Databases – The Reporter

May 2024 New Resources

In May 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

The following are all new HeinOnline resources that were added in May 2024.

Air and Space Law – Explore the multitude of ways humans interact with and explore the earthly skies and distant reaches of outer space with this fully subject-coded collection of books, documents, reports, and more.

Animal Studies: Law, Welfare and Rights – This collection aims to establish the foundational laws pertaining to animals and follow the evolution of these rights. Includes publications from the Animal Legal Defense Fund and Animal Welfare Institute.

Buddhism, Law & Society – Offers full access from inception to current issue of Buddhism and the Law, the first interdisciplinary academic journal focusing on the relationship between Buddhism, law, and society.

Business and Legal Aspects of Sports and Entertainment (BLASE) – A comprehensive, award-winning overview of sports and entertainment law, featuring thousands of topic-coded articles, hundreds of topic-coded cases, government documents, court decisions, and scope notes.

Edward Elgar Publishing Law Package – Current content and archives of 14 key legal titles from Edward Elgar Publishing, a leading international academic and professional publisher with a strong focus on the social sciences and legal fields.

History of Capital Punishment – Includes both database and PDF versions of the Eugene G. Wanger and Marilyn M. Wanger Death Penalty Collection: A Descriptive Bibliography, as well as hundreds of hearings, trials, periodicals, and more.

Intellectual Property Law Collection – Legislative histories, treatises, books, periodicals, and more relating to copyrights, patents, and trademarks. Includes the Federal Communications Commission Record and Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure.

Labor and Employment: The American Worker – Explore the plight and successes of America’s working class with an editorialized collection of more than 10,000 titles that illuminate the history of labor conditions and employment law in the United States.

Medicine and Law – An international publication dealing with medico-legal issues. Comprised of original articles, court decisions, and legislation on topics including medical ethics, clinical criminology, pharmaceutical law, and more.

Review of Banking and Financial Law – The first and one of the country’s leading scholarly banking and financial law journal. Prepared under the auspices of the Graduate Program in Banking & Financial Law of the Boston University School of Law.

New Books

ANIMAL LAW

1. David S. Favre, Animal Law: Welfare, Interests, and Rights (2020).

BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

2. Arthur A. Ballantine, et al., Some Legal Phases of Corporate Financing, Reorganization and Regulation, 1926-1930 (1931).

CIVIL RIGHTS, GENERALLY

3. Susan N. Herman, Advanced Introduction to US Civil Liberties (2023).

CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE

4. John Wesley Hall, Jr., Professional Responsibility in Criminal Defense Practice (2023).

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

5. Joshua Ozymy and Melissa Jarrell Ozymy, Toxic Intent: Environmental Harm, Corporate Crime, and the Criminal Enforcement of Federal Environmental Laws in the United States (2023).

ESTATES AND TRUSTS

6. Richard L. Hermann, Elder Law: Riding the Age Wave (2017).

EVIDENCE

7. Peter Goodrich, Judicial Uses of Images: Vision in Decision (2023).

HEALTH LAW AND POLICY

8. Christina S. Ho, Normalizing an American Right to Health (2023).

INSURANCE LAW

9. Richard G. Liskov, U.S. Insurance Regulation: A Primer (2023).

JURISPRUDENCE

10. Jay M. Feinman, Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About American Law (2023).

LEGAL ANALYSIS AND WRITING

11. Richard C. Wydick and Amy E. Sloan, Plain English for Lawyers (2024).

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

12. Patrick Emery Longan, Daisy Hurst Floyd, and Timothy W. Floyd, The Formation of Professional Identity: The Path from Student to Lawyer (2023).

PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

13. Michael S. Ariens, The Lawyer’s Conscience: A History of American Lawyer Ethics (2023).

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

14. Aleš Završnik and Katja Simončič, eds., Artificial Intelligence, Social Harms and Human Rights (2023).

15. Simone Kuhlmann, et al., eds., Transparency or Opacity: A Legal Analysis of the Organization of Information in the Digital World (2023).

