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Faculty Books Published in 2019 and 2020
Marjorie Corman Aaron (University of Cincinnati College of Law)
Risk & Rigor: A Lawyer’s Guide to Decision Trees for Assessing Cases and Advising Clients
Dispute Resolution Institute Press, March 2019
Guide on litigation risk analysis utilizing case studies and advice from lawyers, mediators, and clients on how to accurately estimate damages, exposure and probabilities.
Matthew Adler (Duke University School of Law)
Measuring Social Welfare: An Introduction
Oxford University Press, October 2019
Introduces social welfare function framework as a tool to evaluate the efficacy of government policy.
Richard Albert (University of Texas School of Law)
Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking and Changing Constitutions
Oxford University Press, August 2019
Study and analysis of constitutional amendment rules drawing on constitutions from around the world.
Scott Anderson and Robert Chesney (University of Texas School of Law), Ashley Deeks (University of Virginia Law School), Thomas Juneau, Vishnu Kannan, and Benjamin Wittes
The United States and the Use of Force Against Iran: A Lawfare Compilation
Lawfare, September 2019
Pulls together analysis of U.S.-Iran relationship within the context of use of force.
Mehrsa Baradaran (University of Georgia School of Law)
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
Harvard University Press, March 2019
Examines past polices and the operation of black banks in segregated communities to analyze the persistent racial wealth gap.
David M. Becker (Washington University School of Law)
Lessons Learned: Stories of a Teacher and Teaching
Carolina Academic Press, April 2019
Fictional story detailing the mentor relationship between a law professor and their research assistant.
C. Bradford Biddle (Arizona State University College of Law), Jorge L. Contreras(University of Utah Quinney College of Law), Brian J. Love (Santa Clara University School of Law) and Norman V. Siebrasse
Patent Remedies and Complex Products: Toward a Global Consensus
Cambridge University Press, July 2019
Compiled by twenty legal scholars from eleven countries, this guidebook presents a consensus on patent remedies and covers the application of injunctive relief and monetary remedies.
Frank O. Bowman III (University of Missouri School of Law)
High Crimes and Misdemeanors: A History of Impeachment for the Age of Trump
Cambridge University Press, July 2019
Traces the roots of the impeachment process from medieval England through its adoption in the Constitution and within the American experience.
Curtis A. Bradley (Duke University School of Law)
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Foreign Relations Law
Oxford University Press, July 2019
This handbook lays the groundwork for the relatively new field of comparative foreign relations law, to be of use not only to scholars, but also domestic judges and attorneys who work in an increasingly globalized legal landscape.
Darryl Brown (University of Virginia Law School), Jenia Turner (Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law), and Bettina Weisser
The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Process
Oxford University Press, July 2019
Surveys the laws, institutions, and practices of criminal justice administration.
Heidi K. Brown (Brooklyn Law School)
Untangling Fear in Lawyering
American Bar Association, February 2019
A look at anxiety in legal education and law practice, from the perspective of students, attorneys, and clients.
Lonnie T. Brown (University of Georgia School of Law)
Defending the Public’s Enemy: The Life and Legacy of Ramsey Clark
Stanford University Press, July 2019
Explores the professional career of former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark as he exited a career in public service and began work in private practice.
Elizabeth Chamberlee Burch (University of Georgia School of Law)
Mass Tort Deals: Backroom Bargaining in Multidistrict Litigation
Cambridge University Press, May 2019
Utilizes data on multi district litigation to demonstrate how the lack of checks and balances disproportionately affects plaintiffs.
Sherri L. Burr (University of New Mexico School of Law)
Complicated Lives: Free Blacks, 1619-1865
Carolina Academic Press, October 2019
Explores the lives of free Africans in Virginia during the Revolutionary War.
Alejandro Camacho (University of California Irvine School of Law) and Robert Glicksman (George Washington University Law School)
Reorganizing Government: A Functional and Dimensional Framework
New York University Press, August 2019
Provides analytical framework of government within three dimensions and explains how differentiating amongst the dimensions reduces the risk of regulatory failure.
Rashimi Dyal Chand and Peter Enrich (Northeastern University School of Law)
Legal Scholarship for the Urban Core
Cambridge University Press, June 2019
Utilizes scholarly analyses across legal issues & methodologies to demonstrate how the law and lawyers can respond to challenges in America’s urban areas.
Julie E. Cohen (Georgetown University Law Center)
Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism
Oxford University Press, October 2019
Explores relationship between legal institutions and political and economic transformations, and examines how the law created systems that benefited the growth of the information economy, often to the detriment of individual consumers.
