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.

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.

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.

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.

April 2024 New Books

In April 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. Alfred M. Pollard and Raymond Natter, Banking Law in the United States (2022).

BIOGRAPHY

2. Allen Goodman, Everyone Against Us:  Public Defenders and the Making of American Justice (2023).

3. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Henry Varnum Poor, Business Editor, Analyst, and Reformer (1956).

4. Judge Freddie Pitcher Jr., Breaking Barriers:  A View from the Bench (2022).

5. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. and Stephen Salsbury, Pierre S. Du Pont and the Making of the Modern Corporation (1971).

6. Louis Loss, Anecdotes of a Securities Lawyer (1995).

BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

7. Stefanie Mueller, The Corporation in the Nineteenth-Century American Imagination (2023).

8. John W. Cadman, The Corporation in New Jersey; Business and Politics, 1791-1875 (1949).

9. Travis Miller and Todd Cort, eds., The Sustainable Corporation:  A Legal and Business Centric Approach to ESG (2023).

COMMERCIAL LAW

10. James T. O’Reilly and Edgar J. Asebey, Legal Guide to the Business of Marijuana:  Cannabis, Hemp and CBD Regulation (2023).

CONTRACTS

11. Werner Sabo, Legal Guide to AIA Documents (2022).

12. Andrew Ness and John Foust, eds., Construction Arbitration:  The Advocate’s Practical Guide (2023).

EDUCATION LAW

13. Andrew M. Markelz, et.al, The Essentials of Special Education Advocacy (2024).

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

14. Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law (2023).

ESTATES AND TRUSTS

15. Loius A. Mezzullo, An Estate Planner’s Guide to Qualified Retirement Plan Benefits (2023).

16. Gregory May, A Madman’s Will:  John Randolph, 400 Slaves, and the Mirage of Freedom (2023).

FEMINIST JURISPRUDENCE

17. Dragica Vujadinovic, Antonio Alvarez de Cuvillo, Susanne Strand, eds., Feminist Approaches to Law:  Theoretical and Historical Insights (2023).

18. Ann Genovese, Feminist Jurisography:  Law, History, Writing (2023).

IMMIGRATION LAW

19. Victoria Guillen-Nieto, Antonio Doval Pais and Dieter Stein, eds., From Fear to Hate:  Legal-Linguistic Perspectives on Migration (2023).

INDIAN AND ABORIGINAL LAW

20. M.Todd Henderson, Native Americans and the Supreme Court (2022).

21. Robert J. Miller and Robbie Ethridge, A Promise Kept:  The Muscogee (Creek) Nation and McGirt v. Oklahoma (2023).

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

22. Michael C. Donaldson, Lisa A. Callif, and Christopher L. Perez, Clearance & Copyright:  Everything You Need to Know for Film, Television, and Other Creative Content (2023).

LEGAL ANALYSIS AND WRITING

23. Sonya G. Bonneau and Susan A. McMahon, Legal Writing in Context (2024).

24. Diana J. Simon and Mark Cooney, The Case for Effective Legal Writing:  Court Opinions, Commentary, and Exercises (2024).

LEGAL EDUCATION

25. Helen Gibbon, et.al, eds., Critical Legal Education as a Subversive Activity (2023).

26. Matthew Atkinson and Ben Livings, eds., Contemporary Challenges in Clinical Legal Education:  Role, Function and Future Directions (2024).

27. Thomas Giddens and Luca Siliquini-Cinelli, eds., Biopolitics and Resistance in Legal Education (2023).

LEGAL PROFESSION

28. Grover E. Cleveland, Swimming Lessons for Baby Sharks:  The Essential Guide to Thriving as a New Lawyer (2022).

29. Allison C. Johs and Daniel J. Siegel, How to do More in Less Time:  The Complete Guide to Increasing Your Productivity and Improving Your Bottom Line (2023).

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE

30. Anne S. Zimmerman, Medicine, Power, and the Law:  Exploring a Pipeline to Injustice (2022).

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

31. Thomas L. Dybdahl, When Innocence is not Enough:  Hidden Evidence and the Failed Promise of the Brady Rule (2023).

RACE AND ETHNICITY

32. Wanda Little Fenimore, The Rhetorical Road to Brown v. Board of Education:  Elizabeth and Waties Waring’s Campaign (2023).

33. Foluke Adebisi, Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge:  Reflections on Power and Possibility (2023).

RELIGION

34. SpearIt, Muslim Prisoner Litigation:  An Unsung American Tradition (2023).

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

35. Tsachi Keren-Paz, Egalitarian Digital Privacy:  Image-Based Abuse and Beyond (2023).

36. Gaia Bernstein, Unwired:  Gaining Control Over Addictive Technologies (2023).

37. Maurizio Borghi and Roger Brownsword, eds., Law, Regulation and Governance in the Information Society:  Informational Rights and Informational Wrongs (2023).

38. Lawrence M. Friedman, Law, Science, and Technology:  Historical and Social Context (2023).

39. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Inventing the Electronic Century:  The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries (2021).

SEX CRIMES

40. Cheryl Taylor Page and Bill Piatt, Human Trafficking (2023).

STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT LAW

41. Ashley Wiltshire, Everyday Justice:  A Legal Aid Story (2023).

42. E. Merrick Dodd, American Business Corporations Until 1860, with Special Reference to Massachusetts (1954).

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

43. David A. Frank and Francis J. Mootz III, eds., The Rhetoric of Judging Well:  The Conflicted Legacy of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy (2023).

44. Cedric Merlin Powell, Post-Racial Constitutionalism and the Roberts Court:  Rhetorical Neutrality and the Perpetuation of Inequality (2023).

45. Cliff Sloan, The Court at War:  FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made (2023).

TORTS

46. Lawrence M. Friedman and Joanna L. Grossman, The Walled Garden:  Law and Privacy in Modern Society (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.