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Recent Books RECENT BOOKS ART LAW Art Law: Rights and Liabilities of Creators and Collectors, Volumes I & II. Franklin Feldman & Stephen E. Weil, with the collaboration of Susan Duke Biederman. Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1986. Pp. xxxiii, 677; xxxiii, 733. $160.00. BANKRUPTCY LAW The Logic and Limits of Bankruptcy Law. Thomas H. Jackson. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1986. Pp. 287. $25.00. BIOGRAPHY Zechariah Chafee, Jr.: Defender of Liberty and Law. Donald L. Smith. Harvard Uni- versity Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1986. Pp. x, 355. $25.00. CIVIL RIGHTS The Evolution of Rights in Liberal Theory. Ian Shapiro. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1986. Pp. x, 326. Cloth $39.50. Paper $11.95. Natural Rights and Natural Law: The Legacy of George Mason. Robert P. Davidow, ed. The George Mason University Press, Fairfax, Vir., 1986. Pp. v, 264. Paper $12.50. Swann's Way: The School Busing Case & the Supreme Court. Bernard Schwartz. Ox- ford University Press, New York, 1986. Pp. 245. $19.95. COMMON LAW Legal Theory and Common Law. William Twining, ed. Basil Blackwell Ltd., New York, 1986. Pp. viii, 267. $45.00. COMPARATIVE LAW The Faces of Justice and State Authority: A Comparative Approach to the Legal Pro- cess. Mirjan R. Damaska. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 1986. Pp. xi, 247. $26.00. COMPUTER LAW Bernacchi on Computer Law: A Guide to the Legal and Management Aspects of Com- puter Technology. Volumes 1 & 2. Richard L. Bernacchi, Peter B. Frank & Norman Statland. Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1986. Pp. xxxiv, 1056. $160.00. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW American ConstitutionalLaw: Introductory Essays and Selected Cases (8th ed.). Al- pheus Thomas Mason & Donald Grier Stephenson, Jr. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1986. Pp. xv, 664. $32.95. 1519 1520 The University of Chicago Law Review [53:1519 Constitutional Choices. Laurence H. Tribe. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1985. Pp. xiv, 458. Cloth $29.95. Paper $8.95. The Establishment Clause: Religion and the First Amendment. Leonard W. Levy. MacMillan Publishing Co., New York, 1986. Pp. xvi, 236. $16.95. No State Shall Abridge: The FourteenthAmendment and the Bill of Rights. Michael Kent Curtis. Duke University Press, Durham, N.C., 1986. Pp. xii, 275. $24.95. Separation of Powers-Does It Still Work? Robert A. Goldwin & Art Kaufman, eds. American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C., 1986. Pp. xi, 193. Cloth $16.95. Paper $8.95. 1787: Drafting the U.S. Constitution, Volumes I & II. Wilbourn E. Benton, ed. Texas A & M University Press, College Station, Tex., 1986. Pp. xvii, 1574. $85.00. The Supreme Court and the Decline of Constitutional Aspiration. Gary J. Jacobsohn. Rowman and Littlefield, Totowa, N.J., 1986. Pp. ix, 182. $29.50. The Tolerant Society: Freedon of Speech and Extremist Speech in America. Lee C. Bollinger. Oxford University Press, New York, 1986. Pp. viii, 295. $19.95. Toleration and the Constitution. David A. J. Richards. Oxford University Press, New York, 1986. Pp. xvii, 348. $29.95. COPYRIGHT Inventions in the Marketplace: Patent Licensing and the U.S. Antitrust Laws. Paul S. Hoff. American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C., 1986. Pp. viii, 55. Paper $5.95. CORPORATE LAW Corporate Law. Robert Charles Clark. Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1986. Pp. xxviii, 837. $29.00. The Philosophy of Corporate Control:A Treatise on the Law of Fiduciary Duty. David Cowan Bayne. Loyola University Press, Chicago, 1986. Pp. xiv, 414. $19.95. CRIMINAL LAW Drunk Driving Defense. Lawrence E. Taylor. Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1986. Pp. xxii, 453. $67.50. EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT Why ERA Failed: Politics, Women's Rights, and the Amending Process of the Consti- tution. Mary Frances Berry. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Ind., 1986. Pp. ix, 147. $17.95. Why We Lost the ERA. Jane J. Mansbridge. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1986. Pp. xii, 327. Cloth $35.00. Paper $9.95. ETHICS Special Care: Medical Decisions at the Beginning of Life. Fred M. Frohock. The Uni- versity of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1986. Pp. xiii, 263. $19.95. FAMILY LAW International Enforcement of Child Support and Custody: Reciprocity and Other Strategies. Gloria F. DeHart. American Bar Association Press, Chicago, 1986. Pp. vi, 65. Paper $16.95. Managing Clients and Cases: Procedures and Systems for the Family Lawyer. Fred E. Schoenlaub & Mary McCusker, eds. American Bar Association Press, Chicago, 1986. Pp. ix, 144. Paper $29.95. 19861 Recent Books FIRST AMENDMENT The End of Obscenity: The Trials of Lady Chatterley, Tropic of Cancer and Fanny Hill. Charles Rembar. Harper & Row Publishers, New York, 1986. Pp. xvii, 528. Paper $10.95. JUDICIAL PROCESS Judging Credentials: Nonlawyer Judges and the Politics of Professionalism. Doris Marie Provine. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1986. Pp. xvii, 248. Cloth $30.00. Pa- per $13.95. JURISPRUDENCE Legalism: Law, Morals, and Political Trials. Judith N. Shklar. