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.

September 2024 Law Faculty Publications & News

Throughout the month of September, the Law Library received alerts for full-time TTU Law Faculty publications and news. Below is a compilation of those daily alerts for September 1st to September 30th, 2024.

Articles, Books, and More

  1. Gerry W. Beyer, Potpourri, 62-3 Real Est., Prob., & Tr. L. Rep., at 4 (2024).
  2. Gerry W. Beyer, Intestacy, Wills, Estate Administration, and Trusts Update, 62-3 Real Est., Prob., & Tr. L. Rep., at 5 (2024).
  3. Gerry W. Beyer, ed., Keeping Current—Probate, Prob. & Prop., Sept./Oct. 2024, at 29.
  4. Gerry W. Beyer, Recent Developments from the Texas Courts, Est. Plan. Dev. for Tex. Prof., Sept. 2024, at 1.
  5. Gerry W. Beyer, Beyer’s Texas Property Code Annotated (2024 ed).
  6. Gerry W. Beyer, “He’s Dead, Jim” or Not?, review of Alyssa A. DiRusso, Life and Death Matters in Conflict of Laws, 97 Tul. L. Rev. 703 (2023), JOTWELL (Sept. 11, 2024).
  7. John L. Watts, The Confrontation Clause & State Action, 77 SMU L. Rev. 399 (2024).
  8. Richard W. Murphy, 32 Fed. Prac. & Proc. Judicial Review, Federal Practice and Procedure (September 2024 Update).

Op-Eds

  1. Victoria Sutton, Online Learning in Law Schools – The Pandemic Experiment (September 27, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4969711.

Quotations

  1. Prof. Corn is quoted in the following article: Choice facing N.Y. judge: Does Taliban leader get war-related immunity? (Sept. 1, 2024; 10:00am), The Washington Post, available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/09/01/taliban-najibullah-trial-wartime-immunity/.
  2. Prof. Beyer is quoted in the following work: §5:16 of the Ga. Guardianship and Conservatorship (September 2024 Update).

Citations

  1. Prof. Murphy’s article Punitive Damages, Explanatory Verdicts, and the Hard Look is cited in §12:3 and §12:4 of the Illinois Civil Jury Instructions Companion Handbook (September 2024 Update).
  2. Prof. Murphy’s article Abandon Chevron and Modernize Stare Decisis for the Administrative State is cited in the following article: Alyssa Greenstein, The EPA in the Age of Chevron Deference Ambiguity and Decline, 36 Geo. Envtl. L. Rev. 269 (2024).
  3. Prof. Murphy’s article Democracy, Chevron Deference, and Major Questions Anti-Deference is cited in the following report: Supreme Court Overrules Chevron Doctrine’s Presumption of Favor of Agency Interpretation of Ambiguous Statutes, 45 No. 9 Construction Litigation Reporter NL 15 (September 2024).
  4. Prof. Corn’s article Self-Defense Targeting: Blurring the Line Between the Just ad Bellum and the Jus in Bello is cited in the following article: Peter S. Konchak, The Forty-Seven Years’ War: Identifying the Cold War as an Armed Conflict as a Matter of International Law, 38 Emory Int’l L. Rev. 263 (2024).
  5. Prof. Rosen’s article Deterring Pre-Viability Abortions in Texas Through Private Lawsuits is cited in the following article: Bailey Harvey, Welcome to Texas: Home of the Most Extreme Abortion Ban in the United States, Generating Vast Child Welfare Disparities, 26 Scholar: St. Mary’s L. Rev. & Soc. Just. 365 (2024).
  6. Prof. James’ article Twenty-First Century Pirates of the Caribbean: How the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Robbed Fourteen CARICOM Countries of Their Tax and Economic Policy Sovereignty is cited in the following article: Allison Christians, Tarcisio Diniz Magalhaes, Why Data Giants Don’t Pay Enough Tax, 18 Harv. L. & Pol’y Rev. 119 (2024).
  7. Prof. Murphy’s article Judicial Deference, Agency Commitment, and Force of Law is cited in the following article: Jack M. Beermann, The Anti-Innovation Supreme Court: Major Questions, Delegation, Chevron, and More, 65 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1265 (2024).
  8. Prof. Casto’s article Pacificus & Helvidius Reconsidered is cited in the following article: Shalev Gad Roisman, Balancing Interests in the Separation of Powers, 91 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1331 (2024).
  9. Prof. Murphy’s article Politicized Judicial Review in Administrative Law: Three Improbable Responses is cited in the following article: Sanne Knudsen, Sidestepping Substance: How Administrative Law Plays an Outsized Role in Shaping Environmental Policy and Why Recalibration is Necessary, 76 Admin. L. Rev. 519 (2024).

