Faculty Books

• 2021 - Robert Feldman: Professionalism and Values in Law Practice

  Professionalism and Values in Law Practice

  By Robert Feldman

  Routledge (2021)

  This book presents practical advice to law students and those entering and now working in the legal profession that will help them to reconcile who they are as a person with the demands and opportunities of a legal career.

• 2021 - James Salzman: Mine!:How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Change Our Lives

  Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Change Our Lives

  by James Salzman and Michael Heller

  Doubleday (2021)

  What makes my stuff mine? And why isn’t your stuff also mine? In a new book, Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives, James Salzman and Michael Heller tell fun, provocative, and often infuriating real-life stories that reveal the ownership rules of the 21st century.

• 2021 - Anna Spain Bradley: Human Choice in International Law

  Human Choice in International Law

  By Anna Spain Bradley

  Cambridge University Press (2021)

  Human Choice in International Law is an exploration of human choice in international legal and political decision making. This book investigates the neurobiology of how people choose and the history of how personal choice has affected decisions about international peace and security. It charts important decision moments in international law about genocide, intervention into armed conflict and nuclear weapons at the central institutions of the international legal order. Professor Spain Bradley analyzes the role that particular individuals, serving as international judges or Security Council representatives, play in shaping decision outcomes and then applies insights from neuroscience to assert the importance of analyzing how cognitive processes such as empathy, emotion and bias can influence such decisionmakers. Drawing upon historical accounts and personal interviews, this book reveals the beauty and struggle of human influences that shape the creation and practice of international law.

• 2020 - Richard Abel: Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies

  Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies: Vol. 1: National Reports

  By Richard Abel with Ole Hammerslev, Hilary Sommerlad and Ulrike Schultz

  Hart Publishing (2020)

  In this first of two volumes, scholars from a wide range of disciplines, countries and cultures document and analyze dramatic changes to the world’s legal professions in the 30 years since publication of the landmark three-volume Lawyers in Society, which launched comparative sociological studies of lawyers.

• 2020 - Mario Biagioli: Gaming the Metrics

  Gaming the Metrics: Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research

  Edited by Mario Biagioli and Alexandra Lippman

  MIT Press (2020)

  The academic imperative to "publish or perish" is increasingly coupled with the need for demonstrating impact, as measured by metrics including citations, views and downloads. This book examines the reliance on metrics and how it has produced new forms of academic fraud and misconduct.

• 2020 - Scott L. Cummings: An Equal Place

  An Equal Place: Lawyers in the Struggle for Los Angeles

  By Scott L. Cummings

  Oxford University Press (2020)

  This monumental study of the role of lawyers in the movement to challenge economic inequality in one of America’s most unequal cities focuses on the stories of contemporary lawyers who use law to reshape the meaning of low-wage work in the local economy.

• 2020 - Laura E. Gómez: Inventing Latinos

  Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism

  By Laura E. Gómez

  The New Press (2020)

  This book illuminates the fascinating race-making, unmaking and re-making of Latino identity that has spanned centuries, leaving a permanent imprint on how race operates in the United States today.

• 2020 - Richard H. Steinberg: The International Criminal Court

  The International Criminal Court: Contemporary Challenges and Reform Proposals

  Edited by Richard H. Steinberg

  Brill (2020)

  In this collection of essays, prominent international criminal law commentators respond to questions of interest to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on topics that include obtaining evidence of sexual and gender-based violence; challenges communicating with victims, witnesses and others; ICC state party withdrawals; measuring the ICC’s performance; the scope and anticipated difficulties of the crime of aggression; and reform proposals for the Rome Statute at 20.

• 2019 - Khaled Abou El Fadl: Routledge Handbook of Islamic Law

  Routledge Handbook of Islamic Law

  Edited by Khaled Abou El Fadl, Ahmad Atif Ahmad and Said Fares HassanRoutledge (2019)

  A detailed reference comprising original articles covering the origins, history, theory and practice of Islamic law, including a critical analysis of the pedagogical approaches to analyzing the subject.

• 2019 - Mario Biagioli: From Russia with Code

  From Russia with Code

  Edited by Mario Biagioli and Vincent Antonin Lépinay

  Duke University Press (2019)

  Drawing on over 300 interviews, contributors trace the practices, education, careers, networks, migrations and lives of Russian IT professionals who are key figures in the tense environment of technological innovation in post-Soviet Russia.

• 2019 - Ann Carlson: Lessons from the Clean Air Act

  Lessons from the Clean Air Act: Building Durability and Adaptability into U.S. Climate and Energy Policy

  Edited by Ann Carlson and Dallas Burtraw

  Cambridge University Press (2019)

  This illuminating book examines the Clean Air Act's successes and failures, offering lessons in climate and energy policymaking to legislators, regulators and scholars interested in the field.

