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.
Lewis & Clark Law School Alumni Authors
The No-Nonsense Guide to Divorce by
Author Lori Hellis holds a Doctor of Law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School. In a clear, concise, and contemporary voice, Hellis offers step-by-step, start-to-finish advice on the many phases of divorce. She covers the full spectrum of divorce issues, from how to start and what temporary measures to take to deciding child custody and parenting time, calculating child and spousal support, and dividing property and debts. The book includes specialized chapters for divorcing seniors, gay couples, and military members. It’s filled with concrete advice, sample documents, and hilarious and sometimes cringe-worthy examples from the author’s years as a practicing divorce attorney.
Call Number: Treatise HQ834 .H45 2021ISBN: 9781538155592Publication Date: March 15, 2022
Animal Law
Animal Disorders: Essays on Trans-Species Relationships by
Animal disorders—those erratic, contradictory, irrational relationships that humans have with their nonhuman compatriots—abound in contemporary U.S. culture. In a series of personal essays, Deborah Thompson relates her own complicity in some of these disordered approaches to nonhuman animals, including such practices as pet-keeping, animal hoarding, animal sacrifice (both religious and scientific), magical thinking, and grieving. The sometimes funny, sometimes poignant essays in this collection deliver dispatches from one representative sufferer of animal disorders.
Call Number: Treatise QL85 .T46 2021ISBN: 1625570252Publication Date: December 1, 2021
Business, Investment, and Tax Law
Only the Rich Can Play by
David Wessel's incredible tale of how Washington works-and why the rich keep getting richer-starts when a Silicon Valley entrepreneur concocts an idea that will save money on his taxes and spins it as a way to ostensibly help poor people. With an unbeatable pair of high-profile sponsors, bumper-sticker simplicity and deft political marketing, the Opportunity Zone became an unnoticed part of the 2017 Trump tax bill. The gold rush followed immediately thereafter. In Only the Rich Can Play, Wessel follows the money to see who profited from this plan that was supposed to spur development of blighted areas and help people out of poverty: the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, the Portland (Oregon) Ritz-Carlton, the Mall of America, and self-storage facilities-lucrative areas where the one percent can park money profitably and avoid capital gains taxes. And the best part: unlike other provisions for eliminating capital gains taxes (inheritance, for example) you don't have to die to take advantage of this one.
Call Number: Treatise HD257.5 .W47 2021ISBN: 9781541757196Publication Date: October 5, 2021
Transitioning to a Prosperous, Resilient and Carbon-Free Economy by
This book is a comprehensive manual for policy-makers addressing the issues around human-caused climate change. The book looks at both mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and global warming and adaption to changing conditions as the climate changes. It encourages the early adoption of climate change measures that this can be achieved while maintaining prosperity. The book takes a sector-by-sector approach, starting with energy and includes cities, industry, natural resources and agriculture, enabling practitioners to focus on actions relevant to their field. It uses case studies across a range of countries, and various industries, to illustrate the opportunities available. Blending technological insights with economics and energy policy, the book presents the tools decision makers need to achieve rapid decarbonization, while unlocking and maintaining productivity, profit and growth.
Call Number: Environment TJ808 .T73 2021ISBN: 9781107118348Publication Date: October 28, 2021
Monopolized by
David Dayen explains how a narrow interpretation of the Sherman Act four decades ago spawned an age of unprecedented deregulation and corporate dominance. Dayen offers a riveting account of what it means to live in this period--and how we might resist this corporate hegemony.
Call Number: Treatise HD2757.2 .D39 2020ISBN: 9781620975411Publication Date: July 21, 2020
Civil Rights and Constitutional Law
American by Birth by
In his infamous opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) Chief Justice Taney had denied that any American descended from Africans, whether free or slave, could claim citizenship. The Fourteenth Amendment's citizenship clause repudiated this principle. The Fourteenth Amendment's connection to birthright citizenship, however, is not built exclusively through the lives and fortunes of black citizens. It requires an understanding of the Chinese experience of migration to the United States, and Wong Kim Ark v. United States (1898) lies at the center of this story.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF4700 .N33 2021ISBN: 9780700631926Publication Date: June 5, 2021
American Citizenship and Constitutionalism in Principle and Practice by
With a cast of characters ranging from Montesquieu, Adams, and Henry Clay, to the transcendentalists, Cherokee freedmen, and modern identitarians, this book brings an interdisciplinary group of scholars to the task of forwarding discussion on American political thought and American political development. The result is a volume raising as many questions as it answers, especially about the themes of membership and civic virtue.
