Introduction
Each month the Law Library adds new books to our collection. Here is a selection of titles added in the last month. You'll find them on the New Book display by the front door of the Boley Law Library, or shelved in their proper spot.
Click on the titles to see if they are available. Come to the library and check them out or, literally, come check them out of the library. Faculty, send us your requests and we'll have them in your inbox the next day.
Animal Law
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What Can Animal Law Learn from Environmental Law?
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With its intricate layers of international, federal, and state protections, environmental law is more established than animal law. Yet, animal law faces many of the same legal and strategic challenges that environmental law faced in seeking to establish a more secure foothold in the United States and abroad. As such, animal law stands to gain valuable insights from the lessons of the environmental law movement. In the Second Edition of this book, Prof. Randall S. Abate has assembled an experienced team of 36 academics, advocates, and legal professionals from the environmental and animal law fields to examine the experiences of these two fields. Drawing on lessons from history, politics, and law, the 29-chapter book examines how environmental law's successes and shortcomings can inform animal law, and how the two fields can work together to secure mutual gains in the future.
Call Number: K3620 .W43 2020ISBN: 9781585762255Publication Date: 2020-07-13
Civil Rights and Constitutional Law
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Beyond Belief, Beyond Conscience
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Today, Americans believe that the early colonists came to the New World in search of religious liberty. What we often forget is that they wanted religious liberty for themselves, not for those who held other views that they rejected and detested. Yet, by the mid-18th century, the colonistsagreed that everyone possessed a sovereign right of conscience. How did this change develop? In Beyond Belief, Beyond Conscience, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jack Rakove tracks the unique course of religious freedom in America.He finds that, as denominations and sects multiplied, Americans became much more tolerant of the free expression of rival religious beliefs. During the Revolutionary era, he explains, most of the new states moved to disestablish churches and to give constitutional recognition to rights ofconscience. These two developments explain why religious freedom originally represented the most radical right of all. No other right placed greater importance on the moral autonomy of individuals, or better illustrated how the authority of government could be limited by denying the state authorityto act. Together, these developments made possible the great revival of religion in 19th-century America.As Rakove explains, America's intense religiosity eventually created a new set of problems for mapping the relationship between church and state. He goes on to examine some of our contemporary controversies over church and state not from the vantage point of legal doctrine, but of the deeper historythat gave the U.S. its own approach to religious freedom. In this book, he tells the story of how American ideas of religious toleration and free exercise evolved over time, and why questions of church and state still vex us.
Call Number: KF4783 .R35 2020ISBN: 9780195305814Publication Date: 2020-08-03 -
Campaign finance law : a legal research guide
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A legal research guide on the important topic of campaign finance law (as distinguished from election law). It provides primary sources--including federal and state statutes as well as federal and state regulations--and secondary sources on the fundamentals regarding campaign finance requirements, violations, limitations and contributions, among other issues. The guide is easy to read and use, and provides an invaluable tool and resource for lawyers, campaign workers, election officials, and the general public interested in the topic.
Call Number: KF4920.A1 F53 2020ISBN: 9780837741277Publication Date: 2020 -
Caste (Oprah's Book Club)
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An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions. "As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people's lives and behavior and the nation's fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people--including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball's Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others--she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their out-cast of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity. Beautifully written, original, and revealing Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today.
Call Number: HT725.U6 W55 2020ISBN: 9780593230251Publication Date: 2020-08-04 -
Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide
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Impressively researched and eloquently argued, former special agent Mike German's The Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide tells the story of the transformation of the bureau after the 9/11 attacks from a law enforcement agency into arguably the most secretive domestic intelligence agency America has ever seen. An engaging and unsettling contemporary history of the FBI, and a bold call for reform, told by a long-time counter-terrorism undercover agent who has become a widely admired whistleblower and a critic for civil liberties and accountable government.
