Prof. Peer Zumbansen and his colleague, Prof. Gralf-Peter Calliess of the Faculty of Law of the Universität Bremen, have recently published Rough Concensus and Running Code: A Theory of Transnational Private Law with Hart Publishing. "Rough Consensus & Running Code is a provocative and important book. Thinking about law often is based on the assumption […]
Book News
Copyright, Contracts, Creators: New Media, New Rules
Our own Prof. Giuseppina D’Agostino, Director of IP Osgoode, has just published her new book - Copyright, Contracts, Creators: New Media, New Rules - with Edward Elgar Publishing. The library's copies of the book are on order and should be received shortly: you can check here for their status. Meanwhile, here's a brief description of […]
New, Free Canadian Online Legal Dictionary
It's online, it's Canadian and it's free. What's not to like about Irwin Law's new Canadian Online Legal Dictionary? It has a clean, intuitive, easy-to-use interface. It can be browsed alphabetically or by topic, or you can search the full text by keyword. It provides links to related terms. It provides sources for all definitions […]
Richard Susskind talks about the 'End of Lawyers?'
With a rather provocative title Richard Susskind's recent book, 'The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services?', has garnered a little bit of attention in the legal world. Jacquie McNish writing in the Globe & Mail said: "... his futurism is rattling the profession ..." If you haven't yet had a chance to […]
The Economic Structure of International Law
The Economic Structure of International Law, by Tuft's University professor on international law Joel P. Trachtman, "presents a rationalist analysis of the structure of international law ... At the core of the book lies the question of the allocation of legal power to states." Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs, […]
'Future of Reputation' Now Available Online
Daniel J. Solove's book The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet, published in 2007 by Yale University Press, is now available online under a Creative Commons license. "This book will take a journey through the ways in which private lives are being exposed online, and it will examine the implications. People […]