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Moral Demands in Nonideal Theory

Liam B. Murphy

Is there a limit to the legitimate demands of morality? In particular, is there a limit to people's responsibility to promote the well-being of others, either directly or via social institutions? Utilitarianism admits no such limit, and is for that reason often said to be an unacceptably demanding moral and political view. In this original new study, Murphy argues that the charge of excessive demands amounts to little more than an affirmation of the status quo. The real problem with utilitarianism is that it makes unfair demands on people who comply with it in our world of nonideal compliance. Murphy shows that this unfairness does not arise on a collective understanding of our responsibility for others' well being. Thus, according to Murphy, while there is no general problem to be raised about the extent of moral demands, there is a pressing need to acknowledge the collective nature of the demands of beneficence.
Marbury v. Madison: The Origins and Legacy of Judicial Review

William E. Nelson

We take for granted today the tremendous power of the Supreme Court to interpret our laws and overrule any found in conflict with the Constitution. Yet our nation was a quarter-century old before that power of “judicial review” was fully articulated by the Court itself in Marbury v. Madison (1803). William Nelson’s concise study of that landmark case provides an insightful and readable guide for students and general readers alike.
Law as Culture and Culture as Law: Essays in Honor of John Phillip Reid

William E. Nelson and Hendrik Hartog

For four decades, John Phillip Reid has been one of the most productive and challenging practitioners of American legal and constitutional history. Writing on subjects as diverse as the law of the Cherokee, legal culture on the Overland trail, and the legal and constitutional history of the American Revolution, Reid has illuminated the many ways in which law has been a central cultural value. Law as Culture and Culture as Law not only honors Professor Reid's decades of scholarship and teaching—it presents a spectrum of historical inquiries developing and engaging Reid's insights and methodological approaches to legal and constitutional history. The essays gathered in this volume span nearly three centuries and two continents, ranging from the agonizing struggles over law, religion, and governance in late seventeenth-century Ireland to the legal and constitutional regimes of governmental regulation in twentieth-century New York. Law as Culture and Culture as Law is a tribute to John Philip Reid and the best evidence of his profound influence on the study and writing of legal history.
Environmental Law, the Economy, and Sustainable Development: The United States, the European Union, and the International Community

Richard L. Revesz, Philippe Sands, and Richard B. Stewart

This book provides a comparative analysis of environmental regulation in multi-jurisdictional legal and political systems, focusing on the United States, the European Union, and the international community. Each of these systems must deal with environmental interdependencies that cross local borders. Some transjurisdictional environmental problems are global, including stratospheric ozone depletion, climate change and the loss of biodiversity. Other environmental problems, however, are localized in their effect on health and the environment: for example, municipal waste disposal, many forms of pollution and resource development, and drinking water quality. These varying jurisdictional and environmental circumstances pose the central question of how responsibility for addressing different environmental problems should be allocated among the different levels of decision making and implementation in a multi-jurisdictional system.
Making Sense of Social Security Reform

Daniel N. Shaviro

The Social Security Act of 1935 must be counted among the most monumental pieces of legislation ever passed by Congress. Today, sixty-five years after its enactment, public support for Social Security remains extremely strong. At the same time, there have been reports that Social Security is in grave danger of financial collapse, and numerous groups across the political spectrum have agitated for its reform. The president has put forward proposals to rescue Social Security, conservatives argue for its privatization, and liberals advocate increases in its funding from surplus tax revenues. But what is the average person to make of all this? How many Americans know where the money for Social Security benefits really comes from, or who wins and loses from the system’s overall operations? Few people understand the current Social Security system in even its broadest outlines. And yet Social Security reform is ranked among the most important social issues of our time. With Making Sense of Social Security Reform, Daniel Shaviro makes an important contribution to the public understanding of the issues involved in reforming Social Security. His book clearly and straightforwardly describes the current system and the pressures that have been brought to bear upon it, before dissecting and evaluating the various reform proposals. Accessible to anyone who has an interest in the issue, Shaviro’s new work is unique in offering a balanced, nonpartisan account.
Passive Loss Rules

