
The End of Negotiable Instruments: Bringing Payment Systems Law Out of the Past
James Steven Rogers
Oxford University Press, 2011, 288 pages
$95.00
Reviewed by Douglas J. Whaley

Professor Whaley reviews James Steven Rogers’s examination of the fundamental assumptions of our payment systems and the implications for associated law.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
New Press, 2010, 290 pages
$27.95
Reviewed by Nick J. Sciullo

Professor Sciullo reviews Alexander’s examination of the U.S. penal system.
A More Perfect Military: How the Constitution Can Make Our Military Stronger
Diane H. Mazur
Oxford University Press, 2010, 232 pages
$35.00
Reviewed by Sanford J. Levinson

Professor Levinson reviews Diane H. Mazur’s “provocative and challenging” examination of the state of the U.S. military.

Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights Against Progressive Reform
David E. Bernstein,
University of Chicago Press, 2011, 208 pages $45.00
Reviewed by Jamie Fletcher


Problem Solving Courts: A Measure of Justice
JoAnn Miller & Donald C. Johnson,
Rowman & Littlefield, 2009, 288 pages
$49.95
Reviewed by Corey S. Shdaimah


Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution
Serena Mayeri
Harvard University Press, 2011, 382 pages $39.95
Reviewed by Lolita Buckner Inniss


The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today
Kevin Bales & Ron Soodalter
University of California Press, 2009, 336 Pages
$18.95
Reviewed by Benjamin Thomas Greer*


Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World’s Richest Museum
Jason Felch & Ralph Frammolino,
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011, 384 pages
$28.00
Reviewed by Joel Newman


Sovereignty, Emergency, Legality
Austin Sarat
Cambridge University Press, 2010, 312 pages
$95.00
Reviewed by John T. Parry


Judgment Calls: Principle and Politics in Constitutional Law
Daniel A. Farber & Suzanna Sherry
Oxford University Press, 2009, 224 pages
$29.95
Reviewed by Brannon P. Denning