Evan J. Criddle (William & Mary Law School), Robert H. Sitkoff (Harvard Law School), Paul B. Miller (Notre Dame Law School)
The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law
Oxford University Press, May 2019
Examines the application of fiduciary principle across over a dozen different fields of law including family, employment, and bankruptcy law.
Kevin E. Davis (New York University School of Law)
Between Impunity and Imperialism: The Regulation of Transnational Bribery
Oxford University Press, August 2019
Discusses alternatives to the current global anti-bribery regime utilizing high-profile case studies.
Brandon Denning (Samford University Cumberland School of Law)
The Glannon Guide to Constitutional Law: Powers and Liberties
Wolters Kluwer, January 2019
Offers explanations, questions and analysis of doctrines about the structure and powers in the U.S. Constitution.
Meera Deo (Thomas Jefferson School of Law)
Unequal Profession: Race and Gender in Legal Academia
Stanford University Press, March 2019
Examines the experiences of diverse legal faculty and proposes mechanisms through which to increase diversity and improve the experiences of all faculty.
Neal Devins (William and Mary Law School) and Lawrence Baum
The Company They Keep: How Partisan Divisions Came to the Supreme Court
Oxford University Press, February 2019
Examines how partisanship and elite social networks affect how Supreme Court Justices take their cues.
Alyssa DiRusso (Samford University Cumberland School of Law), Naomi Cahn, and Susan Gary
Wills, Trust, and Estates in Focus
Wolters Kluwer, February 2019
Textbook on wills, trust and estates utilizing case previews and real life applications.
Joshua A. Douglas (University of Kentucky College of Law)
Vote for US: How to Take Back Our Elections and Change the Future of Voting
Prometheus Books, April 2019
Assessment of current efforts to make voting more reliable and accessible for all Americans.
Justin Driver (University of Chicago, The Law School)
The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court and the Battle for the American Mind
Pantheon, August 2019
Delves into the Supreme Court cases that have considered constitutional issues within the context of public schooling—issues range from free speech to racial, economic and religious inequality.
Jim Dwyer (William & Mary Law School)
Homeschooling: The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice
University of Chicago Press, April 2019
Examines the history of homeschooling in America and the debate over whether the government has a right to regulate it.
Richard H. Fallon, Jr. (Harvard Law School)
The Nature of Constitutional Rights: The Invention and Logic of Strict Judicial Scrutiny
Cambridge University Press, April 2019
Identifies what constitutional rights are, how courts must interpret them and why protections are more limited than most people think.
Daniel Farber (University of California, Berkeley School of Law) and Neil S. Siegel (Duke University School of Law)
United States Constitutional Law: Concepts and Insights
Foundation Press, February 2019
Guide through the complexity of the U.S. Supreme Court and its relationship to constitutional politics.
Martin S. Flaherty (Fordham Law School)
Restoring the Global Judiciary: Why the Supreme Court Should Rule in Foreign Affairs
Princeton University Press, September 2019
Traces the history of the Supreme Court and federal judiciary applying international law without deference to the other branches and explores how modern international relations make the commitment to balance among the branches of government more important than ever.
Lee Anne Fennell (University of Chicago School of Law)
Slices & Lumps: Division and Aggregation in Life and Law
University of Chicago Press, September 2019
Analyzes the challenges and benefits of configurations and the effects of carving and lumping on innovation.
Katherine Franke (Columbia Law School)
Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition
Haymarket, June 2019
Book details post-Civil War attempts to redistribute land to former slaves, making a case to offset racial and economic inequality today.
Richard S. Frase (University of Minnesota Law School) and Julian V. Roberts
Paying for the Past: The Case Against Prior Record Sentence Enhancements
Oxford University Press, August 2019
Provide systematic examination of different approaches to prior record enhancements.
Lawrence M. Friedman (Stanford Law School)
A History of American Law (4th Edition)
Oxford University Press, October 2019
Comprehensive account of American law from colonial period to present day.
E. Scott Fruehwald (Hofstra University Deane School of Law)
How to Succeed in Law School
July 2019
A guidebook on how future and current law students can overcome the rigors of law school, through developing mindset, study skills, and other habits.
Paul Goldstein (Stanford Law School) and R. Anthony Reese (University of California Irvine School of Law)
Patent, Copyright, Trademark, and Unfair Competition
West Academic, January 2019
Contains all the key patent, copyright, trademark and unfair competition and related international agreements in convenient format for students.
David Gray (University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law) and Stephen E. Henderson (University of Oklahoma College of Law)
The Cambridge Handbook of Surveillance Law
Cambridge University Press, March 2019
Explores the value and societal impact of surveillance techniques and technology and the ways societies can and do regulate surveillance.
