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Table of Contents
U.S. Law and Courts............... 2-3
Law and Society....................... 3-5
Law and Philosophy.....................5
Law and Economics.....................5
Stanford Studies
in Human Rights ...................... 6-7
International and
Comparative Law..........................8
Legal Education...................... 9-10
Stanford Briefs.............................10
Intellectual Property................... 11
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2 U.S. Law and courts
Defending the Public’s Enemy
The Life and Legacy of
Ramsey Clark
Lonnie T. Brown, Jr.
Defending the Public’s Enemy is the
first book to explore the enigmatic
and perplexing life and legal career
of U.S. Attorney General Ramsey
Clark. Clark’s life and work were
enmeshed with some of the most
notable people and events of the
1960s: Martin Luther King Jr., the
Watts Riots, the Voting Rights Act,
the Black Panthers, Muhammad Ali.
Clark worked tirelessly, especially to
secure the civil rights of black Amer-
icans. Upon entering the private
sector, the former insider became
one of his government’s staunchest
critics, providing legal defense to
internationally-despised figures,
alleged terrorists, reputed Nazi war
criminals, and brutal dictators.
The provocative life chronicled
in Defending the Public’s Enemy
personifies the contradictions at the
heart of American political history,
and our ambivalent relationship
with dissenters and marginalized
groups, as well as those who
embody a fiercely independent
revolutionary spirit.
328 pages, July 2019
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The Cult of the Constitution
Mary Anne Franks
The Cult of the Constitution reveals
how deep fundamentalist strains
in both conservative and liberal
American thought keep the
Constitution in the service of white
male supremacy.
Franks shows that as religious
fundamentalists read their sacred
scriptures, constitutional funda-
mentalists read the Constitution
selectively and self-servingly.
The worship of guns, speech,
and the Internet in the name of
the Constitution has blurred the
boundaries between conduct and
speech and between veneration and
violence. The Cult of the Constitution
lays bare the dark, antidemocratic
consequences of constitutional
fundamentalism and urges readers
to take the Constitution seriously,
not selectively.
“Uncompromisingly critical, Franks
challenges both liberal and conservative
views of the Bill of Rights in the name
of equality...agree or disagree with
Franks’s conclusions, her arguments
require attention.”
—Rebecca Tushnet,
Harvard Law School
272 pages, May 2019
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Our Non-Christian Nation
How Atheists, Satanists, Pagans,
and Others Are Demanding Their
Rightful Place in Public Life
Jay Wexler
America is now home to an
ever-larger number of people who
identify with no religion at all.
These non-Christians have increas-
ingly been demanding their full
participation in public life. The law
is on their side, but sometime their
attempts are met with suspicion
or outright hostility. In Our Non-
Christian Nation, Jay Wexler travels
the country to engage the non-
Christians who have called on us to
maintain our ideals of inclusivity
and diversity. With his characteristic
sympathy and humor, he introduces
us to the Summum and their Seven
Aphorisms, a Wiccan priestess who
would place a pagan holiday wreath
in City Hall, and other determined
champions of free religious expres-
sion. As Wexler urges, anyone who
cares about pluralism, equality,
and fairness must support a public
square filled with a variety of
religious and non-religious voices.
The stakes are nothing short of
long-term social peace.
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Ballot Blocked
The Political Erosion of the
Voting Rights Act
Jesse H. Rhodes
Over the past five decades, both
Democrats and Republicans in
Congress have consistently voted
to expand the protections offered
by the Voting Rights Act. And yet,
the administration of the VRA has
become more fragmented, and
judicial interpretation of its terms
has become much less generous.
Ballot Blocked argues that con-
servatives adopt a paradoxical
strategy in which they acquiesce to
expansive voting rights protections
in Congress (where decisions are
visible and easily traceable) while
simultaneously narrowing the
scope of federal enforcement
via administrative and judicial
maneuvers (which are less visible
and harder to trace). Over time,
this strategy has enabled a conser-
vative Supreme Court to exercise
preponderant influence over the
scope of federal enforcement.
