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.
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Administrative Law
Pennsylvania Administrative Law: A Legal Research Guide by
The development of administrative law has grown dramatically in the last fifty years. This book brings together a wide range of primary and secondary sources dealing with Pennsylvania administrative law. It contains a detailed review of administrative law in the state, using both statutory and administrative law sources; explains how to research current, proposed, and historical regulations; and provides a detailed description of the rule-making process in the state. The guide also contains a useful bibliography of secondary sources on the topic, including encyclopedias, treatises, CLE books, and periodical articles.
Call Number: Treatise KFP440.A1 F57 2021ISBN: 9780837742311Publication Date: 2021
Business, Investment, and Tax Law
American Kleptocracy by
This book offers the first explosive investigation into how the United States of America built the largest illicit offshore finance system the world has ever known. For years, one country has acted as the greatest offshore haven in the world, attracting hundreds of billions of dollars in illicit finance tied directly to corrupt regimes, extremist networks, and the worst the world has to offer. The country profiting the most also happens to be the one that still claims to be the moral leader of the free world, and the one that claims to be leading the fight against the crooked and the corrupt: the USA.
Call Number: Treatise HV6769 .M53 2021ISBN: 9781250274526Publication Date: November 23, 2021
Comparative Corporate Governance by
This research handbook provides a state-of-the-art perspective on how corporate governance differs between countries around the world. It covers highly topical issues including corporate purpose, corporate social responsibility and shareholder activism.
Call Number: Treatise K1327 .C66 2021ISBN: 9781788975322Publication Date: June 22, 2021
Civil Rights and Constitutional Law
The Blessings of Liberty by
John Witte, Jr. explores the role religion played in the development of rights in the Western legal tradition and traces the complex interplay between human rights and religious freedom norms in modern domestic and international law. He examines how US courts are moving towards greater religious freedom, while recent decisions of the pan-European courts in Strasbourg and Luxembourg have harmed new religious minorities and threatened old religious traditions in Europe. Witte argues that the robust promotion and protection of religious freedom is the best way to protect many other fundamental rights today, even though religious freedom and other fundamental rights sometimes clash and need judicious balancing. He also responds to various modern critics who see human rights as a betrayal of Christianity and religious freedom as a betrayal of human rights.
Call Number: Treatise K3240 .W58 2021ISBN: 9781108453264Publication Date: November 4, 2021
From Parchment to Dust: The Case for Constitutional Skepticism by
The prominent constitutional law scholar's fascinating argument that we don't need the Constitution after all.
Call Number: Treatise KF4550 .S373 2021ISBN: 9781620976364Publication Date: November 2, 2021
Genius for Justice by
Dr. Charles Hamilton Houston was an outstanding Harvard-trained Supreme Court lawyer for the NAACP. As Dean of Howard University Law School, he mentored future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. As architect of the Brown v. Board of Education case, he is often called the man who killed "Jim Crow." This unsung African-American hero also transformed American law in labor, criminal justice, and the First Amendment.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF373.H644 A53 2021ISBN: 9781594609855Publication Date: December 17, 2021
Justice on the Brink by
At the end of the Supreme Court's 2019-2020 term, the center was holding. The predictions that the Court would move irrevocably to the radical right hadn't come to pass, as the justices released surprisingly moderate opinions on cases involving abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, and how local governments could handle the pandemic, all shepherded by Chief Justice John Roberts. By the end of the 2020-2021 term, much about our the nation's highest court will have changed. The right-wing supermajority will complete its first term on the bench, cementing Donald Trump's legacy on American jurisprudence. This is the story of that year. Throughout Justice on the Brink, award-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse gives us unique insight into a Supreme Court under stress, providing the context and brilliant analysis readers of her work in The New York Times have come to expect
Call Number: Treatise KF8742 .G743 2021ISBN: 9780593447932Publication Date: November 9, 2021The Law of Judicial Precedent by The Law of Judicial Precedent is the first hornbook-style treatise on the doctrine of precedent in more than a century. It is the product of 13 distinguished coauthors, 12 of whom are appellate judges whose professional work requires them to deal with precedents daily. Together with their editor and coauthor, Bryan A. Garner, the judges have thoroughly researched and explored the many intricacies of the doctrine as it guides the work of American lawyers and judges. The treatise is organized into nine major topics, comprising 93 blackletter sections that elucidate all the major doctrines relating to how past decisions guide future ones in our common-law system. The authors' goal was to make the book theoretically sound, historically illuminating, and relentlessly practical.
