American Law Library
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The "American Law Library" series are a series of Chinese books that are translated from American law textbooks.
In 2000, the Public Affairs Section of the American Embassy to the People's Republic of China
and the China University of Political Science and Law Publishing House -- as part of the US and China Presidential Rule of Law Initiative
-- agreed to cooperate to translate hundreds of American law textbooks into Chinese and publish Chinese editions.
In 2000, the Public Affairs Section of the American Embassy to the People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
and the China University of Political Science and Law Publishing House -- as part of the US and China Presidential Rule of Law Initiative
Presidential Rule of Law Initiative
Presidential Rule of Law Initiative, or US-China Rule of Law Initiative, was a project between the United States and People's Republic of China to expand bilateral cooperation in the field of law....
-- agreed to cooperate to translate hundreds of American law textbooks into Chinese and publish Chinese editions.
List of translated books
- Jonathan Rosenoer, Cyber law: the Law of the Internet
- Karl N. LlewellynKarl N. LlewellynKarl Nickerson Llewellyn was a prominent American jurisprudential scholar associated with the school of legal realism. The Journal of Legal Studies has identified Llewellyn as one of the twenty most cited American legal scholars of the 20th century.-Biography:He was born on May 22, 1893 in Seattle...
, The Common Law Tradition - Edward H. LeviEdward H. LeviEdward Hirsch Levi was an American academic leader, scholar, and statesman who served as United States Attorney General. He is regularly cited as the "model of a modern attorney general," the "greatest lawyer of his time," and considered, along with Yale's Whitney Griswold, the greatest of...
, An Introduction to the Legal Reasoning - Richard A. Posner, Overcoming Law
- Cass R. Sunstein, Free Markets and Social Justice
- Henry Hansmann, The Ownership of Enterprise
- Paul BrestPaul BrestPaul Brest is an American scholar of constitutional law, the president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and a former dean of Stanford Law School...
, Sanford Lexinson, Akhil Reed AmarAkhil Reed AmarAkhil Reed Amar is an American legal scholar, an expert on constitutional law and criminal procedure. Having been the Southmayd Professor of Law at Yale Law School, he was named the Sterling Professor of Law there in 2008...
, et al., Process of Constitutional Decisionmaking - Robert A. Gorman, Basic Text on Labor Law: Unionization and Collective Bargaining
- Robert C. Ellickson, Order without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes
- David G. Epstein et al., Bankruptcy
- Roscoe PoundRoscoe PoundNathan Roscoe Pound was a distinguished American legal scholar and educator. He was Dean of Harvard Law School from 1916 to 1936...
, Law and Morals - Robert C. Stevens, Law School
- Mirjan R. Damaska, Evidence Law Adrift
- Thomas Lee Hazen, The Law of Securities Regulation
- Howell E. Jackson, Edward L. Symmons, Regulation of Financial Institutions
- Morton J. Horwitz, The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice
- Eric A. Posner, Law and Social Norms
- George P. FletcherGeorge P. FletcherGeorge P. Fletcher is the Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia University School of Law.Fletcher attended Cornell University from 1956 to 1959, studying mathematics and Russian. He received a B.A. in 1960 from University of California, Berkeley and his J.D. in 1964 from the University of...
, Basic Concepts of Criminal Law - Christopher Wolfe, Judicial Activism
- Richard A. Epstein, Simple Rules for a Complex World
- Robert P. Merges, Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age
- John W. Strong, Mccormick on Evidence
- Stephen Judge, Business Law
- Mary Kay Kane et al., Civil Procedure
- Wayne R. LaFave, Criminal Procedure
- Morton J. Horwitz, The Transformation of American Law
- Stephen N. Subrin et al., Civil Procedure: Doctrine
- Kate Standley, Family Law
- Robert G. Mccloskey and Sanford LevinsonSanford LevinsonSanford Victor Levinson is a prominent American liberal law professor and acknowledged expert on Constitutional law and legal scholar and professor of government at the University of Texas Law School...
, The American Supreme Court - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932...
, Common Law - George B. Vold et al., Theoretical Criminology
- Henry Mather, Contract Law and Morality
- Stephen M. Feldman, American Legal Thoughts from Pre-medoenism to Post-modernism
- Akhil Reed AmarAkhil Reed AmarAkhil Reed Amar is an American legal scholar, an expert on constitutional law and criminal procedure. Having been the Southmayd Professor of Law at Yale Law School, he was named the Sterling Professor of Law there in 2008...
, The Constitution and Criminal Procedure: First Principles - John FinnisJohn FinnisJohn Finnis , is an Australian legal scholar and philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of law. He is Professor of Law at University College, Oxford and at the University of Notre Dame, teaching jurisprudence, political theory, and constitutional law...
, Natural Law and Natural Rights - P. S. Atiyah, Form and Substance in Anglo-American Law
- Judith N. ShklarJudith N. ShklarJudith Nisse Shklar was a political theorist, and the John Cowles Professor of Government at Harvard University.-Biography:...
, Legalism: Law, Morals and Political Trials - Matthias W. Stecher, Webvertising: Unfair Competition and Trademarks on the Internet
- Graham Romp, Game Theory Introduction and Applications
- H. L. A. HartH. L. A. HartHerbert Lionel Adolphus Hart was an influential legal philosopher of the 20th century. He was Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University and the Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford. He authored The Concept of Law....
, Causation in the Law - Bernard Schwartz, A History of the Supreme Court
- Louis HenkinLouis HenkinLouis Henkin , widely considered one of the most influential contemporary scholars of international law and the foreign policy of the United States, was a former president of the American Society of International Law and of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy and University...
, International Law: Politics and Values - David Luban, Legal Modernism
- Stephen B. Goldberg, Frank E. A. Sander, Nancy H. RogersNancy H. RogersNancy Hardin Rogers is a former Attorney General of Ohio, a former Dean of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and the current holder of the Michael E. Moritz Chair in Alternative Dispute Resolution at the Moritz College of Law....
, Sarah Rudolph Cole, Dispute Resolution: Negotiation, Mediation, and Other Processes