“Bold and richly detailed.
Rhodes provides timely and
crucial new insights.”
—Vesla Weaver,
Yale University
Stanford Studies in Law
and Politics
280 pages, September 2017
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U.S. Law and courts
Borders of Belonging
Struggle and Solidarity in Mixed-
Status Immigrant Families
Heide Castañeda
Borders of Belonging investigates
the impact of immigration
policies and practices not only on
undocumented migrants, but also
on their family members, some
of whom possess a form of legal
status. Heide Castañeda reveals the
trauma, distress, and inequalities
that occur daily, alongside the
stratification of particular family
members’ access to resources like
education, employment, and health
care. She also paints a vivid picture
of the resilience, resistance, creative
responses, and solidarity between
parents and children, siblings, and
other kin. Castañeda’s innovative
ethnography combines fieldwork
with individuals and family groups
to reveal the myriad experiences of
mixed-status families as they navi-
gate the emotional, social, political,
and medical difficulties that inevi-
tably arise when at least one family
member lacks legal status. This
book presents a portentous vision
of how the further encroachment
of immigration enforcement would
affect millions of mixed-status
families throughout the country.
280 pages, February 2019
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Law and SOCIETY 3
 Migrant Crossings
Witnessing Human Trafficking
in the U.S.
Annie Isabel Fukushima
Migrant Crossings examines the
experiences and representations
of Asian and Latina/o migrants
trafficked in the United States into
informal economies and service
industries. Through sociolegal and
media analysis of court records,
press releases, law enforcement
campaigns, film representations,
theatre performances, and the law,
Annie Isabel Fukushima inter-
rogates how migrants legally cross
into visibility, through frames of
victimhood, criminality, citizenship,
and legality. Fukushima invites
readers to deeply interrogate
what it means to bear witness
to migration in these migratory
times—and what such migrant
crossings mean for subjects who
experience violence during or
after their crossing.
272 pages, July 2019
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4 Law and SOCIETY
Skimmed
Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice
Andrea Freeman
Skimmed tells the heartbreaking tale
of America’s first identical quadru-
plets, their rise to fame and use as
advertising symbols, and the dam-
age done to them and generations of
African American families. Relating
the sisters’ story, Andrea Freeman
invites readers into the fraught
history of how the seemingly simple
task of feeding America’s youngest
citizens is awash in social, legal, and
cultural inequalities.
Despite the high cost of baby
formula and the health advantages
of breast milk, Black women have
the lowest breastfeeding rates in
the nation. Freeman uncovers how
aspects of history, law, corporate
power, culture, and the media have
played a part in the routine dispos-
session of Black women’s choice
of how to nourish their babies
since slavery. Skimmed exposes
how American laws and policies
affect the nutritional lives of Black
families from birth and proposes
effective and immediate solutions
for a healthier and more just future.
336 pages, November 2019
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Rules, Paper, Status
Migrants and Precarious Bureaucracy
in Contemporary Italy
Anna Tuckett
Drawing on in-depth fieldwork
in Italy, one of Europe’s biggest
receiving countries, Rules, Paper,
Status reveals how migration
actually plays out on the ground.
Anna Tuckett highlights the complex
processes of inclusion and exclusion
produced through encounters with
immigration law. The statuses of
“legal” or “illegal,” which media and
political accounts use as synonyms
for “good” and “bad,” are not created
by practices of border-crossing, but
rather through legal and bureaucratic
processes within borders devised by
governing states. Taking migrants’
interactions with immigration
regimes as her starting point, Tuckett
argues that successfully navigating
Italian immigration bureaucracy
requires and induces culturally spe-
cific modes of behavior.
