January 2025 New Books

In January 2025, the Law Library added the following new titles to the collection to support the research and curricular needs of our faculty and students.

CIVIL RIGHTS, GENERALLY

HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

INSURANCE LAW

LEGAL ANALYSIS AND WRITING

LEGAL EDUCATION

LEGAL HISTORY

LEGISLATION

PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY

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.

October 2024 New Books

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

AGRICULTURE LAW

1. Loka L. Ashwood, et.al., Empty Fields, Empty Promises: a State-by-State Guide to Understanding and Transforming the Right to Farm (2024).

2. Xaq Frohlich, From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age (2023)

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

1. Marianne Mason, Police Interrogation, Language, and the Law : The Invocation Game (2004).

2. Dickens and His Lawyers (2023).

BANKRUPTCY LAW

1. Daniel Platt, The Price of Misfortune : Rights and Wrongs in Indebted America (2023).

CIVIL RIGHTS, GENERALLY

1. Adam Chilton and Kyle Rozema, Trial By Numbers : a Lawyer’s Guide to Statistical Evidence (2024).

CONTRACTS

1. Kit Burden, Mark O’Conor, and Duncan Pithouse, Negotiating Technology Contracts (2023).

2. Damian Clifford, Kwan Ho Lau, and Jeannie Marie Paterson, Data and Private Law (2023).

CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE

1. Dominik Zajac, Non-State Actors Law-Making and Domestic Criminal Law (2024).

2. Anthea Hucklesby and Raymond Holts, eds., Tracking People : Wearable Technologies in Social and Public Policy (2024).

3. Sanaz Alasti, Judicial Corporal Punishment as an Alternative to Incarceration in the United States : Lessons Learned from Islamic Criminal Justice Systems (2023).

4. Miriam H. Baer, Myths and Misunderstandings in White-Collar Crime (2023).

ECONOMICS

1. Matthew Titolo, Privatization and Its Discontents : Infrastructure, Law, and American Democracy (2023).

EDUCATION LAW

1. George Fisher, Beware Euphoria : the Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America’s War on Drugs (2024).

2. Allyson Mower, Developing Authorship and Copyright Ownership Policies : Best Practice (2024).

3. James R. Stoner Jr., Paul O. Carrese, and Carol McNamara, eds., Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity in Higher Education (2023).

4. Michelle L. Boettcher and Cristobal Salinas Jr., Law and Ethics in Academic and Student Affairs : Developing an Institutional Intelligence Approach (2024).

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

1. Madison Powers, A Livable Planet : Human Rights in the Global Economy (2024).

2. Yoshifumi Tanaka, Rachael Lorna Johnstone, and Vibe Ulfbeck, The Routledge Handbook of Polar Law (2023).

FIRST AMENDMENT

1. Cass R. Sunstein, Campus Free Speech : a Pocket Guide (2024).

FOOD AND DRUG LAW

1. Toby Seddon, Rethinking Drug Laws : Theory, History, Politics (2023).

GENDER

1. Kimberly Tao, Legal Categorization of “Transgender” : An Analysis of Statutory Interpretation of “Sex”, “Man”, and “Woman” in Transgender Jurisprudence (2024).

2. Sara Chatfield, In Her Own Name : the Politics of Women’s Rights Before Suffrage (2023).

HEALTH LAW AND POLICY

1. Susan Marie Sterett, Litigating the Pandemic : Disaster Cascades in Court (2023).

2. Donald H. Romano, Stark : a Practitioner’s Guide (2023).

3. Stefania Achella and Chantal Marazia, eds., Vulnerabilities : Rethinking Medicine Rights and Humanities in Post-Pandemic (2023).

IMMIGRATION LAW

1. Sarah Tosh, The Immigration Law Death Penalty : Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance (2023).

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

1. Steven D. Jamar and Lateef Mtima, eds., Cambridge Handbook of Intellectual Property and Social Justice (2024).

INTERNATIONAL LAW

1. Ruth Margaret Buchanan, Luis Eslava, and Sundhya Pahuja, The Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development (2023).

2. M. Basheer Ahmed Khan and Kaushal Kishore, Policies, Practices, and Protocols for International Commercial Arbitration (2023).

LEGAL HISTORY

1. John Robertson, ed., Time, History, and Political Thought (2024).

LEGAL PROFESSION

1. Daniel Newman, ed., Leading Works On the Legal Profession (2024).

2. Morgan L. W. Hazelton, Rachael K. Hinkle, and Michael J. Nelson, The Elevator Effect : Contact and Collegiality in the American Judiciary (2023).