• 2019 - Kimberly Clausing: Open

  Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital

  By Kimbely Clausing

  Harvard University Press (2019)

  Critics on the left and right attack globalization from different perspectives. This vivid and compelling account demonstrates that a free and open economy is still the best way to advance the interests of working Americans.

• 2019 - Kimberlé Crenshaw: Seeing Race Again

  Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness Across the Disciplines

  Edited by Kimberlé Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang and George Lipsitz

  University of California Press (2019)

   

   

• 2019 - Joshua Foa Dienstag: Cinema Pessimism

  Cinema Pessimism: A Political Theory of Representation and Reciprocity

  By Joshua Foa Dienstag

  Oxford University Press (2019)

  Looking at motion pictures that directly confront issues of representative democracy, this book argues that film offers a unique perspective through which to understand dangers to equality and freedom.

• 2019 - Blake Emerson: The Public's Law

  The Public's Law: Origins and Architecture of Progressive Democracy

  By Blake Emerson

  Oxford University Press (2019)

  A theory and history of democracy in the American administrative state, authored by authored by UCLA Law Professor Blake Emerson.

   

• 2019 - Edward A. Parson: The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change

  The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate

  By Edward A. Parson and Andrew E. Dressler)

  Cambridge University Press (Third Edition, 2019)

  Comprehensively updated to reflect the large changes in scientific knowledge and policy debates on climate change since the previous edition in 2009, this book provides a concise but thorough overview of the science, technology, economics, policy, and politics of climate change in a single volume.

• 2019 - James Salzman: Green Growth That Works

  Green Growth That Works: Natural Capital Policy and Finance Mechanisms Around the World

  Edited by James Salzman, Lisa Mandle, Zhiyun Quyang and Gretchen C. Daily

  Island Press (2019)

  This innovative guide brings together pragmatic finance and policy tools to guide agencies and organizations eager to make green growth work anywhere in the world.

• 2018 - Richard Abel: Law's Trials

  Law's Trials: The Performance of Legal Institutions in the US 'War on Terror'

  By Richard Abel
  Cambridge University Press (2018)

  One of two companion volumes examining the post-9/11 impacts on legal institutions, authored by UCLA Law's Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus.

   

• 2018 - Richard Abel: Law's Wars

  Law's Wars: The Fate of the Rule of Law in the US 'War on Terror'

  By Richard Abel
  Cambridge University Press (2018)

  One of two companion volumes examining the post-9/11 impacts on legal institutions, authored by UCLA Law's Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus.

   

• 2018 - Stephen M. Bainbridge, et al.: Can Delaware Be Dethroned?

  Can Delaware Be Dethroned? Evaluating Delaware's Dominance of Corporate Law

  Edited by Stephen M. Bainbridge, Iman Anabtawi, Sung Hui Kim and James Park

  Cambridge University Press (2018)

  Four UCLA Law experts in corporate and securities law contribute essays and curate essays by others evaluating Delaware's primacy in corporate law.

   

• 2018 - Stephen M. Bainbridge: Outsourcing the Board

  Outsourcing the Board: How Board Service Providers Can Improve Corporate Governance

  By Stephen M. Bainbridge and M. Todd Henderson

  Cambridge University Press (2018)

  This book changes the conversation about corporate governance by examining the origins, roles and performance of boards with a simple question in mind: Why does the law require governance to be delivered through individual board members?

• 2018 - Scott L. Cummings: Blue and Green

  Blue and Green: The Drive for Justice at America's Port

  By Scott L. Cummings

  MIT Press (2018)

  An account of how environmentalists and labor unions built an alliance – and used legal tools – to transform the trucking industry and improve working conditions at the massive and economically important Port of Los Angeles.

• 2018 - Sharon Dolovich: The New Criminal Justice Thinking

  The New Criminal Justice Thinking

  Edited by Sharon Dolovich and Alexandra Natapoff

  NYU Press (2018)

  Scholars of legal theory, sociology, criminology, critical race theory and other fields offer crucial insights into the modern justice system. Winner of the American Library Association CHOICE Award.

• 2018 - Laura E. Gómez: Manifest Destinies

  Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race (2nd ed.)

  By Laura E. Gómez

  NYU Press (2018)

  The story of the original Mexican Americans—the people living in northern Mexico during the Mexican American War—whose second-class legal status illustrates how groups become racialized and how racial categories change.

• 2018 - Sung Hui Kim: Fiduciary Government

  Fiduciary Government

  Edited by Evan J. Criddle, Evan Fox-Decent, Andrew S. Gold, Sung Hui Kim and Paul B. Miller

  Cambridge University Press (2018)

  This collection of chapters by leading writers captures the resurgence of public fiduciary theory that originated with the Greeks.

• 2018 - Neil Netanel: Copyright

  Copyright: What Everyone Needs to Know

  By Neil Netanel

  Oxford University Press (2018)

  A concise and up-to-date overview of copyright law in the United States from a leading expert.