“A must-read for immigration scholars
and anyone interested in the day-to-
day workings of street-level bureaucrats
and the myriad ways they make law
and, in the process, transform immi-
grants into ‘cultural citizens.’ ”
—Kitty Calavita,
University of California, Irvine
192 pages, June 2018
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Emptied Lands
A Legal Geography of Bedouin
Rights in the Negev
Alexandre Kedar, Ahmad
Amara, and Oren Yiftachel
Emptied Lands investigates the
protracted legal, planning, and
territorial conflict between the
settler Israeli state and indigenous
Bedouin citizens over traditional
lands in southern Israel/Palestine
to place this dispute in historical,
legal, geographical, and interna-
tional-comparative perspectives.
The authors reveal that through
manipulative use of Ottoman,
British and Israeli laws, the state
has constructed its own version of
terra nullius. Yet, the indigenous
property and settlement system
still functions, creating an ongoing
resistance to the Jewish state.
Emptied Lands critically examines
several key land claims, court
rulings, planning policies and
development strategies, offering
alternative local, regional, and
international routes for justice.
“A remarkable multidisciplinary
feat, this book provides an essential
understanding of settler colonialism.”
—Eyal Weizman,
Goldsmiths, University of London
424 pages, February 2018
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LAW AND SOCIETY
Karman
A Brief Treatise on Action,
Guilt, and Gesture
Giorgio Agamben
Translated by Adam Kotsko
What does it mean to be responsible
for our actions? In this brief and
elegant study, Giorgio Agamben
traces our most profound moral
intuitions back to their roots in
the sphere of law and punishment.
Moral accountability, human free
agency, and even the very concept of
cause and effect all find their origin
in the language of the trial, which
Western philosophy and theology
both transform into the paradigm
for all of human life. In his search
for a way out of this destructive
paradigm, Agamben draws not
only on minority opinions within
the Western tradition but engages
at length with Buddhist texts and
concepts for the first time. In
sum, Karman deepens and
rearticulates of some of Agamben’s
core insights while breaking
significant new ground.
Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
120 pages, April 2018
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LAW AND PHILOSOPHY
The Economic Approach
to Law, Third Edition
Thomas J. Miceli
The third edition of this seminal
textbook is thoroughly updated
to include recent cases and the
latest scholarship, with particular
attention paid to torts, contracts,
property rights, and the economics
of crime. A new chapter organiza-
tion, ideal for quarter- or semester-
long courses, strengthens the book’s
focus on unifying themes in the
field. As Miceli tells a cohesive,
analytical “story” about law from
a distinctly economic perspective,
exercises and problems encourage
students to deepen their knowl-
edge. A companion website with
a full suite of resources for both
students and professors is available
at sup.org/economiclaw.
“Miceli’s carefully written text is rich
with many well-selected examples.
It covers the basic areas of law—
torts (accidents), contracts, crime,
property, and litigation—as well as
the subject of antitrust, and furnishes
a valuable guide to students for
further reading. I know of no better
book for its intended audience.”
—Steven Shavell,
Harvard Law School
Stanford Economics
and Finance
448 pages, October 2017
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LAW AND ECONOMICS 5
 The Politics of Love
in Myanmar
LGBT Mobilization and Human
Rights as a Way of Life
Lynette J. Chua
The Politics of Love in Myanmar
offers an intimate ethnographic
account of a group of LGBT
activists before, during, and after
Myanmar’s post-2011 political
transition. Lynette J. Chua explores
how these activists devoted them-
selves to, and fell in love with, the
practice of human rights and how
they were able to empower queer
Burmese to accept themselves,
gain social belonging, and reform
discriminatory legislation and
law enforcement. Informed by
interviews with activists from all
walks of life, Chua details the vivid
particulars of the LGBT activist
experience founding a movement
first among exiles and migrants
and then in Myanmar’s cities,
towns, and countryside.
“Beautifully written and brilliantly
theorized, the book is highly rec-
ommended reading for scholars
interested in human rights, legal
mobilization, social movements,
and LGBT politics.”
