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Marriage Equality From Outlaws to In-Laws

Eskridge William N., Riano Christopher R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300221817, Yale University Press, August 2020
1040 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

As a legal scholar who first argued in the early 1990s for a right to gay marriage, William N. Eskridge Jr. has been on the front lines of the debate over same?sex marriage for decades. In this book, Eskridge and his coauthor, Christopher R. Riano, o...

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Pharmacy

Law

Medical Monopoly Intellectual Property Rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry

Gabriel Joseph M.

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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Law

Making the Case The Art of the Judicial Opinion

Kahn Paul W.

ISBN: PB: 9780300240160, ISBN: HB: 9780300212082, Yale University Press, January 2019
264 pp., 21x14 cm

Writing in the tradition of Karl Llewellyn's classic "The Bramble Bush", Paul Kahn speaks in this book simultaneously to students and scholars. Drawing on thirty years of teaching experience, Kahn introduces students to the deep, narrative structure...

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Law

Moral Conflict of Law and Neuroscience

Alces Peter A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226513539, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Law relies on a conception of human agency, the idea that humans are capable of making their own choices and are morally responsible for the consequences. But what if that is not the case? Over the past half century, the story of the law has been one...

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Europe

Law

Minorities and Law in Czechoslovakia

Kuklik Jan, Petras Rene

ISBN: PB: 9788024635835, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2017
302 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic Across the whole of modern Czech history – from 1918, through World War II, and into the postwar years – ethnic and minority issues have been of the utmost prominence. Moreover, Czechoslova...

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General

Law

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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Islam

Political Science

Muslims Talking Politics Framing Islam, Democracy, and Law in Northern Nigeria

Kendhammer Brandon

ISBN: PB: 9780226369037, ISBN: HB: 9780226368986, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 5 tables

For generations Islamic and Western intellectuals and policymakers have debated Islam's compatibility with democratic government, usually with few solid conclusions. But where – Brandon Kendhammer asks in this book – have the voices of ordinary, work...

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Law

Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property Creative Production in Legal and Cultural Perspective

Biagioli Mario, Jaszi Peter, Woodmansee Martha

ISBN: PB: 9780226907093, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
480 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 7 tables, 39 halftones, 3 line illus.

Rules regulating access to knowledge are no longer the exclusive province of lawyers and policymakers and instead command the attention of anthropologists, economists, literary theorists, political scientists, artists, historians, and cultural critic...

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Law

Meaning of Property Freedom, Community, and the Legal Imagination

Purdy Jedediah

ISBN: PB: 9780300171440, Yale University Press, March 2011
240 pp., 22.6x14.7 cm

In his latest book, Jedediah Purdy takes up a question of deep and lasting importance: why is property ownership a value to society? His answer returns us to the foundations of American society and enables us to interpret the writings of the patron s...

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