Call Number: Treatise KF429 .G37 2016ISBN: 9780314634207Publication Date: January 1, 2016
The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment by
Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick return to the primary sources on the origin, drafting, and adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution to better understand its original meaning. Arguing that it protected principles of republican citizenship, fundamental rights, and civil equality, they propose workable doctrines for implementing these principles in practice.
Call Number: Treatise KF4558 14th .B37 2021ISBN: 9780674257764Publication Date: November 2, 2021
Ruling by Cheating by
There is widespread agreement that democracy today faces unprecedented challenges. Populism has pushed governments in new and surprising constitutional directions. Analyzing the constitutional system of illiberal democracies (from Venezuela to Poland) and illiberal phenomena in "mature democracies" that are justified in the name of "the will of the people," this book explains that this drift to mild despotism is not authoritarianism, but an abuse of constitutionalism. Illiberal governments claim that they are as democratic and constitutional as any other. They also claim that they are more popular and therefore more genuine because their rule is based on conservative, plebeian, and "patriotic" constitutional and rule of law values rather than the values liberals espouse. However, this book shows that these claims are deeply deceptive- and constitute an abuse of constitutionalism and the rule of law, not a different conception of these ideas.
Call Number: Treatise K3416 .S25 2021ISBN: 9781108948630Publication Date: August 12, 2021
Criminal Law
The Book of Timothy by
Author is L&C alum. Set in Rome, Chicago, and Anchorage, and spanning thirty years from crime to confrontation, The Book of Timothy: A Sister's Pursuit recounts in lyric movements a sister's journey, partly through trickery, but eventually through truth, to gain a long-absent admission from the priest who abused her brother. While on that journey, Nockels Wilson, a former prosecutor, confronts not only the priest, but her personal quest for vengeance. She further seeks an understanding of how the first Book of Timothy, the work of St. Paul, contributed to the silencing of women in her once loved Catholic Church. This Book of Timothy promises to take the reader on a quest for justice and down a path of unexpected coincidences that ends where it first began: out of a great love for a brother and in the power of first memory.
Call Number: Treatise BX4705.W566 A3 2021ISBN: 9781597099325Publication Date: November 9, 2021
Labor and Punishment by
The insightful chapters in this volume reveal the multiple and multifaceted intersections between mass incarceration and neoliberal precarity. Both mass incarceration and the criminal justice system are profoundly implicated in the production and reproduction of the low-wage "exploitable" precariat, both within and beyond prison walls. The carceral state is a regime of labor discipline-and a growing one-that extends far beyond its own inmate labor. This regime not only molds inmates into compliant workers willing and expected to accept any "bad" job upon release but also compels many Americans to work in such jobs under threat of incarceration, all the while bolstering their "exploitability" and socioeconomic marginality.
Call Number: Treatise HV8925 .L335 2021ISBN: 9780520305335Publication Date: May 25, 2021
Queering Law and Order by
Throughout U.S. history, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people have been pathologized, victimized, and criminalized. Reports of lynching, burning, or murdering of LGBTQ people has been documented for centuries Prior to the 1970s, LGBTQ people were deemed as having psychological disorders and subsequently subject to electroshock therapy and other ineffective and cruel treatments. LGBTQ people have historically been arrested or imprisoned for crimes like sodomy, cross-dressing, and gathering in public spaces. And while there have been many strides to advocate for LGBTQ rights in contemporary times, there are still many ways that the criminal justice system works against LGBTQ and their lives, liberties, and freedoms. Queering Law and Order: LGBTQ Communities and Fight for Justice examines the state of LGBTQ people within the criminal justice system.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF4754.5 .N33 2020ISBN: 9781793601087Publication Date: 2021-12-17
The Rights of the Accused under the Sixth Amendment, Third Edition by
This book covers the key provisions that impact a defendant in criminal prosecution.
