Recent Scholar Publications

Compiled November 2009

Jane Anderson
Australia
FAS - Institute for Law and Society
Law, Knowledge, Culture: The Production of Indigenous Knowledge in Intellectual Property Law
Edward Elgar, 2009
Combining unique practical experience with a sophisticated historical and theoretical framework, this work offers a new basis to explore indigenous intellectual property. Drawing upon critical cultural and legal theory, this book investigates how indigenous and traditional knowledge has been produced and positioned within intellectual property law and the effects of this position in national and international jurisdictions. This book will benefit researchers, academics and students dealing with law in the fields of intellectual property, human rights, property and environmental law. It will also appeal to anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers and cultural theorists.

Peder Anker
Norway
Gallatin - Environmental Studies Program
From Bauhaus to Ecohouse: A History of Ecological Design
Louisiana State University Press, 2010
The book explores key moments of inspiration between designers and ecologists from the Bauhaus projects of the interwar period to the eco-arks of the 1980s.

Miriam Aziz
United Kingdom
Law - Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice
Transito
Rock Pixie Records/New Music/EMI Norway AS, 2009
This is an acoustic academic treatise on spheres of belonging and the politics of dispossession.   For more information, please see www.miriamaziz.com

Shoba Bandi Rao
India
Steinhardt - Higher Education Opportunity Programs
Rule Learning in Second Language: The Acquisition of Regular and Irregular Past-Tense Forms by Adult ESL Learners
VDM Verlag, 2009
This book attempts to account for aspects of the observed child-adult differences. It examines some of the underlying cognitive processes involved in the acquisition of the simple past tense in English by adult learners using written and oral production tasks, grammaticality judgment tasks, and a story-telling task. Results from the study indicate that some of these rule learning mechanisms do not appear to be available to adult language learners to the same extent as they are to first language learners. The book suggests ways to incorporate these insights concerning cognitive processing into current teaching practices to help adult language learners master certain grammar rules more efficiently.

Gilles Bransbourg
France, Institute for Study of the Ancient World
Politique de change de l'euro
La documentation française, 2008, (French)
This report was commissioned by the French Prime Minister, since the undervaluation of the USD vs. most currencies is a concern to European Monetary authorities. My contribution deals in particular with the market mechanisms at stake when currency prices fluctuate and adjust towards their equilibrium levels. Central banks intervention efficiency is analyzed.

Paul Cartledge
United Kingdom
FAS – Classics

Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities
Oxford University Press, 2009
Account of 11 of the 1000 or so ancient Greek cities that floursihed between 1400 BCE and CE 300.

Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice
Cambridge University Press, 2009
Account of interconnections between ancient Greek political thinking and practice from Homer to Plutarch.

Eine Trilogie ueber die Demokratie
Franz Steiner, 2008, (German)
Lectures in Heidelberg discussing the establishment, challenge to and reaffirmation of the world's first democracy in 5th Century BC Athens.

Ludovic Cortade
France
FAS - French
Le Cinéma de l'immobilité: style, politique, réception
Publications de la Sorbonne, 2008, (French)
The book discusses how the impression of immobility in cinema (freeze frames, filmed photographs, motionless actors) contributes to the suspension of disbelief of the spectator. Based on a series of analyses of the films Godard, Truffaut, Fassbinder, Warhol and Hou Hsiao-Hsien, the problematic is developed from three perspectives: style, ideology and reception.

Leocadia Diaz Romero
Spain
FAS - Center for European and Mediterranean Studies
Amanecer de Mi Alma
Diego Marín Ed., 2008, (Spanish)
"The Sunrise of my Soul" is a collection of poems, published under the pseudonym Valentina Paisal.

“Relaciones de la Comunidad Autónoma con otras entidades públicas territoriales. Relaciones con la UE”.  Derecho Autonómico de la Región de Murcia.
Consejo Jurídico de la Región de Murcia, Consejería de Presidencia, 2008 (Spanish)
This book analyzes the presence, mechanisms, etc. of the Spanish Regions - Comunidades Autónomas - in the EU decision-making procedures, paying special attention to the Region of Murcia.

