Who organizes our time?  Who decides when we must be at work and at school, when we set back our clocks and when retail stores will close?  Todd Rakoff traces the law's effect on our use of time and discovers that the structure of our time is gradually changing.  As Rakoff demonstrates, the law's influence is subtle, and so ubiquitous that we barely notice it.  But its structure establishes the terms by which society allocates its efforts, coordinates its many players, establishes the rhythms of life, and indeed gives meaning to the time in which we live.  Compulsory education law, overtime law, daylight saving law and Blue Laws are among the many rules government uses to shape our use of time.

More and more, however, society and especially the workplace, have come to see time simply as a quantity whose value must be maximized.  As lawmakers struggle to deal with accelerating market demands, the average citizen's ability to organize his or her time to accommodate all of life's activities is diminishing.  Meanwhile, it is increasingly hard to differentiate weekdays from weekends, and ordinary days from holidays.  The law of time, Rakoff argues, may need refashioning to meet modern circumstances, but we continue to need a stable legal structure of time if we are to attain the ancient goal of a balanced life:  "A Time for Every Purpose."

America is at war with terrorism.  Terrorists must be brought to justice.

We hear these phrases together so often that we rarely pause to reflect on the dramatic differences between the demands of justice, difference so deep that the pursuit of one often comes at the expense of the other.  In this book, one of the country's most important legal thinkers brings much-needed clarity to the still unfolding debates about how to purse war and justice in the age of terrorism.  George Fletcher also draws on his rare ability to combine insights from history, philosophy, literature, and law to place these debates in a rich cultural context.  He seeks to explain why Americans -- for so many years cynical about war -- have recently found war to appealing. He find the answer in a revival of Romanticism, a growing desire in the post-Vietnam era to identify with grand causes and to put nations at the center of ideas about glory and guilt. 

A work of extraordinary intellectual power and relevance, the book will change how we think not only about world events, but about the conflicting individualist and collective impulses that tear at all of us.

No phrase in American letters has had a more profound influence on church-state law, policy, and discourse than Thomas Jefferson's "wall of separation between church and state,"  and few metaphors have provoked more passionate debate.  Introduced in 1802 letter to the Danbury, Connecticut Baptist Association, Jefferson's "wall" is accepted by many Americans as a concise description of the U.S. Constitution's church-state arrangement and conceived as a virtual rule of constitutional law.

Despite the enormous influence of the "wall" metaphor, almost no scholarship has investigated the text of the Danbury letter, the context in which it was written, or Jefferson's understanding of his famous phrase.  Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separate between Church and State offers an in-depth examination of the origins, controversial uses, and competing interpretations of this powerful metaphor in law and public policy.

Attorneys spend countless hours analyzing cases, reviewing facts, deposing witnesses, and drafting briefs and motions.  But prevailing in the courtroom and conveying a message to any audience in a convincing fashion also require masterful communication skills.

David Dempsey, a veteran of the courtroom, the podium, and the university classroom, provides a complete guide to the subject most law schools only gloss over--how to structure an effective presentation and then deliver it with power and confidence.

Legally Speaking explains why you should never memorize a whole speech, how to take command of question-and-answer sessions, how to use a video camera to polish your delivery, and how to gain insights from mater speakers. 

From crafting a powerful opening statement to creating a compelling closing, Legally Speaking outlines the skills necessary to grab the listeners' attention and sway them with an unforgettable presentation.

The Dead Sea Scrolls, found in Palestine, recovered in Jordan, largely edited by an international Christian team, possessed by the state of Israel, pose intriguing questions of legal ownership at many levels.  How can modern editors claim copyright on reconstructions of ancient texts?  This volume looks at international copyright and property rights as they affect archaeologists, editors and curators, focusing on the issue of 'authorship' of the Scrolls, published and unpublished.  The contributors include world-renowned legal experts and scholars, and many of the major figures in recent controversies.

Trumping Religion provides a detailed analysis of the five major public-interest law firms that have litigated religion cases in the federal courts between 1980 and 2000.  During the past two decades, Steven Brown argues, these organizations have not only stepped up their efforts to participate in religion cases but also fundamentally changed the way religious expression is viewed by the law, appealing not to the free-exercise-of-religion or establishment clauses of the Constitution but to the free speech clause of the First Amendment.

Allied with several highly vocal evangelical ministries, such as those of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, the legal organizations that litigate for the New Christian Right argue that religious expression is a form of protected speech and thereby gain a greater latitude of interpretation in the courts.  This strategy has been criticized by both liberals and conservatives as demeaning the concepts of belief and worship, yet it has been successful.  The long-term agenda of the NCR as illuminated by this study is to shape church-state jurisprudence in a way that permits free course for the Christian gospel.  This result, they believe, would retard further secularization of the traditional American way of life.

Brown presents his research and conclusions from a balanced viewpoint.  In filling a distinct void in the literature, this book will be of considerable interest to political scientists, legal scholars, law schools and seminaries, and anyone concerned with the intersection of religion and judicial politics.

The Internet has often been labeled a disruptive technology, and nowhere has that been more clearly the case than in the field of intellectual property (IP) law.  Although debates over IP policy have raged in academic circles and law and economics journals for decades, with the rise of the Internet, IP issues have captured the public's collective attention like never before.

Suddenly, the teenage creator of file-swapping sensation Napster appeared on the cover of Time magazine as the mass media took notice of an explosion of interest in digital downloads, CD burning, and widespread peer-to-peer file sharing among the general public.  But the mass movement to share songs and other digital content online was met with a firestorm of criticism from copyright and patent holders, who struck back with a vengeance, filing lawsuits and pursuing legislative and regulator remedies for what they regarded as intellectual property piracy on a scale never before envisioned.

This debate has sparked a newfound interest in timeless questions about the nature of intellectual property and how it should be protected, including:

• Why do we protect intellectual property at all?
• Do we really have "property rights" in our intangible creations the same way we have property rights to our homes and our land?
• Aren't there better ways to encourage artistic creation and scientific discovery than through the use of copyright and patent laws that protect a limited monopoly?