Call Number: Treatise KF4558 6th .M37 2021ISBN: 9781641059473Publication Date: 2021
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The Ethics of Microaggression by
Slips of the tongue, unwitting favoritism and stereotyped assumptions are just some examples of microaggression. Nearly all of us commit microaggressions at some point, even if we don't intend to. Yet over time a pattern of microaggression can cause considerable harm by reminding members of marginalized groups of their precarious position. The Ethics of Microaggression is a much needed and clearly written exploration of this pervasive yet complex problem.
Call Number: Treatise BF575.A3 R55 2021ISBN: 9781138713147Publication Date: 2021- Genius for Justice by
Dr. Charles Hamilton Houston was an outstanding Harvard-trained Supreme Court lawyer for the NAACP. As Dean of Howard University Law School, he mentored future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. As architect of the Brown v. Board of Education case, he is often called the man who killed "Jim Crow." This unsung African-American hero also transformed American law in labor, criminal justice, and the First Amendment.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF373.H644 A53 2021ISBN: 9781594609855Publication Date: December 17, 2021
Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Property Opinions by
How could feminist perspectives and methods change the shape of property law? This volume assembles a group of diverse scholars to explore this question by presenting fundamental property law cases rewritten from a feminist perspective. The cases cover a broad range of property law topics, from landlord-tenant rights and obligations, patents, and zoning to publicity rights, land titles, concurrent ownership, and takings. These rewritten opinions and their accompanying commentaries demonstrate how incorporating feminist theories and methods could have made property law more just and equitable for women and marginalized groups. The book also shows how property law is not neutral but is shaped by the society that produces it and the judges who apply it.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF560 .F46 2022ISBN: 9781108812870Publication Date: 2021-10-28- Queering Law and Order by
Throughout U.S. history, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people have been pathologized, victimized, and criminalized. Reports of lynching, burning, or murdering of LGBTQ people has been documented for centuries Prior to the 1970s, LGBTQ people were deemed as having psychological disorders and subsequently subject to electroshock therapy and other ineffective and cruel treatments. LGBTQ people have historically been arrested or imprisoned for crimes like sodomy, cross-dressing, and gathering in public spaces. And while there have been many strides to advocate for LGBTQ rights in contemporary times, there are still many ways that the criminal justice system works against LGBTQ and their lives, liberties, and freedoms. Queering Law and Order: LGBTQ Communities and Fight for Justice examines the state of LGBTQ people within the criminal justice system.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF4754.5 .N33 2020ISBN: 9781793601087Publication Date: 2021-12-17
Urban Cascadia and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice by
Urban Cascadia-roughly, the Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver corridor-enjoys a reputation for progressive ideals and forward-thinking green urbanism. Yet there is more to the region's environmental politics that meet the eye. Nik Janos and Corina McKendry propose an edited collection that examines the environmental transformation of these cities, using a critical lens on the surrounding myths and imaginaries to probe underlying structural inequalities and contradictions. In particular, contributors across disciplines (but along a nexus of geography, sociology, and history) seek to better understand the capitalist urbanization of nature, the creation of social and environmental inequalities, and the movements to fight for social and environmental justice. The goal isn't to debunk the region's image or offer a story of green boosterism. But by grappling with the contradictions of the urbanization of Cascadia, they hope to offer insight on sustainability, social justice, urban governance, and the politics of climate change. The idea to offer a one-stop assessment for those interested in the region, and to push for a more critical approach to narratives about sustainability.
Call Number: Environment GE240.C36 U73 2021ISBN: 9780295749358Publication Date: 2021-09-01
Environmental, Energy, and Natural Resources Law
Adapting to Climate Change by
It is all but certain that the next century will be hotter than any we've experienced before. Even if we get serious about fighting climate change, it's clear that we will need to adapt to the changes already underway in our environment. This book considers how individual economic choices in response to climate change will transform the larger economy.
Call Number: Environment QC903 .K34 2021ISBN: 9780300246711Publication Date: March 30, 2021
Biological Diversity and International Law by
The book focuses on the interactions between international legal regimes related to biodiversity governance. It addresses the systemic challenges by analyzing the legal interactions between international biodiversity law and related international law applicable to economic activities, as well as issues related to the governance of biodiversity based on functional, normative, and geographic dimensions, in order to present a crosscutting, holistic approach. The global COVID-19 pandemic, the imminent revision of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, and the Aichi Targets have created the momentum to focus on the interactions between the Convention on Biological Diversity and other international environmental regimes.