Daniel N. Shaviro

Tax Management Portfolio, Passive Loss Rules, No. 549-2nd, describes in detail the application of the passive loss rules to losses and credits from investments in passive activities. In general, the passive loss rules limit the deduction of net losses from passive activities and the use of credits from such activities to offset tax liability on income that is not from such activities. These rules, which apply generally to all non-corporate taxpayers (and personal service corporations and closely held C corporations), treat portfolio income (e.g., dividends and interest not derived in the ordinary course of business) as income not derived from a passive activity. In general, passive activities under the rules are those activities involving the conduct of a trade or business in which the taxpayer does not materially participate. Material participation requires regular, continuous, and substantial involvement by the taxpayer in the operations of the activity—a relatively high standard that requires considerably more than general management responsibility. All rental activities are treated as per se passive, except for interests in rental real estate owned by certain real estate operators. Except as provided in regulations, no interest as a limited partner is treated as an interest with respect to which the taxpayer materially participates. Deductions and credits from passive activities that are disallowed for any year because in excess of income and tax liability attributable to all such activities, are suspended and carried forward indefinitely to be used against passive income arising in a subsequent taxable year. Suspended passive losses are allowed against non-passive income upon the disposition of the taxpayer’s entire interest in the activity, or in limrted cases upon a partial disposition. Certain losses and credits from rental real estate activities may also be allowed against nonpassive income and tax liability, up to a maximum of $25,000 per year. This Portfolio may be cited as Shaviro, 549-2nd T.M., Passive Loss Rules.
When Rules Change: An Economic and Political Analysis of Transition Relief and Retroactivity

Daniel N. Shaviro

Suppose Congress were to change Social Security just before you retired? Or repeal income tax deductions for homeowners? Or institute a flat tax? Should those changes be retroactive? Or should you retain the gains or accept the losses resulting from the new enactments? What kinds of policies might governments adopt in order to mitigate the transitional effects of changing legal rules? Daniel Shaviro tackles these tough questions, bringing legal, economic, and political perspectives to bear on a persistent problem not often given serious attention. When Rules Change: An Economic and Political Analysis of Transition Relief and Retroactivity focuses on tax law changes to develop an in-depth understanding of the transitional issues inherent in any substantive rule change and also to advance a set of normative policy guidelines applicable to any such circumstance. Shaviro reframes traditional approaches to the problem of retroactivity and offers new insights into both the theory and policy of legislative transitions.
International Human Rights in Context: Law, Politics, Morals: Text and Materials

Henry J. Steiner and Philip G. Alston

Steiner and Alston's widely acclaimed interdisciplinary coursebook presents a diverse range of carefully edited primary and secondary materials alongside extensive text, editorial commentary, and study questions. Within its coneptual framework, the book covers the major topics of international human rights: the basic characteristics of international law; evolution of the human rights; the humanitarian laws of war; globalization; self-determination; women's rights; universalism and cultural relativism; intergovernmental and nongobernmental institutions; implementation and enforcement; internal application of human rights norms; and the spread of constitutionalism. Its scope, challenging inquiries, and clarity make it the ideal companion for human rights students, scholars, advocates, and practitioners alike. This new edition takes into account the recent significant developments in the field and expands coverage in several directions. Its text and readings provoke discussion of the ongoing and emerging debates of the human rights movement. Themes such as the changing question of sovereignty, the waning significance of the public-private divide, and the alternative approaches of human rights and duties run through the book.
The Clean Development Mechanism: Building International Private-Public Partnerships Under the Kyoto Protocol: Technical, Financial and Institutional Issues

Richard B. Stewart

This report on the technical, financial and institutional aspects of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is based on the work and deliberations of the Ad Hoc Working Group commissioned by the Unites Nations Conference on Trade and Development. The publication looks at the structure of the CDM, project eligibility and approval under the Kyoto Protocol, certification and tracking, and investment incentives and opportunities.
Ethical and Social Perspectives on Situational Crime Prevention

Andrew von Hirsch, David W. Garland, and Alison Wakefield

Situational crime prevention has drawn increasing interest in recent years, yet the debate has looked mainly at whether it “works” to prevent crime. This volume addresses the ethics of situational crime prevention and also examines the place of situational crime prevention within criminology. The contributors are twelve distinguished criminologists who together advance our understanding of the ethical and societal questions underlying crime prevention. Contributors: Ron Clarke, Adam Crawford, Antony Duff, David Garland, Tim Hope, Richard Jones, John Kleinig, Clifford Shearing, David J. Smith, Richard Sparks, Andrew von Hirsch and Alison Wakefield.
The EU, the WTO, and the NAFTA: Towards A Common Law of International Trade?

