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March 2024 New Resources

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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

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).

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

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

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

JURISPRUDENCE

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

LEGAL ANALYSIS AND WRITING

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

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

LEGAL EDUCATION

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

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

NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

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

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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

STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT LAW

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

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

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

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.

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

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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

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

BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

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

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, GENERALLY

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

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

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

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

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

CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DOMESTIC RELATIONS

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

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

ECONOMICS

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

EDUCATION LAW

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

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

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

ESTATES AND TRUSTS

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

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

ETHICS

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

EVIDENCE

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

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

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

FIRST AMENDMENT

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

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

GENDER

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

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

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

IMMIGRATION LAW

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

INSURANCE LAW

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

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

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

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

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

INTERNATIONAL LAW

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

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

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

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

JUDGES

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

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

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

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

JURISPRUDENCE

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

LEGAL EDUCATION

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).

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

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

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

LEGAL HISTORY

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

LEGAL PROFESSION

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

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE

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

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

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

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

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

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

MILITARY, WAR, AND PEACE

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

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

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

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

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

POLITICS

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

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

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

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

RACE AND ETHNICITY

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

RELIGION

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

REMEDIES

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

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

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

Robert Stevens, The Laws of Restitution (2023).

REPRODUCTION

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

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

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SECURITIES LAW

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

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

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

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

TAX POLICY

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

TERRORISM

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

TORTS

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

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.