Law and economics has become a central course in U.S. legal education and for students majoring in topics like economics, political science, and philosophy. Cooter and Ulen provide a clear introduction to economic analysis and its application to legal rules and institutions that is accessible to any student who has taken principles of microeconomics.

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The yearbook offers an international, interdisciplinary, innovative platform for scholarly research in the field of contextual Biblical interpretation. Embracing contextuality as a catalyst for interpretation, the Yearbook is dedicated to fostering interpretations of Biblical texts.

The identification of ceramic imports within prehistoric and historic assemblages has long been the primary indicator for identifying connections between different sites and regions. Yet this has fostered a presence/absence diagnosis for contact between different communities. Approaches such as post-colonial perspectives and network analysis, which focus on the nature of the connections, are now beginning to offer more meaningful ways of considering past interactions. These approaches can bri...

This book provides a systematic and accessible introduction to the state of EU migration law in 2025. It explores (in 15 chapters) the meaning of EU legislation on migration in the light of fundamental rights and principles of Union law as explained in leading case-law of the European courts. It is particularly aimed at students, but may also be useful for practitioners, policymakers or others interested in the legal foundations of migration in Europe. Today’s Union law contains a comprehen...

This volume showcases a collection of Empirical Legal Studies (ELS) that were conducted at five universities in the Netherlands as part of the Law Sector Plan in the period between 2019 and 2025. The contributions to this volume use both quantitative and qualitative research methods to study the effects of court decisions and legislation in various fields of law, including civil law, criminal law, administrative law and EU law. Based on these contributions, this volume examines how ELS resear...

This book celebrates the career of Jeanne Gaakeer, professor emerita of legal theory, with a focus on narrative jurisprudence and Law and Humanities. The centerpiece of this volume is Jeanne Gaakeer’s farewell lecture in which she puts forward a compelling argument for the need to view law hermeneutically. This is not merely a theoretical proposition, hermeneutics is also a practical need of the art of judging. A narrative understanding of judicial practices is crucial to bring justice to p...