Joseph H. H. Weiler

The starting point of this book is the coexistence of the overlapping regimes of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the European Union (EU), and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). On this basis, it explores the emergence of a nascent common law of international trade. This exploration is rooted in three phenomena: Firstly, the fact that the very same regulatory measure may come simultaneously within the jurisdictional reach of more than one trade regime and may even be adjudicated simultaneously. Some regimes offer alternatives. The NAFTA, for example, offers the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) dispute resolution as an option for many of its own disputes. Second is the convergence in the material law of the disparate international trade regimes. This, of course, is the heart of the emergent Common Law. Third is the strengthening of private parties in all regimes. Once a preserve of the EU, the NAFTA allows private party dispute resolution of different types in relation to various matters and in the case of the WTO, although it is still an intergovernmental preserve, private actors are learning to manipulate the system. This volume, built on a recent series of courses at the Academy of European Law, is a reflection of this conviction. The various contributions deal with discrete areas—in the double sense—of the international trading system but each placing considerable emphasis on the interlocking nature of the various components of that system.
Diritti umani e globalizzazione: Il ruolo dell'Europa

Philip G. Alston

[Translation from Italian] In this book, Philip Alston, an expert on global economic and social rights, emphasizes Europe's role in maintaining a focus on human rights in an era of one-way globalization, oriented toward indiscriminate openness to the demands of dominant economic systems. But Europe cannot limit itself to a defensive role. Through its own system, European institutions must actively contribute to the globalization of rights.
Promoting Human Rights Through Bills of Rights: Comparative Perspectives

Philip G. Alston

In recent years the international community has continued to adopt a flow of both binding and non-binding human rights instruments. But despite the significant domestic impact of these developments, most of the literature on human rights has focused on international procedures and institutions, to the neglect of domestic legal arrangements. In this timely volume Professor Alston and a team of distinguished contributors examine the consequences of international human rights treaty obligations at national level. The problems addressed include the transformation of international norms into national law; how to prepare appropriate domestic arrangements for giving effect to international norms (with particular emphasis on the role of the bill of rights); an assessment of the impact of international obligations on domestic legal regimes. This carefully edited collection will be of interest to all practitioners, scholars, and students of the law and theory of international human rights.
The EU and Human Rights

Philip G. Alston, Mara Bustelo, and James Heenan

For all its achievements in integrating Europe, the EU lacks a human rights policy which is coherent, balanced and professionally administered. This volume provides an insightful critique of current policies and detailed recommendations for the future by leading experts in the field including individuals from every EU country.
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience

Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Inspired by the dream of the late African American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois and assisted by an eminent advisory board, Harvard scholars Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Kwame Anthony Appiah have created the first scholarly encyclopedia to take as its scope the entire history of Africa and the African Diaspora. Beautifully designed and richly illustrated with over a thousand images—maps, tables, charts, photographs, hundreds of them in full color—this single-volume reference includes more than three thousand articles and over two million words. The interplay between text and illustration conveys the richness and sweep of the African and African American experience as no other publication before it. Certain to prove invaluable to anyone interested in black history and the influence of African culture on the world today, Africana is a unique testament to the remarkable legacy of a great and varied people. With entries ranging from ”affirmative action” to ”zydeco,” from each of the most prominent ethnic groups in Africa to each member of the Congressional Black Caucus, Africana brings the entire black world into sharp focus. Every concise, informative article is referenced to others with the aim of guiding the reader through such wide-ranging topics as the history of slavery; the civil rights movement; African-American literature, music, and art; ancient African civilizations; and the black experience in countries such as France, India, and Russia. More than a book for library reference, Africana will give hours of reading pleasure through its longer, interpretive essays by such notable writers as Stanley Crouch, Gerald Early, Randall Kennedy, and Cornel West. These specially commissioned essays give the reader an engaging chronicle of the religion, arts, and cultural life of Africans and of black people in the Old World and the New.
Encarta Africana 2000

Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr.

