May 2023 New Books

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

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

1. Adrian Vermeule, Law’s Abnegation:  From Law’s Empire to the Administrative State (2016).

BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

2. Douglas G. Baird, The Unwritten Law of Corporate Reorganizations (2022).

3. Aaron Dhir, Challenging Boardroom Homogeneity:  Corporate Law, Governance, and Diversity (2015).

CIVIL RIGHTS, GENERALLY

4. Lorraine K. Bannai, Enduring Conviction:  Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice (2015).

5. James E. Fleming, Constructing Basic Liberties:  A Defense of Substantive Due Process (2022).

COMPARATIVE AND FOREIGN LAW

6. David S. Clark, American Comparative Law:  A History (2022).

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, GENERALLY

7. Erwin Chemerinsky, Worse than Nothing:  The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism (2022).

8. Kermit Roosevelt III, The Nation That Never Was:  Reconstructing America’s Story (2022).

9. Dana R. Ulloth, Textualism and Originalism as Methods for Interpreting the Constitution:  The Politicization of Justice (2022).

10. Anthony Gregory, American Surveillance:  Intelligence, Privacy, and the Fourth Amendment (2016).

CONTRACTS

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

CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE

12. Kim Taylor-Thompson and Anthony C. Thompson, eds., Progressive Prosecution:  Race and Reform in Criminal Justice (2022).

13. Christopher Murray, Unusual Punishment:  Inside the Walla Walla Prison, 1970-1985 (2016).

14. Robert N. Smith, An Evil Day in Georgia:  The Killing of Coleman Osborn and the Death Penalty in the Progressive-Era South (2015).

15. Adam Benforado, Unfair:  The New Science of Criminal Injustice (2015).

16. M. Chris Fabricant, Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System (2022).

DISABILITY LAW

17. Doug Crandell, Twenty-Two Cents an Hour:  Disability Rights and the Fight to End Subminimum Wages (2022).

DOMESTIC RELATIONS

18. Martha M. Ertman, Love’s Promises:  How Formal & Informal Contracts Shape All Kinds of Families (2015).

19. Merle H. Weiner, A Parent-Partner Status for American Family Law (2015).

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

20. Daniel P. Selmi, Dawn at Mineral King Valley:  The Sierra Club, the Disney Company, and the Rise of Environmental Law (2022).

FIRST AMENDMENT

21 Lynn Greenky, When Freedom Speaks:  The Boundaries and Boundlessness of our First Amendment Right (2022).

22. Marc H. Greenberg, Comic Art, Creativity and the Law (2022).

23. David Bromell, Regulating Free Speech in a Digital Age:  Hate, Harm and the Limits of Censorship (2022).

24. William E. Thro and Charles J. Russo, The Constitution on Campus:  A Guide to Liberty and Equality in Public Higher Education (2022).

25. Laura Weinrib, The Taming of Free Speech:  America’s Civil Liberties Compromise (2016).

IMMIGRATION LAW

26. Charles Wheeler, ed., Immigration Law and the Family:  A Practical Guide to Family-Sponsored Immigration (2023).

INSURANCE LAW

27. Dennis J. Wall, Lender Force-Placed Insurance Practices:  A Guide for Plaintiff, Defense, Insurance and Corporate Attorneys Counseling and Litigating Claims and Defenses (2015).

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

28. Carla S. Myers, Copyright and Course Reserves:  Legal Issues and Best Practices for Academic Libraries (2022).

JUDGES

29. Mark Tushnet, Taking Back the Constitution:  Activist Judges and the Next Age of American Law (2020).

JURISPRUDENCE

30. Sarah Staszak, No Day in Court:  Access to Justice and the Politics of Judicial Retrenchment (2015).

31. Philip Schofield and Xiaobo Zhai, eds., Bentham on Democracy, Courts, and Codification (2022).

32. Richard A. Posner, The Federal Judiciary:  Strengths and Weaknesses (2017).

33. Paul W. Kahn, Making the Case:  The Art of the Judicial Opinion (2016).

34. Kent Greenawalt, Exemptions:  Necessary, Justified, or Misguided? (2016).

35. Susan Rose-Ackerman, Stefanie Egidy, and James Fowkes, Due Process of Lawmaking:  The United States, South Africa, Germany, and the European Union (2015).

