March 2024 New Resources

In March 2024, the Law Library added the following new resources to the collection to support the research and curricular needs of our faculty and students.

New Resources

Bibliography of American Law School Casebooks – A comprehensive list of law school casebooks published in the United States from 1871 through present. Arranged by more than 200 subject categories and indexed by subject, author, title, publisher, and series.

West Academic Casebooks Archive – This archive brings together thousands of casebooks from West, one of the most prominent legal publishers in the United States. Divided into four series, these casebooks form the backbone of U.S. legal instruction.

New Books

CIVIL RIGHTS, GENERALLY

1. Dan Abrams and Fred D. Gray, with David Fisher, Alabama v. King:  Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial that Launched the Civil Rights Movement (2022).

2. Margaret A. Burnham, By Hands Now Known:  Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners (2022).

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

3. Tad Crawford and M. J. Bogatin, Legal Guide for the Visual Artist (2022).

JURISPRUDENCE

4. Piotr Bystranowski, Bartosz Janik, and Maciej Prochnicki, eds., Judicial Decision-Making:  Integrating Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives (2022).

LEGAL ANALYSIS AND WRITING

5. Megan McAlpin, Beyond the First Draft:  Editing Strategies for Powerful Legal Writing (2024).

6. David L. Horan, Bad Words:  A Legal Writer’s Guide to What Not to Say (2024).

LEGAL EDUCATION

7. C. Raj Kumar and S.G. Sreejith, eds., Legal Education and Legal Profession During and After COVID-19 (2022).

8. Douglas W. Lind, Bibliography of American Law School Casebooks, 1870-2018 (2020).

NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

9. Shane T. Hamilton and Bruce R. Hopkins, The Tax Law of Private Foundations (2024).

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

10. Abdi Aidid and Benjamin Alarie, The Legal Singularity:  How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better (2023).

STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT LAW

11. Gary Bugh, Incorporation of the Bill of Rights:  An Accounting of the Supreme Court’s Extension of Federal Civil Liberties to the States (2023).

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

12. Lee Epstein, et al, The Supreme Court Compendium:  Two Centuries of Data, Decisions, and Developments (2021).

13. Lisa Sarnoff Gochman, At the Altar of the Appellate Gods:  Arguing Before the US Supreme Court:  A Memoir (2022).

14. James M. Masnov, Rights Reign Supreme:  An Intellectual History of Judicial Review and the Supreme Court (2023).

All resources are available from the Law Library.  If you would like to check out any of these titles, please contact the circulation desk at either 806-742-3957 or circulation.law@ttu.edu. 

All electronic databases are available through the Library’s webpage, http://www.depts.ttu.edu/law/lawlibrary/index.php.   

Library staff will be able to assist in locating and checking out any of these items or helping you contact the Librarian on call for questions about electronic resources.