UCLA Law faculty members publish award-winning books on a wide range of topics.
Faculty Books
Faculty Books
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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2019 - Mario Biagioli: 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.
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2019 - Ann Carlson: Lessons from the Clean Air Act
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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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2018 - Sung Hui Kim: 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.