The "American Law Library" series are a series of Chinese books that are translated from American law textbooks. In 2000, the Public Affairs Section of the American Embassy to the

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

and the China University of Political Science and Law Publishing House—as part of the US and China

Presidential Rule of Law Initiative Presidential Rule of Law Initiative, or US-China Rule of Law Initiative, was a project between the United States and People's Republic of China to expand bilateral cooperation in the field of law. In 1998, President Bill Clinton and President Jiang ...

—agreed to cooperate to translate hundreds of American law textbooks into Chinese and publish Chinese editions.

List of translated books

# Jonathan Rosenoer, ''Cyber law: the Law of the Internet'' #

Karl N. Llewellyn Karl Nickerson Llewellyn (May 22, 1893 – February 13, 1962) was a prominent American jurisprudential scholar associated with the school of legal realism. ''The Journal of Legal Studies'' has identified Llewellyn as one of the twenty most cited A ...

, ''The Common Law Tradition'' #

Edward H. Levi Edward Hirsch Levi (June 26, 1911 – March 7, 2000) was an American law professor, academic leader, and government lawyer. He served as dean of the University of Chicago Law School from 1950 to 1962, president of the University of Chicago from ...

, ''An Introduction to the Legal Reasoning'' #

Richard A. Posner Richard Allen Posner (; born January 11, 1939) is an American jurist and legal scholar who served as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1981 to 2017. A senior lecturer at the University of Chicago ...

, ''Overcoming Law'' #

Cass R. Sunstein Cass Robert Sunstein (born September 21, 1954) is an American legal scholar known for his studies of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, law and behavioral economics. He is also ''The New York Times'' best-selling author ...

, ''Free Markets and Social Justice'' #

Henry Hansmann Henry B. Hansmann (born October 5, 1945) is an American scholar of law and economics; he is the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School. Hansmann is noted for his scholarship on the economics of organizational ownership ...

, ''The Ownership of Enterprise'' #

Paul Brest Paul Brest (born 1940) is an American scholar of constitutional law, a former president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and a former dean of Stanford Law School. He is an influential theorist on the role of non-profit organizations i ...

, Sanford Lexinson,

Akhil Reed Amar Akhil Reed Amar (born September 6, 1958) is an American legal scholar known for his expertise in constitutional law and criminal procedure. He holds the position of Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, and is an adju ...

, et al., ''Process of Constitutional Decisionmaking'' #

Robert A. Gorman Robert A. Gorman (born April 22, 1937) is the Kenneth W. Gemmill Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Biography Gorman was born in New York City. Gorman obtained an A.B. ''summa cum laude'' from Harvard College in 195 ...

, ''Basic Text on Labor Law: Unionization and Collective Bargaining'' #

Robert C. Ellickson Robert C. Ellickson is an American property law scholar. He is the Walter E. Meyer Professor of Property and Urban Law at Yale Law School, and was formerly on the faculty at the USC Gould School of Law and Stanford Law School. He is a fellow of t ...

, ''Order without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes'' #

David G. Epstein David Gustav Epstein is the George E. Allen Professor of Law at University of Richmond School of Law and an expert on bankruptcy. Epstein was raised in Texas by a Jewish family. Epstein received a B.A. from the University of Texas in 1964, a J.D ...

et al., ''Bankruptcy'' #

Roscoe Pound Nathan Roscoe Pound (October 27, 1870 – June 30, 1964) was an American legal scholar and educator. He served as Dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law from 1903 to 1911 and Dean of Harvard Law School from 1916 to 1936. He was a membe ...

, ''Law and Morals'' # Robert C. Stevens, ''Law School'' # Mirjan R. Damaska, ''Evidence Law Adrift'' # Thomas Lee Hazen, ''The Law of Securities Regulation'' #

Howell E. Jackson Howell Edmunds Jackson (April 8, 1832 – August 8, 1895) was an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1893 until his death in 1895. His brief tenure on the Su ...