—Michael McCann,
University of Washington
232 pages, December 2018
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6 stanford Studies in human rights
A series edited by mark goodale
Branding Humanity
Competing Narratives of Rights,
Violence, and Global Citizenship
Amal Hassan Fadlalla
The Save Darfur movement gained
an international following, garnering
widespread international attention
to this remote Sudanese territory.
But how do local activists and those
throughout the Sudanese diaspora
in the United States situate their own
notions of rights, nationalism, and
identity? Based on interviews with
Sudanese social actors, activists,
and their allies in the United States,
the Sudan, and online, Branding
Humanity traces the global story
of violence and the remaking of
Sudanese identities. Amal Hassan
Fadlalla examines how activists
contest, reshape, and reclaim the
stories of violence emerging from
the Sudan and their identities as
migrants. Branding Humanity helps
us see beyond the oft-monolithic
international branding of conflict.
Fadlalla asks readers to consider how
national and transnational debates
about violence circulate, shape, and
re-territorialize ethnic identities,
disrupt meanings of national belong-
ing, and rearticulate notions of
solidarity and global affiliations.
312 pages, November 2018
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The Grip of Sexual
Violence in Conflict
Feminist Interventions in
International Law
Karen Engle
Through an account of feminist
engagement with international law
over the past twenty-five years, this
book argues that sexual violence in
conflict was not as obvious a focus
for transnational feminism as it may
appear to be in hindsight.
Beginning with the attention to
wartime rape in the 1990s during
the conflict in the former Yugoslavia,
Karen Engle traces feminist advocacy
and international legal support for
ending violence against women. As
transnational feminists began to
pay attention to sexual violence in
conflict, Engle reveals they often did
so at the cost of attention to other
issues, including the anti-militarism;
critiques of economic maldistribu-
tion, and imperialism and cultural
essentialism by feminists from the
global South. Engle argues that these
feminist commitments were not
merely deprioritized, but undermined,
and she asks readers to reconsider the
inevitability of today’s international
feminist norms.
288 pages, February 2020
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When Misfortune
Becomes Injustice
Evolving Human Rights Struggles
for Health and Social Equality
Alicia Ely Yamin
When Misfortune Becomes Injustice
surveys the last thirty years of health,
economic, and social rights advance-
ment within the international
human rights community. Alicia
Ely Yamin reflects on her firsthand
experience as an academic, practitio-
ner, and advocate to provide readers
with a careful analysis of the points
of intersection and friction between
the fields of law, public health, and
economics and development.
When Misfortune Becomes Injustice
tells a story of extraordinary progress
with respect to the right to health,
including how traditional forms of
tyranny were curbed, and how new
discourses of equality, the welfare
state, and inclusive societies were
formed. Yamin also shows that
the possibilities and political space
necessary to advance egalitarian
health rights are shrinking and
require more attention to growing
inequality and building more diverse
strategies for resistance and social
transformation.
328 pages, February 2020
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Letters to the Contrary Remote Freedoms
A Curated History of the UNESCO Politics, Personhood and
Human Rights Survey Human Rights in Aboriginal
Edited and Introduced by Central Australia
Mark Goodale, Sarah E. Holcombe
Foreword by Samuel Moyn Remote Freedoms investigates how
The Universal Declaration of Human universal human rights are under-
Rights (UDHR) has long served as stood, practiced, negotiated, and
the foundation for the protection challenged in concert and in conflict
of human rights around the world. with Indigenous rights. Moving
Historians and human rights scholars between communities, government,
have claimed that the UDHR was regional NGOs, and international
influenced by UNESCO’s 1947–48 UN forums, Sarah E. Holcombe
global survey of intellectuals, theo- addresses how the notion of rights
logians, and cultural and political plays out within the distinctive and
leaders, a survey that supposedly ambivalent sociopolitical context of
revealed a universal consensus on Australia, focusing specifically on
human rights. Indigenous Anangu women and their
experiences of violence. Engaging
Based on meticulous archival in a translation of the Universal
research, Letters to the Contrary Declaration of Human Rights into
revises and enlarges the conven- the local Pintupi-Luritja vernacular
tional understanding of UNESCO’s and observing various Indigenous
human rights survey. Mark Goodale interactions with law enforcement
uncovers a historical record filled and domestic violence outreach
with letters and responses that programs, Holcombe reveals how, in
were omitted, polite refusals to the post-colonial Australian context,
respond, and outright rejections of human rights are double-edged. They
the universal human rights ideal. In enforce assimilation to a neoliberal
collecting, annotating, and analyzing social order at the same time that
these responses, Goodale reveals an they empower and enfranchise the
alternative history deeply connected Indigenous citizen as a political actor.
