NEW BOOKS added September/October 2006


Boston College Law Library

 

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Administrative Law

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International Law

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International Trade

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Contracts

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Sexuality & the Law

Corporations

Jurisprudence

Taxation

Courts

Labor Law

Terrorism

Criminal Law & Procedure

Law & Society

Torts

Dispute Resolution

Law of War

Trade Regulation

Environmental Law

Legal History

Trials

Estate Planning & Probate

Legal Profession

Trusts

Foreign Law

Legal Research & Bibliography

Women

Health Law

 

 

 

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Administrative Law

 

Breyer, Stephen G., Richard B. Stewart, Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule.  Administrative law and regulatory policy: problems, text, and cases.   KF5402 .A4 B74 2006.

 

Funk, William F. and Richard H. Seamon.  Administrative law: examples and explanations.  KF5402 .A4 F86 2006.

 

De B��rca, Grainne and Joanna Scott, editors. Law and new governance in the EU and the US.    KJE4445 .L39 2006.

 

Arts & Literature

 

Fyfe, Thomas Alexander.  Charles Dickens and the law.  PR4592 .L2 F94 2006.

 

Rawson, Hugh and Margaret Miner, compilers. The Oxford dictionary of American quotations.  Reference Area  PN6081 .A623 2006.

 

Fitz Gibbon, Kate, editor. Who owns the past? Cultural policy, cultural property, and the law.    AM221 .W48 2005.

 

Banking & Finance

 

Moss, Gabriel and Bob Wessels, editors.  EU banking and insurance insolvency.  KJE4170 .E9 2006.

 

Biography

 

Carwardine, Richard.  Lincoln: a life of purpose and power.  E457 .C43 2006.

 

Civil Rights

 

Troutt, David Dante, editor. After the storm: Black intellectuals explore the meaning of Hurricane Katrina.  E185.615 .A594 2006.

 

Cotter, Anne-Marie Mooney.  Race matters: an international legal analysis of race discrimination.   K3242 .C68 2006.

 

Van der Walt, J. C.  Law and sacrifice: towards a post-apartheid theory of law.   KTL2460 .V35 2005.

 

Yoshino, Kenji.  Covering: the hidden assault on our civil rights.   KF373 .A3 Y67 2006.

 

Constitutional Law

 

Cram, Ian.  Contested words: legal restrictions on freedom of speech in liberal democracies.   K3253 .C73 2006.

 

Foley, Elizabeth Price.  Liberty for all: reclaiming individual privacy in a new era of public morality.   KF1262 .F65 2006.

 

Labunski, Richard E.  James Madison and the struggle for the Bill of Rights.  KF4749.L32 2006.

 

Bauman, Richard and Tsvi Kahana, editors. The least examined branch: the role of legislatures in the constitutional state.   K3316 .L44 2006.

 

Van Geel, Tyll.  Understanding Supreme Court opinions.   KF8742 .V36 2007.

 

Wicks, Elizabeth.  The evolution of a constitution: eight key moments in British constitutional history.   KD3934 .W53 2006.

 

Contracts

 

Brownsword, Roger. Contract law: themes for the twenty-first century.  KD1554 .Z9B76 2006.   

 

Andenas, Mads and Gerard Sanders, editors. Enforcing contracts in transition economies: contractual rights and obligations in Central Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.    KJC1582 .E54 2005.

 

Busch, Danny, editor.  The principles of European contract law (Part III) and Dutch law.   KJE1640 .P75 2006.

 

Smith, Stephen A.  Contract theory.  KD1554 .S657 2004.

 

Corporations

 

Vigdor, William R., editor. Premerger coordination: the emerging law of gun-jumping and information exchange.    KF1477.P743 2006

 

Sahni, Binda Preet.  Transnational corporate liability: accountability for human injury.   K1329.5.S24 2006.

 

Courts

 

Ingman, Terence.  The English legal process.  KD7111.I53 2004.

 

Ward, Artemus and David L. Weiden.  Sorcerers' apprentices: 100 years of law clerks at the United States Supreme Court.  KF8771 .W37 2006.

 

Criminal Law and Procedure

 

Feige, David.  Indefensible: one lawyer's journey into the inferno American justice.   KF373 .F37 A3 2006.

 

Lewis, Penney.  Delayed prosecution for childhood sexual abuse.   KF9323 .L49 2006.

 

Dispute Resolution

 

Menkel-Meadow, Carrie, Andrea Kupfer Schneider and Lela Porter Love.  Negotiation: processes for problem solving.  KF9084 .A7 M46 2006.

