The Jerome Hall Law Library attempts to obtain at least two copies of all books authored by the Maurer faculty, one for our general collection and one for the faculty writings collection in our Archives Room. Additionally we collect copies of books authored or edited by others, but containing chapters by Maurer faculty. This digital gallery is just a sample of some of the recent books produced by our faculty. If available, links to electronic versions of the book or chapter are included.
Arrangement is by publication year, then by the last name of the faculty member authoring the publication. Use the search box, in the upper left-hand corner, to find a specific author/title.
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Designing Federalism in Burma
David C. Williams and Lian H. Sakhong
This volume is designed to serve as a concise introduction to certain constitutional ideas that may be relevant to Burma. It contains three documents: one essay by Lian Sakhong, and two lectures that I delivered to the SCSC, over several days in November 2003 and August 2004. All three contain common themes. First, sometimes ideas can show us a way through problems that we had thought were impenetrable. Second, Burma’s problems have grown in part from some misunderstandings of certain ideas. In particular, many in Burma have imagined that governance can really occur only at the center: people look to the central government for ideas, initiative, direction, guidance, money, and even permission. They have feared that decentralization (when people look to state and local governments or even just to themselves as citizens) will lead to the breakdown of the social order. In fact, we know that the opposite is generally true: when the center tries to rule without the support and participation of the people, then the people invariably become angry and restless. Even democratic governments–perhaps especially democratic governments–need the people to be actively involved in their own governance, and the only feasible way for most people to govern themselves is at the local level. When the central government seeks to suppress local government, the people may rise up in arms, but when the central government seeks to support local government, the people may feel gratitude and devotion to the union. In other words, democracy and federalism are not in tension. In fact, it is hard to have democracy without also having some kind of federalism. Every well-functioning democratic government tries to empower the people, on a local basis, to take a hand in building their own future.
- David Williams, from the Forward
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The Democracy Deficit Taming Globalization Through Law Reform
Alfred C. Aman
Economic globalization has had a chilling effect on democracy since markets now do some of the work that governments used to do through the political process. More than two decades of deregulation have made a healthy economy appear to depend on unrestrained markets. But appearances are misleading—globalization is also a legal and political process. The future of democracy in the twenty-first century depends on the ability of citizens to reclaim a voice in taming globalization through domestic politics and law reform.
"The book's topic could not be more important: how do we adapt contemporary democratic governance- and contemporary administrative law- to the challenge of a globalizing world?"—Kal Raustiala, UCLA School of Law
Can citizens govern globalization? Aman argues that they can, and that domestic law has a crucial role to play in this process. He proposes to redefine the legal distinction between public and private to correspond to the realities of the new role of the private sector in delivering public services, and thereby to bring crucial sectors of globalization back within the scope of democratic reform.
Basing his argument on the history of the policies that led to globalization, and the current policies that sustain it, Aman advocates specific reforms meant to increase private citizens' influence on globalization. He looks at particular problem areas usually thought to be domestic in nature, such as privatization, prisons, prescription drugs, and the minimum wage, as well as constitutional structural issues such as federalism and separation of powers.
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The Police and Policing
Jeannine Bell
Professor Bell's contribution, chapter 8, is titled "The Police and Policing."
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Law--Biological Conservation
Robert L. Fischman
Professor Fischman's contribution is titled "Law--Biological Conservation."
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Speed as a Variable on the LSAT and Law School Exams
William D. Henderson
This study examines the hypothesis that test-taking speed is a variable that affects performance on both the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) and actual law school exams.
LSAC Research Report Series, 03-03, February 2004
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Crossing that Yellow Line: Obtaining Access to Police Departments
Jeannine Bell
Professor Bell's contribution is titled "Crossing that Yellow Line: Obtaining Access to Police Departments".
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The End of a Natural Monopoly: Deregulation and Competition in the electric Power Industry
Daniel H. Cole and Peter Z. Grossman
This book addresses the fundamental issues underlying the debate over electric power regulation and deregulation. After decades of the presumption that the electric power industry was a natural monopoly, recent times have seen a trend of deregulation followed by panicked re-regulation. This important book critically analyses this controversial area from a legal and economic perspective.