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1986. Pp. xiv, 246. Paper $7.95. LABOR LAW A Primer on American Labor Law (2d ed.). William B. Gould IV. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1986. Pp. xiii, 261. Paper $10.95. LEGAL HISTORY Law, Resistance, and the State: The Opposition to Roman Law in Reformation Ger- many. Gerald Strauss. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1986. Pp. x, 302. $34.50. Legal Realism at Yale, 1927-1960. Laura Kalman. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1986. Pp. xii, 314. $35.00. The Oxford Book of Legal Anecdotes. Michael Gilbert, ed. Oxford University Press, New York, 1986. Pp. xvi, 333. $18.95. To Chain the Dog of War: The War Power of Congress in History and Law. Francis D. Wormuth & Edwin B. Firmage, with Frances P. Butler, contributing author. Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, 1986. Pp. xi, 347. $27.50. LEGAL PHILOSOPHY The Critical Legal Studies Movement. Roberto Mangabeira Unger. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1986. Pp. 128. Cloth $17.95. Paper $7.95. Legal Thinking: Its Limits and Tensions. William Read. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1986. Pp. ix, 189. $21.95. A Matter of Principle. Ronald Dworkin. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1985. Pp. 425. Cloth $25.00. Paper $8.95. LEGAL PROFESSION Ethics and the Legal Profession. Michael Davis & Frederick A. Elliston, eds. Prome- theus Books, Buffalo, N.Y., 1986. Pp. v, 495. Paper $16.95. Kill All the Lawyers? A Client's Guide to Hiring, Firing, Using, and Suing Lawyers. Sloan Bashinsky. Prentice Hall Press, New York, 1986. Pp. xii, 148. $12.95. The Lawyer's Professional Independence: An Ideal Revisted. John B. Davidson, ed. American Bar Association Press, Chicago, 1985. Pp. viii, 57. Paper $9.95. The Lawyer's ProfessionalIndependence: Present Threats/FutureChallenges. Robert S. Alexander, Peter Megargee Brown, Archibald Cox & Robert B. McKay. American Bar Association Press, Chicago, 1984. Pp. xi, 65. Paper $9.95. LEGAL RESEARCH Clear and Effective Legal Writing. Veda R. Charrow & Myra K. Erhardt. Little, Brown 1522 The University of Chicago Law Review [53:1519 & Company, Boston, 1986. Pp. xxi, 356. Paper $12.95. The Fundamentalsof Legal Drafting (2d ed.). Reed Dickerson. Little, Brown & Com- pany, Boston, 1986. Pp. xxix, 393. $45.00. The Process of Legal Research. Christina L. Knuz, Deborah A. Schmedemann, C. Peter Erlinder, Matthew P. Downs, Clifford M. Greene, Ann L. Bateson & Kevin D. Millard. Lit- tle, Brown & Company, Boston, 1986. Pp. xxxv, 329. Paper $15.95. LEGISLATION The Law and the Treatment of Drug- and Alcohol-Dependent Persons: A Comparative Study of Existing Legislation. L. Porter, A.E. Arif & W.J. Curran. World Health Organiza- tion, Geneva, 1986. Pp. 216. Paper $17.00. LITIGATION Assignments in Trial Practice (5th ed.). Joseph D. Howe & Walker J. Blakey. Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1986. Pp. xi, 320. Paper $16.95. MALPRACTICE LAW The Vulnerable Social Worker: Liability for Serving Children and Families.Douglas J. Besharov. National Association of Social Workers, Silver Spring, Md., 1985. Pp. xii, 275. Paper $16.95. PHILOSOPHY The Authoritative and the Authoritarian. Joseph Vining. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1986. Pp. xix, 261. $25.00. PRODUCTS LIABILITY Agent Orange on Trial:Mass Toxic Disasters in the Courts. Peter H. Schuck. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1986. Pp. ix, 347. $25.00. PROPERTY LAW A History of the Land Law (2d ed.). A.W.B. Simpson. The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1986. Pp. 316. Cloth $47.00. Paper $19.95. Title Insurance: The Lawyer's Expanding Role. James M. Pedowitz, ed. American Bar Association Press, Chicago, 1986. Pp. iv, 564. Paper 49.95. SOCIAL JUSTICE Superfairness:Applications and Theory. William J. Baumol with contributions by Die- trich Fischer. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1986. Pp. xi, 266. $20.00. SOCIOLOGICAL JURISPRUDENCE Law and Liberation. Robert E. Rodes. University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Ind., 1986. Pp. xi, 256. $24.95. SUPREME COURT Redefining the Supreme Court's Role: A Theory of Managing the Federal Judicial Process. Samuel Estreicher & John Sexton. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 1986. Pp. x, 201. $20.00. 1986] Recent Books 1523 TEXTBOOKS ConstitutionalLaw. Geoffrey R. Stone, Louis M. Seidman, Cass R. Sunstein & Mark V. Tushnet. Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1986. Pp. lxxi, 1579. $38.65. Contracts:Cases and Materials (3d ed.). Friedrich Kessler, Grant Gilmore & Anthony T. Kronman. Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1986. Pp. xxxvi, 1586. $35.95. Economic Analysis of Law (3d ed.). Richard A. Posner. Little, Brown & Company, Bos- ton, 1986. Pp. xxi, 666. $29.00. International Trade and Investment: Regulating InternationalBusiness. John H. Bar- ton & Bart S. Fisher. Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1986. Pp. xxxiii, 936. $35.95. Land Transfer and Finance: Cases and Materials (3d ed.). Allan Axelrod, Curtis J. Berger & Quintin Johnstone. Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1986. Pp. xxxiv, 1278. $34.95.
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