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June 2024 New Books

In June 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. Stephen M. Bainbridge, The Profit Motive: Defending Shareholder Value Maximization (2023).

CONFLICT OF LAWS

2. Mistale Taylor, Transatlantic Jurisdictional Conflicts in Data Protection Law: Fundamental Rights, Privacy and Extraterritoriality (2023).

FIRST AMENDMENT

3. Dennis Baron, You Can’t Always Say What You Want: The Paradox of Free Speech (2023).

INTERNATIONAL LAW

4. Sean D. Murphy, and Edward T. Swaine, The Law of U.S. Foreign Relations (2023).

JURISPRUDENCE

5. Timothy Endicott, Hasfteinn Dan Kristjánsson, and Sebastian Lewis, eds., Philosophical Foundations of Precedent (2023).

LABOR LAW

6. Brishen Rogers, Data and Democracy at Work: Advanced Information Technologies, Labor Law, and the New Working Class (2023).

LEGAL PROFESSION

7. Patricia E. Salkin, May It Please the Campus: Lawyers Leading Higher Education (2022).

8. Robin Steinberg and Camilo A. Ramirez, The Courage of Compassion: A Journey from Judgment to Connection (2023).

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

9. Elizabeth Anne Khalil, U.S. Financial Privacy and Data Security: A Practical Guide (2023).

SECOND AMENDMENT

10. Carl T. Bogus, Madison’s Militia: The Hidden History of the Second Amendment (2023).

TORTS

11. Gregory C. Keating, Reasonableness and Risk: Right and Responsibility in the Law of Torts (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.

November 2023 New Books

In November 2023, 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. Seth C. Oranburg, A History of Financial Technology and Regulation: From American Incorporation to Cryptocurrency and Crowdfunding (2022).

BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

2. Anne M. Choike, Usha R. Rodrigues, and Kelli Alces William, eds., Feminist Judgments: Corporate Law Rewritten (2023).

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, GENERALLY

3. James B. Staab, Limits of Constraint: The Originalist Jurisprudence of Hugo Black, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas (2022).

4. Adam R. Brown, The Dead Hand’s Grip: How Long Constitutions Bind States (2023).

CONTRACTS

5. Richard Holden and Anup Malani, Can Blockchain Solve the Hold-Up Problem in Contracts? (2021).

COURTS

6. Morgan L.W. Hazelton and Rachael K. Hinkle, Persuading the Supreme Court: The Significance of Briefs in Judicial Decision-Making (2022).

7. Anna Offit, The Imagined Juror: How Hypothetical Juries Influence Federal Prosecutors (2022).

8. Michael C. LeMay, The Judicial System: A Reference Handbook (2022).

9. Nancy S. Marder, The Power of the Jury: Transforming Citizens into Jurors (2022).

CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE

10. Jeffrey Bellin, Mass Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How it can Recover (2023).

11. C.J. Williams, Sentencing Advocacy: Principles and Strategy (2022).

12. John Bessler, The Death Penalty’s Denial of Fundamental Human Rights: International Law, State Practice and the Emerging Abolitionist Norm (2023).

13. Mark W. Podvia, The Strange Case of Dr. Paul Schoeppe (2022).

DISPUTE RESOLUTION

14. Donald E. Vinson, Arbitration: The Art & Science of Persuasion (2022).

DOMESTIC RELATIONS

15. Brenda Russell and John Hamel, eds., Gender and Domestic Violence: Contemporary Legal Practice and Intervention Reforms (2022).

16. Miguel Clemente, Institutional Harassment: Divorce, Abuse, and the Legal System (2022).

EDUCATION LAW

17. Brian K. Landsberg, Revolution by Law: The Federal Government and the Desegregation of Alabama Schools (2022).

18. Marisela Martinez-Cola, The Bricks before Brown: The Chinese American, Native American, and Mexican Americans’ Struggle for Educational Equality (2022).

ELECTIONS AND VOTING

19. Jennifer Frost, “Let us vote!”: Youth Voting Rights and the 26th Amendment (2021).

EMPLOYMENT PRACTICE

20. Jason Pierceson, Before Bostock: The Accidental LGBTQ Precedent of Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins (2022).

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

21. M. Margaret McKeown, Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas-Public Advocate and Conservation Champion (2022).

22. Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito, ed., Litigating the Climate Emergency: How Human Rights, Courts, and Legal Mobilization Can Bolster Climate Action (2023).

23. Cynthia Giles, Next Generation Compliance: Environmental Regulation for the Modern Era (2022).

GENDER

24. Stephanie Hennette Vauchez and Ruth Rubio-Marin, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Gender and the Law (2023).

HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

25. Marija Jovanovic, State Responsibility for ‘Modern Slavery’ in Human Rights Law: A Right not to be Trafficked (2023).

IMMIGRATION LAW

26. Michelle Castaneda, Disappearing Rooms: The Hidden Theaters of Immigration Law (2023).

27. Tristan Josephson, On Transits and Transitions: Trans Migrants and U.S. Immigration Law (2023).

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

28. Robert P. Merges, American Patent Law: A Business and Economic History (2022).

29. John Willinsky, Copyright’s Broken Promise: How to Restore the Law’s Ability to Promote the Progress of Science (2023).

30. Mark Bartholomew, Intellectual Property and the Brain: How Neuroscience Will Reshape Legal Protection for Creations of the Mind (2022).

JUDGES

31. Nancy Scherer, Diversifying the Courts: Race, Gender, and Judicial Legitimacy (2023).

JURISPRUDENCE

32. Mathieu Carpentier, Meta-Theory of Law (2022).

LEGAL PROFESSION

33. Richard Susskind, Tomorrow’s Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future (2023).

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE

34. Belinda Bennett, Ian Freckelton, and Gabrielle Wolf, COVID-19, Law & Regulation: Rights, Freedoms, and Obligations in a Pandemic (2023).

35. Margaret Brazier, Law and Healing: A History of a Stormy Marriage (2023).

36. Stephanie von Liebenstein, ed., Legislating Fatness: Current Debates in Weight Discrimination, Policy, and Law (2023).

37. Wendy A. Bach, Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care (2022).

38. Felicity M. Turner, Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America (2022).

MILITARY, WAR, AND PEACE

39. Yoram Dinstein, The Conduct of Hostilities Under the Law of International Armed Conflict (2022).

PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

40. Joshua E. Kastenberg, Goldwater v. Carter: Foreign Policy, China, and the Resurgence of Executive Branch Primacy (2023).

PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY

41. Martha E. Arterberry, Children’s Eyewitness Testimony and Event Memory (2022).

42. Ronnie Mackay and Warren Brookbanks, eds., The Insanity Defence: International and Comparative Perspectives (2022).

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

43. Anke Sophia Obendiek, Data Governance: Value Orders and Jurisdictional Conflicts (2023).

44. Bart Custers and Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, eds., Law and Artificial Intelligence: Regulating AI and Applying AI in Legal Practice (2022).

SECOND AMENDMENT

45. Robert J. Spitzer, The Gun Dilemma: How History is Against Expanded Gun Rights (2023).

WATER LAW

46. John Charles Morris, Clean Water Policy and State Choice: Promise and Performance in the Water Quality Act (2022).

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).

September 2023 New Books

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

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

1. Tim W. Dornis, Trademark and Unfair Competition Conflicts: Historical-Comparative, Doctrinal, and Economic Perspectives (2019).

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

2. Mustafa Suleyman with Michael Bhaskar, The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma (2023).

WATER LAW

3. Charles R. Porter, Jr., Water Rights in the United States: A Guide Through the Maze (2023).

Summer 2023 New Resources

During Summer 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

Bloomberg BNA Law Reports (Archive) – Bloomberg BNA’s Law Reports archives pre-1996 BNA materials. Archives are arranged by the different practicing subject matters.

HeinOnline’s Voting Rights & Election Law – This collection is devoted to the electoral process: how elections are conducted, the strategy and controversies of political campaigns, how votes are counted, and who is allowed to vote. It contains content on historical and more recent elections, as well as elections conducted both in the United States and from around the world.

HeinOnline’s U.S. Congressional Serial Set — The United States Congressional Serial Set, commonly referred to as the Serial Set, is considered the most essential publication for unveiling American history. Spanning more than two centuries, the records in this series include House and Senate Documents, House and Senate Reports, the American State Papers, and much more. The Serial Set is indexed and contains full-text coverage from inception to date.

New Books

EVIDENCE

1. Anthony J Bocchino, JoAnne A. Epps, and David A. Sonenshein, 101 Vignettes for Improving Trial Evidence Skills (2023).

LEGAL EDUCATION

2. Aliza Wong, Sean Cunningham, Terry Greenberg, and B. Lynn Whitfield, eds., 100 Years, 100 Voices: Texas Tech University (2022).

LEGAL PROFESSION

3. David R. McClean, Strategic Planning: As Simple as A, B, C (2015).

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).

5. Jean M. Converse and Stanley Presser, Survey Questions: Handcrafting the Standardized Questionnaire (1986).

PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

6. Peter M. Shane, Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency (2022).

PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

7. Peter J. Henning, The Prosecution and Defense of Public Corruption: The Law and Legal Strategies (2015).

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.