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Lok Adalats and Legal Rights in Modern India
Jayanth K. Krishnan
Professor Krishnan's contribution, chapter 3, is titled "Lok Adalats and Legal Rights in Modern India."
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Policing Hatred: Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, and Hate Crime
Jeannine Bell
Policing Hatred explores the intersection of race and law enforcement in the controversial area of hate crime. The nation’s attention has recently been focused on high-profile hate crimes such as the dragging death of James Byrd and the torture-murder of Matthew Shepard. This book calls attention to the thousands of other individuals who each year are attacked because of their race, religion, or sexual orientation. The study of hate crimes challenges common assumptions regarding perpetrators and victims: most of the accused tend to be white, while most of their victims are not.
Policing Hatred is an in-depth ethnographic study of how hate crime law works in practice, from the perspective of those enforcing it. It examines the ways in which the police handle bias crimes, and the social impact of those efforts. Bell exposes the power that law enforcement personnel have to influence the social environment by showing how they determine whether an incident will be charged as a bias crime.
Drawing on her unprecedented access to a police hate crime unit, Bell’s work brings to life the stories of female, Black, Latino, and Asian American detectives, in addition to those of their white male counterparts. Policing Hatred also explores the impact of victim’s identity on each officers handling of bias crimes and addresses how the police treat defendants’ First Amendment rights. Bell’s vivid evidence from the field argues persuasively for the need to have the police diligently address even low-level offenses, such as vandalism, given their devastating cumulative effects on society.
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Do African-American Males Need Race and Gender Segregated Education?: An Educator's Perspective and a Legal Perspective
Kevin D. Brown
Professor Brown's contribution, chapter 9, is titled "Do African-American Males Need Race and Gender Segregated Education?: An Educator's Perspective and a Legal Perspective".
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Pollution and Property: Comparing Ownership Institutions for Environmental Protection
Daniel H. Cole
All solutions to environmental problems depend on the imposition of private, common, or public-property rights in natural resources. Who should own the resources: private individuals, private groups of "stakeholders", or the entire society (the public)? Contrary to much of the literature in this field, this book argues that no single property regime works best in all circumstances. Environmental protection requires the use of multiple property regimes--including admixtures of private, common, and public-property systems.
- First book to systematically compare the utility and limitations of a variety of property regimes for environmental protection
- Focuses on the institutional and technological factors that constrain both environmental protection and the imposition of property rights
- Provides a basis for understanding why societies rely on multiple property regimes for environmental protection
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Extra Credit: A Legal Guide for Nonprofits Offering In-School and After-School Programs
Elizabeth M. Guggenheimer and Deborah A. Widiss
This manual is designed for nonprofit managers, lawyers and anyone who works with nonprofit organizations striving to make a difference in the lives of school-age children. Topics include: getting started and incorporation, hiring and training employees, understanding and reducing potential liability, and other regulatory and legal issues under New York law pertinent to programs serving school-age children. It contains examples of legal documents.
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"Current Developments in Trademark Law"
Marshall Leaffer
This is the sixth volume in this series again brings together leading experts from all over the world to analyze the most pressing issues in Copyright, Trademark and Patent Law. It focuses on developments in the United States, the European Union and its Member States, the World Intellectual Property Organization and Asia. The contributors are the leaders in intellectual property from governmental organizations, the judiciary, leading international law firms and corporations and academia. Given the eminence of the authors and the importance of the subject matter, the ideas and analyses presented in this and previous volumes make a valuable and lasting contribution to the discourse in these vital areas of intellectual property law. The chapters describe new developments in all areas of Intellectual Property. Few of the chapters are merely descriptive, most raise questions of policy or discuss new developments and attempt to assess how far they may be extended. The reader receives both practical tips and important analyses of difficult policy issues. All topics on the cutting edge of development, such as the Internet, Biotechnology, Licensing and Technology Transfer, are examined and analyzed.
Includes the chapter, "Current Developments in Trademark Law" by Maurer Professor Marshall Leaffer.
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Television Town Meetings
Steve Sanders
Professor Sanders contributed the entry "Television Town Meetings."
