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Book SynopsisCovering areas of drug toxicity which address the major issues including registration requirements of new drugs and pharmacovigilance, this book provides an overview of the methodology and requirements of pre-clinical safety assessment of new medicines. It discusses mechanisms by which drugs cause toxic effects in living organisms.Trade Review'The text is well written, concise and easy to understand with informative and helpful illustrations, figures and tables...it serves as an excellent companion to pharmacology textbooks, dealing with the issues relevant for assessing the safety of new drugs...a good starting point for the novice toxicologist, ambitious undergraduate student or graduate students working in the pharmaceutical sciences.' Irish Pharmacy Journal, November 2006, p418 * Irish Pharmacy Journal *'...this is a great little book...the text is aimed primarily at new PHD students in the pharmaceutical and related sciences but could equally well serve taught postgraduate students on toxicology, clinical pharmacology, drug development and safety or similar courses. The book 'does exactly what it says on the tin' and will definitely whet the appetite of enthusiastic young researchers for toxicology.' Heather M Wallace, Summer 2007 issue of the British Toxicology Society Newsletter -- Heather M Wallace * British Toxicology Society Newsletter *Table of Contents1. General toxicology; 2. Drug metabolism: inactivation and bioactivation of xenobioptics; 3. Molecular and cellular mechanisms of toxicity; 4. Teratology; 5. Genotoxicity; 6. Carcinogenicity of drugs; 7. Liver toxicity; 8. Kidney toxicity; 9. Toxicology in the respiratory system; 10. Immunotoxicity; 11. Clinical toxicology; 12. Safety assessment of pharmaceuticals: regulatory aspects; 13. Pharmacovigilance.

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Book SynopsisIn recent years a new form of populism has taken hold of our politics, turning Britain into an increasingly intolerant and fractious country. As our society grapples with the threat posed by terrorism and the uncertainty that has followed the Brexit referendum and the coronavirus pandemic, cracks have begun to appear in the very foundations of our liberal democracy; the values that we once regarded as sacred are being called into question. Former barrister and judge Inigo Bing examines how the bonds of trust between the British people and our democratic institutions have broken down and the principles that underpin the rule of law are under threat from populist politics. Populism on Trial analyses how politicians have shown an increasing contempt for the principle of judicial independence as they attempt to exercise unrestrained power. Bing seeks to remind us that without law we have only power, and power without law is tyranny. He demonstrates how the rule of law is a fragile yet essential ingredient in our democracy and argues that it must be vigorously upheld or it will be cast aside by the rising tide of populismTrade Review"Inigo Bing makes a compelling defence of parliamentary democracy and entrenched rights against the new populism. As he so rightly says, defeating populism requires a strong, vibrant civil society where citizens' rights and mutual obligations are underpinned by a strong and respected judiciary. This is a bold statement of the liberal democracy we need to defend to the utmost in these turbulent times." - Andrew Adonis "There is no better time to put populism and threats to human rights under a forensic microscope than post-Brexit, and Inigo Bing does it in style. Brilliantly researched and utterly compelling to read, I warmly recommend this book." - Nigel Pascoe QC "Populism is a disease that does not want to be cured; indeed, many UK voters would say that our democracy is fit and healthy. In this elegantly written book, Inigo Bing uses the lawyer's scalpel to open up the national body politic, revealing that on the inside it is deeply unwell. Bing's insightful analysis will confirm that the populist disease must be treated if we are to prevent power-seeking politicians from subverting the true values of our democracy." - Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, Emeritus Professor of Law, Gresham College "Inigo Bing has spent more than four decades in the law, both as barrister and as judge. He has combined that depth of experience, profound learning and authorial flair to write an exceptionally timely book on the uneasy relationship between the government and the judiciary. Populism on Trial is a stark reminder of the importance of the rule of law in fractious times and the centrality of independent judges to the preservation of our freedoms; it is also a warning of the dangers we face if those fundamental truths are forgotten." - Thomas Grant QC, bestselling author of Court Number One