Charles Geyh (Indiana University Maurer School of Law)
Who is to Judge?: The Perennial Debate Over Whether to Elect or Appoint America’s Judges
Oxford University Press, March 2019
Explores the pros and cons of the paradox of elected and appointed judges.
Jill Elaine Hasday (University of Minnesota Law School)
Intimate Lies and the Law
Oxford University Press, July 2019
Examines laws that allows partners in relationships to deceive and cause harm without facing legal consequences.
Cesar Cuahtemoc Garcia Hernandez (University of Denver Sturm College of Law)
Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants
The New Press, December 2019
Detailed look at the immigration prison’s systems origins and how it operates.
Peter Jan Honigsberg (University of San Francisco School of Law)
A Place Outside the Law: Forgotten Voices from Guantanamo
Beacon Press, November 2019
Collection of interviews from detainees at the military prison documenting its toll on not only the detainees and their families, but the personnel who staffed it and the journalists who reported on conditions there.
Lolita Buckner Innis (Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law)
The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson
Fordham University Press, September 2019
A reconstruction of the extraordinary story of James Collins Johnson, a former slave who escaped to wind up working at Princeton University.
Robert M. Jarvis (Nova Southeastern University Broad College of Law)
Gambling Under the Swastika: Casinos, Horse Racing, Lotteries, and Other Forms of Betting in Nazi Germany
Carolina Academic Press, February 2019
Provides comprehensive look at how Nazis relied on gambling to build up Germany’s economy and wage war.
Andrew Jurs (Drake University Law School)
Expert Evidence
Carolina Academic Press, January 2019
Textbook designed to bring practical lens to the rules of evidence and civil procedure.
William A. Kaplin and Barbara A. Lee (Catholic University Columbus School of Law)
The Law of Higher Education
Wiley, July 2019
Offers college administrators, researchers and counsel with the most up to date coverage of the legal implications of administrative decision making.
Joshua E. Katsenburg (University of New Mexico School of Law)
The Campaign to Impeach Justice William O. Douglas: Nixon, Vietnam, and the Conservative Attack on Judicial Independence
University Press of Kansas, October 2019
In-depth account of the attempt to impeach Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas.
Randall Kiser (Indiana University Maurer School of Law)
American Law Firms in Transitions: Trends, Threats, and Strategies
American Bar Association, April 2019
Takes a broad view of the landscape of law firms after the Great Recession and analyzes the elements that will determine their success or failure in the next decade.
Anthony Kronman (Yale Law School)
The Assault on American Excellence
Free Press, August 2019
Analysis of contemporary university campus debates within the history of American values and traditions.
Ronald Krotoszynski, Jr.(The University of Alabama School of Law)
The Disappearing First Amendment
Cambridge University Press, August 2019
Addresses how the Supreme Court enforces the rights of the first amendment for those with the resources to fight back, while failing to protect the rights of those who need the government’s assistance to assert their right to free speech.
Carlton F.W. Larson (University of California Davis School of Law)
The Trials of Allegiance: Treason, Juries and the American Revolution
Oxford University Press, September 2019
Examines the law of treason during the American Revolution, and how the treason trials during that period shaped American identity and ideas of allegiance.
Douglas Laycock (University of Virginia School of Law) and Richard L. Hasen (University of California Irvine School of Law)
Modern American Remedies: Case & Materials, Fifth Edition
Wolters Kluwer, January 2019
Critique of economic analysis as applied to remedy issues.
Yong-Shik Lee (Southern Illinois University Law School)
Law and Development: Theory and Practice
Routledge, January 2019
Examines the theory and practice of law and development utilizing case studies of specific countries to analyze pressing economic, legal and institutional issues.
Yair Latoskin (Yale Law School)
Law and Macroeconomics
Harvard University Press, March 2019
Proposes using the law to expand fiscal policy to make it more effective.
Lawrence Lessig (Harvard Law School)
Fidelity & Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read The American Constitution
Oxford University Press, May 2019
Details strategies of how judges understand the conflict at the heart of constitutional interpretation and how to work around its limitations.
David S. Levine (Elon University School of Law) and Sharon K. Sandeen (Mitchell Hamline School of Law)
Information Law, Governance and Cybersecurity
West Academic Publishing, August 2019
Details laws related to information management and governance for law students and IT professionals.
Michael Livermore (University of Virginia Law School)
Law as Data: Computation, Text and the Future of Legal Analysis
Santa Fe Institute, May 2019
Looks at how computers and other technological advances are used to analyze legal information.
