NEW BOOKS added April 2008


Boston College Law Library

 

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Administrative Law

 

Martinez, J. Michael and William D. Richardson.  Administrative ethics in the twenty-first century.  JF1525 .E8 M37 2008

 

Seerden, Rene, editor.  Administrative law of the European Union, its member states and the United States: a comparative analysis. 2nd ed.  K3400 .A935 2007

 

Agency

 

Story, Joseph.  Commentaries on the law of agency.  Rare Books KF1345 .S76 1839

 

Arts & Literature

 

DVD:  Trollope?s The way we live now.   Reference Area  Feature Film Collection

 

DuBoff, Leonard D.  Art law: cases and materials.  KF4288 .A7 .D83 2004

 

Kaufman, Roy S., editor.  Art law handbook.  KF4288 .A948 2000

 

Biography

 

Bennett, Robert S.  In the ring: the trials of a Washington lawyer.  Popular Reading Collection KF373 .B446 A3 2008

 

Civil Rights

 

Heyman, Steven J.  Free speech and human dignity.  KF4772 .H49 2008

 

Kirkland, Anna Rutherford.  Fat rights: dilemmas of difference and personhood.  KF4757.5 .O94 K57 2008

 

Nussbaum, Martha Craven.  Frontiers of justice: disability, nationality, species membership.  HM671 .N87 2006

 

Posner, Eric A.  Terror in the balance: security, liberty, and the courts.  KF5060 .P67 2007

 

Tsesis, Alexander.  We shall overcome: a history of civil rights and the law.  JC599 .U5 T74 2008

 

Commercial Law

 

Montefiore, Joshua.  A commercial dictionary: containing the present state of mercantile law, practice and custom. 1st American edition.  Rare Books KF887 .M66 1804

 

Communications Law

 

Gies, Lieve.  Law and the media: the future of an uneasy relationship.  KJC3655 .G54 2008

 

Comparative Law

 

Stepniak, Daniel.  Audio-visual coverage of courts.  K5001.5 .S84 2008

 

Constitutional Law

 

Brudner, Alan.  Constitutional goods.  K3165 .B785 2007

 

Fritz, Christian G.  American sovereigns: the people and America's Constitutional tradition before the Civil War.  KF4881 .F75 2008

 

Kersch, Kenneth Ira.  Constructing civil liberties: discontinuities in the development of American constitutional law.  KF4749 .K47 2004

 

Lewis, Anthony.  Freedom for the thought that we hate: a biography of the First Amendment.  KF4770 .L49 2007

 

Pinaire, Brian K.  The constitution of electoral speech law: the Supreme Court and freedom of expression in campaigns and elections.  KF4770 .P56 2008

 

Schmitt, Carl.  Constitutional theory.  KK4450 .S3613 2008

 

Shaman, Jeffrey M.  Equality and liberty in the golden age of state constitutional law.  KF4749 .S53 2008

 

Consumer Protection

 

Carroll, Stephen J., et al.  The effects of the changes in Chapter 7 debtors' lien-avoidance rights under the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005.  KF1539 .E34 2007

 

Contracts

 

Cherednychenko, Olha O.  Fundamental rights, contract law and the protection of the weaker party: a comparative analysis of the constitutionalisation of contract law, with emphasis on risky financial transactions.  KJC1720 .C44 2007

 

Flechtner, Harry M., Ronald A. Brand, and Mark S. Walter, editors.  Drafting contracts under the CISG.  K1031 .D73 2008

 

Lilleholt, Kare.  Lease of goods (PEL LG).  KJE1714 .L437 2008

 

Corporations

 

Landau, Allan J. and  Mark J. Tarallo, cochairs.  1st Annual Family and Closely Held Business Conference, 2008.  KFM2615 .C55 F36 2008

 

Roney, Nancy, chair.  Corporate practice for the paralegal.  KFM2613 .C677 2008

 

Courts

 

Abraham, Henry Julian.  Justices, presidents, and senators: a history of the U.S. Supreme Court appointments from Washington to Bush II. 5th ed.  KF8742 .A72 2008

 

Barton, Charles.  An historical treatise of a suit in equity: in which is attempted a scientific deduction of the proceedings used on the equity sides of the courts of Chancery and Exchequer, from the commencement of the suit to the decree and appeal, with occasional remarks of their import and efficacy.  Rare Books KD6873 .B29 1843

 

Dickson, Brice, editor.  Judicial activism in common law supreme courts.  K3367 .J825 2007

 

Maloy, Richard H. W.  America's supreme court: an unfinished symphony.  KF8748 .M283 2007

 

Marshall, Thomas R.  Public opinion and the Rehnquist court.  KF8748 .M286 2008

 

Wolf, Mark L., et al.  The U.S. District Court speaks: District of Massachusetts. 5th ed.  KFM2915 .Z9 U73 2008