3. James J. Brosnahan, Justice at Trial : Courtroom Battles and Groundbreaking Cases (2023).

LEGISLATION

1. Andrew P. Napolitano, Freedom’s Anchor : An Introduction to Natural Law Jurisprudence in American Constitutional History (2023).

2. John R. Vile, Encyclopedia of Presidential Vetoes from Washington through to Biden : History, Subjects, and Procedures (2024).

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE

1. Angela Hume, Deep Care : the Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open (2023).

PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY

1. Allan Edward Barsky, Clinicians In Court : a Guide to Subpoenas, Depositions, Testifying, and Everything Else You Need to Know (2024).

RACE AND ETHNICITY

1. Charles F. Wilkinson, Treaty Justice : the Northwest Tribes, the Boldt Decision, and the Recognition of Fishing Rights (2024).

RELIGION

1. Cinzia Piciocchi, Courts, Pluralism and Law in the Everyday : Food, Clothing and Days of Rest (2024).

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

1. Ignacio N. Cofone, The Privacy Fallacy : Harm and Power in the Information Economy (2024).

2. Roger Brownsword, Technology, Humans, and Discontent With Law : the Quest for Better Governance (2024).

3. Traci Cipriano, The Thriving Lawyer : a Multidimensional Model of Well-Being For a Sustainable Legal Profession (2024).

4. Mark Findlay, Li Min Ong, and Wenxi Zhang, eds., Mark Findlay, Li Min Ong, and Wenxi Zhang, eds. (2023).

5. Jerry W. Markham, Cryptocurrency Regulation : A Primer (2023).

SEX CRIMES

1. Emily Horowitz, From Rage to Reason : Why We Need Sex Crime Laws Based on Facts, Not Fear (2023).

2. Henry F. Fradella, Sex and Privacy in American Law (2023).

SPORTS

1. Ed Garvey, Never Ask “Why” : Football Players’ Fight for Freedom in the NFL (2023).

TAXATION–STATE AND LOCAL

1. Peter J. Wiedenbeck and Brendan S. Maher, ERISA Principles (2024).

TRANSPORTATION LAW

1. Charles U. Zug, Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Federal Highway Act (2024).

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.

August 2024 New Books

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

CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE

1. Robert R. Rose III, Trial Practice Manual for Criminal Defense Lawyers: A Field Guide to Courtroom Combat (2020).

HEALTH LAW AND POLICY

2. Allen Buchanan, How to Respond Better to the Next Pandemic:  Remedying Institutional Failures, (2024).

LEGAL ANALYSIS AND WRITING

3. Melissa Shultz and Christine Tamer, Legal Writing Made Simple:  A Step-by-Step Approach, (2024).

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).

MILITARY, WAR, AND PEACE

5. David A. Schlueter and Lisa Schenck, Military Criminal Justice: Practice and Procedure, (2024).

SECURED TRANSACTIONS

6. Adrian Cohen and Laura N. Coordes, Article 9 Plainly Stated, (2023).

WATER LAW

7. Barton H. Thompson, Jr., Liquid Asset: How Business and Government can Partner to Solve the Freshwater Crisis, (2024).

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.

June 2024 New Books

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

BANKING AND FINANCE

1. Stephen M. Bainbridge, The Profit Motive:  Defending Shareholder Value Maximization (2023).

CONFLICT OF LAWS

2. Mistale Taylor, Transatlantic Jurisdictional Conflicts in Data Protection Law:  Fundamental Rights, Privacy and Extraterritoriality (2023).

FIRST AMENDMENT

3. Dennis Baron, You Can’t Always Say What You Want:  The Paradox of Free Speech (2023).

INTERNATIONAL LAW

4. Sean D. Murphy, and Edward T. Swaine, The Law of U.S. Foreign Relations (2023).

JURISPRUDENCE

5. Timothy Endicott, Hasfteinn Dan Kristjánsson, and Sebastian Lewis, eds., Philosophical Foundations of Precedent (2023).

LABOR LAW

6. Brishen Rogers, Data and Democracy at Work:  Advanced Information Technologies, Labor Law, and the New Working Class (2023).

LEGAL PROFESSION

7. Patricia E. Salkin, May It Please the Campus:  Lawyers Leading Higher Education (2022).

8. Robin Steinberg and Camilo A. Ramirez, The Courage of Compassion:  A Journey from Judgment to Connection (2023).

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

9. Elizabeth Anne Khalil, U.S. Financial Privacy and Data Security:  A Practical Guide (2023).

SECOND AMENDMENT

10. Carl T. Bogus, Madison’s Militia:  The Hidden History of the Second Amendment (2023).

TORTS

11. Gregory C. Keating, Reasonableness and Risk:  Right and Responsibility in the Law of Torts (2022).

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.

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.