This dramatic new book looks ahead to the coming conflicts between the USA and emerging United States of Europe.  Should Britain become the fifteenth state of Euroland of the fifty-first state of America?  John Redwood sets out four possible futures, concluding that joining the European political project would be bad for the UK and for the cause of free trade and democracy around the world.  He explains why the USA has need of the special relationship with Britain, and how the English-speaking world offers the best approach to peace and prosperity in a dot.com world.

Organizations performing non-routine, innovative, often knowledge-intensive tasks-- for example, professional partnerships- -need a rather flat, collegial, and non-bureaucratic structure.  This book examines cooperation among partners in a US corporate law firm and provides a grounded theory of collective action among rival peers, or collegiality.  It is the first network study of such a firm.  Members (partners and associates) are portrayed as interdependent entrepreneurs who build social niches in their organization and cultivate status competition among themselves.  This behaviour allows them to fulfil their commitment to an extremely constraining partnership agreement and generates informal social mechanisms (bounded solidarity, lateral control, oligarchy regulation) that help a flat organization govern itself;  maintain individual performance, even for tenured partners; capitalize knowledge and control quality; monitor and sanction opportunistic free-riding; solve the "too many chefs' problem; balance the powers of rainmakers and schedulers; and integrate the firm in spite of many centrifugal forces.

Lawyers today are in a moral crisis.  The popular perception of the lawyer, both within the legal community and beyond, is no longer the Abe Lincoln of American mythology, but is often a greedy, cynical manipulator of access and power.  In The Lawyer's Myth, Walter Bennett goes beyond the caricatures to explore the deeper causes of why lawyers are losing their profession and what it will take to bring it back.

For more than two hundred years, the freedom of speech -- considered among our most precious rights -- has been guaranteed by the Constitution.  Yet, as Lee Bollinger and Geoffrey Stone point out in their introductory essay, the First Amendment as we know it is largely a creation of the past eighty years.  Eternally Vigilant brings together a stellar group of legal scholars to reflect boldly on the past, present, and future of the First Amendment.

Organized thematically, the book begins with a historical overview by David Strauss and an examination of the philosophical underpinnings of the First Amendment by Vince Blasi.  Kent Greenawalt and Richard Posner explore the lessons of the initial Supreme Court decisions on the freedom of speech;  Robert Post, Frederick Schauer, and Stanley Fish reflect on First Amendment theory and doctrine; and Lillian BeVier, Owen Fiss, and Cass Sunstein address contemporary free speech issues and the future of free speech.  Stone and Bollinger provide helpful introductory notes to each essay and offer an informal "dialogue" to introduce nonexperts to the major issues of free speech jurisprudence. 

Today antitrust law shapes the policy of almost every large company, no matter where headquartered.  But this wasn't always the case.  Before World War II, the laws of most industrial countries tolerated and even encouraged cartels, whereas American statutes banned them.  in the wake of World War II, the United States devoted considerable resources to building a liberal economic order, which Washington believed was necessary to preserve not only prosperity but also peach after the war.  Antitrust was a cornerstone of that policy.  This fascinating book shows how the United States sought to impose -- and with what results -- its antitrust policy on other nations, especially Japan and in Europe. 

At its peak, the railroad was the Internet of its day in the extent of its impact on American life and law.  A harbinger and promoter of economic empire, it was also the icon of a technological revolution that accelerated national expansion and in the process transformed our legal system.  James W. Ely, Jr., in the first comprehensive legal history of the rail industry, shows that the two institutions -- the railroad and American law -- had a profound influence on each other.