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Besselink, Leonard, Frans Pennings and Sacha Prechal, editors. The eclipse of the legality principle in the European Union. KJE5640 .E25 2011
Buck, Trevor, Richard Kirkham and Brian Thompson. The ombudsman enterprise and administrative justice. KD4900 .B83 2011
Bowman, Michael, Peter Davies, and Catherine Redgwell. Lyster's international wildlife law. K3525 .B69 2010
Horowitz, Noah. Art of the deal: contemporary art in a global financial market. N8600 .H67 2011
Durkin, Thomas A. and Gregory Elliehausen. Truth in lending: theory, history, and a way forward. KF1040 .D87 2011
Garcia, Nicole A., editor. Banks, securities and the Volcker rule: background and issues. KF968.6 .B36 2011
Lauterpacht, Elihu. The life of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, QC, FBA, LLD. KJJ110 .B33 L38 2010
Anand, Sanjay. Essentials of the Dodd-Frank Act. KF969.58201 .A2 2011
Brandwein, Pamela. Rethinking the judicial settlement of Reconstruction. KF4757 .B655 2011
Leiter, William M. and Samuel Leiter. Affirmative action in antidiscrimination law and policy: an overview and synthesis. KF4755.5 .L45 2011
May, Larry. Global justice and due process. K3251 .M39 2011
Fountoulakis, Christiana. Set-off defences in international commercial arbitration: a comparative analysis. K2238 .F68 2011
Boozari, Amirhassan. Shi'i jurisprudence and constitution: revolution in Iran. KMH2101 .B66 2011
Castella Andreu, Josep Ma and Marco Olivetti, editors. Nuevos estatutos y reforma del Estado: las experiencias de Espana e Italia a debate. KKT2050 .N8 2009
Lee, Cynthia, editor. The Fourth Amendment, searches and seizures: its constitutional history and the contemporary debate. KF9630 .F68 2011
Masterman, Roger. The separation of powers in the contemporary constitution: judicial competence and independence in the United Kingdom. KD4645 .M37 2011
Oliver, Dawn, Tony Prosser and Richard Rawlings, editors. The regulatory state: constitutional implications. KD3989 .R44 2010
Posner, Eric A. and Adrian Vermeule. The executive unbound: after the Madisonian republic. KF5050 .P67 2011
Smolla, Rodney A. The constitution goes to college: five constitutional ideas that have shaped the American university. KF4225 .S636 2011
Wert, Justin J. Habeas corpus in America: the politics of individual rights. KF9011 .W47 2011
Alvik, Ivar. Contracting with sovereignty: state contracts and international arbitration. K2400 .A962 2011
Varallo, Gregory V., Srinivas M. Raju and Michael D. Allen. Special committees: law and practice. KF1423 .V37 2011
Garrett, Brandon. Convicting the innocent: where criminal prosecutions go wrong. KF9756 .G37 2011
Isaacs, Tracy and Richard Vernon, editors. Accountability for collective wrongdoing. K5301 .A923 2011
Jurdi, Nidal Nabil. The International Criminal Court and national courts: a contentious relationship. KZ6314 .J87 2011
King, Nancy J. and Joseph L. Hoffmann. Habeas for the twenty-first century :uses, abuses, and the future of the great writ. KF9011 .K56 2011
Shoemaker, Karl. Sanctuary and crime in the middle ages, 400-1500. KJ1010 .S54 2011
Wilson, Richard Ashby. Writing history in international criminal trials. K5301 W553 2011
Wolf, Willem-Jan van der, editor. Genocide and international criminal law. K5302 .G46 2010
Yaffe, Gideon. Attempts: in the philosophy of action and the criminal law. K5090 .Y34 2010
Folberg, Jay and Dwight Golann. Lawyer negotiation: theory, practice, and law. KF9084 .F65 2011
Golann, Dwight and Jay Folberg. Mediation: the roles of advocate and neutral. KF9084 .G648 2011
Shaffer, Gregory C. and Ricardo Melendez-Ortiz, editors. Dispute settlement at the WTO: the developing country experience. K4610 .M45 2010
Adeh, Ignatius. Corruption and environmental law: the case of the Niger Delta. KTA1012 .A93 2010
Higgins, Polly. Eradicating ecocide: laws and governance to prevent the destruction of our planet. K3585 .H54 2010
