NEW BOOKS added October 2007


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Abortion

 

Edelin, Kenneth.  Broken justice: a true story of race, sex and revenge in a Boston courtroom.  KF224 .E35 E34 2008

 

Jayasuriya, Kumar Percy, editor.  A Documentary history of the legal aspects of abortion in the United States. City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health.  KF228 .A57 D63 2007

 

Admiralty

 

Snell, Steven L.  Courts of admiralty and the common law: origins of the American experiment in concurrent jurisdiction.  KF1112 .S645 2007

 

Arts & Literature

 

DVD:  Being there.   Reference Area Feature Film Collection

 

Majeske, Andrew J.  Equity in English Renaissance literature: Thomas More and Edmund Spenser.  PR428 .L37 M35 2006

 

Markesinis, B. S.  Good and evil in art and law: an extended essay.  K235 .M37 2007

 

Moore, Schuyler M.  The biz: the basic business, legal and financial aspects of the film industry. 3rd ed.  KF4302 .M66 2007

 

Rao, Saira.  Chambermaid: a novel.  Popular Reading Collection PS3618 .A69 C47 2007

 

Bankruptcy

 

Herbert, Michael J.  Understanding bankruptcy.  KF1524 .H427 2000

 

Kilborn, Jason J.  Comparative consumer bankruptcy.  K1375 .K55 2007

 

Biography

 

Larson, Edward J. and Jack Marshall, editors.  The essential words and writings of Clarence Darrow.  KF213 .D3 L37 2007

 

Civil Rights

 

Goren, William D.  Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act. 2nd ed.  KF480 .G67 2006

 

Ross, Mary Massaron and Edwin P. Voss, Jr., editors.  Sword and shield: a practical approach to Section 1983 litigation. 3rd ed.  KF1325 .C58 S96 2006

 

Communications Law

 

Pearlstine, Norman.  Off the record: the press, the government, and the war over anonymous sources.  KF8959 .P7 P43 2007

 

Stone, Geoffrey R.  Top secret: when our government keeps us in the dark.  KF5753 .S76 2007

 

Comparative Law

 

Avi-Yonah, Reuven S., James R. Hines Jr. and Michael Lang, editors.  Comparative fiscal federalism: comparing the European Court of Justice and the US Supreme Court's tax jurisprudence.  K4506. C66 2007

 

Nicholson, Penelope.  Borrowing court systems: the experience of Socialist Vietnam.  KPV1580 .N53 2007

 

Constitutional Law

 

Calabresi, Steven G., editor.  Originalism: a quarter-century of debate.  KF4749 .A2 O75 2007

 

Fisher, Louis and David Gray Adler.  American constitutional law. 7th ed.  KF4549 .F57 2007

 

Tushnet, Mark V.  Out of range: why the Constitution can't end the battle over guns.  KF3941 .T87 2007

 

Yackle, Larry W.  Regulatory rights: Supreme Court activism, the public interest, and the making of constitutional law.  KF4552 .Y33 2007

 

Contracts

 

Speidel, Richard E.  Contracts in crises: excuse doctrine and retrospective government acts.  KF832 .S64 2007

 

Corporations

 

Bagley, Constance E. and Craig E. Dauchy.  The entrepreneur's guide to business law. 3rd ed.  KF390 .B84 B34 2008

 

Cerioni, Luca.  EU corporate law and EU company tax law.  KJE2451 .C47 2007

 

Cross, Frank B. and Robert A. Prentice.  Law and corporate finance.  KF1428 .C76 2007

 

Paris, Carolyn E.C.  Drafting for corporate finance: what law school doesn't teach you.  KF1428 .Z9 P27 2007

 

Westbrook, David A.  Between citizen and state: an introduction to the corporation.  KF1414 .W47 2007

 

Courts

 

Newmyer, R. Kent.  The Supreme Court under Marshall and Taney. 2nd ed.  KF8742 .N49 2006

 

Criminal Law & Procedure

 

Dunn, Jennifer L.  Courting disaster: intimate stalking, culture, and criminal justice.  HV6594 .D86 2002

 

Waters, Tony.  When killing is a crime.  HV6515 .W33 2007

 

Death Penalty

 

DVD:  Race to execution.  Permanent Reserve/AV HV9950 .R33 2006x

 

Kudlac, Christopher S.  Public executions: the death penalty and the media.  Popular Reading Collection HV8699 .U6 K83 2007

 

Dispute Resolution

 

