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Wasting a Crisis Why Securities Regulation Fails
ISBN: PB: 9780226420998, ISBN: HB: 9780226236513, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 7 line drawings, 22 tables
The recent financial crisis led to sweeping reforms that inspired countless references to the financial reforms of the New Deal. Comparable to the reforms of the New Deal in both scope and scale, the 2,300-page Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 – the main regul...
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Working Law Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights
ISBN: PB: 9780226400761, ISBN: HB: 9780226400624, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 figures, 4 tables
Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, virtually all companies have antidiscrimination policies in place. Although these policies represent some progress, women and minorities remain underrepresented within the workplace as a whole and even more...
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Grasping Hand "Kelo v. City of New London" and the Limits of Eminent Domain
ISBN: PB: 9780226422169, ISBN: HB: 9780226256603, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 1 line drawing, 10 tables
In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that the city of New London, Connecticut, could condemn fifteen residential properties in order to transfer them to a new private owner. Although the Fifth Amendment only permits the taking of private property for "pu...
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Untrodden Ground How Presidents Interpret the Constitution
ISBN: PB: 9780226418261, ISBN: HB: 9780226211107, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
550 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
When Thomas Jefferson struck a deal for the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, he knew he was adding a new national power to those specified in the Constitution, but he also believed his actions were in the nation's best interest. His successors would follo...
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Difficult Transition The Nepal Papers
ISBN: HB: 9789385932052, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2016
320 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Nepal, because it was never directly colonized, is seen as something of an outlier on the subcontinent, but the country could not remain totally immune to the influence of colonialism in its neighborhood. A "Difficult Transition" shows that, in addit...
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Myth of the Litigious Society Why We Don't Sue
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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Supreme Court Review 2015
ISBN: HB: 9780226392219, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For more than fifty years, "The Supreme Court Review" has won acclaim for providing a sustained and authoritative survey of the implications of the Court's most significant decisions".The Supreme Court Review" is an in-depth annual critique of the Su...
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Policing Immigrants Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines
ISBN: PB: 9780226363189, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 maps, 4 figures, 13 tables
The United States deported nearly two million illegal immigrants during the first five years of the Obama presidency – more than during any previous administration. President Obama stands accused by activists of being "deporter in chief". Yet despite...
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Muslims Talking Politics Framing Islam, Democracy, and Law in Northern Nigeria
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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Invitation to Law and Society An Introduction to the Study of Real Law (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226296586, ISBN: HB: 9780226296449, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
240 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and courtrooms but in our institutio...
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