 

Criminal Law & Procedure

 

Hunt, Pamela L. and Wayne R. Murphy, cochairs.  Criminal law 911: triage for the non-practitioner.  KFM2961 .A75 C75 2007

 

Wilkes, Donald E.  State postconviction remedies and relief handbook with forms. 2007-2008 edition.   KF9690 .Z95 W55 2007

 

Death Penalty

 

Brook, Timothy, Jerome Bourgon, and Gregory Blue.  Death by a thousand cuts.  HV8699 .C6 B76 2008

 

Dispute Resolution

 

Ouellette, Linda A. and Mark T. Smith, cochairs.  High-conflict clients, difficult cases.  KFM2500 .A75 H54 2007

 

Economics

 

Ariely, Dan.  Predictably irrational: the hidden forces that shape our decisions.  HB74 .P8 A75 2008

 

Jordan, Emma Coleman and Angela P. Harris.  Economic justice: race, gender, identity and economics : cases and materials.  KF385 .A4 J67 2005

 

Education Law

 

Kronman, Anthony T.  Education's end: why our colleges and universities have given up on the meaning of life.  AZ183 .U5 K76 2007

 

Olivas, Michael A. and Ronna Greff Schneider, editors.  Education law stories.  KF4119 .E48 2007

 

Elder Law

 

Freedman, Donald N., chair.  10th Annual Elder and Disability Law Conference, 2008.  KFM2741.5 .A34 E34 2008

 

Employment Law

 

Alfred, Richard L., et al.  Employment discrimination in Massachusetts.  KFM2734.5 .D5 E47 2008

 

Cohen, Nadine, et al.  Massachusetts wage and hours handbook.  KFM2734 .M39 2008

 

Romantz, Allison Kaplan, chair.  Hot topics in employment discrimination law.  KFM2734.5 .D5 H69 2008

 

Environmental Law

 

Douma, Wybe Th. and  M. Montini.  The Kyoto Protocol and beyond: legal and policy challenges of climate change.  QC981.8 .G56 K96 2007

 

Jans, J. H. and Hans H.B. Vedder.  European environmental law. 3rd ed.  KJE6242 .J36 2008

 

Schlosberg, David.  Defining environmental justice: theories, movements, and nature.  GE220 .S34 2007

 

Estate Planning & Probate

 

Peckham, Thomas E., chair.  Estate administration, post-mortem estate planning, and planning for the surviving spouse.  KFM2547 .A75 E88 2008

 

Evidence

 

Craik, Neil.  The international law of environmental impact assessment: process, substance and integration.  K3585 .C73 2008

 

Krupp, Peter B., chair.  Confidentiality and impoundment: the challenges they present.  KFM2941.2 .A75 C66 2008

 

Lempert, Richard O., editor.  Evidence stories.  KF8934 .E944 2006 

 

Lissitzyn, Christine Beck.  Forensic evidence in court: a case study approach.  KF9674 .L55 2008

 

Walton, Douglas N.  Witness testimony evidence: argumentation, artificial intelligence, and law.  K213 .W355 2008

 

Family Law

 

Bassil, Janice, Gene D. Dahmen, and John A. Fiske, chairs.  11th Annual Family Law Conference, 2008.  KFM2494 .Z9 F3515 2008

 

McCue, Margi Laird.  Domestic violence: a reference handbook. 2nd ed.  HV6626.2 .M43 2008

 

Food & Drug Law

 

Masson-Matthee, Marielle D.  The Codex Alimentarius Commission and its standards.  K3626 .M37 2007

 

McMahon, Joseph A.  EU agricultural law.  KJE6605 .M39 2007

 

Foreign Law

 

Hancher, Leigh, Tom Ottervanger, and Piet Jan Slot.  EC state aids.  KJE6437 .H36 2006

 

Hix, Simon.  What's wrong with the European Union and how to fix it.  JN30 .H59 2008

 

Mohammadi, Majid.  Judicial reform and reorganization in 20th century Iran: state-building, modernization, and Islamicization.  KMH1572 .M64 2008

 

Nethercott, Frances.  Russian legal culture before and after communism: criminal justice, politics, and the public sphere.  KLB3950 .N48 2007

 

Seymour, Mark.  Debating divorce in Italy: marriage and the making of modern Italians, 1860-1974.  HQ893 .S49 2006

 

Watkin, Thomas Glyn.  The legal history of Wales.  KD9430 .W37 2007

 

Weidenfeld, Werner.  Understanding the European constitution.  KJE4445 .W54 2007

 

History

 

Bacon, Francis.  Opuscula varia posthuma, philosophica, civilia, et theologica.  Rare Books Bacon B11551663

 

Donahue, Charles.  Law, marriage, and society in the later Middle Ages: arguments about marriage in five courts.  KJC1100 .D66 2007

 

Humfress, Car