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“A uniquely valuable intervention. Those of us--and I would say that is the majority of us who live our lives ‘in freedom’--are importuned by the book’s address, to wake up, to care, because what we perceive as our ‘freedom’ made available, so we think, as a consequence of living in the crucible of liberal ideals and beliefs--is inextricably bound up with the logics of incarceration.”--Fawzia Afzal-Khan, author of Siren Song: Understanding Pakistan Through its Women SingersTable of ContentsForeword Demita Frazier Acknowledgments Introduction Shreerekha Pillai Part One: Carceral Narratives and Fictions Poems: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, “Pantoum for a Black Man on a Greyhound Bus” and “Lost Letter #27: John Peters, Boston-Gaol to Phillis Wheatley Peters, Boston, December 3, 1784″ 1. Carceral Trauma at the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality, and Maternity Cassandra D. Little 2. Prisons and Politics: Conceptualizing Prison Memoirs Shailza Sharma 3. Seeing Orange: Mediatizing the Prison Empire Shreerekha Pillai 4. Emptied Chairs and Faceless Inmates: A Critical Analysis of the Texas Prison Museum Beth Matusoff Merfish Poems: Ravi Shankar, “Against Innocence” and “Sunday School” The Stories that will not be Confined Poems: Solmaz Sharif, “Reaching Guantánamo” Part Two: Carceral Bodies and Systems Poem: Jeremy Eugene, “Space” 5. These Stories Will Not Be Confined Joanna Eleftheriou 6. Cornered: Day Laborers, Criminalization and Rituals of Democracy in Texas Francisco Argüelles Paz y Puente, aka Pancho 7. Resisting Criminalization: Principles, Practicalities, and Possibilities of Alternative Justices Beyond the State Autumn Elizabeth, Zarinah Agnew, D Coulombe 8. Going Carceral? Analyzing Written and Visual Representations of Prison Yoga Programs Tria Blu Wakpa and Jennifer Musial 9. Vacant Refuge, Unfinished Resettlement: Gendered Nativism and the Experience of Ambivalence among Displaced Syrian Iraqi and Women and Children in Houston, Texas Maria F. Curtis 10. Gendered Punishment and Social Control: Silenced Memories of Women in Wartime Peru Marta Romero-Delgado 11. Bad Girls of Pindra Tod Alka Kurian Poem: Javier Zamora, “Citizenship” Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Helping Familiar Strangers unravels the motivations and dynamics that inform acts of helping, with a specific focus on refugee diaspora humanitarianism. . . . Olliff's argument is convincing and well-grounded."—Antonio De Lauri, author of The Politics of HumanitarianismTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionList of Abbreviations1. Humanitarianism and the international refugee regime2. The ecology of refugee diaspora humanitarianism3. Forces that compel4. Modalities: governance and economies5. Modalities: mobility, (in)visibility, knowledge, and networks6. Implications and imaginings7. Helping familiar strangersEpilogueAppendixBibliography

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Book SynopsisFrom 1917 the US Department of Justice systematically targeted the US's most radical union, the Industrial Workers of the World, resulting in the largest mass trial in US history. In the first legal history of the trial, Dean Strang shows how the case laid the groundwork for a fundamentally different strategy to stifle radical threats.Trade ReviewDean Strang tells a great story of America's struggle with fear and injustice a century ago while asking us to consider, 'What is the story of ourselves that we write today?' American workers still fight what the Wobblies fought in 1918, as the Justice Department during WWI overreached in ways similar to our current 'war on terror.' Dean is a great attorney and a gifted writer, borrowing lessons from the past to help guide our future." - Alec Baldwin"Strang humanizes this shameful chapter in our nation's history. With empathy and verve, he tells the story of abuse of executive power, a partial and wacky federal judge (and autocratic first baseball commissioner), and many ruined lives of working men and women." - Brad Snyder, author of The House of Truth: A Washington Political Salon and the Foundations of American Liberalism