Call Number: Treatise KF4552 .A44 2022ISBN: 9780806175393Publication Date: January 30, 2022
The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies by
This book describes and explains the failure of the federal courts of the United States to act and to provide remedies to individuals whose constitutional rights have been violated by illegal state coercion and violence. This remedial vacuum must be understood in light of the original design and historical development of the federal courts. Today, the courts are stingy with individual remedies, but aggressively enforce the so-called "structural" constitution of the separation of powers and federalism. This cocktail has highly regressive effects, and is in urgent need of reform
Call Number: Treatise KF1306.C64 H87 2021ISBN: 9780197556818Publication Date: December 1, 2021
Insurrection by
The Insurrection Act of 1807 (passed amid pervasive fears of slave rebellions) authorizes the president to deploy federal troops to quell domestic uprisings. Invoked during Reconstruction and the civil rights movement, the Act was deployed to enforce the promise of equal citizenship for Black Americans. But the Act has also authorized federal military intervention to suppress so-called race riots after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and during the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion; more recently, President Trump threatened to use the Act in response to the George Floyd racial justice protests. Hawa Allan argues that the invocation of the Act to either enforce civil rights or suppress riots reflects the enduring struggle to incorporate Black Americans as full citizens of the United States. She demonstrates how the Insurrection Act exposes America's most enduring conflicts: over racial injustice, human rights, equal citizenship, and federal power.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF5060 .A955 2022ISBN: 9781324003038Publication Date: January 4, 2022
Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight For Fairness by
When Laura Coates joined the Department of Justice as a prosecutor, she wanted to advocate for the most vulnerable among us. She quickly realized that even with the best intentions, being black, a woman, and a mother are identities often at odds in the justice system. Coates saw how black communities are policed differently, prosecuted differently, and judged differently. In exploring the tension between the idealism of the law and the reality of working within our flawed legal system, Coates exposes the chasm between what is right and what is lawful.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF373.C585 A3 2022ISBN: 9781982173760Publication Date: January 18, 2022
Real Americans: National Identity, Violence, and the Constitution by
While Americans across the political spectrum are enamored with the Constitution -- what Jared Goldstein calls constitutional nationalism -- the Constitution frequently provides neutral, patriotic cover for widely varying, and often pernicious, values and commitments. In Real Americans, Goldstein examines the way Americans have promoted exclusionary, nativistic, racist, and violent efforts precisely on the grounds of defending the Constitution. Through meticulous research, Goldstein explores the dark side of constitutional nationalism.
Call Number: Treatise KF4552 .G65 2022ISBN: 9780700632831Publication Date: February 5, 2022
The Right to Bear Arms by
Stephen Halbrook's scholarly work is an exhaustive historical treatment of the fundamental, individual right to carry firearms outside of the home. Halbrook traces this right from its origins in England through American colonial times, the American Revolution, the Constitution's ratification debates, and then through the antebellum and post-bellum periods, including the history surrounding the enactment of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This book is another important contribution by Halbrook to the scholarship concerning the text, history and tradition of the Second Amendment's right to keep and bear arms.
