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Books in Print by Yale Law School Alumni, Faculty, Staff, and Students

Here’s just a sampling of the many books recently written or edited by our Crime in a Digital World alumni, faculty, staff, and students. We welcome your submissions. If possible, Jack M. Balkin, James Grimmelmann, Eddan Katz, Nimrod Kozlovski, please send us two review copies of your Shlomit Wagman, Tal Zarsky, Editors Cybercrime: Digital Cops in a Networked Environment book: one for the Lillian Goldman New York University Press, 2007 Law Library and one for the Alumni Reading Room. Cybercrime: Digital Cops in a Networked Environment addresses how criminal law—and crime itself—has been transformed by the networked world. A collection of essays by leading experts in law, criminal justice, and secu- Lori Andrews rity studies, Cybercrime was edited by Professor Jack M. Balkin (Knight The Silent Assassin Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment and Director St. Martin’s Press, 2007 of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School), ISP Executive Andrews ’78 combines the intricate Director Eddan Katz, and ISP fellows James Grimmelmann ’05, Nimrod details of forensic science with the Kozlovski ’05 llm, ’05 jsd, Shlomit Wagman ’03 llm, ’07 jsd, and Tal dark side of Washington politics in her second thriller (following last year’s Zarsky. Sequence). When a John Doe with a Cybercrime describes how the move to a digital environment has bayonet wound in his chest is discovered in a changed the very nature of crime and the way law enforcement and Washington, D.C. alley, geneticist Dr. Alexandra the courts respond to crime. The book is structured with five sections, Blake of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology explaining the ways in which the digital environment creates 1) new is pulled away from her bioterrorism work to crime scenes, 2) new types of crime, 3) new methods of law enforcement, aid in the investigation. Alex and her colleagues 4) new tools for digital surveillance, and 5) new procedures for and chal- quickly find themselves wrapped up in a com- lenges to legal procedure. In addition to detailing these changes to what plicated mystery of high-stakes international financial intrigue. they call “the landscape of crime,” the editors warn that the rise of new forms of surveillance and policing may create fresh dangers for civil liberties. Carl F. Cranor Cybercrime posits that the task of cybercrime policy is not simply to Toxic Torts: Science, Law, and the create new laws banning new practices. “It also requires us,” the editors Possibility of Justice Cambridge University Press, 2006 write in the book’s introduction, “to redesign digital architectures to Cranor ’81 msl tackles the intersection reduce the risk of criminal conduct and security breaches in the first of law and science in tort litigation. He place; this requires policy makers and technologists to decide how we describes how scientific testimony has should shape the digital networked environment.” affected courts’ readings of the law, and shows how justice can be enhanced in toxic tort cases. 12 | 13 Y l r Summer 2007