Milun, Kathryn. The political uncommons: the cross-cultural logic of the global commons. K3585 .M55 2011
Moya, Olga L. and Andrew L. Fono. Federal environmental law: the user's guide. KF3775 .M69 2011
Khan, Karim A. A., Caroline Buisman and Christopher Gosnell, editors. Principles of evidence in international criminal justice. KZ7422 .P75 2010
Strasser, Mark. Same-sex unions across the United States. KF539 .S775 2011
Ahdar, Rex J. and Nicholas Aroney, editors. Shari'a in the West. KBP173.25 .S52 2010
Kelemen, R. Daniel. Eurolegalism: the transformation of law and regulation in the European Union. KJE947 .K45 2011
Laremont, Ricardo Rene. Islamic law and politics in Northern Nigeria. KTA469.5 .L37 2011
Mo, Jongryn and David W. Brady, editors. The rule of law in South Korea. KPA2020 .R85 2009
Mulcahy, Linda. Legal architecture: justice, due process and the place of law. KD7100 .M85 2011
Slapper, Gary. How the law works. KD661 .S584 2011
Vishanoff, David R. The formation of Islamic hermeneutics: how Sunni legal theorists imagined a revealed law. KBP285 .V57 2011
Kingsbury, Benedict and Benjamin Straumann, editors. The Roman foundations of the law of nations: Alberico Gentili and the justice of empire. KZ1242 .R66 2010
Nathan, Frederic S. Centurions in public service: particularly as presidents, supreme court justices & cabinet members. E176 .N38 2010
Sturges, Robert Stuart, editor. Law and Sovereignty in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. JC327 .L29 2011
Allen, Steve and Alexandra Xanthaki, editors. Reflections on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. K3247 .R44 2011
Bates, Ed. The evolution of the European Convention on Human Rights: from its inception to the creation of a permanent court of human rights. KJC5138 .B38 2010
Christie, George C. Philosopher kings?: the adjudication of conflicting human rights and social values. K3240 .C4748 2011
Francioni, Francesco and Natalino Ronzitti, editors. War by contract: human rights, humanitarian law, and private contractors. KZ6471 .W37 2011
Ramcharan, Bertrand G. The fundamentals of international human rights treaty law. K3240 .R3548 2011
Tyagi, Yogesh. The UN Human Rights Committee: practice and procedure. K3241 .T93 2010
Liu, Guofu. Chinese immigration law. KNQ3023 .L58 2011
Heath, Christopher and Anselm Kamperman Sanders, editors. Landmark intellectual property cases and their legacy: IEEM international intellectual property conferences. K1401 .A6 L36 2011
Lane, Eric L. Clean tech intellectual property: eco-marks, green patents and green innovation. KF2979 .L359 2011
McLeod, Kembrew and Peter DiCola. Creative license: the law and culture of digital sampling. KF3035 .M35 2011
Tehranian, John. Infringement nation: copyright 2.0 and you. KF2994 .T44 2011
Akram, Susan. International law and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: a rights-based approach to Middle East peace. KZ4282 .I58 2011
Martinez Gutierrez, Norman A. Limitation of liability in international maritime conventions: the relationship between global limitation conventions and particular liability regimes. K1168 .M374 2011
Panke, Diana. The effectiveness of the European Court of Justice: why reluctant states comply. KJE5461 .P36 2010
Orlov, Vladimir. Introduction to business law in Russia. KLB78 .B87 O75 2011
Orford, Anne. International authority and the responsibility to protect. KZ6374 .O74 2011
Silverburg, Sanford R., editor. International law: contemporary issues and future developments. KZ3410 .I5792 2011
Westra, Laura. Globalization, violence and world governance. KZ1256 .W47 2011
Yarwood, Lisa. State accountability under international law: holding states accountable for a breach of jus cogens norm. KZ1261 .Y37 2011
Broude, Tomer, Marc L. Busch and Amelia Porges. The politics of international economic law. K3943 .G653 2011
