NEW BOOKS added June 2008


Boston College Law Library

 

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Administrative Law

Family Law

Law of War

 

Bankruptcy

Foreign Law

Legal History

 

Constitutional Law

Human Rights

Legal Research & Bibliography

 

Courts

Immigration Law

Military Law

 

Criminal Law & Procedure

Intellectual Property

Organizations

Dispute Resolution

International Law

Practice & Procedure

 

Economics

Judges

Religion

 

Environmental Law

Jurisprudence

Securities Law

 

Estate Planning & Probate

Juveniles

Terrorism

 

Evidence

Law & Society

 

 

 

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Administrative Law

 

Rattenbury, T. P. B.  Public law within government: sustaining the art of the possible.  KD3930 .R38 2008  

Bankruptcy

 

Katz, Erwin I., Lisa Hill Fenning and Jacob Aaron Esher.  ABI guide to bankruptcy mediation: a guide for attorneys and clients concerning the use of mediation to resolve disputes arising in bankruptcy cases.  KF1524 .K37 2005

 

Steinfeld, Shayna M. and Bruce R. Steinfel.  The family lawyer's guide to bankruptcy: forms, tips and strategies. 2nd edition.  KF1535 .D58 S74 2008

 

Constitutional Law

 

Burgess, Susan.  The founding fathers, pop culture, and constitutional law: who's your daddy?  KF4575 .B87 2008

 

Dershowitz, Alan M.  Is there a right to remain silent?: coercive interrogation and the Fifth Amendment after 9/11.  KF9668 .D47 2008

 

Guiora, Amos N.  Constitutional limits on coercive interrogation.  KF9625 .G85 2008

 

Schneiderman, David.  Constitutionalizing economic globalization: investment rules and democracy's promise.  K3830 .S36 2008

 

Courts

 

Quirk, William J.  Courts & Congress: America's unwritten constitution.  KF5130 .Q57 2008

 

Wrightsman, Lawrence S.  Oral arguments before the Supreme Court: an empirical approach.  KF8748 .W752 2008

 

Criminal Law & Procedure

 

Kok, Ruth A.  Statutory limitations in international criminal law.  K5301 .K64 2007

 

May, Larry.  Aggression and crimes against peace.  KZ6355 .M39 2008

 

Dispute Resolution

 

Moses, Margaret L.  The principles and practice of international commercial arbitration.  K2400 .M65 2008

 

Economics

 

Conant, Michael.  The Constitution and economic regulation: objective theory and critical commentary.  KF1600 .C54 2008

 

Environmental Law

 

Chambers, W. Bradnee.  Interlinkages and the effectiveness of multilateral environmental agreements.  K3585 .C43 2008

 

Estate Planning & Probate

 

Chester, Ronald.  From here to eternity?: property and the dead hand.  KF753 .C44 2007

 

Evidence

 

Ho, H. L.  A philosophy of evidence law: justice in the search for truth.  K2261 .H64 2008

 

Imwinkelried, Edward J.  Evidentiary foundations. 7th edition.  Permanent Reserve KF8935 .I45 2008

 

Family Law

 

Elsen, Susan R., chair.  GAL training for category F matters: the basics.  KFM2507 .G37 2008

 

Foreign Law

 

Bussani, Mauro and Ugo Mattei.  Opening up European law: the Common Core Project towards Eastern and South Eastern Europe.  KJC985 .O64 2007

 

Oros, Andrew.  Normalizing Japan: politics, identity, and the evolution of security practice.  JZ6009 .J3 O76 2008

 

Human Rights

 

Council of Europe.  Guantánamo: violation of human rights and international law?  KZ6495 .C68 2007

 

Fredman, Sandra.  Human rights transformed: positive rights and positive duties.  K3240 .F735 2008

 

Immigration Law

 

Dauvergne, Catherine.  Making people illegal: what globalization means for migration and law.  K3274 .D38 2008

 

Intellectual Property

 

Davies, Mark Simon.  Patent appeals: the elements of effective advocacy in the Federal Circuit.  KF3155 .D38 2008

