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The
Second Bill of Rights: FDR’s
Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever
Cass
R. Sunstein
New York,
New York: Basic Books 2004. KF3300.S863
2004
From the
Publisher:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s State of
the Union Address of 1944 was arguably the most important
political speech of the 20th century. By giving form and specificity,
for the first time, to the idea that human beings have inherent
economic rights, it embodied a new ideal and aspiration for
modern government. . . In The Second Bill of Rights, Sunstein
brings back from obscurity [this speech] and shows that many
of the landmark legislative achievements of the past 70 years
stem from Roosevelt’s proposal for a second Bill of
Rights.
About
the Author:
Cass R. Sunstein is the Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service
Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law
School, contributing editor at The New Republic and The American
Prospect and “the most-cited law professor on any faculty
in the United States” (according to the book jacket).
Additional
information online:
http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/perseus
/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0465083323
 The
Recurrent Crisis in Corporate Governance
Paul
W. MacAvoy and Ira M. Millstein
New York,
New York: Macmillan, 2003. HD2741.M196
2003
From the Publisher:
In
the late 1990s the American corporation forged ahead in gains
in efficiency and earnings performance with strong reflections
in stock price appreciation. However, the events of Enron
and the bursting of the bubble of unlimited increases in the
price of Internet, telecom and energy company shares have
caused the authors of this book to take another look at American
corporate governance. The authors use a scholar-practitioner
approach to show what is missing in today's corporate governance
and to support a case for activating the board of directors,
with leadership from an independent chair, to put new controls
on management and take responsibility for the result.
About
the Authors:
Paul
MacAvoy is the William Brothers Professor Emeritus of Management
Studies and Economics at the Yale School of Management. Ira
M. Millstein is the Eugene F. Williams Jr. Visiting Professor
in Competitive Enterprise and Strategy at the Yale School
of Management.
Additional
information online:
http://www.palgrave-usa.com/Search/QuickSearchResults.aspx
?searchby=t&searchfor=recurrent%20crisis
 Same
Sex Marriage and the Constitution
Evan Gerstmann
New York,
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. KF539.G47
2004
From the Publisher:
Does
the Constitution protect the right to same-sex marriage? Much
of the writing on this subject has been highly one-sided.
This book takes a careful second look at the issue. Not only
does it carefully look at the legal debate, but it also asks
whether, in a democratic society, the courts should settle
this question rather than the voters and it takes on the issue
of whether such a court-created law could be effective in
the face of public opposition. The book argues that this issue
is one of the most significant constitutional issues facing
society because it challenges society’s commitment to
the promise of true legal equality.
About the Author:
Evan
Gerstmann is an Associate Professor of Political Science at
Loyola Marymount University.
Additional
information online:
http://uk.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp
?isbn=0521009529
 Promises
to Keep: Technology,
Law, and the Future of Entertainment
William W. Fisher III
Stanford,
CA: Stanford University Press, 2004.
KF3035.F57 2004.
From
the Publisher:
During
the past fifteen years, changes in the technologies used to
make and store audio and video recordings, combined with the
communication revolution associated with the Internet, have
generated an extraordinary array of new ways in which music
and movies can be produced and distributed. Both the creators
and the consumers of entertainment products stand to benefit
enormously from the new systems. Sadly, we have failed thus
far to avail ourselves of these opportunities. Instead, much
energy has been devoted to interpreting or changing legal
rules in hopes of defending older business models against
the threats posed by the new technologies. These efforts to
plug the multiplying holes in the legal dikes are failing
and the entertainment industry has fallen into crisis. This
provocative book chronicles how we got into this mess and
presents three alternative proposals—each involving
a combination of legal reforms and new business models—for
how we could get out of it.
About
the Author:
William
W. Fisher III is the Hale and Dorr Professor of Intellectual
Property Law and Director of the Berkman Center for Internet
and Society at Harvard Law School.
Additional
information online:
http://www.sup.org/cgi-bin/search/book_desc.cgi
?book_id=5013
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