LABOR LAW

36. Nancy Woloch, A Class by Herself:  Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s (2015).

LEGAL RESEARCH AND LIBRARIES

37. Paul Cliteur  and Afshin Ellian, A New Introduction to Legal Method (2022).

38. Elyse H. Fox, Legal Reference Service: A Guide for Law Librarians and Nonlaw Librarians (2023).

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE

39. Virginia Barber Rioja, Adeyinka M. Akinsulure-Smith, and Sarah Vendzules, Mental Health Evaluations in Immigration Court:  A Guide for Mental Health and Legal Professionals (2022).

40. Emily Nowak and Renee Colsch, Brown’s Evidence-Based Nursing:  The Research-Practice Connection (2024).

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

41. Lisa M. Walker Johnson, Stress and Burnout in Law Firms:  Leadership Challenges and Choices (2022).

PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

42. Ken Gormley, ed., The Presidents and the Constitution (2020).

43. Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash, Imperial from the Beginning:  The Constitution of the Original Executive (2015).

RACE AND ETHNICITY

44. Shawn E. Fields, Neighborhood Watch:  Policing White Spaces in America (2022).

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

45. Larry A. DiMatteo, Cristina Poncibo, and, Michel Cannarsa, eds., The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence:  Global Perspectives on Law and Ethics (2022).

46. Shahid M. Shahidullah, Carla D. Coates and Dorothy Kersha-Aerga, eds., Global Cybercrime and Cybersecurity Laws and Regulations:  Issues and Challenges in the 21st Century (2022).

47. Edward J. Swan, Internet Law:  A Concise Guide to Regulation Around the World (2022).

48. Hongrui Zhao, Cyberspace & Sovereignty (2022).

SEX CRIMES

49. Eric Berkowitz, The Boundaries of Desire:  A Century of Bad Laws, Good Sex, and Changing Identities (2015).

50. Emily Horowitz, Protecting Our Kids?:  How Sex Offender Laws are Failing Us (2015).

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.

2023 April New Resources

In April 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

1. Law Library of Congress Reports (HeinOnline) The Law Library produces reports on foreign, comparative, and international law in response to requests from Members of Congress, Congressional staff and committees, the federal courts, executive branch agencies, and others. Selected reports are provided for the public for reference purposes only and do not constitute legal advice. The information provided reflects research undertaken as of the date of writing, which has not been updated unless specifically noted. Current and historical reports are released periodically. The reports as hosted by the Law Library of Congress can be accessed at its website.

2. Military Legal Resources (U.S. JAG School) (HeinOnline) HeinOnline has developed the Military Legal Resources (U.S. Army JAG School) in conjunction with the William Winthrop Memorial Library of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s School to replace the Winthrop Library’s Military Legal Resources collection previously hosted by the Library of Congress. The goal of the collection is exhaustiveness. It aims to collect every current and historical military legal document and resource needed by judge advocates, law school professors, and members of the general public interested in military law. New materials will be added to the collection on a regular basis.

New Books

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

1.  Thomas W. Merrill, The Chevron Doctrine:  Its Rise and Fall, and the Future of the Administrative State (2022).

AGRICULTURE LAW

2. Felicity Deane, Evan Hamman and Anna Huggins and Zoe Nay, Natural Capital, Agriculture and the Law (2022).

BANKING AND FINANCE

3. Dorcas R. Gilmore, Lisa Green Hall, and Susan R. Jones, eds., Investing for Social Impact, Economic Justice, and Racial Equity (2023).

BIOGRAPHY

4. Joanne Hutcheson Seale Wilson, Think Like a Lawyer:  A Texas Family Story in the Letters of Captain J.C. Hutcheson (2022).

BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

5. American Bar Association, Section of Antitrust Law, Antitrust Grand Jury Investigations Handbook (2023).

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, GENERALLY

6. Roberto Gargarella, The Law as a Conversation Among Equals (2022).

7. Wayne A. Logan, The Ex Post Facto Clause:  Its History and Role in a Punitive Society (2023).

8. Steven D. Smith, Larry Alexander, James Allan, and Maimon Schwarzchild, A Principled Constitution?:  Four Skeptical Views (2022).

