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• Guidelines for Laws Affecting Civic Organizations (second edition, 2004), by Leon E. Irish, Robert Kushen, and Karla W. Simon (PDF with commentary at soros.org)

• Protection for Pre-1972 Sound Recordings under State Law and Its Impact on Use by Nonprofit Institutions: A 10-State Analysis (2009), by Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, contrib. by Peter Jaszi and Nicholas B. Lewis (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• Defending Civil Society: Report (second edition; 2012), by World Movement for Democracy, International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, and National Endowment for Democracy (U.S.) (PDF at movedemocracy.org)

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• Spooky Business: Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofit Organizations (Washington: Essential Information, 2013), by Gary Ruskin (PDF at corporatepolicy.org)
• Sustainability and Revenue Models for Online Academic Resources: An Ithaka Report (2008), by Kevin M. Guthrie, Rebecca J. Griffiths, and Nancy Maron (PDF with commentary at ithaka.org)

• Leap of Reason: Managing to Outcomes in an Era of Scarcity (Washington: Venture Philanthropy Partners, c2011), by Mario Morino, ed. by Lowell Weiss and Cheryl Collins, contrib. by Carol Thompson Cole, Lynn Taliento, Jonathan Law, Laura Callanan, Isaac Castillo, David E. Hunter, Tynesia Boyea Robinson, Kristin A. Moore, Karen E. Walker, David Murphey, Patricia Brantley, and Ethan D. Schafer (PDF with commentary at leapofreason.org)

• If Not For Profit, For What? A Behavioral Theory of the Nonprofit Sector Based on Entrepreneurship (book originally published 1983; electronic edition, c2013), by Dennis R. Young (PDF files at GSU)

• The New-York Historical Society: Lessons From One Nonprofit's Long Struggle for Survival, by Kevin M. Guthrie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• U.S. Citizens in World Affairs: A Directory of Non-Governmental Organizations, Who They Are, What They Do (New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1953), ed. by Katharine C. Garrigue (page images at HathiTrust)

• Defending Civil Society: Report (second edition; 2012), by World Movement for Democracy, International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, and National Endowment for Democracy (U.S.) (PDF at movedemocracy.org)
• Civil Democracy Protection: Success Conditions of Non-Governmental Organisations in Comparison (London and New York: Routledge, c2024), ed. by Uwe Backes and Thomas Lindenberger
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Taylor and Francis
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
• Governing Failure: Provisional Expertise and the Transformation of Global Development Finance (Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge University Press, c2014), by Jacqueline Best (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• The Backlash Against Democracy Assistance: A Report (2006), by National Endowment for Democracy (U.S.) (PDF at ned.org)

• Humanitarian and Peace Operations: NGOs and the Military in the Interagency Process (1996), by Lisa Witzig Davidson, Margaret Daly Hayes, and James J. Landon (PDF at dodccrp.org)

• Defending Civil Society: Report (second edition; 2012), by World Movement for Democracy, International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, and National Endowment for Democracy (U.S.) (PDF at movedemocracy.org)

• Pursuit of an "Unparalleled Opportunity": The American YMCA and Prisoner-of-War Diplomacy Among the Central Power Nations During World War I, 1914-1923 (c2008), by Kenneth Steuer (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• Shutting Out the Critics: Restrictive Laws Used to Repress Civil Society in Jordan (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2007), by Christoph Wicke (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• NGOs and Post-Conflict Recovery: The Leitana Nehan Women's Development Agency, Bougainville (2006), ed. by Helen Hakena, Peter Ninnes, and Bert A. Jenkins (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Institutional Investors and Corporate Behavior (Washington: AEI Press, 1999), by Gile R. Downes, Ehud Houminer, and R. Glenn Hubbard (PDF at Columbia)

• Recueil Spécial des Actes, Extraits d'Actes, Procès-Verbaux et Documents Relatifs aux Sociétés Commerciales (partial serial archives)

• An Introduction to the Law of Corporations: Cases and Materials (current edition; at last check 2019), by Brian Jose Miguel Quinn (JavaScript-dependent HTML at opencasebook.org)

• Illegal Corporate Behavior (Washington: National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, c1979), by Marshall B. Clinard, Peter C. Yeager, Jeanne Brissette, David Petrashek, and Elizabeth Harries
  • partial serial archives
  • PDF with commentary at ojp.gov