An encyclopedia on the history, geography, and culture of Africans and people of African descent. Features over 3,600 articles enhanced by 200 side bars, over 2,900 media elements, audio clips, photos, illustrations, and videos. Include a timeline of African American music from the 1870's to present day, a media-rich chronology of the U.S. civil rights movement, the library of Black America (a collection of poem, narratives, and novels by African Americans that date from 1773 to 1918), and links to the World Wide Web.
Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy: Problems, Text, and Cases

Stephen G. Breyer, Richard B. Stewart, Cass R. Sunstein, and Matthew L. Spitzer

Help your students master the principles of administrative law in an era of change with this new edition of the renowned casebook ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND REGULATORY POLICY: Problems, Text, and Cases, Fourth Edition. The book correlates issues of regulatory policy with doctrinal problems to explore the relationship between administrative government and democratic goals. Their extensively revised casebook now offers more explanatory materials, more concise text, many new cases, and reorganized material for greater accessibility. New co-authors Cas Sunstein and Matthew Spitzer join renowned administrative law authorities Stephen Breyer and Richard Stewart to offer a matchless view of administrative law, including: how agencies promote - political legitimacy how different understandings of democracy bear on evaluation of administrative government the multiple purposes of administrative agencies Emphasizing cutting-edge issues such as the regulation of risks to life and health and regulation of telecommunications, ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND REGULATORY POLICY: Problems, Text, and Cases, Fourth Edition, covers new ground, including: the President's changing relationship To The administrative system recent and proposed congressional initiatives judicial developments in the nature of legal interpretation the role of the judiciary in protecting traditional and nontraditional rights against agency interference or from agency abdication the landmark Chevron decision, including issues of standing and evaluation 'frontiers' issues such as cost-benefit analysis, 'low cost' methods of achieving regulatory goals, and 'health-health' tradeoffs The accompanying Teacher's Manual contains answers to all the problems in the book. To fully explore the nature and social significance of administrative law, complete with historical elements, turn to Breyer, Stewart, Sunstein, and Spitzer's thoughtful and thorough Fourth Editions.
The Evolution of EU Law

Paul Craig and Gráinne de Búrca

The European Community has been in existence for forty years. This period has seen considerable change and development in both the institutional and the substantive law of the EC—and more recently the EU. This is the first work to stand back from the ever growing detail of Community law, and examine its jurisprudence from an evolutionary and interdisciplinary perspective. Every important area of institutional and substantive European law is covered—leading lawyers analyse the evolution of their area of expertise across time, bringing out the major thematic changes which have occurred. These changes are then viewed against the broader political and economic background of the Community as a whole. This book will give readers a clearer understanding of the overall legal picture in Europe, and allow them to gain a richer perspective on the interaction between law and the other forces which have shaped the Community and make it what it is today.
Torts

Richard A. Epstein

When you want to recommend a current and accessible introductory text to use alongside your torts casebook, you now have a new alternative. Richard Epstein, a recognized expert in the field, presents Introduction to Torts to provide an intelligent overview for the first-year law student. His balanced presentation of essential topics makes the book as approachable as it is up-to-date. No other ancillary book provides such a thorough and timely treatment. When you examine this powerful introductory tool, be sure to notice its: comprehensive coverage - Epstein addresses all the topics of the typical first-year Torts course, along with thought-provoking discussions of the underlying theory; clear, concise writing - open your examination copy to any page, read a sample passage, and you'll see Introduction to Torts is distinctly readable; quality of analysis - Epstein deals with controversial questions in a balanced and understandable style. Introduction to Torts fits with a wide variety of materials and will give students extra help, expecially in the most difficult aspects of the course. If you want your students to gain a solid command of the fundamental principles of modern Tort Law, recommend the most intellectually rich book with the most complete coverage - Richard Epstein's Introduction to Torts.
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: Proceedings of New York University 51st Annual Conference on Labor