CONTRACTS

9. Kenneth A. Adams, A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting (2023).

CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE

10. Robert Schehr, Convictions Without Truth:  The Incompatibility of Science and Law (2022).

EDUCATION LAW

11. Jacqueline A. Rodriguez and Wendy W. Murawski, Special Education Law and Policy:  From Foundation to Application (2022).

ELDER LAW

12. Nancy Berlinger, Kate de Medeiros, and Mildred Z. Solomon, eds., What Makes a Good Life in Late Life?:  Citizenship and Justice in Aging Societies (2018).

ESTATES AND TRUSTS

13. Paul Golden, Litigating Constructive Trusts:  The Last Resort in Fighting Iniquity and Inequity (2022).

FIRST AMENDMENT

14. Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, eds., Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Our Democracy (2022).

GENDER

15. Alvah L. Stinson, Woman Under the Law (1914).

INDIAN AND ABORIGINAL LAW

16. Lawrence A. Dwyer, Standing Bear’s Quest for Freedom:  The First Civil Rights Victory for Native Americans (2022).

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

17. Christopher S. Reed, Digital Media Law:  A Practical Guide for the Media and Entertainment Industries (2023).

18. Kenneth L. Dorsney, ed., Pre-ANDA Litigation:  Strategies and Tactics for Developing a Drug Product and Patent Portfolio (2022).

19. Jessica Silbey, Against Progress:  Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values in the Internet Age (2022).

20. Joe Cleveland, Fritz Garland Lanham:  Father of American Trademark Protection (2021).

INTERNATIONAL LAW

21. Will Soper, “Greytown is no more!”:  The 1854 Razing of a Central American Port, the U.S. Businesses Behind Its Demise, and the Lasting Foreign Policy Legacy (2023).

JUDGES

22. Nancy Gertner, ed., Representative Opinions of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2022).

JURISPRUDENCE

23. David Goddard, Making Laws That Work:  How Laws Fail and How We Can Do Better (2022).

LEGAL ANALYSIS AND WRITING

24. Robin Slocum and Gina Nerger, Legal Reasoning, Writing, and Other Lawyering Skills (2022).

LEGAL EDUCATION

25. Omar Madhloom and Hugh McFaul, eds., Thinking about Clinical Legal Education:  Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives (2022).

26. Chad Noreuil, The Zen of Passing the Bar Exam (2022).

27. Tanya J. Monestier, Sh*t No One Tells You About Law School (2022).

28. Scott L. Rogers, The Mindful Law Student:  A Mindfulness in Law Practice Guide (2022).

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE

29. Faith E. Fletcher, Keisha S. Ray, Virginia A. Brown, and Patrick T. Smith, eds., A Critical Moment in Bioethics:  Reckoning with Anti-Black Racism Through Intergenerational Dialogue (2022).

30. Tryon P. Woods, Pandemic Police Power, Public Health and the Abolition Question (2022).

31. Denise F. Polit and Cheryl Tatano Beck, Essentials of Nursing Research:  Appraising Evidence for Nursing Practice (2022).

32. Jessica L. Bailey-Wheaton, ed., Health Law Essentials (2023).

33. American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders:  DSM-5-TR (2022).

POLITICS

34. Wayne Batchis, Throwing the Party:  How the Supreme Court puts Political Party Organizations Ahead of Voters (2022).

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

35. Lawrence S. Pascoe, Innovative Legal Service Applications:  A Guide to Improved Client Services (2022).

36. Helgi Maki, Marjorie Florestal, Myrna McCallum, and J. Kim Wright, eds., Trauma-Informed Law:  A Primer for Lawyer Resilience and Healing (2023).

37. Chris Fortier, The Lawyer’s Guide to Office Automation:  Tools and Strategies to Improve Your Firm and Your Life (2023).

PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

38. Jan L Jacobowitz and John G Browning, Legal Ethics and Social Media:  A Practitioner’s Handbook (2022).

RACE AND ETHNICITY

39. Bennett Capers, Devon Carbado , Robin A. Lenhardt , and Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Critical Race Judgments:  Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and the Law (2022).

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

40. David P. Fidler, Advanced Introduction to Cybersecurity Law (2022).

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.

