2002

Professor Michael J. McIntyre. International Tax Primer, 2d Edition, Kluwer Law International, co-authored with Brian J. Arnold (October 2002). This book offers a concise discussion of the major income tax rules affecting multinational corporations and other taxpayers engaged in cross-border activities. It takes a worldwide perspective, providing many examples drawn from a wide variety of countries. A new chapter discusses the tax aspects of e-commence, the OECD initiative against harmful tax competition, and the use of hybrid entities for tax planning. The book has already been translated into Chinese.

Professor John Rothchild. Internet Commerce: The Emerging Legal Framework, Foundation Press, co-authored with Margaret Jane Radin and Gregory M. Silverman (September 2002). This casebook covers a range of legal issues that arise in connection with electronic commerce. Topics covered include governance, trademarks, domain names, contracting online, digital signatures, consumer protection, jurisdiction, privacy, copyright, business method patents, online torts, liability of Internet service providers, alternative dispute resolution, electronic payment systems, and taxation. To assist students in understanding the relevant technology, technical appendices and a glossary are provided.

Professor Kingsley R. Browne. Biology at Work: Rethinking Sexual Equality (The Rutgers Series in Human Evolution), Rutgers University Press (July 2002). Does biology help explain why women, on average, earn less money than men? Is there any evolutionary basis for the scarcity of female CEOs in Fortune 500 companies? According to Kingsley Browne, the answer may be yes. Biology at Work brings an evolutionary perspective to bear on issues of women in the workplace: the "glass ceiling," the "gender gap" in pay, sexual harassment, and occupational segregation. Winner of WSU Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award for 2002/03.

2001

Professor Steven L. Winter. A Clearing in the Forest, University of Chicago Press (July 2001). This book presents the first systematic assessment of cognitive science’s implications for law. Recent findings about categorization and reasoning reveal the remarkably orderly, yet creative processes of human imagination. Cognitive science provides the tools to understand how real-world legal actors reason, opening a window on the imaginative, yet orderly mental processes that animate thinking and decision making among lawyers, judges, and lay persons.

Professor Jessica Litman. Digital Copyright: Protecting Intellectual Property on the Internet, Prometheus Books (March 2001). In 1998, copyright lobbyists succeeded in persuading Congress to enact laws greatly expanding copyright owners' control over the private uses of their works. The efforts to enforce these rights have resulted in highly publicized legal battled between established media and upstart Internet companies such as Napster. In this book, Prof. Litman questions whether copyright laws crafted by lawyers and their lobbyists really make sense for the rest of us. Winner of WSU Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award for 2002/03.

2000

Professor Michael J. McIntyre. The International Income Tax Rules of the United States, 2 Vol., 2d edition, Lexis-Nexis/Matthew Bender (2000, with major update 2002). This two-volume looseleaf treatise analyses the major features of the U.S. rules for taxing foreign income of Americans and the U.S. income of foreigners. The first edition of the book, published by Butterworths, won the WSU Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award for 1987/88.It was described by one reviewer as "the most useful work on the U.S. international tax rules and policies published in this decade."