SOCIAL WELFARE

16. Laura Riley, Homeless Advocacy (2023).

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

17. Rachael B. Houston, Timothy R. Johnson, and Eve M. Ringsmuth, Scotus and Covid: How the Media Reacted to the Livestreaming of Supreme Court Oral Arguments (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.

Summer 2023 New Resources

During Summer 2023, 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

Bloomberg BNA Law Reports (Archive) – Bloomberg BNA’s Law Reports archives pre-1996 BNA materials. Archives are arranged by the different practicing subject matters.

HeinOnline’s Voting Rights & Election Law – This collection is devoted to the electoral process: how elections are conducted, the strategy and controversies of political campaigns, how votes are counted, and who is allowed to vote. It contains content on historical and more recent elections, as well as elections conducted both in the United States and from around the world.

HeinOnline’s U.S. Congressional Serial Set — The United States Congressional Serial Set, commonly referred to as the Serial Set, is considered the most essential publication for unveiling American history. Spanning more than two centuries, the records in this series include House and Senate Documents, House and Senate Reports, the American State Papers, and much more. The Serial Set is indexed and contains full-text coverage from inception to date.

New Books

EVIDENCE

1. Anthony J Bocchino, JoAnne A. Epps, and David A. Sonenshein, 101 Vignettes for Improving Trial Evidence Skills (2023).

LEGAL EDUCATION

2. Aliza Wong, Sean Cunningham, Terry Greenberg, and B. Lynn Whitfield, eds., 100 Years, 100 Voices: Texas Tech University (2022).

LEGAL PROFESSION

3. David R. McClean, Strategic Planning: As Simple as A, B, C (2015).

LEGAL RESEARCH AND LIBRARIES

4. Elizabeth G. Adelman and Jessica de Perio Wittman, eds., Organizational Structures of Academic Law Libraries: Past, Present, and Future (2023).

5. Jean M. Converse and Stanley Presser, Survey Questions: Handcrafting the Standardized Questionnaire (1986).

PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

6. Peter M. Shane, Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency (2022).

PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

7. Peter J. Henning, The Prosecution and Defense of Public Corruption: The Law and Legal Strategies (2015).

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.

August 2021 New Resources

In August 2021, 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

HeinOnline’s Open Society Justice Initiative

HeinOnline has provided a new database, Open Society Justice Initiative. The Open Society Justice Initiative, part of the Open Society Foundations, was established in 2003 to provide expert legal support for Open Society’s broader mission and values through strategic human rights litigation and other legal work. The Justice Initiative publishes reports, handbooks, briefing papers, legal and policy submissions, and fact sheets exploring and advocating on issues of human rights and justice.

New Books

ADMIRALTY

Felicity G. Attard, The Duty of the Shipmaster to Render Assistance at Sea Under International Law (2020).

ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE LAW AND LEGISLATION

Woodrow Barfield, ed., The Cambridge Handbook of the Law of Algorithms (2021).

BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

Grant M. Hayden and Matthew T. Bodie, Reconstructing the Corporation: From Shareholder Primacy to Shared Governance (2020).

CONTRACTS

Edward Yorio and Steve Thel, Contract Enforcement: Specific Performance and Injunctions (2011).

CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE

Glen Sample Ely, Murder in Montague: Frontier Justice and Retribution in Texas (2020).

DOMESTIC RELATIONS

Mark A. Chinn, Forms, Checklists, and Procedures for the Family Lawyer (2021).

HEALTH LAW AND POLICY

W. Andrew H. Gantt III, ed., Healthcare Cybersecurity (2021).

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

Michelle M. Wu, Rebalancing Copyright: Considering Technology’s Impact on Libraries and the Public Interest (2021).

Theodore H. Davis, Jr., Jay Erstling, and Megan Miller, What is a Trademark (2021).

JUDGES

Mary Theresa Vasquez and Anthony Head, From the Texas Cotton Fields to the United States Tax Court: The Life Journey of Juan F. Vasquez (2021).