Call Number: Treatise KF3941 .H3495 2021ISBN: 9781637582848Publication Date: November 30, 2021
The Rule of Law in the United States: An Unfinished Project of Black Liberation by
What is the American rule of law? Is it a paradigm case of the strong constitutionalism concept of the rule of law or has it fallen short of its rule of law ambitions? This book traces the promise and paradox of the American rule of law in three interwoven ways. It focuses on explicating the ideals of the American rule of law by asking: how do we interpret its history and the goals of its constitutional framers to see the rule of law ambitions its foundational institutions express? It considers those constitutional institutions as inextricable from the problem of race in the United States and the tensions between the rule of law as a protector of property rights and the rule of law as a restricter on arbitrary power and a guarantor of legal equality. In that context, it explores the distinctive role of Black liberation movements in developing the American rule of law. Finally, it considers the extent to which the American rule of law is compromised at its frontiers, and the extent that those compromises undermine legal protections Americans enjoy in the interior. It asks how America reflects the legal contradictions of capitalism and empire outside its borders, and the impact of those contradictions on its external goal.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF4757 .G659 2021ISBN: 9781509939992Publication Date: December 16, 2021
The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson by
The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson is the story of a wrongfully accused Black sharecropper who was sentenced to die three different times for a murder he didn't commit, and the prosecution desperate to pin the crime on him despite scant evidence. The book also tells the story of Homer Chase, a former World War II paratrooper and New England radical who was sent to the South by the Communist Party to recruit African Americans to the cause while offering them a chance at increased freedom. And it's the story of Thurgood Marshall's NAACP and their battle against not only entrenched racism but a Communist Party -- despite facing nearly as much prejudice as those they were trying to help -- intent on winning the hearts and minds of Black voters.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF224.H46 J69 2022ISBN: 9781419756368Publication Date: January 11, 2022
Criminal Law
Hub-And-Spoke Cartels by
A comprehensive economic and legal analysis of a unique form of collusive behavior.
Call Number: https://primo.lclark.edu/permalink/f/1780deo/CP71375035270001451ISBN: 9780262046206Publication Date: November 16, 2021- Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight For Fairness by
When Laura Coates joined the Department of Justice as a prosecutor, she wanted to advocate for the most vulnerable among us. She quickly realized that even with the best intentions, being black, a woman, and a mother are identities often at odds in the justice system. Coates saw how black communities are policed differently, prosecuted differently, and judged differently. In exploring the tension between the idealism of the law and the reality of working within our flawed legal system, Coates exposes the chasm between what is right and what is lawful.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF373.C585 A3 2022ISBN: 9781982173760Publication Date: January 18, 2022
Legal Aspects of Corrections Management by
Legal Aspects of Corrections Management continues to provide a comprehensive and engaging presentation of contemporary legal issues impacting corrections management in a thoroughly updated fourth edition. Written for students who do not have a law background, the author uses case law to explain how the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments relate to the day-to-day issues of running a prison, jail, and other corrections programs, including probation and parole.
Call Number: Treatise KF9728 .K67 2022ISBN: 9781284211535Publication Date: 2022
Private Prosecution in America by
This book is the first comprehensive examination of a practice that dates back to the colonial era. Tracking its origins to medieval times and the English common law, the book shows how 'private prosecutors' were once a mainstay of early American criminal procedure. Until the rise and professionalization of public prosecutors' offices, private prosecutors played a major role in the criminal justice system, including in capital cases. After conducting a 50-state survey and recounting how some locales still allow private prosecutions by interested parties, the book argues that such prosecutions violate defendants' constitutional rights and should be outlawed.
Call Number: Treatise KF9640 .B47 2021ISBN: 9781531020064Publication Date: December 30, 2021
Pursuing The Horizon: Stories of Justice by
Pursuing the Horizon offers a collection of essays and courtroom stories from an activist, death penalty lawyer, and Washington, D.C., judge struggling to seek justice in the courtroom, in the fields where migrant farmworkers toil, and in the rice paddies of Vietnam. The book allows the reader to sample some of the most horrifying, perplexing, and important issues in life and the law, offering the general public, via suspenseful and riveting stories, a rare lens into the daily life and minds of those seeking to achieve justice and those who must live, or sometimes die, with the consequences of their efforts. Pursuing the Horizon is about the author's search for justice together with dedicated judges, lawyers, jurors, those accused of crime, those who are the victims of crime, police, social workers, nurses, mental health workers, and the public at large.
Call Number: Treatise KF373.C354 A3 2021ISBN: 9781946074324Publication Date: August 20, 2020
Reproduction Reconceived by
Sara Matthiesen shows how the effects of incarceration, for-profit healthcare, disease, and poverty have been worsened by state neglect, forcing most to work harder to maintain a family.