 “Las mil y una normas”. El gato en el microondas. Enseña a tu hijo a convivir con los medios
Nabla Ediciones, 2007, (Spanish)
The controversial question of the media and minors is studied from different approaches - legal, sociological, political, etc. and the challenges of videogames, the web, advertising are considered.

"Dostup k informatzii i professiya zhurnalista v Ispanii" en Nauchnyi ezhegodnik Instituta filosofii i prava Uralskogo otdeleniya Rossiyskoy akademii nauk: Vypusk 7, Ekaterinburg Izdatelstvo UrO RAN, 2007(Russian)
The book offers a view on the access to the information sources in Spain by the citizens. Issues such as human rights, conditions for democracy and law of information are analyzed.

La integración política en la Unión Europea. Elementos de su Constitucionalización
Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Murcia, 2008, (Spanish)
“Political Integration in the EU: Elements of its Constitutionalisation" provides a deep view on the process that the EU has followed towards constituting a political entity. The book studies carefully the share of power, the institutional architecture, the question of democracy as well as the classic theory on federalism in order to shape the political system of the EU which is of peculiar nature, both federal and confederal.

Richard Gowan
United Kingdom
FAS - Center on International Cooperation
Cooperating for Peace and Security: Evolving Institutions and Arrangements in a Context of Changing U.S. Security Policy
Cambridge University Press, 2009
Cooperating for Peace and Security is a comprehensive survey of multilateral security cooperation since 1989, with essays by leading experts on topics from humanitarianism to nuclear security. Covering the UN, NATO and regional organizations, it shows that U.S. interests have shaped institutions – but other states have also driven reforms without U.S. support.

Jesper Juul
Denmark
Tisch - NYU Game Center
A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and their Players
MIT Press, 2009
The enormous popularity of the Nintendo Wii, Guitar Hero, and smaller games like Bejeweled or Zuma has turned the stereotype of the obsessed young male gamer on its head. Players of these casual games are not required to possess an intimate knowledge of video game history or to devote weeks or months to play. At the same time, many players of casual games show a dedication and skill that is anything but casual. In A Casual Revolution, Jesper Juul describes this as a reinvention of video games, and of our image of video game players, and explores what this tells us about the players, the games, and their interaction.

Nozima Kamalova
Uzbekistan
Law - Hauser Global Law School Program
The War on Terror and its Implications for Human Rights in Uzbekistan
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2007
This paper presents an analysis of a political paradigm shaped by the Global War on Terror.  The War on Terror has been used by authoritarian governments like Uzbekistan to advance their own political agendas, ultimately undermining the basis of democracy.

Imaculada Kangussu
Brazil
FAS - Spanish & Portuguese Languages and Literature
Sobre Eros
Scriptum Editora, 2007, (Portuguese)
Seven essays that show eros faces, from ancient greeks to contemporary world.

Leis da Liberdade
Loyola, 2008, (Portuguese)
The book is about the relations of aesthetics and politics in the works of Herbert Marcuse.

Johannes Klabbers
Netherlands
Law - Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice
An Introduction to International Institutional Law
Cambridge University Press, 2009
Second edition of popular textbook on international institutions. Doubles as something of a theoretical analysis of this body of law.

Johannes Klabbers
Netherlands
Law - Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice
Treaty Conflict and the European Union
Cambridge University Press, 2008
Addresses the legal position of member states of the EU having concluded treaties with third parties or each other. In doing so, it provides an analysis of international law's rules on treaty conflict, as well as of the pertinent EU provisions and case law.

The Constitutionalization of International Law
Oxford University Press, 2009
Investigates the consequences of the constitutionalization of the global legal order on issues such as law-making, democracy, and judicial settlement.

Ferran Macia Bros
Spain
FAS - Physics
Problem Solutions to Lectures on Magnetism
Rinton Press Inc., 2007
A compact course on magnetism of solids was presented in the book "Lectures on magnetism". Here we propose some formal solutions to each suggested problem.