 

Environmental Law

 

Buck, Susan J.  Understanding environmental administration and law.  KF3775 .B83 2006.

 

Adger, W. Neil, editorFairness in adaptation to climate change.  .  QC981.8 .C5 F345 2006.

 

Fiorino, Daniel J.  The new environmental regulation.   KF3775 .F56 2006.

 

Estate Planning & Probate

 

Ray, Thomas J.  Charitable gift planning: a practical guide for the estate planner.   KF6388 .R39 2006.

 

Foreign Law

 

Chalmers, Damian.  European Union law: text and materials.   KJE947.E879 2006.

 

Butler, W.E., editor. Russian public law: the foundations of a rule-of-law state: legislation and documents.  KLA13 .R9813 2005.

 

Health Law

 

Gevers, J.K.M. and E.H. Hondius and J.H. Hubben, editors. Health law, human rights and the Biomedicine Convention: essays in honour of Henriette Roscam Abbing.    KJC6227.H43 2005

 

History

 

Carso, Brian F.  "Whom can we trust now?": the meaning of treason in the United States, from the Revolution through the Civil War.  KF9392 .C37 2006.

 

Casto, William R.  Foreign affairs and the Constitution in the age of fighting sail.  KF4651 .C375 2006.

 

Douglas, Charles Henry James.  The financial history of Massachusetts: from the organization of the Massachusetts Bay Company to the American Revolution.  HJ495 .D68 2005.

 

Francis, Richard.  Judge Sewall's apology :the Salem witch trials and the forming of the American conscience.   F67 .S525 2005.

 

Human Rights

 

Leckie, Scott, and Anne Gallagher, editors. Economic, social, and cultural rights: a legal resource guide.   K3238 .E27 2006.

 

Sheinin, Martin, and Markku Suksi, editors.Empowerment, participation, accountability and non-discrimination:operationalising a human rights-based approach to development.   K3236.2 .H87 2005.

 

Christou, Theodora A. & Juan Pablo Raymond, editors. European Court of Human Rights: remedies and execution of judgments.   KJC5138.E97 2003. 

 

Sarkin, Jeremy & William Binchy, editors. Human rights, the citizen and the state: South African and Irish approaches.  K3240.H859 2001.

 

Yildiz, Kerim.  The Kurds in Turkey: EU accession and human rights.  DR435 .K87 Y56 2005.

 

Indian Law

 

Nielsen, Marianne O. and James W. Zion, editors. Navajo Nation peacemaking: living traditional justice.  KF8228 .N3 N38 2005.

 

Intellectual Property

 

Cohen, Julie E., Lydia Pallas Loren, Ruth L. Okediji and Maureen A. O?Rourke.  Copyright in a global information economy.   KF2996 .C67 2006.

 

Fishman, Stephen.  The copyright handbook: how to protect & use written works.   KF2995 .F53 2006.

 

Hoyng, Willem A. and Frank W.E. Eijsvogels, editors. Global patent litigation: strategy and practice.  K1536 .G46 2006.

 

Rosen, Lawrence E. Open source licensing: software freedom and intellectual property law.   KF3024 .C6 R67

 

International Law

 

Harrington, Joanna, and Michael Milde, and Richard Vernon, editors.  Bringing power to justice? The prospects of the International Criminal Court.  KZ6311 .B75 2006.

 

Salamun, Michaela.  Democratic governance in international territorial administration.   KZ3673.S25 2005.

 

International Trade

 

Baudenbacher, Carl , and Per Tresselt, and Thorgeir Orlygsson, editors. The EFTA Court: ten years on.  KJE567 2004.

 

Kessler, Jeffrey L.  International trade and U.S. antitrust law.   KF1649.W35 2006.

 

Judges

 

Shackelford, Fred, compiler. Judges say the darndest things.  K184 .J83 2004.

 

McFeatters, Ann Carey.  Sandra Day O'Connor: justice in the balance.  KF8745 .O25 M387 2005.

 

Jurisprudence

 

Nobles, Richard and David Schiff.  A sociology of jurisprudence.  K370 .N63 2006.

 

Oakley, Francis.  Natural law, laws of nature, natural rights: continuity and discontinuity in the history of ideas.   K415 .O553 2005.

 

Labor Law

 

Berkowitz, Philip M., and Thomas M��ller-Bonanni, editors. International labor and employment law: a practical guide.    K1705 .I53 2006.

 

Law & Society

 

Cotterrell, Roger.  Law, culture and society: legal ideas in the mirror of social theory.   K370 .C68 2006.