Samuel Estreicher

Sexual harassment is the fastest-growing category of employment litigation in the United States. At the root of recent class actions against several major corporations and the subject of three significant Supreme Court decisions during 1998, sexual harassment litigation is an area of legal practice where much remains unsettled and few claims can be confidently met with established defenses or remedies. Because of its potential for ad hoc outcomes that lead to ever-greater legal instability, the question of sexual harassment in the workplace requires sustained attention by policymakers in both business and government and by academics. It was in order to promote this crucial endeavor that New York University's Annual Conference on Labor for 1999 chose this issue as its theme. This long-standing, influential conference is the premier forum for bringing together legal practitioners, academics and researchers, government officials, representatives of companies and labor unions, and human resources specialists to explore solutions to problems in the American workplace. This valuable symposium addresses such provocative questions as: To what extent can sexual harassment claims be meaningfully addressed by existing laws such as the National Labor Relations Act and state and federal anti-discrimination statutes? Are employer sexual harassment policy initiatives on a collision course with the First Amendment? What rights do accused employees have? When are employers liable for sexual harassment? Sexual Harassment in the Workplace also includes insightful discussions of the valuable role that social science methodologies and alternative dispute resolution techniques can play in fostering an environment where sexual harassment is better understood and effectively dealt with.
Civil Procedure

Jack H. Friedenthal, Mary Kay Kane, and Arthur R. Miller

Gain insight into the laws governing all of the major steps in the criminal justice process, starting with investigation and ending with post-appeal collateral attacks. This text covers the major themes underlying the governing legal standards and those basic issues that the case law and literature suggest to be the most pressing. References to federal practice and procedure are provided with a discussion on the burden of complex, multi-party litigation on the judicial system.
Encarta Africana

Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Kwame Anthony Appiah

REDMOND, Wash., Jan. 8, 1999—Microsoft Corp. today launched Microsoft® Encarta® Africana, the much-anticipated comprehensive multimedia encyclopedia of Africans and people of African descent throughout the world. Encarta Africana is the culmination of a dream conceived in 1909 by W.E.B. Du Bois, the leading African-American intellectual of the 20th century, to produce the first encyclopedia of Africana. By compiling volumes of reference materials, audio and video footage, and stories passed on through generations, Microsoft, in collaboration with co-editors Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., chairman of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University, and Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah, professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy at Harvard University, has today made Du Bois’ dream a reality. “For the first time, the story of the black world and its people will be told in a way never before possible—through images, video, music and text brought together in a unique experience,” Gates said. “Microsoft provided the technology needed to support and highlight this rich history – it was a perfect match.” “We’re breaking new ground in encyclopedia publishing with the Encarta Africana multimedia encyclopedia,” said Robbie Bach, vice president of the learning, entertainment and productivity division at Microsoft. “When Dr. Gates and Dr. Appiah approached us with the idea for Encarta Africana, we knew our technology was the ideal way to bring the experience of Africa’s history to life. Encarta Africana transports participants to another time and place and allows them to feel part of a dynamic, rich story. It’s an exciting addition to our award-winning Encarta reference product line.” In collaboration with Microsoft’s expert editorial and technical teams, Afropaedia LLC provided content for Encarta Africana, which catalogs the historical and cultural achievements of Africa and people of African descent throughout the world, including the United States, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, from 4 million B.C.E. (before the Common Era) to the present. Afropaedia is led by Dr. Gates and Dr. Appiah and includes scholars from Harvard University’s department of Afro-American Studies, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research and the Committee on African Studies. A distinguished team of more than 30 advisory board members from universities worldwide, chaired by Wole Soyinka, 1986 recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature, also contributes to Afropaedia. The Microsoft Encarta team provided interactive technologies to incorporate the content, still images, video, audio and 360-degree views that make up Encarta Africana. This new encyclopedia delivers the same rich multimedia experience, superior technology and world-class content found in the line of Encarta CD-ROM reference titles. “From 1909 my father, W.E.B. Du Bois, dreamed of editing a comprehensive encyclopedia of Africa and the Black diaspora. He pursued this dream his entire life, culminating in the establishment of the Secretariat of the Encyclopedia Africana in Accra, Ghana, in 1961, an ongoing project that seeks to create an encyclopedia about Africa produced by Africans. Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr., inspired by my father’s original idea, have made a magnificent, state of the art contribution to African and African American Studies and Humanities with Encarta Africana. Dr. Du Bois would have been proud.” As Encarta Africana unfolds, the user is drawn into the content by singers performing the South African anthem and greeted by visuals including cultural artwork, historical maps and photos of famous black people. Users then move further into the multitude of historical content through the click of a mouse: Welcome. Users begin the journey through African history by clicking on the Welcome icon, which initiates an audio-video introduction of the product and its content by co-editors Gates and Appiah. Articles. More than 3,000 detailed articles cover a broad range of topics. Students of all ages can learn about the slave trade; sports heroes such as Muhammad Ali, Jesse Owens and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; and the importance of Brazil in the African diaspora. Features. Users can access features such as Africana on Camera to explore African and African-American topics with personalities such as Maya Angelou and Quincy Jones and interact with From Africa to the Americas, one of the first multimedia presentations chronicling the number of slaves dispersed to the Americas during the transatlantic slave trade from 1519 to 1867. Users can participate in Virtual Tours, visiting interesting locations in the African diaspora ranging from Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, to the Harlem section of New York City. The section also includes an Interactive Africa Map and six videos showing Historic Sites in Africa. Time line. A detailed time line calls out important historical events from 4 million B.C.E. to the present and enables students of all ages to learn about subjects such as Lucy, the oldest and most complete skeleton of the earliest hominid species that lived between 3 million and 4 million years ago, found in Ethiopia. The time line also offers sections including Prehistory and Antiquity, Kingdoms of Africa, Exploring Africa and Exporting Africans, Abolition and Emancipation, Color Line and Colonialism, Civil Rights and Independence, and The Face of the Future. Research shows that students remember five times more information when it is presented in a multimedia context. Dovetailing with the increased focus on African-American studies and other multicultural disciplines in today’s classrooms, Encarta Africana gives students, educators and parents an unprecedented research tool through its comprehensive collection of information on black history. “Students learn more when they are stimulated by the captivating sights, sounds and words in multimedia software,” said Paulette Thompson, world history and French teacher, Garfield High School in Seattle. “Encarta Africana’s outstanding in-depth content and interactive multimedia features make learning about the important topic of black history exciting and fun. As educators search for reference materials that capture our rich cultural diversity, Encarta Africana will set the standard for families and schools.” Gates and Appiah have also developed more than 20 lesson plans to help teachers integrate Encarta Africana into their curricula. The lesson plans, which include titles such as A Great Leader and His Country—Understanding South Africa Through Nelson Mandela, and Myths and Realities—Truth and Distortion in News Coverage About Africa, can be found on the Encarta Schoolhouse Web site at http://www.encarta.MSN.com/schoolhouse/ , along with other lesson plans submitted by teachers around the world. Microsoft plans to donate 8,000 copies of Encarta Africana, a $560,000 retail value, to K-12 schools, the country’s historically black colleges and universities, and the Gates Library Foundation recipient public libraries throughout the southern United States. As part of the company’s commitment to providing outstanding software to schools, students and educators, Microsoft intends to donate 2,000 copies of Encarta Africana to urban schools through the Council of the Great City Schools, a coalition of 53 of the nation’s largest urban public school systems serving some 6.2 million students, and to the 104 historically black colleges and universities around the country. In addition, the Gates Library Foundation plans to donate 6,000 copies of Encarta Africana to public libraries that are part of its program.
Regulation of Lawyers: Statutes and Regulations

Stephen Gillers and Roy D. Simon

Prior edition of Regulation of Lawyers: Statutes and Regulations.
Local Government Law: Cases and Materials

Clayton P. Gillette and Lynn A. Baker

For a lively examination of the structure and role of local government, you can rely on Local Government Law: Cases and Materials, Second Edition. The casebook balances theory with topical coverage to show students the true meaning of community and the many legal consequences of a community's relationship with the state, its residents, and neighboring locales. Instructors will find: balance of theory, cases, and problems; public choice analysis; insightful case notes; practice problems that give students the opportunity to apply what they are learning. Noteworthy features of the Second Edition include: the addition of co-author Lynn A. Baker, a leading scholar in local government law; cases on privatization of urban services; materials on communitarian approaches to local government law; more emphasis on the federal role in determining which goods and services the local government will provide; expanded discussion of federal mandates.
Sales Law: Domestic and International

Clayton P. Gillette and Steven D. Walt

Sales Law: Domestic & International describes & analyzes the law of sales under Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code as well as sales under the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Rather than restating self-explanatory provisions or cases applying them, its treatment is analytic. Students are given a framework that they can use to assess important aspects of the subject & apply to provisions not discussed explicitly.