Call Number: Treatise HQ535 .M384 2021ISBN: 9780520298217Publication Date: October 26, 2021- The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson by
The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson is the story of a wrongfully accused Black sharecropper who was sentenced to die three different times for a murder he didn't commit, and the prosecution desperate to pin the crime on him despite scant evidence. The book also tells the story of Homer Chase, a former World War II paratrooper and New England radical who was sent to the South by the Communist Party to recruit African Americans to the cause while offering them a chance at increased freedom. And it's the story of Thurgood Marshall's NAACP and their battle against not only entrenched racism but a Communist Party -- despite facing nearly as much prejudice as those they were trying to help -- intent on winning the hearts and minds of Black voters.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF224.H46 J69 2022ISBN: 9781419756368Publication Date: January 11, 2022
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Advancing the Legal Status of Women in Islamic Law by
Mona Samadi examines the sources of gender differences within the Islamic legal tradition and describes how Islamic law entitles individuals to justice according to their status, abilities and potential. In the case of men and women's capabilities, the underlying principle is that they are entitled to the same rights, as long as their capabilities are the same. In the legal construction of women's status, women have been prescribed lacking the same abilities and capabilities as men. As such, their status and rights differ, justifying men to be the maintainers of women. By presenting the historical development of women's status and how women's legal status is debated in contemporary Muslim societies, Mona Samadi provides various methods for facilitating change within the Islamic legal theory framework.
Call Number: Diversity Case KBP526.3 .S26 2021ISBN: 9789004446939Publication Date: June 3, 2021
Career and Family: Women's Century-long Journey Toward Equity by
In Career and Family, Claudia Goldin builds on decades of complex research to examine the gender pay gap and the unequal distribution of labor between couples in the home. Goldin argues that although recent public and private discourse has brought these concerns to light, the actions taken, Goldin writes, treat the symptoms and not the disease of gender inequality in the workplace and economy. Career and Family offers a deep look into census data, rich information about individual college graduates over their lifetimes, and various records and new sources of material to offer a new model to restructure the home and school systems that contribute to the gender pay gap and the quest for both family and career.
Call Number: Diversity Case HD6061.2.U6 G65 2021ISBN: 9780691201788Publication Date: October 12, 2021- Insurrection by
The Insurrection Act of 1807 (passed amid pervasive fears of slave rebellions) authorizes the president to deploy federal troops to quell domestic uprisings. Invoked during Reconstruction and the civil rights movement, the Act was deployed to enforce the promise of equal citizenship for Black Americans. But the Act has also authorized federal military intervention to suppress so-called race riots after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and during the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion; more recently, President Trump threatened to use the Act in response to the George Floyd racial justice protests. Hawa Allan argues that the invocation of the Act to either enforce civil rights or suppress riots reflects the enduring struggle to incorporate Black Americans as full citizens of the United States. She demonstrates how the Insurrection Act exposes America's most enduring conflicts: over racial injustice, human rights, equal citizenship, and federal power.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF5060 .A955 2022ISBN: 9781324003038Publication Date: January 4, 2022
- Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight For Fairness by
When Laura Coates joined the Department of Justice as a prosecutor, she wanted to advocate for the most vulnerable among us. She quickly realized that even with the best intentions, being black, a woman, and a mother are identities often at odds in the justice system. Coates saw how black communities are policed differently, prosecuted differently, and judged differently. In exploring the tension between the idealism of the law and the reality of working within our flawed legal system, Coates exposes the chasm between what is right and what is lawful.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF373.C585 A3 2022ISBN: 9781982173760Publication Date: January 18, 2022
The New Sex Wars by
#Metoo's stunning explosion on social media in October 2017 within weeks toppled the likes of Harvey Weinstein, Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer to name a few of the most prominent. But, as the movement spread, not all feminists agreed. Like the sex wars that preceded it, a conflict emerged among feminist supporters and detractors about where to put the emphasis: Danger vs pleasure. Coercion vs choice. This book traces the history of these conflicts, the validity and importance of what each side was seeking, the resistance to finding common ground, the media's pleasure in characterizing the debates as polarized cat fights and squabbles, the curiously similar iterations of these divisions - often stated too simplistically as pro and anti-sex - from the 70's through the 90's to the #metoo movement.