Patrick E. Longan (Mercer University George School of Law, Daisy Floyd (Mercer University George School of Law) and Timothy Floyd (Mercer University George School of Law)
The Formation of Professional Identity: The Path from Student to Lawyer
Routledge Press, October 2019
Analysis of the virtues needed for a lawyer to succeed professionally.
Ian Haney Lopez (University of California Berkeley School of Law)
Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections and Saving America
The New Press, October 2019
A detailed road map on how to integrate the goals of racial and economic justice to break political gridlock and change the course of the country.
Timothy D. Lytton (Georgia State University College of Law)
Outbreak: Foodborne Illness and the Struggle for Food Safety
The University of Chicago Press, April 2019
Provides an up-to-date history and analysis of food safety in the U.S.
Rhonda V. Magee (University of San Francisco School of Law)
The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness
TarcherPerigree, September 2019
Details how to practice embodied mindfulness to assist in recognizing biases and increasing emotional resilience.
Paul Marcus (William and Mary Law School) and Melanie D. Wilson (University of Tennessee College of Law)
Criminal Procedure, Ninth Edition
Carolina Academic Press, December 2019
Covers foundational constitutional criminal procedure cases and the most recent Supreme Court decisions on the subject.
Daniel Markovits (Yale Law School)
The Meritocracy Trap: How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality. Dismantles the Middle Class and Devours the Elite
Penguin Press, September 2019
Analyzes and dismantles the central tenet of meritocracy as a systemic means to stop upward mobility for middle class professionals.
Robin Paul Malloy (Syracuse University College of Law)
Law and Economics: An Introduction Toolkit for Lawyers
Carolina Academic Press, January 2019
Offers tools for law and business school students to understand the processes of economics as it relates to the law.
Calvin Massey (University of New Hampshire School of Law) and Brandon P. Denning (Samford University Cumberland School of Law)
American Constitutional Law: Powers and Liberties, Sixth Edition
Wolters Kluwer, February 2019
Survey of American Constitutional law theory utilizing case study and challenging hypothetical scenarios to help students self-assess and launch classroom discussion.
Thomas J. McSweeney (William and Mary Law School)
Priests of the Law: Roman Law and the Making of the Common Law’s First Professionals
Oxford University Press, December 2019
Tells the story of some of the first judges to work full time in England’s royal courts, utilizing the Roman law tradition.
Carrie Menkel-Meadow (University of California Irvine School of Law), Victor V. Ramraj, Arun K. Thiruvengadam, and Supriya Routh
Amartya Sen and Law
Routledge, October 2019
A collection of articles on economist & philosopher Amartya Sen’s contributions to law and jurisprudence, offering insight on democracy, identity, and the complexity of diversity.
Benjamin Means (University of South Carolina School of Law) and Joseph W. Yockey (University of Iowa College of Law)
The Cambridge Handbook of Social Enterprise Law
Cambridge University Press, January 2019
Authoritative guide on how companies are evolving to address demands for conscientious capitalism.
Erik Nielson and Andrea L. Dennis (University of Georgia School of Law)
Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics, and Guilt in America
The New Press, November 2019
Details the practice of law enforcement officials and prosecutors arresting and convicting aspiring rap artists based solely on the lyrical content of their music.
Helen Norton (The University of Colorado Law School)
The Government’s Speech and the Constitution
Cambridge University Press, August 2019
Analyzes how to understand when and how the government’s speech and expression violates the constitution.
Mark Osiel (University of Iowa College of Law)
The Right to Do Wrong: Morality and the Limits of Law
Harvard University Press, February 2019
Collection of case studies and social research to explore how the exercise of right picks up where the law leaves off, helping to produce declining social trust which then leads to increased reliance and use of the law to enforce what is right.
Katherina Pistor (Columbia Law School)
The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
Princeton University Press, May 2019
Examines and analyzes the legal construct of capital, and the role lawyers play in coding assets while creating wealth for their clients through legal protections.
Ellen Podgor (Stetson University College of Law), Katrice Bridges Copeland (The Pennsylvania State University Law School), Michael Dimino (Widener University Commonwealth Law School), Ruthann Robson (City University of New York School of Law), Louis J. Virelli, III (Stetson University College of Law, Andrew M. Wright, and Ellen C. Yaroshefsky (Hofstra University Deane School of Law)
The Mueller Investigation and Beyond
Carolina Academic Press, October 2019
Case studies, essays and other materials providing contextual material for learning the Mueller investigation and the numerous issues emanating from it.
Sonia E. Rolland (Northeastern University School of Law) and David Trubek (University of Wisconsin Law School)
Emerging Powers in the International Economic Order
Cambridge University Press, July 2019
Charts how emerging countries are transforming international trade and investment regulation and offers perspectives to overcome the current international governance crisis.