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Book SynopsisExploring artistic authorship and intellectual property in the contemporary world. If you have tattoos, who owns the rights to the imagery inked on your body? What about the photos you just shared on Instagram? And what if you are an artist, responding to the surrounding landscape of preexisting cultural forms? Most people go about their days without thinking much about intellectual property, but it shapes all aspects of contemporary life. It is a constantly moving target, articulated through a web of laws that are different from country to country, sometimes contradictory, often contested. Some protections are necessarynot only to benefit creators and inventors but also to support activities that contribute to the culture at largeyet overly broad ownership rights stifle innovation. Is It Ours? takes a fresh look at issues of artistic expression and creative protection as they relate to contemporary law. Exploring intellectual property, particularly copyrights, Martha Buskirk draws connections between current challenges and early debates about how something intangible could be defined as property. She examines bonds between artist and artwork, including the ways that artists or their heirs retain control over time. The text engages with fundamental questions about the interplay between authorship and ownership and the degree to which all expressions and inventions develop in response to innovations by others. Most importantly, this book argues for the necessity of sustaining a vital cultural commons.Trade Review"Buskirk’s critical, nuanced take on copyright includes varied, important topics, such as a deep dive on the shortcomings of our fair-use exceptions to copyright; discussions on who benefits from copyright restrictions (author or publisher); how to consider moral or personhood rights of the author; and the challenges that fake or forged artwork poses to the art world. . . . Is It Ours? exposes the challenges of applying a uniform system to a diverse set of art through examples of cases that involve text, painting, sculpture, music, film, photography, digital images, etc." * ARLIS/NA Reviews *"The meticulously researched material makes this text a good reference for librarians, faculty, and graduate students desiring context for the constantly evolving copyright landscape and its impact on our culture." * College & Research Libraries *"Is It Ours? provides an impressive range of lawsuits and other conflicts within and beyond the contemporary art world emblematic of different problems that arise when copyright and other types of intellectual property function as a powerful economic engine." * Art Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Convenient Fiction of Authorship 1. From Privilege to IP 2. The Appropriation Game 3. Art, Life, and Infringement 4. Moral Rights and Beyond 5. Public Matters 6. Authorship and the Undead 7. Status Shifts 8. From Authentic to Fake Coda: Life in the Virtual Commons Notes List of Illustrations Index

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Book SynopsisHow the immigration courts became part of the nation's law enforcement agencyand how to reshape them. During the Trump administration, the immigration courts were decried as more politicized enforcement weapon than impartial tribunal. Yet few people are aware of a fundamental flaw in the system that has long pre-dated that administration: The immigration courts are not really courts at all but an office of the Department of Justicethe nation's law enforcement agency. This original and surprising diagnosis shows how paranoia sparked by World War II and the War on Terror drove the structure of the immigration courts. Focusing on previously unstudied decisions in the Roosevelt and Bush administrations, the narrative laid out in this book divulges both the human tragedy of our current immigration court system and the human crises that led to its creation. Moving the reader from understanding to action, Alison Peck offers a lens through which to evaluate contemporary bills and proposTrade Review"An eye-opening look at how the history and structure of U.S. immigration courts contribute to present-day problems. . . . Supported with lucid legal analysis and incisive historical details, this is a persuasive call for change." * Publishers Weekly *"Sometimes there are books that leave you much better for the experience. This is one of them. . . . Alison Peck has filled a major gap, setting out a roadmap toward possible legislative alternatives to this unsatisfactory arrangement by offering the Title I Tax Court as a better option. If this is to happen, it will almost certainly have to be as a function of comprehensive immigration reform, a tantalizing oasis in the current political desert. If that happens, I will listen to her very carefully, as I did here." * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *"Highly readable and informative. . . . A valuable lens through which to see the problems and politics of the US immigration system." * CHOICE *"Peck shows an excellent command of the sources and presents a solid argument. . . . academics will find the monograph valuable for its concise history, and it would be especially appropriate to assign in an upper division or graduate university course on the history of U.S. immigration policy." * Journal of Arizona