Call Number: Treatise HQ1237 .C675 2021ISBN: 9781479802708Publication Date: October 26, 2021- The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson by
The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson is the story of a wrongfully accused Black sharecropper who was sentenced to die three different times for a murder he didn't commit, and the prosecution desperate to pin the crime on him despite scant evidence. The book also tells the story of Homer Chase, a former World War II paratrooper and New England radical who was sent to the South by the Communist Party to recruit African Americans to the cause while offering them a chance at increased freedom. And it's the story of Thurgood Marshall's NAACP and their battle against not only entrenched racism but a Communist Party -- despite facing nearly as much prejudice as those they were trying to help -- intent on winning the hearts and minds of Black voters.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF224.H46 J69 2022ISBN: 9781419756368Publication Date: January 11, 2022
Environmental, Energy, and Natural Resources Law
The Anti-Nuclear Power Movement and Discourses of Energy Justice by
This study analyzes anti-nuclear power organizations' claims regarding public financing for new nuclear construction, issues associated with the management of high-level radioactive waste, and other campaigns to increase the safety of nuclear facilities. This leads the author to the identification of general principals of energy justice.
Call Number: Environment HD9698.U52 V36 2022ISBN: 9781793620453Publication Date: January 31, 2022
Carbon Markets Around the Globe by
In this timely book, Sven Rudolph and Elena Aydos take an interdisciplinary approach that combines sustainability economics, political economy, and legal concepts to answer two fundamental questions: How can carbon markets be designed to be effective, efficient and just at the same time? And how can the political barriers to sustainable carbon markets be overcome? The authors advance existing theoretical frameworks and examine empirical data from various real-life emissions trading schemes, identifying strategies and policy windows for implementing truly sustainable ETS.
Call Number: Environment HC79.P55 R83 2021ISBN: 9781839109089Publication Date: September 20, 2021
The Challenge for Energy Justice by
Written by one of the world’s leading scholars in the field, this book provides a unique perspective on the connections between energy justice and human rights. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the author offers an accessible discussion about the implementation of energy justice in practice. The book explores the rise of justice issues in the energy sector, the interdisciplinary nature of energy justice, the economics of energy justice and provides a practical case study on distributive justice. The penultimate chapter focuses on human rights and energy justice in a world first, and explores the topic from the perspective of the opportunity of last resort.
Call Number: Environment HD9502.A2 H44 2021ISBN: 9783030800963Publication Date: October 27, 2021
Fifty Years at the US Environmental Protection Agency by
In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, this book brings together leading scholars and EPA veterans to provide a comprehensive assessment of the agency's key decisions and actions in the various areas of its responsibility. Themes include the role of rulemaking, negotiation/compromise, partisan polarization, judicial impacts, relations with the White House and Congress, public opinion, interest group pressures, environmental enforcement, environmental justice, risk assessment, and interagency conflict.
Call Number: Environment TD171 .F54 2021ISBN: 9781538147146Publication Date: February 15, 2021
Introduction to U. S. Law, Policy, and Research-An Environmental Perspective by
This book offers an interdisciplinary experiential study of environmental law unlike the typical environmental law textbook. Expanding beyond case studies, statutes, and rules, this book provides a unique, process-oriented introduction to law and legal research and its use in environmental policy and decision-making. Covering the origins and structure of the U.S. legal system, Introduction to U.S. Law, Policy, and Research—An Environmental Perspective places special emphasis on the litigation process and specific cases that explain common law and toxic torts, environmental administrative law, and environmental regulation through application and testing of statutory law in the courts.
Call Number: Environment KF241.E6 B69 2019ISBN: 9781600425028Publication Date: July 10, 2019
Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago by
A history of how Chicago's lakefront, with its parkland and Lake Shore Drive, has come to be. Beginning with the mid-nineteenth century, this book considers both local and broader social, economic, and legal forces, with particular emphasis on the conflict between public and private rights.
