experts on women and work, and her daughter, writer Rachel Dempsey, this unique book offers a multi-generational perspective into the realities of today’s workplace....
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New Pleading in the Twenty-First Century: Slamming the Federal Courthouse Doors?

Scott Dodson

"The first book to comprehensively analyze, critique, and provide solutions for the new pleading regime in U.S. federal courts. In two recent recent decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court dramatically altered the pleadings landscape by imposing a new version of fact pleading and merits screening - what Scott Dodson calls 'New Pleading.' The result of this abrupt regime change is a...
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Moral Foundations of American Law: Faith, Virtue and Mores

Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. and Douglas W. Pinto Jr.

“This excellent book is about Western morality as it interacts with law. It is not contrasting the moral foundations of American law with other value systems. Rather the authors examine the history and great diversity of Western thought, the substance of moral ideas. They range from the ancients to the new old order of the New World. Hazard and Pinto...
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Race, Rights, and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment

Carol L. Izumi, Eric K. Yamamoto, Margaret Chon, Jerry Kang, and Frank H. Wu

Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment is the first comprehensive course book that provides critical examination of the Asian-American legal experience, and the legal, social and ethical ramifications of the internment of Japanese- Americans during World War II and the successful reparations movement of the 1980s. Appropriate for a diverse set of law school and non-legal...
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The Arizona State Constitution

John D. Leshy

In The Arizona State Constitution, John D. Leshy provides a comprehensive history of Arizona's constitutional development. Adopted at the height of the progressive movement, the Constitution contains many progressive innovations. Leshy describes these along with the dramatic changes the state has undergone in subsequent decades. He also includes a section-by-section commentary which crisply discusses the evolution and interpretation of each...
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Blinded by Sight

Osagie K. Obasogie

Colorblindness has become an integral part of the national conversation on race in America. Given the assumptions behind this influential metaphor—that being blind to race will lead to racial equality—it's curious that, until now, we have not considered if or how the blind "see" race. Most sighted people assume that the answer is obvious: they don't, and are therefore incapable...
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Rethinking Patent Law

Robin Cooper Feldman

Scientific and technological innovations are forcing patent law into the spotlight and revealing its many glaring inadequacies. Take, for example, the patent case that almost shut down the BlackBerry, or the growing phenomenon of patent trolling, in which patents are acquired for the sole purpose of entrapping companies whose products relate to them. And patents on genes have everyone up...
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Judicial Restraint in America: How the Ageless Wisdom of the federal Courts was Invented

Evan Tsen Lee

Many legal scholars believe that judges should not be "activists." But exactly what does it mean for judges to practice "restraint," and how did that set of practices evolve in America? In Judicial Restraint in America: How the Ageless Wisdom of the Federal Courts was Invented, Evan Tsen Lee traces the cultural, social, and intellectual forces that shaped the contours...
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Insider Trading

William K. Wang and Marc I. Steinberg

Insider Trading is your indispensable guide to avoiding insider trading liability, giving you the comprehensive legal knowledge and practical tools you need to determine what's legal, what's not, and what you can do to minimize liability exposure. Insider Trading shows you how the government has closed loopholes to increase insider trading liability - alerts you to SEC, Congressional, and judicial...
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The Role of Science in Law

Robin Cooper Feldman

The allure of science has always captivated members of the legal profession. Its siren's song offers a tune of perfection and the promise of endowing law with the respect and deference from society that lawyers crave. Both the bench and the bar continually look to science to rescue them from the discomfort of difficult legal decisions, and are frequently disappointed...
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Adoption and Assisted Reproduction: Families Under Construction

Susan Frelich Appleton and D. Kelly Weisberg

Adoption and Assisted Reproduction: Families Under Constructionprovides an in-depth exploration of the fascinating and controversial issues emerging out of biotechnology and society's expanding understanding of family identity. In this ideal supplement to any Family Law curriculum, authors Appleton and Weisberg combine solid treatment of the law and carefully crafted additional content to elicit analysis and fuel class discussion.

Using a...
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Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright and a Spy Save the American Revolution

Joel R. Paul

Silas Deane, a Connecticut merchant and member of the Continental Congress, went to France to persuade the king to support the colonists in their struggle with Britain. Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was a playwright who had access to the arms and ammunition that Deane needed. And the Chevalier d'Éon was a diplomat and sometime spy for the French king who...
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Constitutional Fictions: A Unified Theory of Constitutional Facts

David L. Faigman

Constitutional Fictions is the first book-length examination of the role of fact-finding in constitutional cases. Because the role of facts is central to the day-to-day realities of constitutional law, Faigman provides an extraordinarily important analysis of a subject that has been largely ignored by constitutional scholars. To show how contemporary facts play into constitutional analysis, Faigman examines some of the...
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Plunder: When the rule of Law is Illegal

Ugo Mattei and Laura Nader

Plunder examines the dark side of the Rule of Law and explores how it has been used as a powerful political weapon by Western countries in order to legitimize plunder – the practice of violent extraction by stronger political actors victimizing weaker ones.

Challenges traditionally held beliefs in the sanctity of the Rule of Law by exposing its dark...
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The Paradoxes of Nationalism: The French Revolution and its Meaning for Contemporary Nation building

Chimène Keitner

The Paradoxes of Nationalism explores a critical stage in the development of the principle of national self-determination: the years of the French Revolution, during which the idea of the nation was fused with that of self-government. While scholars and historians routinely cite the French Revolution as the origin of nationalism, they often fail to examine the implications of this connection....
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Transitional Justice in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Truth Versus Justice

Naomi Roht-Arriana and Javier Mariezcurrena

Dealing with the aftermath of civil conflict or the fall of a repressive government continues to trouble countries throughout the world. Whereas much of the 1990s was occupied with debates concerning the relative merits of criminal prosecutions and truth commissions, by the end of the decade a consensus emerged that this either/or approach was inappropriate and unnecessary. A second generation...
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Defending America: Military Culture and the Cold War Court Martial

Elizabeth Hillman

Using military justice records, Elizabeth Lutes Hillman demonstrates the criminal consequences of the military's violent mission, ideological goals, fear of homosexuality, and attitude toward racial, gender, and class difference. The records also show that only the most inept, unfortunate, and impolitic of misbehaving service members were likely to be prosecuted. Young, poor, low-ranking, and nonwhite servicemen bore a disproportionate burden...
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Legal Ethics : A Comparative Study

Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. and Angelo Dondi

Examining legal ethics within the framework of modern practice, this book identifies two important ethical issues that all lawyers confront: the difference between the role of lawyers and the role of judges in pursuing justice, and the conflicting responsibilities lawyers have to their clients and to the legal system more broadly. In addressing these issues, Legal Ethicsprovides an explanation of...
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Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White

Frank H. Wu

Writing in the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois, Cornel West, and others who confronted the "color line" of the twentieth century, journalist, scholar, and activist Frank H. Wu offers a unique perspective on how changing ideas of racial identity will affect race relations in the twenty-first century. Wu examines affirmative action, globalization, immigration, and other controversial contemporary issues...
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Hastings College of the Law: The First Century

Thomas Garden Barnes

THIS STUDY is the official Centennial History of Hastings College of the Law, which was commissioned by the Board of Directors in 1973. The faculty History and Arts Committee, under the chairmanship of the late George E. Osborne, discussed the nature of the project with me and invited me to undertake it. What the Committee wished was a full-length history...
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