Lawrence, Robert Z.  The United States and the WTO dispute settlement system.  HF1385 .L38 2007

 

Pfetsch, Frank R.  Negotiating political conflicts.  JZ6045 .P44 2007

 

Economics

 

Benkler, Yochai.  The wealth of networks: how social production transforms markets and freedom.  HM851 .B457 2006

 

Michalowski, Sabine.  Unconstitutional regimes and the validity of sovereign debt: a legal perspective.  K4450 .M53 2007

 

Monti, Giorgio.  EC competition law.  KJE6456 .M66 2007

 

Education Law

 

Weinberg, Lawrence D.  Religious charter schools: legalities and practicalities.  KF4162 .W45 2007

 

Employment Law

 

Saunders, Diane M., chair.  Employment law for nonprofits.  KFM2611 .Z9 E47 2007

 

Schwartz, Harvey A., chair.  Employment law for public employees.  KFM2835.5 .Z9 E46 2007

 

Environmental Law

 

Fowler, Theda Braddock.  Wetlands: an introduction to ecology, the law, and permitting. 2nd ed.  KF5624 .B72 2007

 

Jaggard, Lyn.  Climate change politics in Europe: Germany and the international relations of the environment.  QC981.8 .C5 J34 2007

 

Kiss, Alexandre Charles and Dinah Shelton.  Guide to international environmental law.  K3585 .K5695 2007

 

Mintz, Joel A., Clifford Rechtschaffen and Robert Kuehn.  Environmental enforcement: cases and materials.  KF3775 .Z9 M56 2007

 

Taylor, Julie, chair.  Brownfields: legal and practical tips: how to get a good deal done.  KFM2780 .H39 B76 2006

 

Evidence

 

Mueller, Christopher B. and Laird C. Kirkpatrick.  Evidence. 3rd ed.  KF8935 .M836 2003

 

Family Law

 

Huettner, Susan A., chair.  Alimony summit 2007.  KFM2494 .Z9 A45 2007

 

Kiesel, Diane.  Domestic violence: law, policy and practice.  KF9320 .K54 2007

 

Foreign Law

 

Alford, William P., editor.  Raising the bar: the emerging legal profession in East Asia.  KNC50 .R35 2007

 

Alpa, Guido and Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich.  Italian private law.  KKH500 .A4876 2007

 

Bovis, Christopher.  EC public procurement: case law and regulation.  KJE5632 .B678 2006

 

Cownie, Fiona, Anthony Bradney, and Mandy Burton.  English legal system in context. 4th ed.  KD660 .C69 2007

 

Godoy, Angelina Snodgrass.  Popular injustice: violence, community, and law in Latin America.  HV6471 .G9 G63 2006

 

Leyland, Peter.  The constitution of the United Kingdom: a contextual analysis.  KD3989 .L49 2007

 

McCormick, John P.  Weber, Habermas, and transformations of the European state: constitutional, social, and supranational democracy.  JN30 .M384 2007

 

Vereshchagin, A. N.  Judicial law-making in post-Soviet Russia.  KLB1679 .V45 2007

 

Health Law

 

Gable, Lance, et al.  Legal aspects of HIV/AIDS: a guide for policy and law reform.  K3575 .A43 L436 2007

 

History

 

Burney, Ian A.  Poison, detection, and the Victorian imagination.  HV6555 .G7 B87 2006

 

Copeland, David A.  The idea of a free press: the Enlightenment and its unruly legacy.  PN4748 .G7 C59 2006

 

Hoffer, Williamjames.  To enlarge the machinery of government: congressional debates and the growth of the American state, 1858-1891.  JK246 .H84 2007

 

Mintz, Steven and John Stauffer, editors.  The problem of evil: slavery, freedom, and the ambiguities of American reform.  E441 .P957 2007

 

Weitz, Eric D.  Weimar Germany: promise and tragedy.  DD237 .W47 2007

 

Wolf, Eva Sheppard.  Race and liberty in the new nation: emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner's Rebellion.  E445 .V8 W65 2006

 

Human Rights

 

Goodale, Mark and Sally Engle Merry, editors.  The practice of human rights: tracking law between the global and the local.  K3240 .P72 2007

 

Hestermeyer, Holger.  Human rights and the WTO: the case of patents and access to medicines.  K3240 .H475 2007

 

James, Stephen Andrew.  Universal human rights: origins and development.  K3240 .J36 2007

 

Immigration Law