Books in Print by Yale Law School Alumni, Faculty, Staff, and Students

Jan G. Deutsch James R. Hackney Jr. Joy Horowitz Power and Precedent: The Under Cover of Parts per Million: The Poisoning of Role of Law in the United Science: American Beverly Hills High School States Legal-Economic Theory Viking Press, 2007 Vandeplas , 2007 and the Quest for Horowitz ’82 msl, herself a graduate of Walton Hale Hamilton Objectivity Beverly Hills High School, tells the story Professor Emeritus of Law Jan Duke University Press, behind the headlines about her alma Deutsch ’62 presents a course 2007 mater, its oil wells, and a local cancer whose lectures set out a jurisprudence Hackney ’89 situates the cluster. Horowitz interviewed cancer spe- applicable to civil and scientific as well modern law and economics movement cialists, lawyers, epidemiologists, and city as common law. Deutsch’s thesis: that an within the trajectory of American jurispru- officials to weave this story of landmark understanding of the role of precedent dence from the early days of the Republic toxic tort litigation. in the common law explains both the to the present. Hackney argues that the human condition and what has happened incorporation of economic analysis into Chimene I. Keitner to law since the decision in legal decision making is not an inher- The Paradoxes of Brown v. Board of Education. ently objective enterprise. Rather, law Nationalism and economics often cloak ideological SUNY Press, 2007 Roy Freed and Anne Freed determinations under the cover of sci- Keitner ’02 draws on his- Fulbrighters in Retirement: Networking ence. tory and political theory to with Bulgarians Keeps Us Engaged deepen our understand- Pieter Hans Hoets ing of the historical and Freed ’40 and his wife, Anne, present a Buitengaats! Met een normative underpinnings of national self- determination as a basis for international memoir of how, beginning in 1987, they Engelandvaarder de happened to befriend Bulgarians, and political order. Based on this analysis, she wereld in (Outward how those friends continue to enrich constructs a framework for evaluating Bound! With a Freedom their lives. Composed of related, often nation-based claims in contemporary Fighter into the World) overlapping, self-contained vignettes, world politics and identifies persistent the Freeds’ book gives insight to the his- Uitgeverij ASPEKt, 2006 theoretical and practical tensions that Hoets ’49 llm details the tory of the Bulgarian people and serves must be taken into account in contemplat- seminal events of his as a testament to the power of the ing proposals for “civic nationalism” and life, beginning with his resistance to the Fulbright Program. alternative, nonnational models. German occupation in the 40s, his work as a spy, and his joining of the Allied forces under General Eisenhower, and continuing his life story through his time at YLS and up to his retirement as a vice president of Coca-Cola. This autobiography is Hoets’s attempt to explain to his children and grandchildren why he and his wife “left Good Old Holland and emigrated to the United States.” ˘ Books in Print

Robert E. Litan, William J. Baumol, and Carl J. Schramm Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity Yale University Press, 2007 Bruce Ledewitz Just a century ago, the purchasing power American Religious of an average American was one-tenth Democracy: Coming to Terms of what it is today. What will it take to with the End of Secular sustain that growth through the next Natsu Taylor Saito Politics century? And what can be said about From Chinese Exclusion Praeger Publishers, 2007 economic growth to aspiring nations to Guantánamo Bay: Ledewitz ’77 explores the legal, seeking higher standards of living for Plenary Power and the political, and religious implica- their citizens? Litan ’76, Baumol, and Prerogative State tions of the rise of a new “religious democ- Schramm contend that the answers lie University Press of within capitalist economies. In their new racy” in America. He argues that though Colorado, 2007 book, they explore the different sides separation of Church and State has been Saito ’87 puts the recent of capitalism, both the “good” and the a fundamental tenet of American politics, Guantánamo Bay contro- “bad.” that position has declined in the wake of versy into a historical context, detailing the 2004 election. His new book explores how the courts have upheld the expan- what it means to be both religious and Gerard N. Magliocca sion of plenary power since the 1880s. She political, and invites secular voters to Andrew Jackson and the examines a list of cases that shamed the participate in religious democracy. Constitution: The Rise nation, from exclusion of Chinese workers and Fall of Generational and violations of Native Americans’ treaty Ethan J. Leib and Regimes rights to the internment of Japanese Baogang He, Editors University Press of Kansas, Americans. Saito argues that Congress’s The Search for 2007 and the courts’ sanction of such executive Deliberative Democracy Highlighting the ideological actions undermines individual rights and the foundations of national security. in China battles fought by Jacksonian Democrats Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 against Federalists and Republicans over Leib ’03 and He investigate issues such as states’ rights, presiden- James F. Simon whether the theory of “delib- tial authority, and the scope of federal Lincoln and Chief erative democracy” has any application power, Magliocca ’98 shows how presi- Justice Taney: Slavery, to processes of democratization. With dential politics, Supreme Court decisions, Secession, and the contributions from leading Western theo- and congressional maneuverings inter- President’s War Powers rists of deliberative democracy, as well as weave, creating a recurrent pattern of Simon & Schuster, 2006 leading Chinese political scientists, this constitutional change. Simon ’64 brings to life book establishes a dialogue among those the conflict between who envision deliberative democratic Jay Michaelson President Abraham reform from two widely divergent cul- God in Your Body: Lincoln and Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice tural starting points. Kabbalah, Mindfulness and of the United States. Their disputes over Embodied Spiritual Practice slavery, secession, and presidential power Jewish Lights Publishing, went to the heart of the Lincoln presi- 2006 dency, affecting the course of his admin- Michaelson ’97 explains how istration. With subtle parallels to the to make the human body a decisions of the current wartime admin- site for holiness in this book about embod- istration, the book furthers the discus- ied spiritual practice. He discusses medita- sion about both presidential powers and tion practices, physical exercises, visualiza- partisan influence in the chambers of the tions, and sacred texts as part of a method Supreme Court. to help individuals experience the Divine within their body. 14 | 15 Y l r Summer 2007