Call Number: Environment K3488 .B565 2021ISBN: 9783030729608Publication Date: July 17, 2021
Finding the Mother Tree by
Simard illuminates the fascinating and vital truths: that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own. At the center of it all, the Mother Trees: the mysterious, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them. Born and raised into a logging world in the rainforests of British Columbia, Simard writes of her own journey of understanding who we are and our place in the world, and how the Mother Tree nurtures the forest in the profound ways that families and human societies do.
Call Number: Environment SD411.52.S56 A3 2021ISBN: 9780525656098Publication Date: May 4, 2021
The Power of Scenery by
As Americans celebrate the 150th anniversary of Yellowstone, the world’s first national park, a question naturally arises: where did the idea originate? The answer starts with pre-Yellowstone America. With nothing to put up against Europe’s cultural pearls, Americans came to realize that their plentitude of natural wonders might compensate for the dearth of manmade attractions. That insight guided the great landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted as he organized his thoughts on how to manage the wilderness park centered on Yosemite Valley, a state-owned predecessor to the national park model of Yellowstone. When he wrote down his philosophy for managing Yosemite, a new and different kind of park, one that preserves a great natural site in the wilds, he had no idea that he was creating a visionary blueprint for national parks to come.
Call Number: Environment SB482.A4 D73 2021ISBN: 9781496220776Publication Date: November 1, 2021
The Right of Access to Environmental Information by
The book discusses the normative impact of the Aarhus Convention on how England, America and China guarantees the right of access to environmental information. Through this analysis the book identifies each of these jurisdictions' unique conceptualisations of the right which, in turn, influences the design of their respective environmental information regimes. This allows these jurisdictions potentially to act as sources of legal reforms for each other to improve how the right is guaranteed via legal transplant theory, challenging the normativity of the Aarhus Convention. This is not to suggest that the Aarhus Convention exerts no normative influence on how the right is guaranteed; there are core substantive and core procedural elements which have to be met for the right to be effectively guaranteed, and the book shows that the Aarhus Convention does exert a normative influence over the procedural elements of the right.
Call Number: Environment K3585 .W45 2021ISBN: 9781108845236Publication Date: Nov. 18, 2021
The Rights and Obligations of States in Disputed Maritime Areas by
Many disputed maritime areas exist around the world. Often, the States concerned have not been able to reach agreement on how to, for example, regulate commercial activities within such areas. Conflict regularly arises between claimant coastal States if one of them acts unilaterally, such as in the South China Sea. This book examines the rights and obligations States have under international law concerning disputed maritime areas, in the first comprehensive treatment of this highly topical and pressing issue. It analyses conventional law, general international law, judicial decisions, State practice, and academic opinions that shine a light on the international legal framework that is applicable in disputed maritime areas. Proposing practical solutions on how to interpret the relevant international law, the book discusses the extent to which it currently provides clear guidance to States, and how international courts and tribunals have dealt with cases related to activities in disputed maritime areas.
Call Number: Environment KZA1686 .L64 2021ISBN: 9781108830102Publication Date: October 14, 2021
Teaching and Learning in Environmental Law by
This unique book focuses specifically on teaching and learning in environmental law, exploring innovative techniques, tools and technologies employed across the globe to teach this ever more important subject. Chapters identify particular challenges that environmental law poses for pedagogy, offering a mix of theory and practical guidance to legal scholars who are seeking to take up, or improve, their teaching of this subject. Providing an examination of teaching formats and methodologies that are both innovative and particularly adapted to the teaching of environmental law, contributions explore topics such as digital learning, joint teaching, flipped classrooms and scenario-based approaches, as well as discussing teacher-based, reflective, student-centred and research-based methods. The book also considers specific contexts for teaching environmental law such as specialized postgraduate programs, supervision methods for research students, teaching within non-law programs, and teaching online. Environmental law scholars at all levels of university instruction will find this book an invaluable opportunity to learn about new methods and approaches to teaching in this area. Its insights into legal teaching methodologies more broadly will also be of interest to legal academics in other areas of the law.