News

  1. On September 6, 2024, Prof. Beyer was featured luncheon speaker for the Tarrant County Probate Bar Association in Fort Worth. Prof. Beyer’s presentation entitled attendees to one hour of Texas MCLE credit and was entitled Probate Case Law Update.
  2. On September 13, 2024, Prof. Beyer was the guest speaker for the Southern Nevada Estate Planning Council in Las Vegas. His presentation and accompanying article were entitled Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Today’s Estate Planner.
  3. On September 14, 2024, Prof. Gonzalez presented Private Contractors, Security-Clearance Determinations, and Employment Discrimination Law at the 19th Annual Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment and Labor Law (COSELL) co-hosted by the University of San Diego School of Law and California Western School of Law in San Diego, California. 
  4. On September 7, 2024, Prof. Arrington presented Will the NextGen Bar Truly Test Legal Research? An Evaluation to the Central States Law Schools Association Annual Conference in Lubbock, TX, and later delivered the same presentation at Western Regional Legal Writing Conference in Seattle, WA.
  5. On September 27, 2024, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer was an invited speaker at the 50th Annual Notre Dame Tax & Estate Planning Institute in South Bend, Indiana. His presentation was entitled Artificial Intelligence in the Trusts & Estates Practice.
  6. On September 19-22, 2024, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer attended the Fall meeting of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel in Chicago. As the Chair of the Artificial Intelligence Subcommittee, Prof. Beyer organized and/or lead discussions on ABA Formal Opinion 512, Pennsylvania Opinion 2024-200, Deepfakes, Perplexity, AI hotlines for whistleblower protection, and required MCLE on AI imposed by a growing number of states. As Co-Chair of the Legal Education Committee, he organized and/or led discussions on the NextGen bar exam, the failed revision to the Uniform Determination of Death Act, the gift tax treatment of loan guarantees, and the use of artificial intelligence in the teaching of Wills & Trusts.
  7. On September 18, 2024, Prof. Gerry W. Beyer was a virtual speaker for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ (AICPA) Engage webinar. His topic was entitled Artificial Intelligence: What CPAs Need to Know.
  8. On Sept. 27, 2024, Prof. Sutton presented her paper on her study that examines the effect of online learning in law schools and scores on the multi-state bar examination (MBE) and bar passage rate at the annual Online Learning Conference at the Univ of Denver, Sturm College of Law.

September 2024 New Resources

In September 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

Democracy in America – An interactive digital edition of Tocqueville’s 1831 classic title. Provides more than 1,000 annotations and references, as well as links to the works Tocqueville read while he traveled, researched, and wrote.

New Books

DOMESTIC RELATIONS

1. Heather Douglas, The Criminalization of Violence against Women: Comparative Perspectives, 2024.

HEALTH LAW AND POLICY

2. Patricia J. Williams, The Miracle of the Black Leg: Notes on Race, Human Bodies, and the Spirit of the Law, 2024.

HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

3. Szymon Mazurkiewica, Grounding Human Rights in Human Nature, 2023.

INTERNATIONAL LAW

4. Yueduan Wang, Experimentalist Constitutions: Subnational Policy Innovations in China, India, and the United States, 2024.

