The political rights and sovereign status of American Indian nations have variously been respected, ignored, terminated, and unilaterally modified by federal lawmakers.  The ambivalent political and legal status that tribes endure under western law has created and reinforced a vacillating federal Indian policy.  David E. Wilkins and K. Tsianina Lomawaima examine tribal-federal and tribal-state relationships, focusing on six critical doctrines of U.S. law:  the doctrine of discovery, the trust doctrine, the doctrine of plenary power, the reserved rights doctrine, the doctrine of implied impeals, and the doctrine of sovereign immunity.  Designed to educate, provoke, and motivate readers, Uneven Ground provides indigenous perspectives on federal Indian policy and law. 

When should government be permitted to control discriminatory behavior by or within religious organizations?  Can the right to have an abortion be defended?  Can we defend Internet regulation?  Should the law step in if children are being schooled in discriminatory preferences and beliefs?  Does it make sense to govern on the basis of popular referenda?  Should a constitution protect the rights to food shelter, and health care?

Disputes over questions such as these can be fierce enough to pose a grave threat.  But in a paradox whose elaboration forms the core of Sunstein's book, it is a nation's apparently threatening diversity of opinion that can ensure its integrity.

A marvel of lucid subtle reasoning.  Designing Democracy makes invaluable reading for anyone concerned with the promises and pitfalls of the democratic experiment. 

Are animals more than property?  In this unprecedented, yet long-awaited book, Steven Wise finally breaks through the wall that has separated non-humans from human animals for centuries.  He reveals that, while the way we view animals is changing rapidly, the courts remain mired in the dark ages.  Even a human lost in a permanent vegetative state enjoys a large set of legal rights.  But a chimpanzee who can communicate with language, count, understand the minds of others, feel complex emotions, live in a complex society and make and use tools has no rights at all.

Rattling the Cage has everything needed to convince judges, scientists, lawyers, and the millions of others who care deeply about animals of the injustice of denying them basic legal rights. 

Judge Richard A. Posner is internationally regarded as a leading exponent and a founding father of the law and economics movement.  This volume draws together a selection of his most important papers on the methodology and the theory of law and economics to create a valuable collection for scholars and practitioners in the field. 

Themes explored in this volume include:

• The economics of common law
• the criterion of wealth maximization
• an economic approach to judicial rulemaking
• the application of finance theory to law
• the methodology of law and economics

This illustrated book provides a detailed account of the multifaceted and complex history of Bosnia from a cultural perspective, focusing on the successive waves of religious, cultural and ethnic influences that swept over the country from Paleolithic times onwards. 

The political history of the numerous invasions, migrations and changes of government that have taken place in the country is interspersed with sections concerning the additions and modifications made to the Bosnian national culture as a result.  The evolution of the Bosnian Church;  Church and secular architecture, both ancient and modern; literature and writing from the earliest times to modern poetry; engraved and inscribed Bosnian gravestones; music and the coming of radio and television are all discussed in relation to the formation and evolution of Bosnia's distinct culture.

Efforts to tackle the trade impeding effects of divergent standards and regulations are at the core of European economic relations.  This volume draws on literature from several disciplines to develop a comprehensive account of the regulatory strategies and institutional arrangements adopted by the EU in promoting the single market in goods.  It provides a historical overview and detailed cases studies of the various policy initiatives that have altered the boundaries between the public and private sector in fostering market integration. 

Comparisons with American efforts to create a national market are made throughout to demonstrate the difficulties of constructing and maintaining a single market.  American and European efforts to devise a uniform market for commerce and trade have involved both public and private authorities, though with different degrees of coordination and centralization, as many of the strategies undertaken by the EU echo earlier American market-building efforts.

Madame Justice Bertha Wilson, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, is an enormously influential and controversial figure in Canadian legal and political history.  This engaging, authorized, intellectual biography draws on interviews with Madame Justice Wilson and her husband John, as well as with her friends, relatives and colleagues, conducted under the auspices of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. 

Through a scrupulous survey of Wilson's judgments, memos, and academic writings, Ellen Anderson shows how Wilson's life and the law were seamlessly integrated in her persistent commitment to a stance of principled contextuality.  This stance has had an enduring effect on the evolution of Canadian law and cultural history.