2023 February New Books

In February 2023, the Law Library added the following new titles to the collection to support the research and curricular needs of our faculty and students.

BANKRUPTCY LAW

1. David J Slenn, The Fraudulent Transfer of Wealth:  Unwound and Explained (2022).

BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

2. Michael R. Gray, Natalma M. McKnew and William W. Sentell, eds., Covenants Against Competition in Franchise Agreements (2023).

COMMUNICATIONS LAW

3. David L. Sloss, Tyrants on Twitter:  Protecting Democracies from Information Warfare (2022).

DISPUTE RESOLUTION

4. Bennett G. Picker and Conna A. Weiner, Commercial Mediation Practice Guide:  A Practical Handbook for Lawyers and Their Business Clients (2023).

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

5. Michael B. Gerrard, Jody Freeman and Michael Burger, eds., Global Climate Change and U.S. Law (2023).

FIRST AMENDMENT

6. Brett Gary, Dirty Works:  Obscenity on Trial in America’s First Sexual Revolution (2021).

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

7. Howard A. Skaist, Patent Claim Drafting Practice:  Tactics, Strategy, and Analysis (2023).

JUDGES

8. Lauren Stiller Rikleen, Her Honor:  Stories of Challenge and Triumph from Women Judges (2023).

LEGAL ANALYSIS AND WRITING

9. Linda L. Berger and Kathryn M. Stanchi, Legal Persuasion:  A Rhetorical Approach to the Science (2018).

10. Darby Dickerson and Brooke J. Bowman, eds., The Scribes Manual for Law Review Editors (2022).

LEGAL PROFESSION

11. Richard L. Hermann, 21st Century Legal Career series (v. 7 – v. 18) (2017).

12. Linda Sapadin, How to Beat Procrastination in the Digital Age:  6 Change Programs for 6 Personality Styles (2012).

13. Donald J. Polden and Barry Z. Posner, Leading in Law:  Leadership Development for Law Students (2022).

14. Lynne Adair Kramer and Ann L. Nowak, The Experiential Guide to Law Practice Management:  Opening and Operating Your Own Firm (2022).

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE

15. Mary Ziegler, Roe:  The History of a National Obsession (2023).

NATURAL RESOURCES LAW

16. Tobe Liebert, The Law of the Colorado River:  A Legal Research Guide (2022).

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

17. Robert Costello and Colleen Eren, The Impact of Supreme Court Decisions on US Institutions:  A Sociology of Law Primer (2022).

WATER LAW

18. Allison Rumsey, Joel Gross, Ethan Shenkman, and Edward McTiernan, Clean Water Act Essentials (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.

January 2023 New Books

In January 2023, 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. Elizabeth Kelley, ed., Representing People with Dementia:  A Practical Guide for Criminal Defense Lawyers (2022).

DOMESTIC RELATIONS

2. Margaret “Pegi” S. Price, The Special Needs Child and Divorce:  A Practical Guide to Handling and Evaluating Cases (2022).

INFORMATION PRIVACY

3. W. Stanford Smith and Alan S. Gutterman, ed., Guide to Privacy (2022).

4. Sarah Lamdan, Data Cartels:  The Companies that Control and Monopolize Our Information (2023).

LEGAL EDUCATION

5. E. Scott Fruehwald, Critical Thinking:  An Essential Skill for Law Students, Lawyers, Law Professors, and Judges (2022).

6. Dennis J. Tonsing, 1000 Days to the Bar, But the Practice of Law Begins Now (2022).

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

7. Lawrence E. Ballard and Carole Symonds, Law Firm Accounting and Financial Management (2021).

8. Marcia Watson Wasserman and Cynthia Thomas, Law Office Policies, Procedures, and Operations Manual (2022).

TORTS

9. Mike F. Pipkin, Marilyn Klinger, George J. Bachrach, and Tracey L. Haley, eds., The Surety’s Indemnity Agreement:  Law and Practice (2023).

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.

November 2022 New Books

In November 2022, the Law Library added the following new titles to the collection to support the research and curricular needs of our faculty and students.

BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

1. Amy Klobuchar, Antitrust:  Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age (2022).

CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE

2. Alan Mygatt-Tauber, Medellin v. Texas:  International Justice, Federalism, and the Execution of Jose Medellin (2022).

3. John M. Hagedorn, Gangs on Trial:  Challenging Stereotypes and Demonization in the Courts (2022).

ELECTIONS AND VOTING

4. Michael A. Smith, ed., Much Sound and Fury, or the New Jim Crow?:  The Twenty-First Century’s Restrictive New Voting Laws and Their Impact (2022).

JUDGES

5. Philippa Strum, On Account of Sex:  Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Making of Gender Equality Law (2022).

6. Linda Greenhouse, Justice on the Brink:  The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months that Transformed the Supreme Court (2021).