Tips for Group Studying & Instructions for Reserving the Law Library’s Group Study Rooms

Tips for Successful Group Studying: 

  1. Keep the group size small and manageable.
    • 3-5 members is a good size for a study group.
  2. Keep Study Group Goals Realistic.
    • Set a realistic goal for efficient studying time. 2 or 3 hours with breaks will likely be productive, but 5 or 6 hours may be too ambitious.
    • Build in time at the beginning to catch up and chat with your friends.
    • Build in study breaks to refresh and re-group.
  3. Keep Study Time Focused.
    • Pick a group leader to keep the group on track.
    • Try to limit unnecessary distractions.
    • Try to start on time and end on time.
  4. Stick to a plan.
    • Discuss with group members how the study group time will be used most effectively, depending on the studying styles of the group members.
    • Try to meet the needs of all group members—this is where it is beneficial to keep the size of the group small.
    • Create a schedule/syllabus of tasks:
      • I.e. Spend an hour on practice questions, 20 min talking out/explaining big concepts, 45 min on a practice essay.
  5. Be prepared.
    • Study ahead of time so group time can be used efficiently.
    • Identify concepts that you struggle with.
    • Make a list of questions to ask group members.
  6. Take Action.
    • If there are areas multiple group members are struggling with, email the professor with questions. Send a single email from one group member and share the response with everyone in the group.
    • Come to the conference prepared. Have specific questions ready. It may be helpful to assign questions to specific group members so everyone participates, keeping the meeting productive and beneficial for everyone.
  7. Reflect.
    • Be honest with yourselves— how productive was the study group?  Be open to discussing with your group members what did and did not work.
    • Adjust based on your reflections.  This will ensure that the study group is working for everyone.
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How to Reserve Group Study Rooms

The Law Library has five group study rooms where students can meet with their study groups.  Students can register to use one of our rooms using our Room Reservation system.  Law Students may reserve two 2-hour blocks per day for a total of 4-hours maximum for study rooms per day.

The same study group should not book the same room for more than 4 hours per day.  Students must reserve the room using the link above BEFORE entering a room.

Study Room Reservation Guidelines:

  • Rooms are only available to Law Students, Law Faculty and Law Staff.
  • Rooms are available for booking 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
  • Each study room booking defaults to a maximum 2-hour reservation.
  • Law Students may reserve two 2-hour blocks per day for a total of 4-hours maximum for study rooms per day.
  • The 2-hour reservations may be consecutive, or may be split.
  • The same study group should not book the same room for more than 4 hours per day.
  • Study room reservations can be made up to 2 weeks in advance.
  • During Law Library finals hours, study room reservations can be made 2 days in advance.
  • You are expected to use the room while you have it reserved, please do not leave the room empty for an extended period of time.
  • If you are finished with a study room before your reservation has expired, please contact the Circulation Desk at 806-742-3957 or email to circulation.law@ttu.edu.

For more resources on how to cope with the challenges of law school, please see the Law Library’s libguide of Library Services, where you can access more resources, ideas for how to de-stress, and much more.

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.

December 2022 New Books

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

BIOGRAPHY

1. Laura Coates, Just Pursuit:  A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness (2022).

BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

2. Felix Lessambo, U.S. Mergers and Acquisitions:  Legal and Financial Aspects (2021).

ENERGY AND UTILITIES LAW

3. Malik Dahlan, Rosa Lastra, and Gustavo Rochette, eds., Research Handbook on Energy, Law and Ethics (2022).

LEGAL EDUCATION

4. Paul Baumgardner, Critical Legal Studies and the Campaign for American Law Schools:  A Revolution to Break the Liberal Consensus (2021).

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE

5. Brian Dean Abramson with Dorit Reiss, Peter O. Safir, and John R. Thomas, Vaccine, Vaccination, and Immunization Law (2021).

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

6. Joan M. Rocklin, Robert B. Rocklin, Christine Coughlin, and Sandy Patrick, An Advocate Persuades (2022).

PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

7. H.Lowell Brown, Prosecution of the President of the United States:  The Constitution, Executive Power, and the Rule of Law (2022).

PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

8. Michael Huemer, Justice Before the Law (2021).

SEX CRIMES

9. Joseph Bristow, Oscar Wilde on Trial:  The Criminal Proceedings, from Arrest to Imprisonment (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.