April 2026 New Books & Resources

In April 2026, 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

• Art, Antiquity and Law
• Environmental Law & Policy
• McGill Institute of Air & Space
• Organization of American States

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.

In April 2026, the Law Library added the following new titles to the collection to support the research and curricular needs of our faculty and students.

CIVIL LAW

1. Vitiello, Michael, Animating Civil Procedure (2026).

CIVIL RIGHTS – GENERALLY

1. Kramer, Matthew H., Legal Rights and Moral Rights (2025).
2. Spriggs, Kent, More Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers: Continuing the Struggle (2024).

COMMUNICATION LAW

1. Romig, Murphy, Jennifer & Mark Edwin Burge, Legal Literacy and Communication Skills: Working with Law and Lawyers (2025).

CONSTITUTION LAW – GENERALLY

1. Lepore, Jill, We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution (2025).

CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE

1. Brown, Novick, Natalie, Stephen Greenspan, & Karen Steele, The Parkland School Shooter: Culpability and FASD (2024).
2. Alkon, Cynthia & Andrea Kupfer Schneider, Negotiating Crime: Plea Bargaining, Problem Solving, and Dispute Resolution in the Criminal Context (2026).

DOMESTICS RELATIONS

1. Lawhon, Paula M., Effectively Steering the Ship: A Case Management Manual for Family Law Mediators (2026).

ECONOMICS

1. Potts, Shaina, Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Explanation of American Empire (2024).

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

1. Stoett, Peter, & Delon Alain Omrow, Ecoviolence Studies: Human Exploitation and Environmental Crime (2025).

GENDER

1. Ahranjani, Maryam, Women in Criminal Law: A Practical Guide for Inclusive and Thriving Workplaces (2026).
2. Lehn, Melody & Camille K. Lewis, One Hundred Years of Women Debating the Equal Rights Amendment: An Anthology, 1923-2023 (2024).

HEALTH LAW AND POLICY

1. Bose, Meena, Pragmatic Vision: Obama and the Enactment of the Affordable Care Act (2024).
2. Wolfensberger, Markus & Anthony Wrigley, Distrust, Fear, and Science- Denial in Medicine and Healthcare (2025).
3. Wiley, Lindsay F. & Lawrence O. Gostin, Public Health La and Ethics: Power, Duty, Restraint (2025).

HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

1. Wojciechowski, Bartosz, Narrative Identity as a Condition for Authentic Legal Subjectivity (2024).

IMMIGRATION LAW

1. Chamberlain, Jacob P., Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal: Rights, Law, and Resistance Against Territory’s Exclusions (2025).

INDIAN AND ABORIGINAL LAW

1. Gaines-Stoner, Kelly, & Jack F. Trope, The Indian Child Welfare Act Handbook: A Legal Guide to the Custody and Adoption of Native American Children (2025).
2. Dixon, Bradley J., Republic of Indians: Empires of Indigenous Law in the Early Americans South (2025).

JURISPRUDENCE

1. Bertea, Stefano, &  Jorge Silva Sampaio, Metaethical Issues in Contemporary Legal Philosophy: A Constitutivist Approach (2025).

LEGAL ANALYSIS AND WRITING

1. Cameron, Catherine J., & Lance N. Long, The Science Behind the Art of Legal Writing (2019).
2. Shecaira, Fabio Perin, Legal Scholarship As a Source of Law (2024).

LEGAL EDUCATION

1. Solan, Lawrence M., Peter M. Tiersma, & Tammy Gales, Speaking of Crime: The Language of Criminal Justice (2025).

LEGAL HISTORY

1. Hodwitz, Omi, The Origins of the Criminal Justice System: Historical Explorations by the Justice-Involved (2025).
2. Widener, Michael & Ryan Greenwood, Histories of Legal Literature: A Hundred Years of English-Language Scholarship (2024).

LEGAL PROFESSION

1. Frederick, David C., The Art of Oral Advocacy (2019).

LEGISLATION

1. Tappendorf, Julie A., Social Media and Local Governments: Navigating the New Public Square (2026).

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

1. Davies, Alex, The Law Firm of 2030: How the Future Law Firm Might Look (2025).
2. Epstein, Lynn A., & Elena Maria Marty-Nelson, Empowering Negotiators: Bargaining Successfully Using the TABLE Method (2026).

PROPERTY – PERSONAL AND REAL

1. Richmond, Douglas R., The Reference handbook on the Homeowners Insurance Policy (2025).

PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY

1. Holtermann, Jakob v. H., Mario Kresic, & Marko Novak, Legal Consciousness (2025).
2. Moon, Richard, The Life and Death of Freedom of Expression (2024).
3. Zeifert, Mateusz, Law and Cognitive Linguistics: A Prototype Theory Approach to Legal Categorisation (2025).
4. Olsthoorn, Johan, Hobbes on Justice (2024).

RACE AND ETHNICITY

1. Heffernan, William C., Social Justice/Criminal Justice: Race and Class in the Administration of Criminal Law (2024).
2. Inniss, Lolita Buckner, & Bridget J. Crawford, Social Movements and the Law: Talking About Black Lives Matter and #MeToo (2025).

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

1. Rajan, Mira T. Sundara, The Moral Rights of Artists and Artists: From Birth to Copyright to the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2025).
2. Leeuw, Frans. L. & Michael Bamberger, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data: Lessons from Evaluations of the Rule of Law and Development (2025).
3. Gu, Jun & Chunming Xu, Will and Responsibility: Legal Thinking of Artificial Intelligence (2024).
4. Kreuz, Roger, Strikingly Similar: Plagiarism and Appropriation from Chaucer to Chatbots (2026).
5. Kasy, Maximilian, The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (And Who Benefits) 2025.
6. Murray, Michael D., Artificial Intelligence and the Practice of Law: Mastering Generative and Agentic AI (2026).
7. Holt, Jennifer, Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data (2024).
8. Reed, Chris, AI Fairness and Beyond: Law, Regulation, and Technology (2024).
9. Schifeling, Jeremy, Unbreakable: How to AI-Proof Your Job Search, Career, and Future (2026).

SPORTS

1. Koller, Dionne, More than Play: How Law, Policy, and Politics Shape American Youth Sports (2025).

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

1. Banner, Stuart, The Most Powerful Court in the World: A History of the Supreme Court of the United States (2025).

TAXATION – STATE AND LOCAL

1. Madoff, Ray D., The Second Estates: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy (2025).

TORTS

1. Barker, Tom, Policing’s Problems in the Twenty-First Century: Misconduct, Malfeasance, and Murder (2025).

All of these books 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.  Library staff will be able to assist in locating and checking out any of these items.