History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Part I. Crisis in the Immigration Courts 1. The Attorney General's Immigration Courts 2. Whittling Away at Asylum Law 3. Policing the Immigration Courts Part II. From World War II to 9/11: The Ghost of the Fifth Column 4. A New Type of Tough in the Department of Labor 5. Refusal 6. Invasion 7. The Welles Mission 8. Alien Enemies 9. Reckoning 10. Un Día de Fuego 11. President Bush's Department Part III. The Future of the Immigration Courts 12. Checks and Imbalances 13. Reforming the Immigration Courts Epilogue: Portrait of an American in the Twenty-First Century Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRuth Bader Ginsburg's last book is a curation of her own legacy, tracing the long history of her work for gender equality and a more perfect Union. In the fall of 2019, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited the University of California, Berkeley School of Law to deliver the first annual Herma Hill Kay Memorial Lecture in honor of her friend, the late Herma Hill Kay, with whom Ginsburg had coauthored the very first casebook on sex-based discrimination in 1974. Justice, Justice Thou ShaltPursue is the result of a period of collaboration between Ginsburg and Amanda L. Tyler, a Berkeley Law professor and former Ginsburg law clerk. During Justice Ginsburg's visit to Berkeley, she told her life story inconversation with Tyler. In this collection, the two bring together that conversation and other materialsmany previously unpublishedthat share details from Justice Ginsburg's family life and long career. These include notable briefs and oral arguments, some of Ginsburg's last speeches, and her favorite opinions that she wrote as a Supreme Court Justice (many in dissent), along with the statements that she read from the bench in those important cases. Each document was chosen by Ginsburg and Tyler to tell the story of the litigation strategy and optimistic vision that were at the heart of Ginsburg's unwavering commitment to the achievement of a more perfect Union. In a decades-long career, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an advocate and jurist for gender equality and for ensuring that the United States Constitution leaves no person behind. Her work transformed not just the American legal landscape, but American society more generally. Ginsburg labored tirelessly to promote a Constitution that is ever more inclusive and that allows every individual to achieve their full human potential. As revealed in these pages, in the area of gender rights, Ginsburg dismantled long-entrenched systems of discrimination based on outdated stereotypes by showing how such laws hold back both genders. And as also shown in the materials brought together here, Justice Ginsburg had a special ability to appreciate how the decisions of the high court impact the lived experiences of everyday Americans. The passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in September 2020as this book was heading into production was met with a public outpouring of grief. With her death, the country lost a hero and national treasure whose incredible life and legacy made the United States a more just society and one in which We the People, for whom the Constitution is written, includes everyone.Trade Review"Even if you've read Ginsburg's memoir or seen the biopic On the Basis of Sex, this book will offer new insight into her storied career—and its lingering impact on the American legal system. . . . As Ginsburg said, 'Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.' We'll be joining her, once again, in the pages of this book." * O, The Oprah Magazine *"Anyone needing more reasons to admire Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020) will find them in this inspiring collection of speeches (all previously unpublished), briefs, oral arguments, dissenting opinions, and a candid conversation with Tyler, a professor at the Berkeley School of Law who served as Ginsburg’s law clerk during the 1999 term. . . . An informative perspective on a tireless advocate for fairness and equity." * Kirkus Reviews *“Because each of Ginsburg’s words is so meaningful, this volume feels like a final gift. . . . Ginsburg inscribed herself into American history with the shining conviction of her vision of a more perfect union, expressed in her powerfully and deliberately chosen words. Working until the very end, she was determined to leave us this final anthology, and all of her words are significant.” -- Jeffrey Rosen, * Washington Post *Table of ContentsPreface: Amanda L. Tyler Acknowledgments Introduction: Amanda L. Tyler Herma Hill Kay Memorial Lecture Ruth Bader Ginsburg the Advocate Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Recent Speeches Afterword: Amanda L. Tyler Timeline: The Life of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Book