 

International Law

 

Alebeek, Rosanne van.  The immunity of states and their officials in international criminal law and international human rights law.  KZ4012 .A42 2008

 

Dolzer, Rudolf.  Principles of international investment law.  K3830 .D65 2008

 

Hoffman, Marci and Mary Rumsey.  International and foreign legal research: a coursebook.  Reference Area K85 .H64 2008

 

Tudor, Ioana.  The fair and equitable treatment standard in the international law of foreign investment.  K3830 .T83 2008

 

Wilde, Ralph.  International territorial administration: how trusteeship and the civilizing mission never went away.  KZ4065 .W55 2008

 

Judges

 

Scheiber, Harry N., editor.  Earl Warren and the Warren Court: the legacy in American and foreign law.  KF8748 .E159 2007

 

Jurisprudence

 

Llewellyn, Karl N.  Jurisprudence: realism in theory and practice.  KF213 .L55 2008

 

Mootz, Francis J.  and Peter Goodrich, editors.  Nietzsche and law.  K230 .N532 N54 2008

 

Juveniles

 

Hamilton, Marci.  Justice denied: what America must do to protect its children.  KF9323 .H36 2008

 

Law & Society

 

Bales, Kevin and Zoe Trodd, editors.  To plead our own cause: personal stories by today's slaves.  HT857 .T67 2008

 

Kokswijk, Jacob van.  Digital ego: social and legal aspects of virtual identity.  HM851 .K65 2007

 

Law of War

 

Doyle, Michael W.  Striking first: preemption and prevention in international conflict.  KZ6368 .D69 2008

 

La Haye, Eve.  War crimes in internal armed conflicts.  K5301 .L34 2008

 

Legal History

 

The charters and general laws of the colony and province of Massachusetts Bay.  Rare Books KFM2430 1672 .A22 1814

 

Hurd, John C.  The law of freedom and bondage in the United States. 2 volumes.  Rare Books KF4545 .S5 H87 1858

 

Story, Joseph.  Commentaries on the conflict of laws, foreign and domestic.  Rare Books KF411 .S78 1834

 

Zoller, Elisabeth.  Introduction to public law: a comparative study.  K3171 .Z65 2008

 

Legal Research & Bibliography

 

Catalogue of law books published by Banks, Gould & Co.  Rare Books K42 .B36 1855

 

Dahl, Henry S. and Tamera Boudreau.  Dahl's law dictionary: French to English/English to French: an annotated legal dictionary, including definitions from codes, case law, statutes, and legal writing = Dictionnaire juridique Dahl.  Reference Area K52 .F7 D35 2007

 

Lomio, J. Paul and Henrik Spang-Hanssen.  Legal research methods in the U.S. & Europe.  K85 .L66 2008

 

Military Law

 

The Militia reporter: containing the trials of Capt. Jos. Loring, Jun. on the charges of Gen. Winslow ?   Rare Books KF7641 .M55 1810

 

Organizations

 

Nelson, Paul J. and Ellen Dorsey.  New rights advocacy: changing strategies of development and human rights NGOs.  JZ4841 .N33 2008

 

Practice & Procedure

 

Glannon, Joseph W.  Civil procedure: examples and explanations. 6th ed.  Permanent Reserve KF8840 .G52x 2008

 

Mauet, Thomas A.  Pretrial. 7th ed.  KF8900 .M386 2008

 

Scalia, Antonin and Bryan A. Garner.  Making your case: the art of persuading judges.  KF8870 .S28 2008

 

Religion

 

Nepstad, Sharon Erickson.  Religion and war resistance in the Plowshares movement.  JZ5575 .N47 2008

 

Vickers, Lucy.  Religious freedom, religious discrimination and the workplace.  K1771.5 .V53 2008   

 

Securities Law

 

Wood, Philip R.  Set-off and netting, derivatives, clearing systems. 2nd edition.  K1005.4 .W662 2007 vol.4

 

Terrorism

 

Donohue, Laura K.  The cost of counterterrorism: power, politics, and liberty.  KF4850 .D66 2008