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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

Ronald K.L. Collins, Tragedy on Trial: The Story of the Infamous Emmett Till Murder Trial (2024).

Natasha N. Varyani, Owning Our Values: Understanding Systemic Racism through the Lens of Property Law (and Skills to Do Something About it) (2024).

HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

Nicole Dyszlemski, Integrating Doctrine and Diversity: Beyond the First Year (2024).

INSURANCE LAW

William G. Childs, Recreation and Risk (2024).

LEGAL ANALYSIS AND WRITING

Maryellen Maley, Carol Krueger-Brophy and Frank Torterella, Essential Legal Knowledge and Writing Skills: Foundations of Law for Every Profession (2024).

Edward H. Telfeyan, The Law Students’ Guide to Effective Legal Writing (2004).

LEGAL EDUCATION

Sara J. Berman, Bar Exam Success: A Comprehensive Guide (2023).

Jon M. Garon, Law Professors’ Desk Reference: A Handbook for Work and Life in the Legal Academy (2021).

Gerald S. Reamey, How Not to Be a Terrible Teacher (And Maybe Be a Good one) (2023).

Gillian Dutton, et.al., Externship Pedagogy and Practice (2023).

David I. C. Thomson, The Way Forward for Legal Education (2023).

Carlo A. Pedrioli, Exploring Conflict over the Professor’s Role in U.S. Legal Education: Theory v. Practice (2024).

LEGAL HISTORY

H. Jefferson Powell, The Foundations of American Law: A Companion to the 1L Year (2024).

LEGISLATION

Gregory S. Parks, The Law of Fraternities and Sororities (2024).

PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY

Mallika Kaur and Lindsay M. Harris, How to Account for Trauma and Emotions in Law Teaching (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.

October 2024 New Books

In October 2024, the Law Library added the following new titles to the collection to support the research and curricular needs of our faculty and students.

AGRICULTURE LAW

Loka L. Ashwood, et.al., Empty Fields, Empty Promises: a State-by-State Guide to Understanding and Transforming the Right to Farm (2024).

Xaq Frohlich, From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age (2023)

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Marianne Mason, Police Interrogation, Language, and the Law : The Invocation Game (2004).

Dickens and His Lawyers (2023).

BANKRUPTCY LAW

Daniel Platt, The Price of Misfortune : Rights and Wrongs in Indebted America (2023).

CIVIL RIGHTS, GENERALLY

Adam Chilton and Kyle Rozema, Trial By Numbers : a Lawyer’s Guide to Statistical Evidence (2024).

CONTRACTS

Kit Burden, Mark O’Conor, and Duncan Pithouse, Negotiating Technology Contracts (2023).

Damian Clifford, Kwan Ho Lau, and Jeannie Marie Paterson, Data and Private Law (2023).

CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE

Dominik Zajac, Non-State Actors Law-Making and Domestic Criminal Law (2024).

Anthea Hucklesby and Raymond Holts, eds., Tracking People : Wearable Technologies in Social and Public Policy (2024).

Sanaz Alasti, Judicial Corporal Punishment as an Alternative to Incarceration in the United States : Lessons Learned from Islamic Criminal Justice Systems (2023).

Miriam H. Baer, Myths and Misunderstandings in White-Collar Crime (2023).

ECONOMICS

Matthew Titolo, Privatization and Its Discontents : Infrastructure, Law, and American Democracy (2023).

EDUCATION LAW

George Fisher, Beware Euphoria : the Moral Roots and Racial Myths of America’s War on Drugs (2024).

Allyson Mower, Developing Authorship and Copyright Ownership Policies : Best Practice (2024).

James R. Stoner Jr., Paul O. Carrese, and Carol McNamara, eds., Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity in Higher Education (2023).

Michelle L. Boettcher and Cristobal Salinas Jr., Law and Ethics in Academic and Student Affairs : Developing an Institutional Intelligence Approach (2024).

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

Madison Powers, A Livable Planet : Human Rights in the Global Economy (2024).

Yoshifumi Tanaka, Rachael Lorna Johnstone, and Vibe Ulfbeck, The Routledge Handbook of Polar Law (2023).

FIRST AMENDMENT

Cass R. Sunstein, Campus Free Speech : a Pocket Guide (2024).

FOOD AND DRUG LAW

Toby Seddon, Rethinking Drug Laws : Theory, History, Politics (2023).

GENDER

Kimberly Tao, Legal Categorization of “Transgender” : An Analysis of Statutory Interpretation of “Sex”, “Man”, and “Woman” in Transgender Jurisprudence (2024).

Sara Chatfield, In Her Own Name : the Politics of Women’s Rights Before Suffrage (2023).

HEALTH LAW AND POLICY

Susan Marie Sterett, Litigating the Pandemic : Disaster Cascades in Court (2023).

Donald H. Romano, Stark : a Practitioner’s Guide (2023).

Stefania Achella and Chantal Marazia, eds., Vulnerabilities : Rethinking Medicine Rights and Humanities in Post-Pandemic (2023).