Call Number: Treatise HD268.C4 K33 2021ISBN: 9781501754654Publication Date: May 15, 2021
Rethinking Environmental Law: Why Environmental Law Should Conform to the Laws of Nature by
Challenging historic assumptions about human relationships with nature, Jan G. Laitos examines how environmental laws have addressed environmental problems in the past, and the reasons for the laws' inability to successfully prevent environmental contamination and alterations of critical environmental systems. This forward-thinking book explains the need for a new generation of environmental laws grounded in the universal laws of nature which might succeed where past and current approaches have largely failed.
Call Number: Environment K3585 .L353 2021ISBN: 9781788976022Publication Date: August 13, 2021
Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save our Forests and our Climate by
Smokescreen cuts through years of misunderstanding and misdirection to make an impassioned, evidence-based argument for a new era of forest management for the sake of the planet and the human race. Natural fires are as essential as sun and rain in fire-adapted forests, but as humans encroach on wild spaces, fear, arrogance, and greed have shaped the way that people view these regenerative events and have given rise to misinformation. The peril that these myths pose to forests is profound-affecting whole habitats and the wildlife that depend on them-and mismanagement of these carbon dioxide-absorbing ecosystems threatens humanity's chances of overcoming the climate crisis.
Call Number: Environment SD421 .H26 2021ISBN: 9780813181073Publication Date: May 25, 2021- Transitioning to a Prosperous, Resilient and Carbon-Free Economy by
This book is a comprehensive manual for policy-makers addressing the issues around human-caused climate change. The book looks at both mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and global warming and adaption to changing conditions as the climate changes. It encourages the early adoption of climate change measures that this can be achieved while maintaining prosperity. The book takes a sector-by-sector approach, starting with energy and includes cities, industry, natural resources and agriculture, enabling practitioners to focus on actions relevant to their field. It uses case studies across a range of countries, and various industries, to illustrate the opportunities available. Blending technological insights with economics and energy policy, the book presents the tools decision makers need to achieve rapid decarbonization, while unlocking and maintaining productivity, profit and growth.
Call Number: Environment TJ808 .T73 2021ISBN: 9781107118348Publication Date: October 28, 2021
Western Water Rights and the U. S. Supreme Court by
Exploring the little-known history behind the legal doctrine of prior appropriation 'first in time is first in right' used to apportion water resources in the western United States, this book focuses on the important case of Wyoming v. Colorado (1922). U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter, a former Chief Justice of Wyoming, ruled in that state's favor, finding that prior appropriation applied across state lines a controversial opinion influenced by cronyism. The dicta in the case, that the U.S. Government has no interest in state water allocation law, drove the balkanization of interstate water systems and resulted in the Colorado River Interstate Compact between Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California. Mr. Davenport's exhaustive research has uncovered the secret that Associate Justice Van Devanter had waited eleven years to publish his opinion in this important, but politically self-serving, case, at last finding a moment when his senior colleagues were sufficiently absent or incapacitated to either concur or dissent.
Call Number: Environment KF5569 .D38 2020ISBN: 9781476681207Publication Date: 2020
Family Law
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Divorce by
Author Lori Hellis holds a Doctor of Law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School. In a clear, concise, and contemporary voice, Hellis offers step-by-step, start-to-finish advice on the many phases of divorce. She covers the full spectrum of divorce issues, from how to start and what temporary measures to take to deciding child custody and parenting time, calculating child and spousal support, and dividing property and debts. The book includes specialized chapters for divorcing seniors, gay couples, and military members. It’s filled with concrete advice, sample documents, and hilarious and sometimes cringe-worthy examples from the author’s years as a practicing divorce attorney.
Call Number: Treatise HQ834 .H45 2021ISBN: 9781538155592Publication Date: March 15, 2022
Health Law and Elder Care
- Reproduction Reconceived by
Sara Matthiesen shows how the effects of incarceration, for-profit healthcare, disease, and poverty have been worsened by state neglect, forcing most to work harder to maintain a family.