Chris Sagers (Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University)
United States v. Apple: Competition in America
Harvard University Press, September 2019
Examines the landmark 2012 case against Apple and five other distributors over e-book price fixing and explores how the American public perceives competition.
Steven L. Schwarcz (Duke University School of Law), Douglas W. Arner, Emilios Avgouleas, Danny Busch
Systemic Risk in the Financial Sector: Ten Years After the Great Crash
Center for International Governance Innovation, October 2019
Draws on the world’s leading financial regulation experts to examine the progress made since 2008.
David S. Schwartz (University of Wisconsin Law School)
The Spirit of the Constitution: John Marshall and the 200 Year Odyssey of McCulloh v. Maryland”
Oxford University Press, September 2019
Traces the history and impact of the landmark McCulloch v. Maryland case, which expanded the national government’s legislative powers over the states.
Sarah A. Seo (University of Iowa College of Law)
Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom
Harvard University Press, April 2019
Details how the rise of automobile use led to increased policing and analyzes how laws designed to protect drivers, destabilizes the country’s commitment to equal protection under the law.
John Sexton (New York University School of Law)
Standing for Reason: The University in a Dogmatic Age
Yale University Press, April 2019
Argues for the importance of universities to serve as core educational landscapes.
Gregory Shaffer (University of California Irvine School of Law), Tom Ginsburg (University of Chicago School of Law), and Terrence C. Halliday
Constitution-Making and Transnational Legal Order
Cambridge University Press, May 2019
Address the different facets of creating constitutions from a transnational and comparative perspective in every region of the world.
Jessica Silbey (Northeastern University School of Law), Martha Umphrey and Austin Sarat
Trial Films on Trial
University of Alabama Press, May 2019
Collection of critical essays examining how the justice system is portrayed in film and television.
Ric Simmons (Ohio State University Moritz College of Law)
Smart Surveillance: How to Interpret the Fourth Amendment for the Twenty-First Century
Cambridge University Press, August 2019
Analyzes how advances in technology can enhance society’s need for privacy and security at the same time.
Rodney Smolla (Widener University Delaware Law School) and William C. Banks (Syracuse University College of Law)
Constitutional Law: Structure and Rights in Our Federal System
Carolina Academic Press, January 2019
Textbook on constitutional law analyzing structural government issues and individual rights.
Ann Southworth (University of California Irvine School of Law) and Catherine L. Fisk (University of California Berkeley School of Law)
The Legal Profession: Ethics in Contemporary Practice, 2nd Edition
West Academic, January 2019
Explains basic legal concepts and how the legal system operates to prepare students for their professional development.
Jane K. Stoever (University of California Irvine School of Law)
The Politicization of Safety: Critical Perspectives on Domestic Violence Responses
NYU Press, February 2019
Analyzes the history of responses to domestic violence, examining the different intersecting ways domestic abusive victims cope with discrimination and how the feminist movement’s politics have influenced policy.
Linda Tashbook (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
Family Guide to Mental Illness and the Law
Oxford University Press, March 2019
Resource on how common legal issues uniquely impact people with various forms of mental illness and what family members can do to help them.
Michael Tonry (University of Minnesota Law School)
American Sentencing: What Happens and Why?
University of Chicago Press, June 2019
Covers what students, scholars, practitioners, and policymakers need to know about how sentencing works, what reforms have solved, and how sentencing processes and outcomes can be made more just.
Warren R. Trazenfeld and Robert M. Jarvis (Nova Southeastern University Broad College of Law)
Florida Legal Malpractice Law: Commentary and Forms
Full Court Press, October 2019
Reference for practitioners to avoid bringing or defending legal malpractice claims.
Robert Tsai (American University Washington College of Law)
Practical Equality: Forging Justice in a Divided Nation
W.W. Norton & Company, February 2019
Offers guidance on how to protect and strengthen individual protections by applying lessons from the past to contemporary issues such as voting restrictions and the rights of the homeless.
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia (Penn State Law)
Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump
NYU Press, September 2019
An analysis of immigration enforcement and discretion during the first year and a half of the Trump presidency.
Timothy William Waters(Indiana University Maurer School of Law)
Boxing Pandora: Rethinking Borders, States and Secession in a Democratic Word
Yale University Press, January 2020
A reassessment of the current international order in which the author proposes the right of people to form new states in the interest of maintaining peace.
Timothy Zick (William and Mary Law School)
The First Amendment in the Trump Era
Oxford University Press, October 2019
Details and analyzes the many First Amendment conflicts that have taken place during the Trump presidency, placing the conflict in a broader narrative of attacks on free speech and the press.