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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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Flunking Democracy Schools, Courts, and Civic Participation
ISBN: PB: 9780226549811, ISBN: HB: 9780226549781, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The 2016 presidential election campaign and its aftermath have underscored worrisome trends in the present state of our democracy: the extreme polarization of the electorate, the dismissal of people with opposing views, and the widespread acceptance...
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Louis D. Brandeis American Prophet
ISBN: PB: 9780300230710, ISBN: HB: 9780300158670, Yale University Press, November 2017
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
According to Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis was "the Jewish Jefferson", the greatest critic of what he called "the curse of bigness", in business and government, since the author of the Declaration of Independence. Published to commemorate the hund...
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Law Book 250 Milestones in the History of Law (New Edition)
ISBN: HB: 9781454927877, GMC Group, Sterling, August 2017
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.
Join author Michael H. Roffer as he explores 250 of the most fundamental, far-reaching and often controversial cases, laws and trials that have profoundly changed our world – for good or bad. Offering authoritative context to ancient documents, as we...
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Law Book: From Hammurabi to the International Criminal Court 250 Milestones in the History of Law
ISBN: HB: 9781454901686, GMC Group, Sterling, October 2015
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.
Join author Michael H. Roffer as he explores 250 of the most fundamental, far-reaching, and often-controversial cases, laws, and trials that have profoundly changed our world – for good or bad. Offering authoritative context to ancient documents as w...
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Second-Best Justice The Virtues of Japanese Private Law
ISBN: HB: 9780226281995, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 6 line drawings, 55 tables
It's long been known that Japanese file fewer lawsuits per capita than Americans do. Yet explanations for the difference have tended to be partial and unconvincing, ranging from circular arguments about Japanese culture to suggestions that the slow-m...
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Payback The Case for Revenge
ISBN: HB: 9780226726618, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
328 pp., 23x15 cm
We call it justice – the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the incarceration of corrupt politicians or financiers like Rod Blagojevich and Bernard Madoff, and the climactic slaying of cinema-screen villains by superheroes. But could we not also call...
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Interpreting in Legal Settings
ISBN: PB: 9781563685507, Gallaudet University Press, June 2012
204 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 tables, 7 figures
The work of interpreters in legal settings, whether they are spoken or signed language interpreters, is filled with enormous complexity and challenges. This engrossing volume presents six, data-based studies from both signed and spoken language inte...
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Courts and Kids Pursuing Educational Equity through the State Courts
ISBN: PB: 9780226706177, ISBN: HB: 9780226706191, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
208 pp., 23x15 cm
Over the past thirty-five years, federal courts have dramatically retreated from actively promoting school desegregation. In the meantime, state courts have taken up the mantle of promoting the vision of educational equity originally articulated in "...
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Collateral Knowledge Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets
ISBN: PB: 9780226719337, ISBN: HB: 9780226719320, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 table, 8 line illus.
Who are the agents of financial regulation? Is good (or bad) financial governance merely the work of legislators and regulators? Here Annelise Riles argues that financial governance is made not just through top-down laws and policies but also through...
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