IMMIGRATION LAW

Sarah Tosh, The Immigration Law Death Penalty : Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance (2023).

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

Steven D. Jamar and Lateef Mtima, eds., Cambridge Handbook of Intellectual Property and Social Justice (2024).

INTERNATIONAL LAW

Ruth Margaret Buchanan, Luis Eslava, and Sundhya Pahuja, The Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development (2023).

M. Basheer Ahmed Khan and Kaushal Kishore, Policies, Practices, and Protocols for International Commercial Arbitration (2023).

LEGAL HISTORY

John Robertson, ed., Time, History, and Political Thought (2024).

LEGAL PROFESSION

Daniel Newman, ed., Leading Works On the Legal Profession (2024).

Morgan L. W. Hazelton, Rachael K. Hinkle, and Michael J. Nelson, The Elevator Effect : Contact and Collegiality in the American Judiciary (2023).

James J. Brosnahan, Justice at Trial : Courtroom Battles and Groundbreaking Cases (2023).

LEGISLATION

Andrew P. Napolitano, Freedom’s Anchor : An Introduction to Natural Law Jurisprudence in American Constitutional History (2023).

John R. Vile, Encyclopedia of Presidential Vetoes from Washington through to Biden : History, Subjects, and Procedures (2024).

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE

Angela Hume, Deep Care : the Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open (2023).

PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY

Allan Edward Barsky, Clinicians In Court : a Guide to Subpoenas, Depositions, Testifying, and Everything Else You Need to Know (2024).

RACE AND ETHNICITY

Charles F. Wilkinson, Treaty Justice : the Northwest Tribes, the Boldt Decision, and the Recognition of Fishing Rights (2024).

RELIGION

Cinzia Piciocchi, Courts, Pluralism and Law in the Everyday : Food, Clothing and Days of Rest (2024).

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Ignacio N. Cofone, The Privacy Fallacy : Harm and Power in the Information Economy (2024).

Roger Brownsword, Technology, Humans, and Discontent With Law : the Quest for Better Governance (2024).

Traci Cipriano, The Thriving Lawyer : a Multidimensional Model of Well-Being For a Sustainable Legal Profession (2024).

Mark Findlay, Li Min Ong, and Wenxi Zhang, eds., Mark Findlay, Li Min Ong, and Wenxi Zhang, eds. (2023).

Jerry W. Markham, Cryptocurrency Regulation : A Primer (2023).

SEX CRIMES

Emily Horowitz, From Rage to Reason : Why We Need Sex Crime Laws Based on Facts, Not Fear (2023).

Henry F. Fradella, Sex and Privacy in American Law (2023).

SPORTS

Ed Garvey, Never Ask “Why” : Football Players’ Fight for Freedom in the NFL (2023).

TAXATION–STATE AND LOCAL

Peter J. Wiedenbeck and Brendan S. Maher, ERISA Principles (2024).

TRANSPORTATION LAW

Charles U. Zug, Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Federal Highway Act (2024).

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

Heather Douglas, The Criminalization of Violence against Women: Comparative Perspectives, 2024.

HEALTH LAW AND POLICY

Patricia J. Williams, The Miracle of the Black Leg: Notes on Race, Human Bodies, and the Spirit of the Law, 2024.

HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

Szymon Mazurkiewica, Grounding Human Rights in Human Nature, 2023.

INTERNATIONAL LAW

Yueduan Wang, Experimentalist Constitutions: Subnational Policy Innovations in China, India, and the United States, 2024.

Giuditta Cordero-Moss, Independence and Impartiality of International Adjudicators, 2023.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Arvind Narayanan, AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference, 2024.

Alberto Quintavalla, Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, 2023.

Nigel Shadbolt, As If Human: Ethics and Artificial Intelligence, 2024.

Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence, 2021.

SEX CRIMES

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.

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

Robert R. Rose III, Trial Practice Manual for Criminal Defense Lawyers: A Field Guide to Courtroom Combat (2020).

HEALTH LAW AND POLICY

Allen Buchanan, How to Respond Better to the Next Pandemic: Remedying Institutional Failures, (2024).

LEGAL ANALYSIS AND WRITING

Melissa Shultz and Christine Tamer, Legal Writing Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Approach, (2024).

LEGAL RESEARCH AND LIBRARIES

Elizabeth G. Adelman and Jessica de Perio Wittman, eds., Organizational Structures of Academic Law Libraries: Past, Present, and Future, (2023).

MILITARY, WAR, AND PEACE

David A. Schlueter and Lisa Schenck, Military Criminal Justice: Practice and Procedure, (2024).

SECURED TRANSACTIONS

Adrian Cohen and Laura N. Coordes, Article 9 Plainly Stated, (2023).

WATER LAW

Barton H. Thompson, Jr., Liquid Asset: How Business and Government can Partner to Solve the Freshwater Crisis, (2024).

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

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

CONFLICT OF LAWS

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

FIRST AMENDMENT

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

INTERNATIONAL LAW

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

JURISPRUDENCE

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

LABOR LAW

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