to the ongoing life of human rights
in the twenty-first century. 384 pages, July 2018
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376 pages, April 2018
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stanford Studies in human rights 7
A series edited by mark goodale
 Justice for Some
Law and the Question of Palestine
Noura Erakat
Justice for Some offers a new
approach to understanding the
Palestinian struggle for freedom,
told through the power and control
of international law. Focusing on
key junctures—from the Balfour
Declaration in 1917 to present-day
wars in Gaza—Noura Erakat shows
how the strategic deployment of law
has shaped current conditions. Over
the past century, the law has done
more to advance Israel’s intersts
than the Palestinian’s. But, Erkat
argues, this outcome was never
inevitable. Law is politics, and its
meaning and application depend on
the political intervention of states
and people alike. Within the law,
change is possible, and international
law can serve the cause of freedom
when it is mobilized in support of a
political movement.
“A radical rethinking of the role
of law and legal advocacy in the
struggle for Palestinian rights.
Brilliant, inspiring, coldly realistic—
and hopeful.”
—Duncan Kennedy,
Harvard Law School
352 pages, April 2019
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8 international and comparative law
The Civil Law Tradition
An Introduction to the Legal
Systems of Europe and Latin
America, Fourth Edition
John Henry Merryman and
Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo
Designed for the general reader
and students of law, this is a concise
history and analysis of the civil
law tradition, which is dominant
in most of Europe, all of Latin
America, and many parts of Asia,
Africa, and the Middle East. The
fourth edition is fully updated to
include the latest developments
in the field and to correct and
update historical details gleaned
from newly-published research on
Roman and Medieval law. This new
edition updates the book from the
post-Soviet era to ongoing current
issues, including Brexit and the
status of the European Union. It
discusses how civil law codes have
shifted in some countries to adapt
to modern and changing ideologies
and also includes brand-new
material on legal education,
which is of central importance
to the legal profession today.
192 pages, December 2018
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Judge and Punish
The Penal State on Trial
Geoffroy de Lagasnerie
Geoffroy de Lagasnerie spent years
sitting in on trials, watching as indi-
viduals were judged and sentenced
for violent crimes. His experience
led to this original reflection on the
penal state, power, and violence
that identifies a paradox in the
way justice is exercised. In order
to pronounce a judgment, a trial
must construct an individualizing
story of actors and their acts; but in
order to punish, each act between
individuals must be transformed
into an aggression against society
as a whole, against the state itself.
Combining narratives of real trials
with theoretical analysis, Judge and
Punish shows that juridical institu-
tions are not merely a response
to crime. The criminal trial, a
magnifying mirror, reveals our true
condition as political subjects.
“This groundbreaking work asks the
big, penetrating questions that will
shape the future of justice systems
throughout the Western world.”
—Jason S. Sexton,
Editor, Boom California
224 pages, May 2018
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Unequal Profession
Race and Gender in Legal
Academia
Meera E. Deo
This book is the first formal,
empirical investigation into the law
faculty experience using a distinctly
intersectional lens, examining both
the personal and professional lives
of law faculty members.
