Connecticut Attorney General, 1986. A popularized constitutional history of thirty-one major Connecticut cases that went to the U.S. Supreme Court over the past 200 years. Book is widely used in Connecticut high schools.
by Thomas McGarity, Sidney Shapiro and David Bollier Environmental Law Institute, 2004. Drawing upon dozens of law review articles, this book explains in rigorous detail how regulated industries exploit cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment and other contrived quantitative models to avoid health, safety and environmental regulation. An excellent explanation of how economics has overwhelmed law and thwarted government action by using contrived analytic models. Valuable for legislators, public policy analysts, journalists, law scholars and students.
With co-author Henry Cohn. Yale University Press, 1992. Chronicles the tragic 1944 fire at the Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey circus in Hartford; its creative legal aftermath resulting in an unprecedented settlement of hundreds of cases; and the lessons for curbing the expensive, lengthy litigation that attends most contemporary mass torts.
In a ruling that shocked most patent lawyers, a federal court has ruled that human genes may not be patented. The case involved seven patents on genes are thought to be related to breast and ovarian cancer. The plaintiffs — women who have cancer along with genetic researchers and medical associations — argued that the patents are not legal for DNA, which is something that occurs naturally and is not invented, The plaintiffs also objected to how the patents inhibited their access to tests for breast cancer, because the patent precludes the development of competitive tests.
If corporations are legally "persons," as the U.S. Supreme Court recently declared in its infamous Citizens United case — a ruling that opens the floodgates for corporate contributions to candidates — then why not run an actual corporation for Congress?
The pantheon of property law generally honors the great virtues of private ownership — while making the case that the public benefits from such arrangements.
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