Call Number: Environment K103.E58 T43 2021ISBN: 9781789908527Publication Date: August 10, 2021- Urban Cascadia and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice by
Urban Cascadia-roughly, the Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver corridor-enjoys a reputation for progressive ideals and forward-thinking green urbanism. Yet there is more to the region's environmental politics that meet the eye. Nik Janos and Corina McKendry propose an edited collection that examines the environmental transformation of these cities, using a critical lens on the surrounding myths and imaginaries to probe underlying structural inequalities and contradictions. In particular, contributors across disciplines (but along a nexus of geography, sociology, and history) seek to better understand the capitalist urbanization of nature, the creation of social and environmental inequalities, and the movements to fight for social and environmental justice. The goal isn't to debunk the region's image or offer a story of green boosterism. But by grappling with the contradictions of the urbanization of Cascadia, they hope to offer insight on sustainability, social justice, urban governance, and the politics of climate change. The idea to offer a one-stop assessment for those interested in the region, and to push for a more critical approach to narratives about sustainability.
Call Number: Environment GE240.C36 U73 2021ISBN: 9780295749358Publication Date: 2021-09-01
Health Law and Elder Care
Vaccine Risks, Benefits, and Compensation by
As hundreds of millions of people accept vaccination as a means to avoid serious and fatal illnesses like COVID-19, some small portion of that wide group may have medical side effects that are harmful. The legal process, and requisite medical knowledge, for compensating these vaccine recipients is complex and beyond the normal awareness of legal advisors. Vaccine Risks, Benefits, and Compensation delivers answers to the complex questions arising out of vaccine injuries with succinct and pragmatic guidance.
Call Number: Treatise F3808 .O75 2021ISBN: 9781949884623Publication Date: September 1, 2021
Innovation, Technology, & the Law
The Privacy Fix by
Online surveillance of our behavior by private companies is on the increase, particularly through the Internet of Things and the increasing use of algorithmic decision-making. This troubling trend undermines privacy and increasingly threatens our ability to control how information about us is shared and used. Written by a computer scientist and a legal scholar, The Privacy Fix proposes a set of evidence-based, practical solutions that will help solve this problem. Requiring no technical or legal expertise, the book explains complicated concepts in clear, straightforward language. Bridging the gap between computer scientists, economists, lawyers, and public policy makers, this book provides theoretically and practically sound public policy guidance about how to preserve privacy in the onslaught of surveillance. It emphasizes the need to make tradeoffs among the complex concerns that arise, and it outlines a practical norm-creation process to do so.
Call Number: Treatise K3263 .S56 2021ISBN: 9781108486712Publication Date: October 21, 2021
The Right to Science by
That everyone has a human right to enjoy the benefits of the progress of science and its applications comes as a surprise to many. Nevertheless, this right is pertinent to numerous issues at the intersection of science and society: open access; "dual use" science; access to ownership and dissemination of data, knowledge, methods and the affordances and applications thereof; as well as the role of international cooperation, human dignity and other human rights in relation to science and its products. As we advance towards superintelligence, quantum computing, drone swarms and life-extension technology, serious policy decisions will be made at the national and international levels. The human right to science provides an ideal tool to do so, backed up as it is by international law, political heft and normative weight. This book is the first sustained attempt at turning this wonder of foresight into an actionable and justiciable right.
Call Number: Treatise K3255 .R54 2021ISBN: 9781108478250Publication Date: December 2, 2021
International, Foreign, & Human Rights Law
- Biological Diversity and International Law by
The book focuses on the interactions between international legal regimes related to biodiversity governance. It addresses the systemic challenges by analyzing the legal interactions between international biodiversity law and related international law applicable to economic activities, as well as issues related to the governance of biodiversity based on functional, normative, and geographic dimensions, in order to present a crosscutting, holistic approach. The global COVID-19 pandemic, the imminent revision of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, and the Aichi Targets have created the momentum to focus on the interactions between the Convention on Biological Diversity and other international environmental regimes.