5. Giuditta Cordero-Moss, Independence and Impartiality of International Adjudicators, 2023.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

6. Arvind Narayanan, AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference, 2024.

7. Alberto Quintavalla, Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, 2023.

8. Nigel Shadbolt, As If Human: Ethics and Artificial Intelligence, 2024.

9. Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence, 2021.

SEX CRIMES

10. Brian Bond, Conciliation of Construction Industry Disputes, 2024.

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.

Lexis Digital Library Now Available

The Law Library is proud to announce the availability of a new eBook platform, Lexis Digital Library, to facilitate student learning. Lexis Digital Library is a premium eBook platform that hosts study aids, casebooks, and leading legal treatises.

eBook Content

Study Aids

The LexisNexis Digital Library includes a large selection of digital study aids from the following series:

  • Understanding Series
  • Questions & Answers Series
  • Mastering Series
  • Skills & Values Series
  • Audio Study Guides
  • Carolina Academic Press

Practice Manuals & Treatises

In addition to study aids, this library contains a large selection of legal treatises, practice guides, and monographs on many different areas of law, such Nimmer on Copyrights and Dorsaneo Texas Litigation Guide, etc.

Casebooks

The LexisNexis Digital Library also offers electronic casebooks for certain courses. As part of the Law Library’s casebook project, in addition to borrowing casebooks for each course from the Law Library Circulation Desk, students can also access Carolina Academic Press casebooks through the Lexis Digital Library.

Access Lexis Digital Library

To access Lexis Digital Library, you can find it in the Law Library Electronic Resources and log in with your TTU email.

Lexis Digital Library Application

Consider downloading the Digital Library App for easier reading, online or offline. You can download the Digital Library app for your apple or android device, enter your library code (ttulaw), then follow the prompts to sign in.

Features of Lexis Digital Library

  • Print the current section of the book
  • Highlight text and add notes
  • Utilize the Annotations icon to view notes and highlights
  • Export Annotations
  • Search within the book
  • Copy book text with citations
  • Navigate via the Table of Contents

Here is an introduction video for Lexis Digital Library.

If you have any questions, please contact the Electronic & Digital Services Librarian, Dajiang Nie, at Dajiang.nie@ttu.edu.

Borrowing Textbooks

The Law Library has 2 copies of each Required course textbook. For 1Ls, that’s CivPro, Con Law, Contracts, Crim Law, LP (I & II), Property, Torts, and Intro to the Study of Law. For 2Ls and above, that’s Business Entities, Commercial Law, Crim Pro, Evidence, Income Tax, Wills & Trusts, and Pro Res.

For all other elective courses, the Law Library has 1 copy for each course.

Each of these textbooks can be checked out for four hours. Visit the Circulation Desk and ask for the textbook using the class name and teaching professor’s name. As these are Law Library books, please do not highlight or mark up the text during use.

Prefer digital access? No problem! The Law Library also offer access to digital textbooks through West Academic Casebook Archive and Lexis Digital Library. These online platforms provide convenient and easy-to-use access to a variety of textbooks and legal materials. Though these might not have every single textbook you need, it’s a great place to begin looking when you need a textbook in a hurry. With Lexis Digital Library, you can annotate as you go and save your annotations to your account to refer to later, and on West Academic Casebook Archive, you have the option to download and print certain pages, or even bookmark your spot so you don’t forget. To access these databases, click on the hyperlinks above, or from the Law Library’s homepage, click into the Electronic Databases List and find them alphabetically.

The Law Library’s textbook program is available to make your life just a little easier. Whether you prefer physical books or the digital route, the Law Library has you covered with all the resources you need for your classes.

If you have any questions or need a hand, please visit the Circulation Desk. Happy studying, and we can’t wait to see you in the Law Library!