, Edward L. Symmons, ''Regulation of Financial Institutions'' # Morton J. Horwitz, ''The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice'' # Eric A. Posner, ''Law and Social Norms'' # George P. Fletcher, ''Basic Concepts of Criminal Law'' #

Christopher Wolfe Christopher Wolfe (born 1949) is an American political scientist and Distinguished Research Scholar and former Affiliate Professor of Politics at the University of Dallas. He is also Emeritus Professor at Marquette University. Wolfe is known for ...

, ''Judicial Activism'' #

Richard A. Epstein Richard Allen Epstein (born April 17, 1943) is an American legal scholar known for his writings on torts, contracts, property rights, law and economics, classical liberalism, and libertarianism. He is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at ...

, ''Simple Rules for a Complex World'' # Robert P. Merges, ''Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age'' # John W. Strong, ''Mccormick on Evidence'' # Stephen Judge, ''Business Law'' # Mary Kay Kane et al., ''Civil Procedure'' # Wayne R. LaFave, ''Criminal Procedure'' # Morton J. Horwitz, ''The Transformation of American Law'' # Stephen N. Subrin et al., ''Civil Procedure: Doctrine'' # Kate Standley, ''Family Law'' # Robert G. Mccloskey and

Sanford Levinson Sanford Victor Levinson (born June 17, 1941) is an American legal scholar known for his writings on constitutional law. A professor at the University of Texas Law School, Levinson is notable for his criticism of the United States Constitution as ...

, ''The American Supreme Court'' #

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935) was an American jurist and legal scholar who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932.Holmes was Acting Chief Justice of the Un ...

, ''Common Law'' # George B. Vold et al., ''Theoretical Criminology '' # Henry Mather, ''Contract Law and Morality'' # Stephen M. Feldman, ''American Legal Thoughts from Pre-medoenism to Post-modernism'' #

, ''The Constitution and Criminal Procedure: First Principles'' #

John Finnis John Mitchell Finnis, , (born 28 July 1940) is an Australian legal philosopher, jurist and scholar specializing in jurisprudence and the philosophy of law. He is the Biolchini Family Professor of Law, emeritus, at Notre Dame Law School and a P ...

, ''Natural Law and Natural Rights'' #

P. S. Atiyah Patrick Selim Atiyah, (5 March 1931 – 30 March 2018) was an English lawyer and academic. He was best known for his work as a common lawyer, particularly in the law of contract and for advocating reformation or abolition of the law of tort. He ...

, ''Form and Substance in Anglo-American Law'' #

Judith N. Shklar Judith Nisse Shklar (September 24, 1928 – September 17, 1992) was a philosopher and political theorist who studied the history of political thought, notably that of the Enlightenment period. She was appointed the John Cowles Professor of Govern ...

, ''Legalism: Law, Morals and Political Trials'' # Matthias W. Stecher, ''Webvertising: Unfair Competition and Trademarks on the Internet'' # Graham Romp, ''Game Theory Introduction and Applications'' #

H. L. A. Hart Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart (18 July 190719 December 1992), known simply as H. L. A. Hart, was an English legal philosopher. He was Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University and the Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford. His ...

, ''Causation in the Law'' # Bernard Schwartz, ''A History of the Supreme Court'' #

Louis Henkin Louis Henkin (November 11, 1917 – October 14, 2010), widely considered one of the most influential contemporary scholars of international law and the foreign policy of the United States, who was "often credited with creating the field of human ...

, ''International Law: Politics and Values'' # David Luban, ''Legal Modernism'' # Stephen B. Goldberg, Frank E. A. Sander,

Nancy H. Rogers Nancy Hardin Rogers (born September 18, 1948) is an American lawyer, author, and former Attorney General of Ohio, a former Dean of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and the current holder of the Michael E. Moritz Chair in Alternat ...

, Sarah Rudolph Cole, ''Dispute Resolution: Negotiation, Mediation, and Other Processes''

External links

Introduction to American Law Library at US Embassy to China
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