Comparing the professional and
personal experiences of women
of color professors with white
women and white men faculty
from assistant professor through
dean emeritus, Unequal Profession
explores how the race and gender
of individual legal academics
affects not only their individual and
collective experience, but also legal
education as a whole. Drawing on
quantitative and qualitative empirical
data, Meera E. Deo reveals how
race and gender intersect to create
profound implications, presenting
unique challenges as well as op-
portunities to improve educational
and professional outcomes in legal
education. She brings the experiences
of diverse faculty to life and proposes
a number of mechanisms to increase
diversity within legal academia.
256 pages, February 2019
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Dispute System Design
Preventing, Managing and
Resolving Conflict
Lisa Blomgren Amsler,
Janet Martinez and
Stephanie E. Smith
Dispute System Design walks readers
through the art of successfully
designing a system for preventing,
managing, and resolving conflicts
and legally-framed disputes.
Drawing on decades of expertise
as instructors, experts, and
consultants, the authors show how
dispute system design can be used
within all types of organizations,
including business firms, nonprofit
organizations, international and
transnational bodies.
This book teaches readers the
foundations of Dispute System
Design (DSD), describing bedrock
concepts. Case chapters explore
DSD across a range of experiences,
including public and community
justice, organizational conflict,
international and comparative
systems, and multi-jurisdictional
and complex systems. This book
is for anyone who is interested in
the theory or practice of DSD or
who designs or improves existing
processes and systems.
592 pages, February 2020
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How to Be Sort of Happy
in Law School
Kathryne M. Young
Over 40,000 new students enter
America’s law schools each year.
Each new crop experiences
startlingly high rates of depression,
anxiety, fatigue, and dissatisfaction.
In a book packed with insights
from surveys and interviews with
over 1,000 law students, lawyer-
turned-sociologist Kathryne M.
Young offers a very different take
from previous books about law
school survival. Instead of assum-
ing her readers should all aspire to
law-review-and-big-firm notions
of success, Young teaches students
how to approach law school on
their own terms: how to tune out
the drumbeat of oppressive expec-
tations and conventional wisdom
to create a new breed of law school
experience altogether. Bursting
with warmth, realism, and a touch
of firebrand wit, this book equips
law students with much-needed
wisdom for thriving during those
three crucial years.
“A big-hearted look at what can be
a cold-hearted time. A must-read
for the young lawyers in your orbit.”
—Dahlia Lithwick,
Slate
312 pages, August 2018
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LEGAL EDUCATION 9
 Dangerous Leaders
How and Why Lawyers Must
Be Taught to Lead
Anthony C. Thompson
Dangerous Leaders exposes the
risks and results of leaving lawyers
unprepared to lead. It provides law
schools, law students, and the legal
profession with the leadership tools
and models to build a better founda-
tion of leadership acumen. Anthony
C. Thompson draws from his fifteen
years of experience in global
executive education for Fortune
100 companies and his experience
as a law professor to chart a path
forward for better leadership in-
struction within the legal academy.
Using vivid, real-life case studies,
Thompson explores catastrophic
political, business, and legal failures
that have occurred precisely because
of a lapse in leadership from those
with legal training. He maintains
that these practices are chronic
leadership failures that could
have been avoided and proposes
a fundamental rethinking of legal
education. Dangerous Leaders
imparts invaluable tools and lessons
to best equip current and future
generations of legal leaders.
240 pages, August 2018
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10 LEGAL EDUCATION
Anchor Babies and the
Challenge of Birthright
Citizenship
Leo R. Chavez
Leo R. Chavez explores the
question of birthright citizenship
and of citizenship in the United
States writ broadly, to counter the
often-hyperbolic claims surround-
ing so-called anchor babies. He
considers how this term is used as a
political dog whistle, how changes
in the legal definition of citizenship
have affected the children of im-
migrants over time, and, ultimately,
how U.S.-born citizens still experi-
ence trauma if they live in families
with undocumented immigrants.