Call Number: Environment K3488 .B565 2021ISBN: 9783030729608Publication Date: July 17, 2021
- The Blessings of Liberty: Human Rights and Religious Freedom in the Western Legal Tradition by
John Witte, Jr. explores the role religion played in the development of rights in the Western legal tradition and traces the complex interplay between human rights and religious freedom norms in modern domestic and international law. He examines how US courts are moving towards greater religious freedom, while recent decisions of the pan-European courts in Strasbourg and Luxembourg have harmed new religious minorities and threatened old religious traditions in Europe. Witte argues that the robust promotion and protection of religious freedom is the best way to protect many other fundamental rights today, even though religious freedom and other fundamental rights sometimes clash and need judicious balancing. He also responds to various modern critics who see human rights as a betrayal of Christianity and religious freedom as a betrayal of human rights.
Call Number: Treatise K3240 .W58 2021ISBN: 9781108453264Publication Date: November 4, 2021
- Comparative Corporate Governance by
This research handbook provides a state-of-the-art perspective on how corporate governance differs between countries around the world. It covers highly topical issues including corporate purpose, corporate social responsibility and shareholder activism.
Call Number: Treatise K1327 .C66 2021ISBN: 9781788975322Publication Date: June 22, 2021
The History and Growth of Judicial Review, Volume 1 and 2 by
This book examines the origins and growth of judicial review in the key G-20 constitutional democracies, which include: the United States; the United Kingdom; France; Germany; Japan; Italy; India; Canada; Australia; South Korea; Brazil; South Africa; Indonesia; Mexico; and the European Union. The book considers five different theories, which help to explain the origins of judicial review, and it identifies which theories apply best in the various countries discussed. It considers not on what gives rise to judicial review originally, but also what causes of judicial review lead it to become more powerful and prominent over times. The positive account of what causes the origins and growth of judicial review in so many very different countries over such a long period of time has normative implications.
Call Number: Treatise K3175 .H57 2021ISBN: 9780190075736Publication Date: April 27, 2021
International Law, Ninth Edition by
This updated edition reflects recent case law and treaty developments, contains an expanded treatment of the relationship between international and domestic law, the principles of international humanitarian law, and international criminal law alongside additional material on international economic law.
Call Number: Treatise KZ3275 .S53 2021ISBN: 9781108733052Publication Date: July 22, 2021- The Rights and Obligations of States in Disputed Maritime Areas by
Many disputed maritime areas exist around the world. Often, the States concerned have not been able to reach agreement on how to, for example, regulate commercial activities within such areas. Conflict regularly arises between claimant coastal States if one of them acts unilaterally, such as in the South China Sea. This book examines the rights and obligations States have under international law concerning disputed maritime areas, in the first comprehensive treatment of this highly topical and pressing issue. It analyses conventional law, general international law, judicial decisions, State practice, and academic opinions that shine a light on the international legal framework that is applicable in disputed maritime areas. Proposing practical solutions on how to interpret the relevant international law, the book discusses the extent to which it currently provides clear guidance to States, and how international courts and tribunals have dealt with cases related to activities in disputed maritime areas.
Call Number: Environment KZA1686 .L64 2021ISBN: 9781108830102Publication Date: October 14, 2021
- The Right to Science by
That everyone has a human right to enjoy the benefits of the progress of science and its applications comes as a surprise to many. Nevertheless, this right is pertinent to numerous issues at the intersection of science and society: open access; "dual use" science; access to ownership and dissemination of data, knowledge, methods and the affordances and applications thereof; as well as the role of international cooperation, human dignity and other human rights in relation to science and its products. As we advance towards superintelligence, quantum computing, drone swarms and life-extension technology, serious policy decisions will be made at the national and international levels. The human right to science provides an ideal tool to do so, backed up as it is by international law, political heft and normative weight. This book is the first sustained attempt at turning this wonder of foresight into an actionable and justiciable right.
Call Number: Treatise K3255 .R54 2021ISBN: 9781108478250Publication Date: December 2, 2021
- Ruling by Cheating by
There is widespread agreement that democracy today faces unprecedented challenges. Populism has pushed governments in new and surprising constitutional directions. Analyzing the constitutional system of illiberal democracies (from Venezuela to Poland) and illiberal phenomena in "mature democracies" that are justified in the name of "the will of the people," this book explains that this drift to mild despotism is not authoritarianism, but an abuse of constitutionalism. Illiberal governments claim that they are as democratic and constitutional as any other. They also claim that they are more popular and therefore more genuine because their rule is based on conservative, plebeian, and "patriotic" constitutional and rule of law values rather than the values liberals espouse. However, this book shows that these claims are deeply deceptive- and constitute an abuse of constitutionalism and the rule of law, not a different conception of these ideas.