SynopsisKey contemporary discussions of distributive justice have formulated egalitarian approaches in terms of responsibility. But this approach, Hurley contends, has ignored the way our understanding of responsibility constrains the roles it can actually play within distributive justice.Trade ReviewLuck-neutralization is a central concept in contemporary work on distributive justice, and thus moral responsibility is also a central concept (insofar as luck is what one is not morally responsible for). It is therefore fruitful and illuminating to apply important insights from responsibility theory to various theories of distributive justice. The book is written in a lively style, Susan Hurley is remarkably well-versed in the literature on free will and moral responsibility as well as distributive justice, and the ideas are vibrant and provocative...a path-breaking book. -- John Martin Fischer, Professor of Philosophy, University of California RiversideHurley's arguments are highly original. This is an impressive and insightful book. -- Peter Vallentyne, Professor of Philosophy, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityExceedingly rigorous...at the same time, exceptionally reader-friendly...One of the best critical introductions to the...problem of determinism and moral responsibility on the market...[this book] deserve[s] to be read by all responsibility enthusiasts...Eye-opening and exciting...incisive...carefully crafted...ground-clearing as well as path-breaking, [it is]...from start to finish, a true masterpiece of conceptual clarity and tidiness...Shrewdly analyses the relevant concepts...defuses bothersome misapprehensions and misapplications...[and] deftly pulls together the remaining strands...Deeply thought-provoking...[Both egalitarians and inegalitarians] need to rethink their positions. -- Kristjan Kristjansson * Mind *Hurley's penetrating treatment of [responsibility and justice] is bound to have a considerable influence on these fields. I found her subtle taxonomy of reason-responsiveness views especially instructive, and her critique of the idea that responsibility is 'essentially impossible' seems to me a tour de force. Further, the defense of a 'bias-neutralizing' conception of justice in favor of 'luck neutralizing' conceptions will surely have to be reckoned with by anyone who works in these fields. -- Gary Watson * Philosophy and Phenomenological Research *Hurley does a great service to the theory of egalitarianism by doing what most authors have shied away from doing so far, namely, opening the black box of 'responsibility' in order to examine how the various conceptions of responsibility can inform the debate about the just allocation of resources in an egalitarian society. -- Marc Fleurbaey * Philosophical Books *An admirable piece of work...Hurley's book provides a very insightful discussion of the relationship between luck and justice (among several other issues). She has done egalitarians a great service in clarifying the relation between egalitarianism and luck-neutralization. -- Kaspar Lippert-Rasmussen * Philosophy, Politics, and Economics *Hurley's book is a first-rate achievement. It is uniformly informative and clarifying. -- Kaspar Lippert-Rasmussen * Philosophical Books *Hurley's central thesis, that responsibility and luck-neutralization are not the basis of egalitarianism, is original and correct...To my mind, Hurley's thesis engages with many statements that leading egalitarians have put in writing. That thesis, we should recall, is obvious only once Hurley makes her compelling argument for that thesis...The book is dense with thought-provoking ideas. -- Nir Eyal * Economics and Philosophy *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Responsibility and Justice I. RESPONSIBILITY 1. Philosophical Landscape: The New Articulation of Responsibility 2. Why Alternate Sequences Are Irrelevant to Responsibility 3. Why Responsibility Is Not Essentially Impossible 4. Responsibility, Luck, and the "Natural Lottery" II. JUSTICE 5. Philosophical Landscape: The Luck-Neutralizing Approach to Distributive Justice 6. Why the Aim to Neutralize Luck Cannot Provide a Basis for Egalitarianism 7. Roemer on Responsibility and Equality 8. The Currency of Distributive Justice and Incentive Inequality 9. The Real Roles of Responsibility in Justice 10 From Ignorance to Maximin: A Bias-Neutralizing Alternative Appendix: Outline of the Arguments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe California Gold Rush is thought to exemplify the Wild West, yet miners were expert organizers. Driven by property interests, they enacted mining codes, held criminal trials, and decided claim disputes. But democracy and law did not extend to foreigners and Indians, and miners were hesitant to yield power to the state that formed around