   

• 2018 - Richard H. Sander and Jonathan M. Zasloff: Moving Toward Integration

  Moving Toward Integration: The Past and Future of Fair Housing

  By Richard H. Sander, Yana A. Kucheva and Jonathan M. Zasloff

  Harvard University Press (2018)

  Using an interdisciplinary approach and rich new data sources, the authors argue that reducing residential segregation is the best way to reduce racial inequality in the United States, and offer innovative steps toward achieving these goals.

• 2018 - Adam Winkler: We the Corporations

  We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

  By Adam Winkler

  W.W. Norton/Liveright (2018)

  Listed for the 2018 National Book Award in non-fiction, "We the Corporations" uncovers the long and surprising history of one of the most powerful civil rights movement in the U.S., that of corporations.

• 2018 - Stephen C. Yeazell: Lawsuits in a Market Economy

  Lawsuits in a Market Economy: The Evolution of Civil Litigation

  By Stephen C. Yeazell

  University of Chicago Press (2018)

  Some describe civil litigation as a drag on the economy, others as the solution to most of the country's problems. Eminent civil procedure scholar Stephen Yeazell argues that civil litigation is both a successful business model and a system for resolving disputes, a fact that critics and fans do their best to conceal.

   

• 2017 - Aslı Ü. Bâli Constitution Writing and Democracy

  Constitution Writing, Religion and Democracy

  Edited by Aslı Ü. Bâli and Hanna LernerCambridge University Press (2017)

  An edited volume exploring the complex challenge of crafting a democratic constitution under conditions of deep disagreement over a state's religious or secular identity, drawing on case studies in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

   

   

• 2017 - Stuart Banner: Speculation

  Speculation: A History of the Fine Line between Gambling and Investing

  By Stuart Banner
  Oxford University Press (2017)

  Stuart Banner's ninth book offers a sweeping review on how those charged with regulating the American economy have worked (and sometimes struggled) to distinguish between beneficial speculation and reckless economic activity.

   

• 2017 - Máximo Langer: Prosecutors and Democracy

  Prosecutors and Democracy: A Cross-National Study

  Edited by Máximo Langer and David Alan Sklansky

  Cambridge University Press (2017)

  Distinguished international scholars address how prosecutors can strengthen or undermine democracy, and why it has proven so challenging to hold prosecutors accountable while also insulating them from politics.

   

• 2017 - Jon D. Michaels: Constitutional Coup

  Constitutional Coup: Privatization’s Threat to the American Republic

  By Jon D. Michaels

  Harvard University Press (2017)

  An examination of how the movement to make government run like a business does violence to the Constitution and threatens the health and stability of the republic.

   

• 2017 - Herbert Morris: Disclosures

  Disclosures: Essays on Art, Literature, and Philosophy

  By Herbert Morris

  CreateSpace (2017)

  Striking essays on literature and painting from the nationally recognized emeritus scholar on law and philosophy.

   

• 2017 - James Salzman: Drinking Water: A History

  Drinking Water: A History (Revised edition)

  By James Salzman

  Overlook Duckworth (2017)

  Demonstrating how complex a seemingly simple glass of water can be, James Salzman highlights how the most pressing issues of our time – from globalization and social justice to terrorism and climate change – all point back to this fundamental resource.

   

• 2016 - Stephen M. Bainbridge: Limited Liability

  Limited Liability: A Legal and Economic Analysis

  By Stephen M. Bainbridge and M. Todd Henderson

  Edward Elgar Publishing (2016)

  A comprehensive economic analysis of laws, in America and around the world, that make corporations such an attractive structure for collaborative enterprises.

   

• 2016 - Joshua Foa Dienstag: Cinema, Democracy and Perfectionism

  Cinema, Democracy and Perfectionism

  By Joshua Foa Dienstag

  Manchester University Press (2016)

  Framed as a letter to film theorist Stanley Cavell, Joshua Dienstag's central essay mirrors the celebrated dialogue between Rousseau and Jean D'Alembert, reflecting on the aesthetics of film and its role in democratic life, with commentary by several philosophers and film theorists.
   

• 2016 - Neil Netanel: From Maimonides to Microsoft

  From Maimonides to Microsoft: The Jewish Law of Copyright Since the Birth of Print

  By Neil Netanel

  Oxford University Press (2016)

  Neil Netanel traces the development of Jewish copyright law, told through the stories of five dramatic disputes from the 16th century to the present.

   

• 2015 - Seana Valentine Shiffrin: Speech Matters

  Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law

  By Seana Valentine Shiffrin

  Princeton University Press (2015)

  Distinguished professor of law and philosophy Seana Shiffren argues that we must keep promises offered under duress, that lies are not protected by free speech, and that police and scholars subvert their mission when they lie in the course of their work.