• Eisenbahn-Verkehrsordnung vom 26 Oktober 1899, Gültig vom 1 Januar 1900 ab (Reichs-Gesetzblatt 1899 Nr. 41) (Berlin: J. Springer, 1899), by Reichs-Eisenbahn-Amt (Germany)
  • page images at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org; some graphics may be omitted
  • with supplements; page images at HathiTrust

• Facts for the People: A Report of the Anti-Monopoly League of the State of New York, the Record of the Legislature of 1883 (page images at MOA)

• An Act Authorising the Governor to Incorporate the Philadelphia and Trenton Rail Road Company; Also, the Supplements and the Ordinances of the Districts Relating Thereto, &c. (Philadelphia: J. Rakestraw, printer, 1836), by Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Advantage of Competitive Federalism for Securities Regulation (Washington: AEI Press, 2002), by Roberta Romano (PDF with commentary at AEI)

• Multinationals and the U.S. Technology Base: Final Report of the Multinationals Project (OTA-ITE-612; 1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Multinationals and the National Interest: Playing by Different Rules (OTA-ITE-569; 1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Technology in the National Interest (1996), by National Science and Technology Council (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Advanced Technology Program: Challenges and Opportunities (1999), by National Research Council Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Effective Partnering: A Report to Congress on Federal Technology Partnerships, ed. by Richard Brody (PDF at nist.gov)

• The Travelers Legal Guide and Business Man's Directory: Being the Duties of Railroad Companies, and Steamboat and Stage-Coach Proprietors, in the Transportation of Passengers, Baggage, and Other Property, And Their Responsibilities Relative To Accidents, Injuries to, and the Loss of Property, etc. (Rochester, NY: D. M. Dewey, 1855), by Alexander S. Davis (page images at Ohio Memory)

• Power and Accountability, by Robert A. G. Monks and Nell Minow (HTML at lens-library.com)

• Capital Adjustments: Reorganizations, Stock Rights (2 volumes; 1962), by Prentice-Hall, Inc. (page images at HathiTrust)

• Not Written in Stone: Jews, Constitutions, and Constitutionalism in Canada (c2003), ed. by Daniel Judah Elazar, Michael Brown, and Ira Robinson (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• By-Laws of the Michigan State Reform School (1869), by Michigan Boys Vocational School (page images at MOA)

• Archaeologia Scotica: Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (full serial archives)

• Constitutional Provisions, Laws and By-Laws of the University of Michigan, by University of Michigan (page images at MOA)

• The Yukon Gazette, by Yukon (partial serial archives)

• American Enterprise in the European Common Market: A Legal Profile (2 volumes; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Law School, 1960), ed. by Eric Stein and Thomas L. Nicholson
  • Volume I: PDF with commentary at Michigan
  • Volume II: PDF with commentary at Michigan

• Law for the Clergy, by Sanford A. Hudson (page images at MOA)

• Bay City Charter, Rules of Common Council & Ordinances, by Bay City (Mich.) (page images at MOA)

• An Act of the Legislature of Alabama Creating a Commission Form of Government Under Which the City of Birmingham is Now Organized, In Effect March 31, 1911 (Montgomery, AL: Brown Printing Co., 1911), by Alabama (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Boston, Together With the Acts of the Legislature Relating to the City (Boston: J. H. Eastburn, 1850), by Boston (Mass.), ed. by Peleg W. Chandler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• An Act to Provide for the Incorporation of Cities and Villages, by Illinois (page images at MOA)

• The Charter of the City of Detroit as Amended, Together with Acts of the Legislature Relating to the City (1867 edition), by Detroit (Mich.) (page images at MOA)
• Revised Charter (As Amended,) of the City of Detroit (1859 edition), by Detroit (Mich.) (page images at MOA)
• The Revised Charter and Ordinances of the City of Detroit (1855 edition), by Detroit (Mich.) (page images at MOA)

• Regulatory Encounters: Multinational Corporations and American Adversarial Legalism (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), ed. by Robert A. Kagan and Lee Axelrad (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Energy Efficiency: Challenges and Opportunities for Electric Utilities (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

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