them.Trade ReviewAndrea McDowell’s engaging study of the ensuing Gold Rush challenges Wild West stereotypes and explains how the miners who poured into California built workable forms of self-government. * Financial Times *An important law and economics study of an ‘anarchistic’ episode, going much deeper than some earlier accounts on matters involving Native Americans, fairness of trials, dispute resolution, miner-mining company interactions, and more. -- Tyler Cowen * Marginal Revolution *[This] book does admirable work unearthing overlooked dimensions of U.S. democracy and frontier law, while enriching our understanding of a storied chapter of American history. -- John Suval * Civil War Book Review *The California mining camps are legendary experiments in self-government. McDowell mines thousands of primary narratives to separate fact from fable and extracts a precise and elegant account of how the miners made laws and enforced them by means of meetings conducted by parliamentary procedure. We the Miners is expert and authoritative on details of miners’ property law and criminal law and of mining technology, and unsparingly detailed about their cruelty to outsiders like Mexicans and Native Americans. It is not likely that there will ever be a better history of the law of the Gold Rush than this one. -- Robert W. Gordon, Emeritus, Stanford Law SchoolRooted in the bold and intriguing idea that the organizational skills of California mining camps transcended the originality of their legal ideas, We the Miners is a provocative, well-argued book. McDowell goes beyond the old question of the nature of mining codes to the processes of meeting and decisionmaking in mining camps, especially in the miners’ use of American ‘parliamentary procedure as a form of governance.’ This wide-ranging, carefully researched work also explores the impact of mining codes on Native Americans and Spanish-speaking miners. Gracefully written with passion as well as fairness, it will appeal to a broad audience. -- Donald J. Pisani, author of Water, Land, and Law in the West: The Limits of Public Policy, 1850–1920

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Book SynopsisWith Congress paralyzed, lawmaking falls to executive agencies and courts that interpret existing statutes. Due to the so-called Chevron doctrine, courts generally defer to agencies. Thomas Merrill examines the immense consequences of the doctrine and the intense backlash, offering a new way to conceptualize the authority of agencies and courts.Trade ReviewWise and illuminating…Merrill’s treatment of the rise of Chevron, and its various twists and turns over the decades, is keenly insightful. -- Cass R. Sunstein * New York Review of Books *Merrill’s book tracks the doctrine’s history from its curious origins through its unlikely rise and expansion in a hundred-plus Supreme Court decisions to the fairly recent ‘sudden collapse of support for the doctrine’ among legal scholars and judges. His chapters on Chevron’s tortuous trajectory are a must-read for practicing or prospective administrative lawyers. They, as well as a broader audience, will find much good sense in the author’s judicious treatment of perennial questions of lawful government. -- Michael S. Greve * Claremont Review of Books *Merrill has provided a rich account of how the Chevron doctrine came to be…A thorough and theoretically sophisticated legal analysis. -- William F. West * Congress & the Presidency *Merrill’s rich history, his weighing of the comparative advantages of judicial and agency lawmaking, and his reflections on judicial and political choices to date provide informative guideposts for future decisions. * Choice *Students of administrative law, the Constitution, Congress, or the federal courts will find much to mull about the operation and legitimacy of the U.S. administrative state. * Library Journal *Merrill’s interpretive and reform arguments in this fine work of scholarship are mature and sophisticated. This deeply considered work will enrich the ongoing debate. -- Ronald M. Levin, Washington University School of LawTom Merrill is one of the best scholars in the nation to undertake a book-length treatment of the Chevron doctrine. Thoughtful and nuanced, Merrill’s The Chevron Doctrine will be a ‘must-read’ not only for any lawyer or scholar involved in the field of administrative law, but also for any scholar interested in American legal thought of the past half century. -- John F. Duffy, University of Virginia School of LawThis book is a model of how to conduct rigorous, level-headed, and fair-minded analysis of a subject that has generated enormous legal controversy. There is no more judicious mind among American legal scholars than Thomas Merrill’s. -- Nicholas Parrillo, Yale Law SchoolTom Merrill is one of the brightest and best scholars of administrative law, and in particular of the Chevron doctrine, in his generation. This book sheds new light on the most controversial subjects in the law of the separation of powers and in administrative law. It is must-reading for any citizen who has an interest in the constitutionality of the administrative state. -- Steven G. Calabresi, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law

