The Law Library's Selected New Books list for last month includes Justice Sotomayor's autobiography, works on affirmative action, appellate courts, election law, donor-conceived families, intellectual property, cybersecurity, employee representation in enterprises, government use of lethal force, photography and law, slavery, war, and several works in each of the fields constitutional law, human rights, legal history, and philosophy of law. Also posted is a list of Selected Acquisitions in the Gottfredson Library of Criminal Justice, including works on corporal punishment (as a humane alternative to incarceration), domestic violence and mandatory arrest (in New Jersey), drug courts, fraudulent evidence, prison life, and white collar crime.
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New Books Received in November
The Law Library's Selected New Books list for November 2012 includes works on the Chinese constitution, civil rights leaders, climate change, consumer contracts, intellectual property, elected judges, jury decision making, philosophy of law, an historic sex discrimination case, the Supreme Court's McCarthy era decisions, progressive taxation, regulatory breakdown, the Voting Rights Act, the laws of war and war crimes. Also posted is a list of Selected New Acquisitions in the Gottfredson Library of Criminal Justice, including works on drug traffic, domestic violence, genetically modified food, immigration, Internet fraud, lynching, organized crime, and white collar crime.
Posted by axellute at December 3, 2012 11:07 AMNew Books Received in December 2012
The Law Library's Selected New Books list for December 2012 contains 56 titles, listed under 34 topical headings, including affirmative action, bankruptcy, constitutional law, contracts, criminal law and procedure, dignity rights, environmental law, family law, foreign investment, genocide, humanities and law, intellectual property, international law, legal history, philosophy of law, racism, sexism, war, and water rights. Note that the listings include links to the full catalog records, which often show tables of contents of the books.
Posted by axellute at January 2, 2013 11:47 AMNew Books received in October 2012
The Law Library's Selected New Books list for October 2012 includes works on affirmative action, baseball, church and state, environmental law, the bailout of Wall Street, incitement to genocide, privacy, public health, same-sex marriage, war, women judges, criminal law, environmental law, legal history, property, and taxation. Also posted is a list of Selected New Acquisitions in the Gottfredson Library of Criminal Justice, including works on climate change liability, crime and culture, false imprisonment, national security, and numerous other criminal justice topics.
Posted by axellute at November 3, 2012 04:32 PMNew Books received in March 2013
The Law Library's Selected New Books list for March 2013 includes several works on constitutional law, corporate governance, gender and law, human rights, international law, Islamic law, legal education, legislation, and philosophy of law, and books on numerous other topics. Also posted is an extensive list of Selected Acquisitions in the Gottfredson Library of Criminal Justice.
Posted by axellute at March 29, 2013 04:36 PMNew Books received in May
Our May list of Selected New Books includes more than fifty titles, listed under about two dozen topical headings. Out-of-the-ordinary topics include foreign law in U.S. courts and legal aspects of neuroscience. A notable entry under family law is The Right to Be Parents: LGBT Families and the Transformation of Parenthood, by our own Carlos Ball. Also posted is a new list of Selected Acquisitions in the Gottfredson Library of Criminal Justice
Posted by axellute at June 1, 2012 03:30 PMNew Books in Law & Criminal Justice
The list of Selected New Books received in the Law Library during July 2012 includes our own faculty member Stuart Green's new book on theft law. Also listed are several other books on criminal law and several on legal history, as well as works on competition law, child custody evaluations, corporate lawyers, cowboy law, the right of nonuse of natural resources, electronic evidence, law in the Brontë novels, Islamic law, constitutional labor rights in Canada, national security, religious freedom, state government bankruptcy, and the X tax. A separate list of Selected Acquisitions in the Gottfredson Library of Criminal Justice includes works on hate speech, judicial error, and many other topics.
Posted by axellute at August 6, 2012 03:37 PMNew Books Received in January 2013
The Law Library's Selected New Books list for January 2013 includes works on antitrust, Chinese law, climate change, constitutional law, contracts, criminal law, gun control, federal judges, health and race, human rights, immigrants' rights, intellectual property, international law, the legal profession, Native Americans, and philosophy of law. Also posted is a list of Selected Acquisitions in the Gottfredson Library of Criminal Justice, including works on the civil rights movement, climate change, disaster relief law, F.B.I. history, music and violence, and white collar crime.
Posted by axellute at February 1, 2013 03:04 PMNew Books received in June
Our June 2012 list of Selected New Books includes our own Prof. Howard Latin's book on climate change policy, as well as works on administrative law, aesthetics and law, religious freedom, feminist constitutionalism, felony murder, prosecutorial misconduct, extraordinary rendition, human rights, deportation, labor organizing, legal education, legal history, legislation, Thurgood Marshall, motion picture law, the Presidency, property theory, racial bias, the Solictor General, and war crimes.
Posted by axellute at July 11, 2012 07:23 PMNew Books Received in August
The Law Library's list of Selected New Books for August 2012 includes works on assisted suicide, the Citadel sex discrimination case, the philosophy of contracts, copyright in music, the regulation of dance halls, whether the acquitted are innocent, human rights and labor solidarity, the tobacco industry, unborn children, Israel and the laws of war, and fair compensation for victims of disasters. Also posted is a list of new acquisitions in the Gottfredson Library of Criminal Justice.
Posted by axellute at September 5, 2012 05:34 PMNew Books Received in April 2013
The Law Library's Selected New Books for April 2013 includes books about capital punishment, human rights, intellectual property, international law, and several other topics. Also posted is a list of Selected Acquisitions in the Gottfredson Library of Criminal Justice which includes books about contemporary slavery and human trafficking.
Posted by axellute at May 1, 2013 12:23 PMNew Books Received in September
The Law Library's list of Selected New Books received in September 2012 includes works on the filibuster, constitutional law and history, Danish law, equity, memory and law, executive power, gay rights, Internet net, interracial marriage, legal history, paternity, public interest law, sovereign debt, and tax cheating. Also posted is a list of Selected Acquisitions in the Gottfredson Library of Criminal Justice, including works on fake drugs, environmental security, marijuana, profiling, pseudoscience, prisoner reentry, and speed cameras.
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