Call Number: Treatise HQ535 .M384 2021ISBN: 9780520298217Publication Date: October 26, 2021
Immigration Law
- American by Birth by
In his infamous opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) Chief Justice Taney had denied that any American descended from Africans, whether free or slave, could claim citizenship. The Fourteenth Amendment's citizenship clause repudiated this principle. The Fourteenth Amendment's connection to birthright citizenship, however, is not built exclusively through the lives and fortunes of black citizens. It requires an understanding of the Chinese experience of migration to the United States, and Wong Kim Ark v. United States (1898) lies at the center of this story.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF4700 .N33 2021ISBN: 9780700631926Publication Date: June 5, 2021
The Child Before the Court by
A study that challenges our notions about citizenship and judgment by considering the place of the 'child' in both historical and contemporary legal discourse in landmark cases involving the child's rights to free speech and due process.
Call Number: Treatise KF9794 .B37 2021ISBN: 9780817320980Publication Date: January 30, 2022
Indigenous Law
Indian Cities by
A collection of essays that explores the history of Indigenous peoples as city makers and city dwellers, showing how, from colonial times to the present day, Indigenous people have shaped and been shaped by urban spaces.
Call Number: Diversity Case E98.U72 I53 2022ISBN: 9780806176635Publication Date: February 28, 2022
Tribal Sovereignty in Alaska by
Tribal Sovereignty in Alaska is the first comprehensive history of the Alaska Native tribal sovereignty movement. In 1932, Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur explained that "the United States has had no treaty relations with any of the aborigines of Alaska nor have they been recognized as the independent tribes with a government of their own." As a continuation of that policy, in 1971 when Congress settled Alaska Native land claims by enacting the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, at the request of Native leaders, it required Alaska Natives to incorporate business corporations under the laws of the State of Alaska that then were conveyed land in fee title. But today the Secretary of the Interior and those same Native leaders are adamant that there are more than 200 federally-recognized tribes in Alaska whose members are "sovereign" and whose governing bodies possess "inherent" governmental authority. This book tells the story of that dramatic reversal of federal policy in exhaustively researched detail.
Call Number: Treatise KIA2395.S68 M58 2021ISBN: 9781531022242Publication Date: January 13, 2022
Innovation, Technology, & the Law
Music Law in the Digital Age by
With the free-form exchange of music files and musical ideas online, understanding copyright laws has become essential to career success in the new music marketplace. This cutting-edge, plain-language guide shows you how copyright law drives the contemporary music industry. By looking at the law and its recent history, you will understand the new issues introduced by the digital age, as well as continuing issues of traditional copyright law. Whether you are an artist, lawyer, entertainment Web site administrator, record label executive, student, or other participant in the music industry, this book will help you understand how copyright law affects you, helping you use the law to your benefit.
Call Number: Treatise KF3035 .B37 2021ISBN: 9781705156483Publication Date: December 1, 2021
International, Foreign, & Human Rights Law
- The Challenge for Energy Justice by
Written by one of the world’s leading scholars in the field, this book provides a unique perspective on the connections between energy justice and human rights. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the author offers an accessible discussion about the implementation of energy justice in practice. The book explores the rise of justice issues in the energy sector, the interdisciplinary nature of energy justice, the economics of energy justice and provides a practical case study on distributive justice. The penultimate chapter focuses on human rights and energy justice in a world first, and explores the topic from the perspective of the opportunity of last resort.
Call Number: Environment HD9502.A2 H44 2021ISBN: 9783030800963Publication Date: October 27, 2021
Introduction to the English Legal System by
Introduction to the English Legal System is the ideal foundation for those new to the study of law. Writing in a highly engaging and accessible style, Partington introduces the purposes and functions of English law, the law-making process, and the machinery of justice, whilst also challenging assumptions and exploring current debates.
Call Number: Treatise KD661 .P37 2021ISBN: 9780198852926Publication Date: July 13, 2021
Withdrawal from Multilateral Treaties by
Withdrawal from Multilateral Treaties is the first comprehensive and systematic legal analysis of withdrawal in the context of the international law of treaties. It examines the political and legal framework around treaty making to explain the evolution of withdrawal over time and its increasing use. Parties to international agreements face not a dilemma but rather a trilemma, with three options in regard to interstate cooperation: compliance, breach, and withdrawal. In the age of global retrenchment, is there still room for international law to regulate the rules of the game, or will unilateral decisions overturn the current architecture of a multilateral global order?