Call Number: HV8144.F43 G47 2019ISBN: 9781620973790Publication Date: 2019-09-10 -
Hate crimes : a legal research guide
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This guide to researching hate crime and hate speech laws is designed for both legal experts and non-lawyers, and covers a wide range of legal resources. Chapters include key primary and secondary materials across several jurisdictions--U.S. federal, state, and international arenas. Summaries of each resource allow the reader to determine which are most likely to contain the type of information being sought, and links to electronic resources are also provided whenever possible. Each chapter includes a brief overview of key legal issues or questions, so that novice researchers can quickly familiarize themselves with important laws and terminology, while experts in the topic can refer directly to the relevant resources. While the book focuses primarily on hate crime, there is some consideration of closely related legal resources on issues such as hate speech and freedom of expression. Selected non-legal resources, such as hate crime statistics, are also included in order to provide the researcher with key materials that cover the full range of the topic.
Call Number: HV6773.52 .G69 2020ISBN: 0837741254Publication Date: 2020 -
Rights of Foreign Nationals
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Call Number: KFO2814 .R54 2020ISBN: 9781879049635Publication Date: 2020-06-15This second edition of Rights of Foreign Nationals addresses issues affecting foreign nationals living in Oregon by combining relevant statutes, rules, and cases on matters such as domestic relations, employment, personal injuries, criminal offenses, business law, and public benefits. It includes a brand new chapter on airport issues. This valuable reference will help lawyers avoid potential pitfalls, and highlights situations in which standard advice for a citizen client might be inappropriate for a noncitizen client. -
The Turnaway Study
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"If you read only one book about democracy, The Turnaway Study should be it. Why? Because without the power to make decisions about our own bodies, there is no democracy." --Gloria Steinem "Dr. Diana Greene Foster brings what is too often missing from the public debate around abortion: science, data, and the real-life experiences of people from diverse backgrounds...This should be required reading for every judge, member of Congress, and candidate for office--as well as anyone who hopes to better understand this complex and important issue." --Cecile Richards, cofounder of Supermajority, former president of Planned Parenthood, and author of Make Trouble A groundbreaking and illuminating look at the state of abortion access in America and the first long-term study of the consequences--emotional, physical, financial, professional, personal, and psychological--of receiving versus being denied an abortion on women's lives. What happens when a woman seeking an abortion is turned away? Diana Greene Foster, PhD, decided to find out. With a team of scientists--psychologists, epidemiologists, demographers, nursing scholars, and public health researchers--she set out to discover the effect of receiving versus being denied an abortion on women's lives. Over the course of a ten-year investigation that began in 2007, she and her team followed a thousand women from more than twenty states, some of whom received their abortions, some of whom were turned away. Now, for the first time, the results of this landmark study--the largest of its kind to examine women's experiences with abortion and unwanted pregnancy in the United States--have been gathered together in one place. Here Foster presents the emotional, physical, and socioeconomic outcomes for women who received their abortion and those who were denied. She analyzes the impact on their mental and physical health, their careers, their romantic lives, their professional aspirations, and even their existing and future children--and finds that women who received an abortion were almost always better off than women who were denied one. Interwoven with these findings are ten riveting first-person narratives by women who share their candid stories. As the debate about abortion rights intensifies, The Turnaway Study offers an in-depth examination of the real-world consequences for women of being denied abortions and provides evidence to refute the claim that abortion harms women. With brilliant synthesis and startling statistics--that thousands of American women are unable to access abortions; that 99% of women who receive an abortion do not regret it five years later--The Turnaway Study is a necessary and revelatory look at the impact of abortion access on people's lives.
Call Number: HQ767.5.U5 F67 2020ISBN: 9781982141561Publication Date: 2020-06-02
Criminal Law and Procedure
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A Tilted Guide to Being a Defendant
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The Tilted Scales Collective presents a comprehensive guide to facing charges in the criminal legal system to help defendants not only figure out how to handle their legal cases, but also how to think about their cases. Rather than being a how-to guide, this book offers a way of thinking about criminal charges that is based on defendants' goals: personal, political, and legal. This book was written by dedicated legal support activists and draws on the wisdom of dozens of people who have weathered the challenges of trials and incarceration.