Call Number: Treatise K3416 .S25 2021ISBN: 9781108948630Publication Date: August 12, 2021
Labor Law
On the Job by
The inspiring story of worker centers that are cropping up across the country and leading the fight for today's workers. For over 60 million people, work in America has been a story of declining wages, insecurity, and unsafe conditions, especially amid the coronavirus epidemic. But a different and little-known story of rebirth and struggle has percolated just below the surface. On the Job is the first account of a new kind of labor movement, one that is happening locally, quietly, and among our country's most vulnerable --but essential -- workers.
Call Number: Treatise HD8072.5 .M65 2021ISBN: 9781620975015Publication Date: May 4, 2021- Labor and Punishment by
The insightful chapters in this volume reveal the multiple and multifaceted intersections between mass incarceration and neoliberal precarity. Both mass incarceration and the criminal justice system are profoundly implicated in the production and reproduction of the low-wage "exploitable" precariat, both within and beyond prison walls. The carceral state is a regime of labor discipline-and a growing one-that extends far beyond its own inmate labor. This regime not only molds inmates into compliant workers willing and expected to accept any "bad" job upon release but also compels many Americans to work in such jobs under threat of incarceration, all the while bolstering their "exploitability" and socioeconomic marginality.
Call Number: Treatise HV8925 .L335 2021ISBN: 9780520305335Publication Date: May 25, 2021
Legal Education
- Teaching and Learning in Environmental Law by
This unique book focuses specifically on teaching and learning in environmental law, exploring innovative techniques, tools and technologies employed across the globe to teach this ever more important subject. Chapters identify particular challenges that environmental law poses for pedagogy, offering a mix of theory and practical guidance to legal scholars who are seeking to take up, or improve, their teaching of this subject. Providing an examination of teaching formats and methodologies that are both innovative and particularly adapted to the teaching of environmental law, contributions explore topics such as digital learning, joint teaching, flipped classrooms and scenario-based approaches, as well as discussing teacher-based, reflective, student-centred and research-based methods. The book also considers specific contexts for teaching environmental law such as specialized postgraduate programs, supervision methods for research students, teaching within non-law programs, and teaching online. Environmental law scholars at all levels of university instruction will find this book an invaluable opportunity to learn about new methods and approaches to teaching in this area. Its insights into legal teaching methodologies more broadly will also be of interest to legal academics in other areas of the law.
Call Number: Environment K103.E58 T43 2021ISBN: 9781789908527Publication Date: August 10, 2021
Legal History
The Codex of Justinian 3 Volume Hardback Set by
The Codex of Justinian is, together with the Digest, the core of the great Byzantine compilation of Roman law called the Corpus Iuris Civilis. The Codex gathers legal proclamations issued by Roman Emperors from the second to the sixth centuries C.E. Its influence on subsequent legal development in the medieval and early modern world has been almost incalculable. But the Codex has not, until now, been credibly translated into English. This translation, with a facing Latin and Greek text (from Paul Krüger's ninth edition of the Codex), is based on one made by Justice Fred Blume in the 1920s, but left unpublished for almost a century. It is accompanied by introductions explaining the background of the translation, a bibliography and glossary, and notes that help in understanding the text. Anyone with an interest in the Codex, whether an interested novice or a professional historian, will find ample assistance here.
Call Number: Reserve KJA1192.2 2016ISBN: 9780521196826Publication Date: 2016-09-08- Genius for Justice by
Dr. Charles Hamilton Houston was an outstanding Harvard-trained Supreme Court lawyer for the NAACP. As Dean of Howard University Law School, he mentored future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. As architect of the Brown v. Board of Education case, he is often called the man who killed "Jim Crow." This unsung African-American hero also transformed American law in labor, criminal justice, and the First Amendment.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF373.H644 A53 2021ISBN: 9781594609855Publication Date: December 17, 2021
The Farmer's Lawyer by
In the early 1980s, farmers were suffering through the worst economic crisis to hit rural America since the Great Depression. Instead of receiving assistance from the government as they had in the 1930s, these hardworking family farmers were threatened with foreclosure by the very agency that Franklin Delano Roosevelt created to help them. Desperate, they called Sarah Vogel in North Dakota. Sarah, a young lawyer and single mother, listened to farmers who were on the verge of losing everything and naively built a solo practice of clients who couldn't afford to pay her. In a David and Goliath legal battle reminiscent of A Civil Action or Erin Brockovich, Sarah brought a national class action lawsuit, which pitted her against the Reagan administration's Department of Justice, in her fight for family farmers' Constitutional rights. It was her first case. A courageous American story about justice and holding the powerful to account, The Farmer's Lawyer shows how the farm economy we all depend on for our daily bread almost fell apart due to the willful neglect of those charged to protect it, and what we can learn from Sarah's battle as a similar calamity looms large on our horizon once again.