Vincent M. Smith and Also of Note Barbara Lyons Stewart Feng Shui: Kristen David Adams ’00 llm A Practical Guide for Commercial Transactions: Architects and Designers A Survey of United States Law with Kaplan Business, 2006 International Perspective This book is written spe- West Group, 2006 cifically for design profes- sionals who are seeking practical Attila de Souza Leão Andrade Jr. applications of Feng Shui, the Chinese ’72 llm, ’77 jsd discipline of energies touted for Jane Stromseth, David Comentários ao Novo Código Civil enhancing the productivity of its follow- Wippman & Rosa Brooks ers. Smith ’65 explains how to apply the (Commentaries on the New Civil Can Might Make Rights?: principles of Feng Shui to any room and Code, Volumes I-IV) Building the Rule of Law how to use the discipline to select sites, Editora Forense, 2004 After Military Interventions building layouts, materials, lighting, and Cambridge University Press, color. PJ Badenhorst ’86 llm, Juanita M. 2006 Stromseth ’87, Wippman ’82, and Brooks Pienaar, and Hanri Mostert Carlos R. Soltero ’96 look at why it’s so difficult to create Silberberg and Schoeman’s Latinos and American Law: “the rule of law” in post-conflict societies The Law of Property (Fifth Edition) Landmark Supreme such as Iraq and Afghanistan, and offer LexisNexis, 2006 Court Cases insights into how policy makers and field- University of Texas Press, 2006 workers can improve future rule of law Carl Q. Christol ’47 Soltero ’94 chronicles more efforts. This book shows how a narrow International Law and U.S. Foreign than a century of Latino legal focus on building institutions such as Policy (Second, Revised Edition) struggle, examining fourteen courts and legislatures misses the more University Press of America, 2006 landmark Supreme Court cases that have complex cultural issues that affect societal significantly affectedL atino rights, from commitment to the values associated with Botiller v. Dominguez in 1889 to Alexander the rule of law. Siegfried H. Elsing ’79 llm and v. Sandoval in 2001. Through these case Michael van Alstine studies, Soltero examines issues such as US-amerikanisches Handels- und Mark C. Weber education, voting rights, administration Wirtschaftsrecht (US-American Disability Harassment of criminal justice, immigration issues, Commercial and Economic Law) New York University Press, and employment. Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft, 2007 2007 Building on the insights of both disability studies and Gary Hart ’64 civil rights scholars, Weber The Courage of Our Convictions: ’78 frames his examination A Manifesto for Democrats of disability harassment on the premise Times Books, 2006 that disabled people are members of a minority group that must negotiate an Howard M. Holtzmann ’47 llm and artificial yet often damaging environ- Edda Kristjansdottir, Editors ment of physical and attitudinal barriers. International Mass Claims Processes: The book considers courts’ approaches to the problem of disability harassment and Legal and Practical Perspectives the development of legal remedies and Oxford University Press, 2007 policy reforms under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Janet S. Wong ’87 Twist: Yoga Poems Margaret K. McElderly Books, 2007