Call Number: KF9219.3 .T67 2017ISBN: 9781938660184Publication Date: 2017-03-01 -
Hate crimes : a legal research guide
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This guide to researching hate crime and hate speech laws is designed for both legal experts and non-lawyers, and covers a wide range of legal resources. Chapters include key primary and secondary materials across several jurisdictions--U.S. federal, state, and international arenas. Summaries of each resource allow the reader to determine which are most likely to contain the type of information being sought, and links to electronic resources are also provided whenever possible. Each chapter includes a brief overview of key legal issues or questions, so that novice researchers can quickly familiarize themselves with important laws and terminology, while experts in the topic can refer directly to the relevant resources. While the book focuses primarily on hate crime, there is some consideration of closely related legal resources on issues such as hate speech and freedom of expression. Selected non-legal resources, such as hate crime statistics, are also included in order to provide the researcher with key materials that cover the full range of the topic.
Call Number: HV6773.52 .G69 2020ISBN: 0837741254Publication Date: 2020
Environmental, Energy, and Natural Resources Law
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What Can Animal Law Learn from Environmental Law?
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With its intricate layers of international, federal, and state protections, environmental law is more established than animal law. Yet, animal law faces many of the same legal and strategic challenges that environmental law faced in seeking to establish a more secure foothold in the United States and abroad. As such, animal law stands to gain valuable insights from the lessons of the environmental law movement. In the Second Edition of this book, Prof. Randall S. Abate has assembled an experienced team of 36 academics, advocates, and legal professionals from the environmental and animal law fields to examine the experiences of these two fields. Drawing on lessons from history, politics, and law, the 29-chapter book examines how environmental law's successes and shortcomings can inform animal law, and how the two fields can work together to secure mutual gains in the future.
Call Number: K3620 .W43 2020ISBN: 9781585762255Publication Date: 2020-07-13
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Elgar encyclopedia of environmental law (series)
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The Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law is a landmark reference work, providing definitive and comprehensive coverage of this dynamic field. The Encyclopedia is organised into 12 volumes around top-level subjects - such as water, energy and climate change - that reflect some of the most pressing issues facing us today. Each volume probes the key elements of law, the essential concepts, and the latest research through concise, structured entries written by international experts. Each entry includes an extensive bibliography as a starting point for further reading. The mix of authoritative commentary and insightful discussion will make this an essential tool for research and teaching, as well as a valuable resource for professionals and policymakers.
Call Number: e-bookISBN: 9781786436986Publication Date: 2016- -
Human rights and the environment : legality, indivisibility, dignity and geography
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Much has been written, discussed, advocated and litigated about human rights and the environment over the last two decades. With 45 structured entries from a global collection of expert scholars, this volume of the Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law provides an authoritative source of reference and features new commentary on the role of the rule of law in responding to the variegated impacts of environmental challenges on the human condition. This comprehensive volume offers fresh perspectives to the conversation by focusing especially on four subjects that shed new light on the subject of environmental human rights: the challenges of identifying the fundamental legal sources for the protection of human rights and the environment, the recognition of the indivisibility of human rights and environmental law, the centrality of the right to human dignity as the lodestar of human rights law, and the uniqueness of geographic particularities. Fundamentally, the entries demonstrate that there is much to do, learn and share on this vital topic. Offering thoughtful critical perspectives on a timely subject, this volume will be an essential resource for academics and students, as well as policymakers and practitioners.
Call Number: e-bookISBN: 9781788111461Publication Date: 2019
International, Foreign, & Human Rights Law
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Human rights and the environment : legality, indivisibility, dignity and geography
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Much has been written, discussed, advocated and litigated about human rights and the environment over the last two decades. With 45 structured entries from a global collection of expert scholars, this volume of the Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law provides an authoritative source of reference and features new commentary on the role of the rule of law in responding to the variegated impacts of environmental challenges on the human condition. This comprehensive volume offers fresh perspectives to the conversation by focusing especially on four subjects that shed new light on the subject of environmental human rights: the challenges of identifying the fundamental legal sources for the protection of human rights and the environment, the recognition of the indivisibility of human rights and environmental law, the centrality of the right to human dignity as the lodestar of human rights law, and the uniqueness of geographic particularities. Fundamentally, the entries demonstrate that there is much to do, learn and share on this vital topic. Offering thoughtful critical perspectives on a timely subject, this volume will be an essential resource for academics and students, as well as policymakers and practitioners.