Ehud Menipaz
Israel
Stern - Info, Operations and Management Sciences
International Business: Theory and Practice
Sage, 2010
What is international business? How does it differ from local or national business? What are the fundamental challenges and emerging trends in international business? What is the impact of globalization, corporate social responsibility, and the ever expanding use of digital technology on corporate strategies and executive decisions? "International Business: Theory and Practice" addresses these questions by providing the student with a broad overview of the subject, while guiding readers through the practical issues and context of international business with the use of a range of examples, cases and discussion questions drawn from around the world.

Fevzi Serkan Ozdemir
Turkey
Stern - Doctoral Program
Muhasebe Uygulamalar? (Accounting Problems and Solutions)
Siyasal Publishing House, 2007, (Turkish)
It contains approximately 3000 problems and  solutions every account of the Turkish Uniform Account Chart.

Fabio Parasecoli
Italy
Steinhardt - Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health
Bite Me: Food in Popular Culture
Berg Publishers, 2008
Bite Me considers the ways in which popular culture reveals our relationship with food and our own bodies and how these have become an arena for political and ideological battles. Drawing on a wide range of material--films, books, comics, songs, music videos, websites, slang, performances, advertising and mass-produced objects – Bite Me invites the reader to take a fresh look at today's products and practices to see how much food shapes our lives, perceptions and identities.

Michele Pifferi
Italy
Law - Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice
Diritto Contro. Meccanismi Giuridici di Esclusione dello Straniero
Giappichelli, 2009, (Italian)
The book is a collection of articles analyzing the legal regulation of immigration and emigration with an interdisciplinary approach. After an historical study of the origins of the discriminatory rules against immigrants, the volume offers a critical examination of the ius migrandi in relation to the human rights legislation, the European rule of law, the Italian constitution, and the multicultural approach to criminal law.

Richard Bryce Rudyk (edited with Richard B. Stewart and Benedict Kingsbury)
Canada
Law - Center for Environmental and Land Use Law
Climate Finance: Regulatory and Funding Strategies for Climate Change and Global Development
NYU Press, 2009
In Climate Finance, a leading group of policy experts and scholars show how effective mitigation of climate change will depend on a complex mix of public funds, private investment though carbon markets, and structured incentives that leave room for developing country innovations. This requires sophisticated national and global regulation of cap-and-trade and offset markets, forest and energy policy, international development funding, international trade law, and coordinated tax policy.

Dov Shinar (with Wilhelm Kempf, eds.)
Israel
Steinhardt - Media, Culture and Communication
Peace Journalism: The State of the Art
Irena Regener, 2007
Collection of scholarly articles on the history, current state, and future of peace journalism, an alternative strategy, intended to improve the coverage of war and peace.

Saviana Condeescu
Romania
Tisch - Drama

Aliens With Extraordinary Skills
Samuel French, 2009
A play that was produced off-Broadway at Women's Project and was reviewed in The New York Times, Time Out etc.

Regina Xavier
Brazil
FAS - History
Religiosidade e escravidao, seculo XIX: Mestre Tito
Editora da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SUl, 2008, (Portuguese)
The book is about the life trajectory of a former slave, Tito de Camargo Andrade (Mestre Tito). He was African and lived in nineteenth-century Campinas, Brazil. The analysis of his trajectory reveals themes such as slaves revolts, medicine, African healers, and brotherhoods as elements of the same historical process. The book aims at contributing to the Afro-Brazilian history and the ongoing debate on slavery and freedom.

Mantha Zarmakoupi (editor)
Greece
Institute for Study of the Ancient World
The Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum: Archaeology, Reception, and Digital Reconstruction
de Gruyter, 2010
The Villa of the Papyri is a unique archaeological site and has been very influential in the field of classical studies. The papyri (the only intact library to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity) and bronze sculptures found in the villa have contributed to our knowledge of the ancient world and the villa has become the “ideal model” of Roman luxury villa culture. This volume brings together papers delivered by experts in various fields addressing the cultural significance of this site in its contemporary Roman context as well as its cultural reception from its discovery over 250 years ago to the most recent excavations in the late 20th century. They also explore the ways digital archaeology can assist efforts to understand and investigate ancient sites. The use of digital models of the Villa that incorporate data from the new excavations and a discussion on the ways such models may be used for educational and research purposes are also presented.