NEW BOOKS added November 2007


Boston College Law Library

 

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Administrative Law

 

Croley, Steven P.  Regulation and public interests: the possibility of good regulatory government.  K3840 .C76 2008

 

Huber, Gregory Alain.  The craft of bureaucratic neutrality: interests and influence in governmental regulation of occupational safety.  KF3570 .H83 2007

 

Arts & Literature

 

DVD:  Double indemnity.  Reference Area Feature Film Collection 

 

DVD:  Knocked up.  Reference Area Feature Film Collection

 

DVD:  The Thomas Crown affair.   Reference Area Feature Film Collection

 

Cunningham, Richard B.  Archaeology, relics, and the law. 2nd ed.  KF4310 .C86 2005

 

Dickens, Charles.  Bleak house.  Popular Reading Collection PR4556 .A2 B58 2006

 

Dolin, Kieran.  A critical introduction to law and literature.  PN56 .L33 D65 2007

 

Hoffman, Barbara T.  Art and cultural heritage: law, policy, and practice.  K3791 .A97 2006

 

Kafka, Franz.  The trial.  Popular Reading Collection PT2621 .A26 P713 1998

 

Lee, Harper.  To kill a mockingbird.  Popular Reading Collection PS3562 .E353 T6 2006

 

Banking & Finance

 

Truman, Edwin M., editor.  Reforming the IMF for the 21st century.  HG3881.5 .I58 R444 2006

 

Wood, Philip.  International loans, bonds, guarantees, legal opinions. 2nd ed.  K1005.4 .W662 2007 vol. 3

 

Wood, Philip.  The law and practice of international finance series. Vols. 1-7.     K1005.4 .W662 2007

 

Wood, Philip.  Project finance, securitisations, subordinated debt. 2nd ed.  K1005.4 .W662 2007 vol. 5

 

Wood, Philip.  Regulation of international finance.  K1005.4 .W662 2007 vol. 7

 

 

Bankruptcy

 

Frey, Martin A., Phyllis Hurley Frey, and Sidney K. Swinson.  An introduction to bankruptcy law. 5th ed.  KF1524 .F74 2007

 

Rasmussen, Robert K., editor.  Bankruptcy law stories.  KF1524 .B356 2007

 

Wessels, Bob.  Cross-border insolvency law: international instruments and commentary.  K1375 .C767 2007

 

Wood, Philip.  Principles of international insolvency. 2nd ed.  K1005.4 .W662 2007 vol. 1

 

 

Biography

 

Rosenblatt, Jason Philip.  Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi: John Selden.  BM755 .S385 R67 2006

 

Civil Rights

 

Gearty, C. A.  Civil liberties.  K3240 .G43 2007

 

Jeffries, John Calvin, et al.  Civil rights actions: enforcing the Constitution. 2nd ed.  KF1325 .C58 L69 2007

 

Commercial Law

 

Sparrow, Andrew Peter.  Music distribution and the Internet: a legal guide for the music business.  K3780 .S67 2006

 

Communications Law

 

Boykoff, Jules.  Beyond bullets: the suppression of dissent in the United States.  KF4770 .B69 2007

 

Comparative Law

 

Glenn, H. Patrick.  Legal traditions of the world: sustainable diversity in law. 3rd ed.  K559 .G545 2007

 

Computer Law

 

Hart, Jonathan D.  Internet law: a field guide.  KF2750 .H37 2006

 

Solove, Daniel J.  The future of reputation: gossip, rumor, and privacy on the Internet.  K3264 .C65 S65 2007

 

Constitutional Law

 

DVD:  The First Amendment project.  Permanent Reserve/AV  KF4772 .F57 2005

 

Busch, Andrew.  The Constitution on the campaign trail: the surprising political career of America's founding document.  KF4552 .B87 2007

 

Depart, Paul R.  Uncovering the Constitution's moral design.  KF4552 .D44 2007

 

Holton, Woody.  Unruly Americans and the origins of the Constitution.  KF4541 .H58 2007

 

Kuhn, Martin.  Federal dataveillance: implications for constitutional privacy protections.  KF1263 .C65 K84 2007

 

Schwarz, Frederick A. O. and  Aziz Z. Huq.  Unchecked and unbalanced: presidential power in a time of terror.  Popular Reading Collection KF5060 .S39 2007

 

Consumer Protection

 

Howells, Geraint G., Hans-W. Micklitz, and Thomas Wilhelmsson.  European fair trading law: the unfair commercial practices directive.  KJE6536 .H69 2006

 

Corporations

 

Schocket, Andrew M.  Founding corporate power in early national Philadelphia.  HD2798.5 .P4 S36 2007

 

Courts

 

Abramson, Bruce D.  The secret circuit: the little-known court where the rules of the information age unfold.  KF8751 .A97 2007

 