LAW OF THE SEA

7. Ryan J. Rebe, The Partisan Court:  The Era of Political Partisanship on the U.S. Supreme Court (2021).

8. David Bosco, The Poseidon Project:  The Struggle to Govern the World’s Oceans (2022).

LEGAL ANALYSIS AND WRITING

9. Diana J. Simon, The (Not too Serious) Grammar, Punctuation, and Style Guide to Legal Writing (2022).

10. David Boelzner, Writing Sentences that Work:  Essentials for Law Students (2022).

LEGAL EDUCATION

11. Richard Grimes, Public Legal Education:  The Role of Law Schools in Building a More Legally Literate Society (2021).

LEGAL PROFESSION

12. Joan W. Howarth, Shaping the Bar:  The Future of Attorney Licensing (2023).

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

13. Connie Brenton and Susan Raridon Lambreth, Running Legal Like a Business:  The Fundamental of Legal Operations for Law Departments (2021).

RELIGION

14. Karla L. Drenner, Faith-Based Influences on Legislative Decision-Making:  Emerging Research and Opportunities (2022).

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

15. Stephen Breyer, The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics (2021).

TORTS

16. Walter Champion and Carlos A. Velasquez, Blood in the Water:  Feeding Frenzies and the Mass Tort Phenomenon (2021).

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.

November 2022 New Books

In November 2022, the Law Library added the following new titles to the collection to support the research and curricular needs of our faculty and students.

COMMERCIAL LAW

1. Arthur B. Laby and Jacob Hale Russell, eds., Fiduciary Obligations in Business (2021).

2. Gregory C. Cook and Jocelyn D. Larkin, eds., The Class Action Fairness Act:  Law and Strategy (2022).

3. Elizabeth Cabraser, Fabrice N. Vincent and Class Actions & Derivative Suits Committee, eds., The Law of Class Action:  Fifty-State Survey, 2022 (2022).

4. Roy Shapira, Law and Reputation:  How the Legal System Shapes Behavior by Producing Information (2020).

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, GENERALLY

5. Steven F. Pittz and Joseph Postell, eds., American Citizenship and Constitutionalism in Principle and Practice (2022).

6. Jeff Kosseff, The United States of Anonymous:  How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech (2022).

DOMESTIC RELATIONS

7. Sanford N. Katz, Family Law in America (2021).

8. Sara B. Block, Together Unbroken:  Stories, Law, Practice, and Healing at the Intersection of Domestic Violence and Child Welfare (2022).

9. Samuel E. Thomas and Kumudha N. Kumarachandran, Cost-Effective Child Custody Litigation (2022).

10. Timothy Barouch, The Child Before the Court:  Judgment, Citizenship, and the Constitution (2021).

EMPLOYMENT PRACTICE

11. Eric A. Posner, How Antitrust Failed Workers (2021).

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

12. Snjolaug Arnadottir, Climate Change and Maritime Boundaries:  Legal Consequences of Sea Level Rise (2022).

INDIAN AND ABORIGINAL LAW

13. Jonathan Lurie, The Unusual Story of the Pocket Veto Case, 1926-1929 (2022).

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

14. Stephen E. Gillen, What is a Copyright? (2022).

JUDGES

15. Scott Dodson, ed., The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2022).

LEGAL EDUCATION

16. Jane Bloom Grise, Critical Reading for Success in Law School and Beyond (2022).

LEGAL PROFESSION

17. Neil W. Hamilton and  Louis D. Bilionis, Law Student Professional Development and Formation:  Bridging Law School, Student, and Employer Goals (2022).

18. Dena Lefkowitz, Winning in Your Own Court:  10 Laws for a Successful Career Without Burning Out or Selling Out (2022).

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE

19. Jordan A. Parsons and Elizabeth Chloe Romanis, Early Medical Abortion, Equality of Access, and the Telemedical Imperative (2021).

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

20. John D. Bessler, Private Prosecution in America:  Its Origins, History, and Unconstitutionality in the Twenty-First Century (2022).

PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY

21. Tiffany Jana and Matthew Freeman, Overcoming Bias:  Building Authentic Relationships Across Differences (2016).

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

22. Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence:  Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do (2021).

SEXUAL ORIENTATION

23. Florence Ashley, Banning Transgender Conversion Practices:  A Legal and Policy Analysis (2022).

STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT LAW

24. Mark Dunn, Texas People’s Court:  The Fascinating World of the Texas Justice of the Peace (2022).

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

25. Lucas A. Powe, Jr., The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789-2020 (2021).

TORTS

26. Joseph A. Ranney, The Burdens of All:  A Social History of American Tort Law (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.

September 2022 New Books

In September 2022, 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. Katherine B. Forrest, When Machines Can be Judge, Jury, and Executioner:  Justice in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2021).

LEGAL ANALYSIS AND WRITING

2. Michael Chiorazzi, ed., The Role of Citation in the Law:  A Yale Law School Symposium (2022).

3. Michael D. Murray and Christy H. DeSanctis, Advanced Legal Writing and Oral Advocacy:  Trials, Appeals, and Moot Court (2022).

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

4. Art Hinshaw, et. al., Negotiation and Lawyers (2021).

PROPERTY–PERSONAL AND REAL

5. Gary S. DeWeese, Land Valuation:  Real Solutions to Complex Issues (2022).

RACE AND ETHNICITY

6. Clint Smith, How the Word is Passed:  A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (2021).

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

7. Simon Chesterman, We, the Robots?:  Regulating Artificial Intelligence and the Limits of the Law (2021).

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.