LEGAL EDUCATION

Melissa A. Wong, Instructional Design for LIS Professionals: A Guide for Teaching Librarians and Information Science Professionals (2019).

LEGAL RESEARCH AND LIBRARIES

Rebecca Tolley, A Trauma-Informed Approach to Library Services (2020).

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE

Barak Cohen, ed., with Michael C. Bleicher, Cannabis Law: A Primer on Federal and State Law Regarding Marijuana, Hemp, and CBD (2021).

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

Alan S. Gutterman, Business and Human Rights: Advising Clients on Respecting and Fulfilling Human Rights (2020).

Theda C. Snyder, Women Rainmakers’ Best Marketing Tips (2021).

Jennifer K. Robbennolt and Jean R. Sternlight, Psychology for Lawyers: Understanding the Human Factors in Negotiation, Litigation, and Decision Making (2021).

Nancy Harris Vaidik and Rebecca Diaz-Bonilla, Point Well Made: Persuasive Oral Advocacy (2021).

James H. Fierberg, A Civility-Based Model for New Lawyers: Understanding Your Moral Compass, Interpersonal Skills, and Ethical Inventory Before Practicing Law (2021).

SEXUAL ORIENTATION

Kevin Leo Yabut Nadal, Queering Law and Order: LGBTQ Communities and the Criminal Justice System (2020).

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.

2020 October New Resources

In October 2020, 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

HeinOnline Civil Rights and Social Justice database

Civil Rights and Social Justice (HeinOnline) – HeinOnline’s Civil Rights and Social Justice database brings together a diverse offering of publications covering civil rights in the United States as their legal protections and definitions are expanded to cover more and more Americans. Containing hearings and committee prints, legislative histories on the landmark legislation, CRS and GAO reports, briefs from major Supreme Court cases, and publications from the Commission on Civil Rights, this database allows users to educate themselves on the ways our civil rights have been strengthened and expanded over time, as well as how these legal protections can go further still. A varied collection of books on many civil rights topics and a list of prominent civil rights organizations help take the research beyond HeinOnline.

New Books

EVIDENCE

1. David A. Schlueter and Stephen A. Saltzburg, Texas Rules of Evidence Trial Book: Objections, Offers of Proof, Rulings on the Record, and Limiting Instructions (2020).

2. Charles B. Gibbons, A Student’s Guide to Trial Objections (2018).

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

3. Theodore H. Davis, Jr., ed., A Legal Strategist’s Guide to Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Practice (2020).

LEGAL EDUCATION

4. Bryan A. Garner, ed., Black’s Law Dictionary (2019).

5. Lisa M. Nunn, 33 Simple Strategies for Faculty: A Week-By-Week Resource for Teaching First-Year and First-Generation Students (2019).

6. Michelle D. Miller, Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology (2014).

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.

June 2020 New Resources

2020 June new books

In June 2020, 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

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AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE (AEI) – Our newest HeinOnline resource is the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). The AEI was founded in 1938 for the purpose of “bringing about a greater public knowledge and understanding of the social and economic advantages accruing to the American people through the maintenance of the system of free, competitive enterprise.” A public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C., AEI scholars conduct original research that advocates for free enterprise and focuses on the world economy, U.S. foreign policy and international security, and domestic political and social issues. The American Enterprise Institute database brings AEI’s collection of scholarship to HeinOnline, providing access to works published by the Institute in HeinOnline’s fully-searchable image-based format. Unique to this collection is the ability to search by Policy Area.

New Books

CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE

Melba Pearson, ed., Can They Do That? (2020).

IMMIGRATION LAW

Michael A. Olivas, Perchance to DREAM: A Legal and Political History of the DREAM Act and DACA (2020).

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Guidance on Preparing for Workplaces for COVID-19 (2020).

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

Eduardo Salas, Ramon Rico and Jonathan Passmore, eds., The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Team Working and Collaborative Processes (2020).

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.