Bybee, Keith J., editor.  Bench press: the collision of courts, politics, and the media.  KF5130 .B46 2007

 

La Cour internationale de Justice = International Court of Justice.  KZ6273 .C687 2006

 

Lewis, Thomas T., editor.  The U.S. Supreme Court.  KF8742 .U5 2007

 

Criminal Law & Procedure

 

Bantekas, Ilias.  International criminal law. 3rd ed.  K5165 .B36 2007

 

Fournet, Caroline.  The crime of destruction and the law of genocide: their impact on collective memory.  K5302 .F67 2007

 

Lewis, Penney.  Assisted dying and legal change.  K5178 .L49 2007

 

Wall, David.  Cybercrime: the transformation of crime in the information age.  HV6773 .W335 2007

 

Zahar, Alexander and G�ran Sluiter.  International criminal law: a critical introduction.  K5165 .Z34 2008

 

Dispute Resolution

 

Menkel-Meadow, Carrie, Lela Porter Love, and Andrea Kupfer Schneider.  Mediation: practice, policy, and ethics.  KF9084 .A7 M4566 2006

 

Economics

 

Arner, Douglas W.  Financial stability, economic growth, and the role of law.  HB3722 .A76 2007

 

Marshall, Kevin Scott.  Administered protection: the political economy of U.S. countervailing duty and antidumping regulation.  KF6708 .D8 M37 2006

 

Education Law

 

Bloomfield, David C.  American public education law primer.  KF4119.8 .E3 B56 2007

 

Cambron-McCabe, Nelda H., Martha M. McCarthy, and Stephen B. Thomas.  Public school law: teachers' and students' rights. 5th ed.  KF4119 .M38 2004

 

Employment Law

 

Countouris, Nicola.  The changing law of the employment relationship: comparative analyses in the European context.  KJC2855 .C68 2007

 

Njoya, Wanjiru.  Property in work: the employment relationship in the Anglo-American firm.  KD3009 .N55 2007

 

Environmental Law

 

DVD:  Libby, Montana.  Permanent Reserve/AV TD887 .A8 L53 2005

 

Holder, Jane and Donald McGillivray, editors.  Taking stock of environmental assessment: law, policy and practice.  K3585 .T35 2007

 

McIntyre, Owen.  Environmental protection of international watercourses under international law.  KZ3700 .M38 2007

 

Wagner, Wendy.  Commons ignorance: the failure of environmental law to provide the information needed to protect public health and the environment.  KF3775 .W34 2007

 

Wenner�s, P�l.  The enforcement of EC environmental law.  KJE6242 .W46 2007

 

Estate Planning & Probate

 

DVD:  Born rich.  Permanent Reserve/AV GT3430 .B67 2003

 

Family Law

 

Strasser, Mark Philip, Traci C. West, Martin Dupuis, and William A. Thompson, editors.  Defending same-sex marriage.  HQ1034 .U5 D44 2007

 

Wardle, Lynn D. and Camille S. Williams.  Family law: balancing interests and pursuing priorities: selected from papers presented at the 12th World Conference of the International Society of Family Law, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 19-23, 2005.  K670 .A6 F36 2007

 

Foreign Law

 

Barnard, Catherine.  The substantive law of the EU: the four freedoms. 2nd ed.  KJE5170 .B37 2007

 

Harris, Phil.  An introduction to law. 7th ed.  KD661 .H37 2007

 

McPherson, B. H.  The reception of English law abroad.  KD661 .M54 2007

 

Sidorenko, Olga Ferguson.  The common European asylum system: background, current state of affairs, future direction.  KJE5202 .S53 2007

 

Waluchow, Wilfrid J.  A common law theory of judicial review: the living tree.  KE4248 .W35 2007

 

History

 

Petrulionis, Sandra Harbert.  To set this world right: the antislavery movement in Thoreau's Concord.  E445 .M4 P48 2006

 

Simon, James F.  Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: slavery, secession, and the president's war powers.  KF4545 .S5 S55 2006

 

Zavodnyik, Peter.  The age of strict construction: a history of the growth of federal power, 1789-1861.  JK171 .Z39 2007

 

Housing Law

 

Leckie, Scott, editor.  Housing, land, and property restitution rights of refugees and displaced persons: laws, cases, and materials.  K920 .H68 2007

 

Human Rights

 

Freeman, Mark.  Truth commissions and procedural fairness.  JC580 .F74 2006

 

Harrison, James.  The human rights impact of the World Trade Organisation.  K3240 .H377 2007

 

McNamara, Luke.  Human rights controversies: the impact of legal form.  K3240 .M388 2007

 

Newlands, G. M.  Christ and human rights: the transformative engagement.  BT738.15 .N49 2006

 

Perry, Michael J.  Toward a theory of human rights: religion, law, courts.  JC571 .P4215 2007