The Future of Law and Economics: Essays in Reform and Recollection
In a concise, compelling argument, one of the founders and most influential advocates of the law and economics movement divides the subject into two separate areas, which he identifies with Jeremy...
View ArticleAdministrative Law and Judicial Deference,
Should judges defer to administrative decisions? This book examines how the common law of judicial review has responded to the development of the administrative state in three different common law...
View ArticleSoft Law and Public Authorities: Remedies and Reform
This book considers the phenomenon of soft law employed by domestic public authorities. Lawyers have long understood that public authorities are able to issue certain communications in a way that...
View ArticleBeyond Elite Law
Are Americans making under $50,000 a year compelled to navigate the legal system on their own, or do they simply give up because they cannot afford lawyers? We know anecdotally that Americans of median...
View ArticleThe Inquest Book: The Law of Coroners and Inquests
The aim of the book is to provide practitioners with summaries of relevant inquest cases in a format that is easy to search and use, and to enable them to anticipate the often unfamiliar issues that...
View ArticleFamily, Gender, and Law in a Globalizing Middle East and South Asia
The essays in this collection examine issues of gender, family, and law in the Middle East and South Asia. In particular, the authors address the impact of colonialism on law, family, and gender...
View ArticleThurgood Marshall and Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Thurgood Marshall turned a law school rejection based on his race into a passion for ending our nation's policy of "separate but equal." He was on the legal team that won the landmark Brown v. Board of...
View ArticleAdministrative Law and the Administrative Court in Wales
This work examines the principles of administrative law, as well as practice and procedure in the Administrative Court, from a distinctly Welsh perspective.
View ArticleLegitimate Expectations in the Common Law World
The recognition and enforcement of legitimate expectations by courts has been a striking feature of English law since <i>R v North and East Devon Health Authority; ex parte Coughlan...
View ArticleBottleneckers: Gaming the Government for Power and Private Profit
<B>Bottlenecker</B> (<I>n</I>): a person who advocates for the creation or perpetuation of government regulation, particularly an occupational license, to restrict entry into...
View ArticleDemocracy and the Origins of the American Regulatory State
Political scientist Samuel DeCanio examines how political elites used high levels of voter ignorance to create a new type of regulatory state with lasting implications for American politics. Focusing...
View ArticleLaw and Corporate Behaviour,: Integrating Theories of Regulation,...
The purpose of this book is to examine the theories and practice of how to control corporate behaviour through legal techniques.
View ArticleThe Scope and Intensity of Substantive Review: Traversing Taggart's Rainbow
Inspired by the work of Professor Michael Taggart, this collection of essays from across the common law world is concerned with two separate but related themes. First, to what extent and by what means...
View ArticleContraceptive Risk: The FDA, Depo-Provera, and the Politics of Experimental...
<strong>The sordid history of Depo-Provera and the complex working relationship between the FDA, U. S. government, and big pharma. <br /> </strong><br /> Depo-Provera is known...
View ArticleCaroline Norton's Defense: English Laws for Women in the 19th Century
This account of the author's experience at the hands of an "imperfect state of law" in early 19th-century England makes a passionate plea for equal justice for women. Largely as a result of this book...
View ArticleUnited States Tax Court: A Historical Analysis: A Historical Analysis
The United States Tax Court has played a key role in the development of Federal tax law since its founding as the Board of Tax Appeals in 1924. <BR /><BR /> The United States Tax Court-An...
View ArticleRegulatory Transformations,: Rethinking Economy-Society Interactions
This collection explores debates on global capitalism and its regulation. It integrates three areas: Karl Polanyi's economic sociology, regulation studies and socio-legal studies of transnational risks.
View ArticleNudge and the Law: A European Perspective
Behavioural sciences help refine our understanding of human decision-making. Their insights are immensely relevant for policy-making since public intervention works much better when it targets real...
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