By examining this pejorative term
in its political, historical, and social
contexts, Chavez calls upon us to
exorcise it from public discourse
and work toward building a more
inclusive nation.
“Analytically sharp, powerfully
written, and cogently argued, this
important book is essential reading
for every American.”
—Roberto G. Gonzales,
Harvard University
120 pages, October 2017
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Living Emergency
Israel’s Permit Regime in the
Occupied West Bank
Yael Berda
In 1991, the Israeli government
introduced emergency legislation
canceling the general exit permit
that allowed Palestinians to enter
Israel. Today, Israel’s permit regime
for Palestinians is one of the world’s
most extreme and complex appara-
tuses for population management.
In Living Emergency, Yael Berda
brings readers inside the permit
regime, and offers a first-hand
account of how the Israeli secret
service, government, and military
civil administration control the
Palestinian population.
“Living Emergency is a groundbreak-
ing analysis of the bureaucracy of
occupation. And in Yael Berda, this
intricate and obfuscated bureaucracy
has met its match: Her meticulous
research and brilliant insights call
on us all to acknowledge the ways
in which the contemporary rule
of officials has developed across
the globe.”
—Eyal Weizman,
University of London
152 pages, November 2017
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Who Owns the News?
A History of Copyright
Will Slauter
You can’t copyright facts, but is news
a category unto itself? Without legal
protection for the “ownership” of
news, what incentive does a news
organization have to invest in
producing quality journalism
that serves the public good? This
book explores the intertwined
histories of journalism and copyright
law in the United States and Great
Britain, revealing how shifts in
technology, government policy,
and publishing strategy have
shaped the media landscape.
Publishers have long sought to treat
news as exclusive to protect their
investments against copying or “free
riding.” But over the centuries, argu-
ments about the vital role of news-
papers and the need for information
to circulate have made it difficult
to defend property rights in news.
Beginning with the earliest printed
news publications and ending with
the Internet, Will Slauter traces these
countervailing trends, offering a
fresh perspective on debates about
copyright and efforts to control the
flow of news.
368 pages, January 2019
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Copyright’s Highway
From the Printing Press to the
Cloud, Second Edition
Paul Goldstein
In Copyright’s Highway, one of
the nation’s leading authorities
on intellectual property law
offers an engaging, readable, and
intelligent analysis of the effect of
copyright on American politics,
economy, and culture. From
eighteenth-century copyright law,
to the “celestial jukebox,” to the
future of copyright issues in the
digital age, Paul Goldstein presents
a thorough examination of the
challenges facing copyright owners
and users.
This fully updated second edition
introduces readers to present and
future debates regarding copyright
law and policy, including a new
chapter on the technological shift
in emphasis from producer to
consumer and the legal shift from
exclusive rights to exceptions and
limitations to those rights. From
Gutenberg to Google Books,
Copyright’s Highway, Second
Edition, offers a concise, essential
resource for the internet generation.
240 pages, May 2019
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The Color of Creatorship
Intellectual Property, Race, and
the Making of Americans
Anjali Vats
The Color of Creatorship examines
how copyright, trademark, and
patent discourses work together to
form American ideals around race,
citizenship, and property.
Working through key moments in
intellectual property history since
1790, Anjali Vats reveals that even
as they have seemingly evolved,
American understandings of who
is a creator and who is an infringer
have remained remarkably racially
conservative and consistent over
time. Vats historicizes the figure of
the citizen-creator, the white male
maker who was incorporated into
the national ideology as a key con-
tributor to the nation’s moral and
economic development. The Color
of Creatorship argues that once
anti-racist activists grapple with
the underlying racial structures of
intellectual property law, they can
better advocate for strategies that
resist the underlying drivers of
racially disparate copyright, patent,
and trademark policy.
280 pages, November 2019
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