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Book SynopsisThe roots of modern Western legal institutions and concepts go back nine centuries to the papal revolution, when the Western church established its political and legal unity and its independence from emperors, kings, and feudal lords. Out of this upheaval came the Western idea of integrated legal systems developed over generations and centuries.Trade ReviewA magnificent volume, broad in scope and rich in detail; this may be the most important book on law in our generation. * American Political Science Review *Superb… A tour de force of insight and erudition. The principal text divides into two parts, the first dealing with the papal revolution and its distinctive legal system of canon law and the second describing the emergence of secular legalism through its roots in feudal, manorial, mercantile, urban, and royal systems… A magnificent topping-off to the conventional [law school] curriculum. * The Benchmark *This is a book of the first importance. Every lawyer should read it… Clearly written and well-organized, it is a work of immense scholarship. * Los Angeles Daily Journal *By demonstrating the revolutionary character of the papal reformation, Berman upsets periodizations commonly accepted by Church historians, positivists, Marxist historians, and historians of the law… Law and Revolution is itself a revolutionary book in obliging the practitioners of many university disciplines to readjust their focus and to see in law a revolutionary cultural force. -- George H. WilliamsTable of ContentsIntroduction Law and History Law and Revolution The Crisis of the Western Legal Tradition Toward a Social Theory of Law PART I: THE PAPAL REVOLUTION AND THE CANON LAW 1. The Background of the Western Legal Tradition: The Folklaw Tribal Law Dynamic Elements in Germanic Law: Christianity and Kingship Penitential Law and Its Relation to the Folklaw 2. The Origin of the Western Legal Tradition in the Papal Revolution Church and Empire: The Cluniac Reform The Dictates of the Pope The Revolutionary Character of the Papal Revolution Social-Psychological Causes and Consequences of the Papal Revolution The Rise of the Modern State The Rise of Modern Legal Systems 3.

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Book SynopsisWoodrow Hartzog develops the underpinning of a new kind of privacy law responsive to the way people actually perceive and use digital technologies. Rather than permit exploitation, it would demand encryption, prohibit malicious interfaces that deceive users and leave them vulnerable, and require safeguards against abuses of biometric surveillance.Trade Review[A] smart new book… [W]ill repay the attention of designers, privacy professionals, and anyone who wants to learn how design guided by strengthened laws and regulations might help us emerge from today’s swirl of privacy problems. -- James Barszcz * The Privacy Advisor (International Association of Privacy Professionals website) *Deceptive design nudges, tricks, and goads you into sharing more than you might intend to online, Hartzog argues in his new book… And when you think you’re in control of your own data, you rarely are. -- Ariel Bogle * ABC News (Australia) *Privacy’s Blueprint is a real tour de force, introducing a rigorous structure for multiple dimensions of privacy protections. -- Frank Pasquale, author of The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and InformationFilled with fascinating examples and written in a lively and accessible way, Privacy’s Blueprint is the definitive chronicle of Privacy by Design. This is one of the most important books about privacy in our times. -- Daniel J. Solove, author of Understanding PrivacyA bold and innovative privacy agenda and a beautifully written book. Hartzog demonstrates how and why privacy design is about power and politics. -- Paul M. Schwartz, author of Information Privacy LawWith deep insight, passion, and humor, Woodrow Hartzog demands that we see what has been in front us all along yet never meaningfully reckoned with. As Hartzog makes clear, we can design apps, social media, and networked clothing (underwear!) with privacy in mind but we need a plan and this book provides it in spades. This is a defining book for our information age and a must read. -- Danielle Keats Citron, author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace

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