Call Number: e-bookISBN: 9781788111461Publication Date: 2019
Legal History
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The leaven of sympathy : a bio-bibliography of Frederick C. Hicks
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An annotated bio-bibliography of the works of seminal law librarian Frederick C. Hicks, which touches upon many aspects of the history of legal education, law (and general) library history, and Association history. "The Leaven of Sympathy" draws its title from Hicks' beloved "Men and Books Famous in the Law" and provides the most thorough accounting of Hicks' works to date. It contains a full timeline of the life of Frederick C. Hicks, a robust biographical preface, which includes an excerpt from a little-known essay Hicks composed in his retirement, and nearly 160 entries organized chronologically and annotated with biographical references, footnotes, and cross-references. There are also six appendixes which highlight the work, personality, and artistry of the librarian scholar, including never- before-published reminiscences from his colleagues, a list of photographs that Hicks sold to the Tichnor Brothers for use as postcards, and a complete accounting of the courses taught by Hicks while at Yale Law School. To aid user access, name and subject indexes are also included.
Call Number: Z720.H53 L56 2020ISBN: 9780837741222Publication Date: 2020 -
William S U'Ren
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U'Ren is considered by some historians and biographers as the most important political leader to emerge from Oregon.
Call Number: E840.8 U74 2020ISBN: 9780578662596Publication Date: 2020-04-01
Practice of Law
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Successful innovation outcomes in law : a practical guide for law firms, law departments and other legal organizations
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Sometimes, innovators need some help from a trusted guide to keep their efforts on track and moving toward successful outcomes. In this comprehensive, practicable, and highly-readable legal innovation guide, innovators, innovators-to-be and leaders and decision-makers in law firms, law departments and legal organizations will be led through the key pieces of successful innovation processes to enhance the probability of success and decrease the probability of embarrassing and costly failures. Drawing on his many years of experience in law firms and law departments, his well-known expertise in innovation and legal technology and his familiarity with and involvement in the legal innovation movement, Dennis Kennedy covers the entire waterfront of innovation issues, shares his best tips and techniques, answers hard questions, and gives many helpful examples. This book will be an excellent desktop companion for your innovation journey. and an essential resource for forward-looking legal organizations of all kinds and for their customer as well.
Call Number: KF300 K466 2019ISBN: 9781734076301Publication Date: 2019 -
The client-centered law firm : how to succeed in an experience-driven world
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The legal industry has long been risk averse, but when it comes to adapting to the experience-driven world created by companies like Netflix, Uber, and Airbnb, adherence to the old status quo could be the death knell for today’s law firms.
In The Client-Centered Law Firm, legal technology expert Jack Newton offers a clear-eyed and timely look at how providing a client-centered experience and running an efficient, profitable law firm aren’t opposing ideas. With this approach, they drive each other. Covering the what, why, and how of running a client-centered practice, with examples from law firms leading this revolution as well as practical strategies for implementation, The Client-Centered Law Firm is a rallying call to unlock the enormous latent demand in the legal market by providing client-centered experiences, improving internal processes, and raising the bottom line.
Call Number: K120 .N49 2020ISBN: 9781989603321Publication Date: 2020
Other Subject Areas
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Caste (Oprah's Book Club)
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An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions. "As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people's lives and behavior and the nation's fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people--including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball's Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others--she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their out-cast of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity. Beautifully written, original, and revealing Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today.
Call Number: HT725.U6 W55 2020ISBN: 9780593230251Publication Date: 2020-08-04
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Oregon Insurance Law Codebook
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This two-volume codebook puts the Oregon Insurance Code at your fingertips. This codebook serves as a companion to Insurance Law in Oregon, but is also a useful stand-alone resource. It includes 2018 and 2019 legislation.
Call Number: KFO2585 .I53 2020ISBN: 9781879049703Publication Date: 2020-05-01
