March 2024 New Resources

In March 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

Bibliography of American Law School Casebooks – A comprehensive list of law school casebooks published in the United States from 1871 through present. Arranged by more than 200 subject categories and indexed by subject, author, title, publisher, and series.

West Academic Casebooks Archive – This archive brings together thousands of casebooks from West, one of the most prominent legal publishers in the United States. Divided into four series, these casebooks form the backbone of U.S. legal instruction.

New Books

CIVIL RIGHTS, GENERALLY

1. Dan Abrams and Fred D. Gray, with David Fisher, Alabama v. King:  Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial that Launched the Civil Rights Movement (2022).

2. Margaret A. Burnham, By Hands Now Known:  Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners (2022).

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

3. Tad Crawford and M. J. Bogatin, Legal Guide for the Visual Artist (2022).

JURISPRUDENCE

4. Piotr Bystranowski, Bartosz Janik, and Maciej Prochnicki, eds., Judicial Decision-Making:  Integrating Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives (2022).

LEGAL ANALYSIS AND WRITING

5. Megan McAlpin, Beyond the First Draft:  Editing Strategies for Powerful Legal Writing (2024).

6. David L. Horan, Bad Words:  A Legal Writer’s Guide to What Not to Say (2024).

LEGAL EDUCATION

7. C. Raj Kumar and S.G. Sreejith, eds., Legal Education and Legal Profession During and After COVID-19 (2022).

8. Douglas W. Lind, Bibliography of American Law School Casebooks, 1870-2018 (2020).

NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

9. Shane T. Hamilton and Bruce R. Hopkins, The Tax Law of Private Foundations (2024).

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

10. Abdi Aidid and Benjamin Alarie, The Legal Singularity:  How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better (2023).

STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT LAW

11. Gary Bugh, Incorporation of the Bill of Rights:  An Accounting of the Supreme Court’s Extension of Federal Civil Liberties to the States (2023).

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

12. Lee Epstein, et al, The Supreme Court Compendium:  Two Centuries of Data, Decisions, and Developments (2021).

13. Lisa Sarnoff Gochman, At the Altar of the Appellate Gods:  Arguing Before the US Supreme Court:  A Memoir (2022).

14. James M. Masnov, Rights Reign Supreme:  An Intellectual History of Judicial Review and the Supreme Court (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.

February 2024 New Books

In February 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. Jose Gabilondo, Institutional Credit Markets:  Structure, Funding, and Regulation (2023).

BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

2. Barry E. Hawk, Monopoly in America (2022).

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, GENERALLY

3. Richard Albert, Ryan C. Williams, and Yaniv Roznai, eds., Amending America’s Unwritten Constitution (2022).

4. Vicki C. Jackson and Yasmin Dawood, eds., Constitutionalism and a Right to Effective Government? (2022).

5. Alessandro Maurini, The Missed Revolution at the Origins of the United States (2022).

6. Michel Rosenfeld, A Pluralist Theory of Constitutional Justice:  Assessing Liberal Democracy in Times of Rising Populism and Illiberalism (2022).

7. Noah Feldman, The Broken Constitution:  Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America (2021).

CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE

8. Christina Greene, Free Joan Little:  The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence, and Imprisonment (2022).

9. Lorena Bachmaier Winter and Stefano Ruggeri, eds., Investigating and Preventing Crime in the Digital Era:  New Safeguards, New Rights (2022).

10. Jocelyn Simonson, Radical Acts of Justice:  How Ordinary People are Dismantling Mass Incarceration (2023).

11. Jordan S. Rubin, Bizarro:  The Surreal Saga of America’s Secret War on Synthetic Drugs and the Florida Kingpins it Captured (2023).

12. Tasseli McKay, Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power:  The Case for Reparations for Mass Incarceration (2022).

13. Daniel L. Hatcher, Injustice, Inc.:  How America’s Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor (2023).

14. Michael A. Hardy, ed., Constitutional Policing:  Striving for a More Perfect Union (2023).

15. Kelly Hyland, Freedom for All:  An Attorney’s Guide to Fighting Human Trafficking (2023).

DOMESTIC RELATIONS

16. Linda J. Ravdin, Premarital Agreements:  Drafting and Negotiation (2023).

17. Patricia D. Shewmaker, et.al., Criminal Law for Family Law Attorneys (2023).

ECONOMICS

18. Jacob E. Gersen and Joel H. Steckel, eds., The Cambridge Handbook of Marketing and the Law (2023).

EDUCATION LAW

19. Todd A. DeMitchell, Richard Fossey, and Terri A. DeMitchell, Raising a Cautionary Flag:  Educational Malpractice and the Professional Teacher (2022).

