Stanford Law Books imprint: 65 books
Habermas
The Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Though many legal theorists are familiar with Jürgen Habermas's work addressing core legal concerns, they are not necessarily familiar with his earlier writings in philosophy and social theory. Because Habermas's later work on law invokes, without significant explanation, the whole battery of concepts...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Law and the Utopian Imagination seeks to explore and resuscitate the notion of utopianism within current legal discourse. The idea of utopia has fascinated the imaginations of important thinkers for ages. And yet—who writes seriously on the idea of utopia today? The mid-century critique appears...
Laws of Image
Privacy and Publicity in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Americans have long been obsessed with their images—their looks, public personas, and the impressions they make. This preoccupation has left its mark on the law. The twentieth century saw the creation of laws that protect your right to control your public image, to defend your image, and to feel...
The Balance Gap
Working Mothers and the Limits of the Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
In recent decades, laws and workplace policies have emerged that seek to address the "balance" between work and family. Millions of women in the U.S. take some time off when they give birth or adopt a child, making use of "family-friendly" laws and policies in order to spend time...
Riding the Black Ram
Law, Literature, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Unruly women are not often represented in a good light. Whether historical, or fictional, disruptive women with their real or imagined excesses have long provided the material for literary and legal narratives. This probing new work analyzes a series of literary, legal, and historical texts to demonstrate...
The Street Politics of Abortion
Speech, Violence, and America's Culture Wars
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade stands as a historic victory for abortion-rights activists. But rather than serving as the coda to what had been a comparatively low-profile social conflict, the decision mobilized a wave of anti-abortion protests and ignited a heated struggle that continues...
The Eureka Myth
Creators, Innovators, and Everyday Intellectual Property
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Are innovation and creativity helped or hindered by our intellectual property laws? In the two hundred plus years since the Constitution enshrined protections for those who create and innovate, we're still debating the merits of IP laws and whether or not they actually work as intended. Artists, scientists,...
Philip Selznick
Ideals in the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Philip Selznick's wide-ranging writings engaged with fundamental questions concerning society, politics, institutions, law, and morals. Never confined by a single discipline or approach, he proved himself a major figure across a range of fields including sociology, organizations and institutions,...
Virtual Freedom
Net Neutrality and Free Speech in the Internet Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2009
Communications giants like Google, Comcast, and AT&T enjoy increasingly unchecked control over speech. As providers of broadband access and Internet search engines, they can control online expression. Their online content restrictions—from obstructing e-mail to censoring cablecasts—are considered...
Crook County
Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Finalist for the C. Wright Mills Book Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Winner of the 2017 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, sponsored...
Knowledge as Power
Criminal Registration and Community Notification Laws in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Societies have long sought security by identifying potentially dangerous individuals in their midst. America is surely no exception. Knowledge as Power traces the evolution of a modern technique that has come to enjoy nationwide popularity—criminal registration laws. Registration, which originated...
by Frank B. Cross
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Today, statutes make up the bulk of the relevant law heard in federal courts and arguably represent the most important source of American law. The proper means of judicial interpretation of those statutes have been the subject of great attention and dispute over the years. This book provides new insights...
The Soul of Creativity
Forging a Moral Rights Law for the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
In the United States, human creativity is historically understood to be motivated by economic concerns. However, this perspective fails to account for the reality that human creativity is also often the result of internal motivations having nothing to do with money. This book addresses what motivates...
Harboring Data
Information Security, Law, and the Corporation
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
As identity theft and corporate data vulnerability continue to escalate, corporations must protect both the valuable consumer data they collect and their own intangible assets. Both Congress and the states have passed laws to improve practices, but the rate of data loss persists unabated and companies...