Call Number: Treatise KF1691 .V64 2021ISBN: 9781635575262Publication Date: 2021- Justice on the Brink by
At the end of the Supreme Court's 2019-2020 term, the center was holding. The predictions that the Court would move irrevocably to the radical right hadn't come to pass, as the justices released surprisingly moderate opinions on cases involving abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, and how local governments could handle the pandemic, all shepherded by Chief Justice John Roberts. By the end of the 2020-2021 term, much about our the nation's highest court will have changed. The right-wing supermajority will complete its first term on the bench, cementing Donald Trump's legacy on American jurisprudence. This is the story of that year. Throughout Justice on the Brink, award-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse gives us unique insight into a Supreme Court under stress, providing the context and brilliant analysis readers of her work in The New York Times have come to expect
Call Number: Treatise KF8742 .G743 2021ISBN: 9780593447932Publication Date: November 9, 2021
Practice of Law
Just Briefs: Preparing for Practice by
This book features the authors' famously effective step-by-step approach in the form of a highly focused how-to guide. "Just Briefs" provides all of the tools needed to master the critical legal writing skill of drafting motion and appellate briefs. The perfect companion to any legal writing text, Just Briefs teaches the skills of effective advocacy as it plays out in trial and appellate briefs, oral argument, and the thinking process that informs both.
Call Number: KF251 .O18 2021ISBN: 9781543815634Publication Date: 2020-09-15- Call Number: Treatise KF429 .G37 2016ISBN: 9780314634207Publication Date: January 1, 2016
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The Behavioral Code by
Explains the root causes of bad behavior and how law can use science to help fight it.
Call Number: Treatise HV6486 .R66 2021ISBN: 9780807049082Publication Date: October 26, 2021- The Book of Timothy by
Author Joan Nockels Wilson is a Lewis & Clark alum. In this powerful true crime memoir, Joan Nockels Wilson recounts a woman’s quest to confront the priest who sexually molested her brother. It is also the heartbreaking story of the traumatic effects on an Irish-American family after they discover that Joan’s younger brother, Tim, was sexually molested by their Chicago parish priest, Rev. John Baptist Ormechea.
Call Number: Treatise BX4705.W566 A3 2021ISBN: 9781597099325Publication Date: November 9, 2021
Prince's dictionary of legal citations : a reference guide for attorneys, legal secretaries, paralegals, and law students, Tenth Edition by
Assists the legal profession in citing legal authorities according to the rules given in The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, 21st ed. (2020). This title is a companion to The Bluebook (not a replacement) and applies Bluebook rules to a representative collection of common legal authorities. The citations included are based on Bluebook rules, and the abbreviations are those found in The Bluebook or derived from its guidelines. Besides updating both Bluebook and state court rule references, this edition has been updated to reflect Bluebook revisions, including T6 abbreviations for cases, institutional authors, and periodicals, and T2 Foreign Jurisdictions references which have been moved to Bluebook's free-access online website.
Call Number: Reference KF246 .P73 2021ISBN: 9780837741673Publication Date: 2021
Oregon Probate and Uniform Trust Codebook, 2021 Edition by
This small paperback codebook puts the essential probate and uniform trust code statutes at your fingertips. Serves as a companion to Administering Trusts in Oregon, but is also a useful stand-alone resource. Includes significant 2021 legislation before the official release of the published 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes. This publication is not available on BarBooks™.
Call Number: Treatise KFO2537 .O744 2021ISBN: 9781638660002Publication Date: Nov. 15, 2021