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

20. Guillaume Futhazar, Sandrine Maljean-Dubois, and Jona Razzaque, eds., Biodiversity Litigation (2023).

ESTATES AND TRUSTS

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

22. Rebecca C. Morgan, Robert B. Fleming, and Bryn Poland, Third-Party and Self-Created Trusts:  A Modern Look (2023).

ETHICS

23. George P. Fletcher, Loyalty:  An Essay on the Morality of Relationships (1993).

EVIDENCE

24. Joshua D. Behl and Megan R. Kienzle, eds., Alibis and Corroborators:  Psychological, Criminological, and Legal Perspectives (2023).

25. Saul Kassin, Duped:  Why Innocent People Confess and Why We Believe Their Confessions (2022).

26. Liat Levanon, Evidence, Respect and Truth:  Knowledge and Justice in Legal Trials (2022).

FIRST AMENDMENT

27. Ronald K.L. Collins and David M. Skover, The Death of Discourse (2023).

28. Samantha Barbas, Actual Malice:  Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times v. Sullivan (2023).

GENDER

29. Julie C. Suk, After Misogyny:  How the Law Fails Women and What to do About It (2023).

30. Jody Heymann, Aleta Sprague, and Amy Raub, Equality Within Our Lifetimes:  How Laws and Policies Can Close, or Widen, Gender Gaps in Economies Worldwide (2023).

HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

31. Marco Sassòli, International Humanitarian Law:  Rules, Controversies, and Solutions to Problems Arising in Warfare (2024).

IMMIGRATION LAW

32. Chiara Galli, Precarious Protections:  Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum in the United States (2023).

INSURANCE LAW

33. Douglas Scott MacGregor, A Legal Guide to Recovering for Flood Losses (2023).

34. Alan S. Rutkin and Robert Tugander, eds., The Reference Handbook on the Commercial General Liability Policy (2023).

35. Ronnie L. Johnson, ed., Annotations to Surplus Lines Statutes (2023).

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

36. Sabine Jacques and Ruth Soetendorp, eds., Teaching Intellectual Property Law:  Strategy and Management (2023).

INTERNATIONAL LAW

37. Agathe Demarais, Backfire:  How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests (2022).

38. David L. Sloss, ed., Is the International Legal Order Unraveling? (2022).

39. Jeffrey S. Peake, Dysfunctional Diplomacy:  The Politics of International Agreements in an Era of Partisan Polarization (2023).

40. Jutta Brunnee and Stephen J. Toope, Legitimacy and Legality in International Law:  An Interactional Account (2010).

JUDGES

41. Candace Wellman, Man of Treacherous Charm:  Territorial Justice Edmund C. Fitzhugh (2023).

42. John Charles Thomas, The Poetic Justice:  A Memoir (2022).

43. Kim Isaac Eisler, The Last Liberal:  Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., and the Decisions that Transformed America (1993).

44. Malcolm Clark, Jr., ed., Pharisee Among Philistines:  The Diary of Judge Matthew P. Deady, 1871-1892 (1975).

JURISPRUDENCE

45. Kristen Rundle, Revisiting the Rule of Law (2022).

LEGAL EDUCATION

46. Rachel Dunn, Paul Maharg and Victoria Roper, eds., What is Legal Education For?:  Re-Assessing the Purposes of Early Twenty-First Century Learning and Law Schools (2022).

47. Robert M. Jarvis, The Expelled Law Student:  A Case Law Survey (2022).

48. Paul Bergman, Patrick Goodman, and Thomas Holm, Cracking the Case Method:  Legal Analysis for Law School Success (2022).

49. Max Barrett, Great Legal Writing:  Lessons from Literature (2023).

LEGAL HISTORY

50. Fernanda Pirie, The Rule of Laws:  A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World (2021).

LEGAL PROFESSION

51. Neil W. Hamilton, Roadmap:  The Law Student’s Guide to Meaningful Employment (2023).

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE

52. Morris P. Fiorina, ed., Who Governs?:  Emergency Powers in the Time of COVID (2023).

53. Joel Fishman and Pamela Marshall, DNA:  A Legal Research Guide (2023).

54. George J. Gatgounis, The Constitutional Case for Religious Exemptions from Federal Vaccine Mandates (2022).

55. Charles Theisler, Maximum Malpractice Protection:  A Physician’s Complete Guide (2023).

56. Jeff G. Konin and Mark S. Ramey, Becoming an Expert Witness in Health Care and Litigation:  A Beginner’s Guide (2023).

57. Mary Crossley, Embodied Injustice:  Race, Disability, and Health (2022).

MILITARY, WAR, AND PEACE

58. Lawrence Goldstone, Not White Enough:  The Long, Shameful Road to Japanese American Internment (2023).

59. Gary J. Bass, Judgment at Tokyo:  World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia (2023).

60. Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro, The Internationalists:  How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World (2017).