Kerr, William A. Conflict, chaos and confusion: the crisis in the international trading system. K3943 .K47 2010
Wold, Chris, Sanford Gaines and Greg Block. Trade and the environment: law and policy. K3943 .W648 2011
Amerasinghe, Chittharanjan F. International arbitral jurisdiction. KZ6115 .A46 2011
Maloy, Richard H. W. Subject-matter jurisdiction of U.S. district courts. KF8858 .M34 2010
Gordon, Robert W. and Morton J. Horwitz, editors. Law, society, and history: themes in the legal sociology and legal history of Lawrence M. Friedman. K376 .L388 2011
Llewellyn, Karl N. The theory of rules. K230 .L485 A37 2011
Swiffen, Amy. Law, ethics and the biopolitical. K247.6 .S93 2011
Tuori, Kaarlo. Ratio and voluntas: the tension between reason and will in law. K230 .T86 A37 2011
Wabwile, Michael Nyongesa. Legal protection of social and economic rights of children in developing countries: reassessing international cooperation and responsibility. K639.A41989 W33 2010
Casale, Giuseppe, editor. The employment relationship: a comparative overview. K1705 .E48 2011
Davis, Richard. Justices and journalists: the U.S. Supreme Court and the media. K487 .M43 D38 2011
Dayan, Joan. The law is a white dog: how legal rituals make and unmake persons. KF465 .D39 2011
Edwards, Linda Holdeman. Legal writing and analysis. KF250 .E378 2011
Olson, Walter K. Schools for misrule: legal academia and an overlawyered America. KF272 .O474 2011
Nadwī, Muḥammad Akram. Abū Ḥanīfah: his life, legal method and legacy. KBP300 .A272 N33 2010
Pearson, Ellen Holmes. Remaking custom: law and identity in the early American Republic. KF366 .P43 2011
Cummings, Scott L. The Paradox of Professionalism: Lawyers and the Possibility of Justice. K117 .P366 2011
Collins, Matthew. The law of defamation and the Internet. K930 .C65 2010
Sifry, Micah L. Wikileaks and the age of transparency. JK1764 .S5479 2011
Laycock, Douglas. The death of the irreparable injury rule. KF9010 .L39 1991
Banner, Stuart. American property: a history of how, why, and what we own. KF562 .B36 2011
Dagan, Ḥanokh. Property: values and institutions. K720 .D34 2011
Fox O'Mahony, Lorna and James A. Sweeney, editors. The idea of home in law: displacement and dispossession. K738 .I34 2011
Sagafi-nejad, Nancy Black. Friends at the bar: a Quaker view of law, conflict resolution, and legal reform. KF4869 .Q83 S24 2011
West, Ellis M. The religion clauses of the First Amendment: guarantees of states' rights? KF4783 .W38 2011
Orcutt, John L. and Hong Shen. Shaping China's innovative future: university technology transfer in transition. HC430 .T4 O73 2010
Harding, Rosie. Regulating sexuality: legal consciousness in lesbian and gay lives. KD4097 .H37 2011
Knauer, Nancy J. Gay and lesbian elders: history, law, and identity politics in the United States. KF4754.5 .K59 2011
Mogul, Joey L., Andrea J. Ritchie and Kay Whitlock. Queer (in)justice: the criminalization of LGBT people in the United States. KF4754.5 .M64 2011
Avi-Yonah, Reuven S., Nicola Sartori and Omri Marian. Global perspectives on income taxation law. K4505 .A94 2011
Bagwell, Kyle and Petros C. Mavroidis, editors. Preferential trade agreements: a law and economics analysis. K4600 .P74 2011
Foer, Albert A. and Jonathan W. Cuneo, editors. The international handbook on private enforcement of competition law. K3850 .I58 2010
Baugh, Joyce A. The Detroit school busing case: Milliken v. Bradley and the controversy over desegregation. KF228 .M55 B38 2011
Hoffer, Peter Charles. The free press crisis of 1800: Thomas Cooper's trial for seditious libel. KF223 .C653 H64 2011
Lipstadt, Deborah E. The Eichmann trial. KMK44 .E33 L57 2011
Malcolm, Janet. Iphigenia in Forest Hills: anatomy of a murder trial. KF225 .B67 M35 2011
Edwards, Alice. Violence against women under international human rights law. K644 .E329 2011
Garcia, Venessa and Patrick McManimon. Gendered justice: intimate partner violence and the criminal justice system. HV6626 .G36 2011