61. Francine Hirsch, Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg:  A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II (2020).

62. Kenneth B. Moss, Marque and Reprisal:  The Spheres of Public and Private Warfare (2019).

POLITICS

63. Luca Falciola, Up Against the Law:  Radical Lawyers and Social Movements, 1960s-1970s (2022).

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

64. David Cowan, Effective Communication for Lawyers:  A Practical Guide (2023).

65. Ben F. Cotterill, Are Children Reliable Witnesses? (2022).

66. Geoffrey Berman, Holding the Line:  Inside the Nation’s Preeminent US Attorney’s Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department (2022).

67. Alexander Y. Benikov, How to Start a Law Practice (2023).

68. Reagan W. Simpson and Robert P. Redemann, eds., The Trial Lawyer’s Guide to the Attorney-Client Privilege and Work-Product Doctrine (2023).

69. William S. Bailey, Show the Brief:  Visual Writing Strategies & Techniques (2022).

70. John Jerry Glas, The New Science of Trial Advocacy:  The Waiter Pivot (2023).

PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

71. Bruce Ackerman, The Decline and Fall of the American Republic (2010).

72. Harold H. Bruff, Untrodden Ground:  How Presidents Interpret the Constitution (2016).

RACE AND ETHNICITY

73. Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, Critical Race Theory:  An Introduction (2023).

RELIGION

74. Frank S. Ravitch, Advanced Introduction to Law and Religion (2023).

REMEDIES

75. Lawrence W. Newman, Ronald A. Brand, and Houston Putnam Lowry, eds., Interim Measures in the United States in Aid of Arbitration (2022).

76. Bernice B. Donald and Sarah E. Redfield, eds., Extending Justice:  Strategies to Increase Inclusion and Reduce Bias (2023).

77. Nicholas Emanuel, Remedies:  Basic Principles, Authorities, and Problems (2022).

78. Robert Stevens, The Laws of Restitution (2023).

REPRODUCTION

79. Judith Daar, et.al., Reproductive Technologies and the Law (2022).

80. Joseph W. Dellapenna, Dispelling the Myths of Abortion History (2023).

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

81. Silja Voeneky, et. al., eds., The Cambridge Handbook of Responsible Artificial Intelligence:  Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2022).

82. David R. Lawrence and Sarah Morley, eds., Novel Beings:  Regulatory Approaches for a Future of New Intelligent Life (2022).

83. Ana Maria Correa, Discrimination in online platforms : a comparative law approach to design, intermediation, and data challenges (2022).

84. Colin S. Levy, ed., Handbook of Legal Tech (2023).

85. Chaminda Hewage, Yogachandran Rahulamathavan, and Deepthi Ratnayake, eds., Data Protection in a Post-Pandemic Society:  Laws, Regulations, Best Practices and Recent Solutions (2023).

86. David Freeman Engstrom, ed., Legal Tech and the Future of Civil Justice (2023).

87. Andrea Monti, The Digital Rights Delusion:  Humans, Machines and the Technology of Information (2023).

88. A. Jean Thomas, The Open World, Hackbacks and Global Justice (2023).

SECURITIES LAW

89. A.C. Pritchard and Robert B. Thompson, A History of Securities Law in the Supreme Court (2023).

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

90. Thomas R. Marshall, American Public Opinion and the Modern Supreme Court, 1930-2020:  A Representative Institution (2022).

91. Paul D. Moreno, How the Court Became Supreme:  The Origins of American Juristocracy (2022).

TAX POLICY

92. Jack Zuckerman and Ron Thompson, The Business Tax Return Handbook (2023).

TERRORISM

93. Joseph R. Rudolph, Jr. and William J. Lahneman, eds., Combating Terrorism in the 21st Century:  American Laws, Strategies, and Agencies (2022).

TORTS

94. Class Actions & Derivative Suits Committee, The Law of Class Action:  Fifty-State Survey, 2024  (2024).

95. Class Actions & Derivative Suits Committee, The Law of Class Action:  Fifty-State Survey, 2023 (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.

October 2023 New Books

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

COMPARATIVE AND FOREIGN LAW

1. Joshua Ray, White-Collar Criminal Prosecutions in the U.S. and U.K.:  A Comparative Treatise for Practitioners (2022).

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, GENERALLY

2. William J. Nichols, Defining the Republic:  Early Conflicts Over the Constitution (2022).

CONSUMER PROTECTION LAW

3. Erwin Switzer, Alison Eggers, and Kirsten Ahmad, eds., State Consumer Protection Law (2022).

CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE

4. Spencer Headworth, Rules of the Road:  The Automobile and the Transformation of American Criminal Justice (2023).

5. Julian V Roberts and Jesper Ryberg, eds., Sentencing the Self-Convicted:  The Ethics of Pleading Guilty (2023). 

6. Miriam Aroni Krinsky, Change from Within:  Reimagining the 21st-Century Prosecutor (2022). 

7. Daniel S. Medwed, Barred:  Why the Innocent Can’t Get Out of Prison (2022).

DISPUTE RESOLUTION

8. Matthew H. Adler and Danni L. Shanel, A Practitioner’s Guide to Arbitration (2023).

DOMESTIC RELATIONS

9. National Guardianship Association, The Fundamentals of Guardianship:  What Every Guardian Should Know (2023).

EDUCATION LAW

10. Nancy C. Patterson and Prentice T. Chandler, eds., At the Schoolhouse Gate:  Stakeholder Perceptions of First Amendment Rights and Responsibilities in U.S. Public Schools (2022).

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

11. John C. Dernbach, Matthew Bogoshain, and Irma Russell, Sustainability Essentials:  A Leadership Guide for Lawyers (2022).

INSURANCE LAW

12. Alan M. Di Sciullo, Casualty and Insurance Issues in Commercial Leases (2022).

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

13. Richard Osborne, Owning the masters : a history of sound recording copyright (2023).

14. Philip Swain, What is a Patent? (2023).

15. Kathleen A. Daley, Michael J. Flibbert, and Joshua L. Goldberg, eds., The Practitioner’s Guide to Trials before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (2022).

JUDGES

16. Ryan Vacca and Ann Bartow, eds., The Jurisprudential Legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2023).

17. Michael S. Kang and Joanna M. Shepherd, Free to Judge:  The Power of Campaign Money in Judicial Elections (2023).

18. Laura Kalman, FDR’s Gambit:  The Court Packing Fight and the Rise of Legal Liberalism (2022).

JUVENILES

19. Jane M. Spinak, The End of Family Court:  How Abolishing the Court Brings Justice to Children and Families (2023).

20. ABA Criminal Justice Section, Dual Jurisdiction Youth (2023).

LAW AND SOCIETY

21. Brian Z. Tamanaha, Sociological Approaches to Theories of Law (2022).

22. Annalise E. Glauz-Todrank, Judging Jewish Identity in the United States (2023).

LEGAL ANALYSIS AND WRITING

23. John P. Jarecki, Demystifying Law Review:  A Short Guide to Help You Make Law Review, Succeed as a New Staff Editor, Publish Your Law Review Comment, and Secure a Top Editorial Board Position (2023).

LEGAL EDUCATION

24. Jessica Carmichael, Bethany Carr, and Sarah Covington, Digitally Remastered:  Modern Law School (2023).

25. Carolyn J. Nygren, Starting Off Right in Law School (2023).

26. James E. Moliterno and Fredric I. Lederer, An Introduction to Law, Law Study, and the Lawyer’s Role (2023).

LEGAL HISTORY

27. Christian R. Burset, An Empire of Laws:  Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy (2023).

LEGAL PROFESSION

28. Portia Allen-Kyle, Advice to Thrive By:  How to Use Your Resume and Cover Letter to Build Your Brand and Launch a Dynamic Public Interest Career (2022).

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE

29. Geoffrey R. Kaiser and Ada Janocinska, The Federal Anti-Kickback Statute and Safe Harbors:  A History and Practice Guide (2023).

NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

30. Dana Brakman Reiser and Steven A. Dean, For-Profit Philanthropy:  Elite Power and the Threat of Limited Liability Companies, Donor-Advised Funds, and Strategic Corporate Giving (2023).

POLITICS

31. Richard L. Hasen, Cheap Speech:  How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics — And How to Cure It (2022).

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

32. Ralph Grunewald, Narratives of Guilt and Innocence:  The Power of Storytelling in Wrongful Conviction Cases (2023).

33. Hon. Willie J. Epps, Jr., Preparing for a Federal Jury Trial (2023).

34. Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell, The Lawyer’s Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies:  Smart Ways to Work Together (2022).

PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

35. Joseph L. Esposito, Law and Morality:  A Survey of Ideas, Issues, and Cases (2022).

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

36. Carlos Blanco de Morais, Gilmar Ferreira Mendes, and Thomas Vesting, eds., The Rule of Law in Cyberspace (2022).

37. Namita Singh Malik, Elizaveta A Gromova, Smita Gupta and Balamurugan Balusamy, eds., Legal Analytics:  The Future of Analytics in Law (2023).

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

38. Erwin Chemerinsky, A Momentous Year in the Supreme Court:  October Term 2021 (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 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).

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