Call Number: Treatise KZ1303.4 .M67 2022ISBN: 9789004467613Publication Date: October 7, 2021
Legal History
- American Citizenship and Constitutionalism in Principle and Practice by
With a cast of characters ranging from Montesquieu, Adams, and Henry Clay, to the transcendentalists, Cherokee freedmen, and modern identitarians, this book brings an interdisciplinary group of scholars to the task of forwarding discussion on American political thought and American political development. The result is a volume raising as many questions as it answers, especially about the themes of membership and civic virtue.
Call Number: Treatise KF4552 .A44 2022ISBN: 9780806175393Publication Date: January 30, 2022
- The Child Before the Court by
A study that challenges our notions about citizenship and judgment by considering the place of the 'child' in both historical and contemporary legal discourse in landmark cases involving the child's rights to free speech and due process.
Call Number: Treatise KF9794 .B37 2021ISBN: 9780817320980Publication Date: January 30, 2022
- Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago by
A history of how Chicago's lakefront, with its parkland and Lake Shore Drive, has come to be. Beginning with the mid-nineteenth century, this book considers both local and broader social, economic, and legal forces, with particular emphasis on the conflict between public and private rights.
Call Number: Treatise HD268.C4 K33 2021ISBN: 9781501754654Publication Date: May 15, 2021
- Private Prosecution in America by
This book is the first comprehensive examination of a practice that dates back to the colonial era. Tracking its origins to medieval times and the English common law, the book shows how 'private prosecutors' were once a mainstay of early American criminal procedure. Until the rise and professionalization of public prosecutors' offices, private prosecutors played a major role in the criminal justice system, including in capital cases. After conducting a 50-state survey and recounting how some locales still allow private prosecutions by interested parties, the book argues that such prosecutions violate defendants' constitutional rights and should be outlawed.
Call Number: Treatise KF9640 .B47 2021ISBN: 9781531020064Publication Date: December 30, 2021
- Pursuing The Horizon: Stories of Justice by
Pursuing the Horizon offers a collection of essays and courtroom stories from an activist, death penalty lawyer, and Washington, D.C., judge struggling to seek justice in the courtroom, in the fields where migrant farmworkers toil, and in the rice paddies of Vietnam. The book allows the reader to sample some of the most horrifying, perplexing, and important issues in life and the law, offering the general public, via suspenseful and riveting stories, a rare lens into the daily life and minds of those seeking to achieve justice and those who must live, or sometimes die, with the consequences of their efforts. Pursuing the Horizon is about the author's search for justice together with dedicated judges, lawyers, jurors, those accused of crime, those who are the victims of crime, police, social workers, nurses, mental health workers, and the public at large.
Call Number: Treatise KF373.C354 A3 2021ISBN: 9781946074324Publication Date: August 20, 2020
- Real Americans: National Identity, Violence, and the Constitution by
While Americans across the political spectrum are enamored with the Constitution -- what Jared Goldstein calls constitutional nationalism -- the Constitution frequently provides neutral, patriotic cover for widely varying, and often pernicious, values and commitments. In Real Americans, Goldstein examines the way Americans have promoted exclusionary, nativistic, racist, and violent efforts precisely on the grounds of defending the Constitution. Through meticulous research, Goldstein explores the dark side of constitutional nationalism.
Call Number: Treatise KF4552 .G65 2022ISBN: 9780700632831Publication Date: February 5, 2022
- The Rule of Law in the United States: An Unfinished Project of Black Liberation by
What is the American rule of law? Is it a paradigm case of the strong constitutionalism concept of the rule of law or has it fallen short of its rule of law ambitions? This book traces the promise and paradox of the American rule of law in three interwoven ways. It focuses on explicating the ideals of the American rule of law by asking: how do we interpret its history and the goals of its constitutional framers to see the rule of law ambitions its foundational institutions express? It considers those constitutional institutions as inextricable from the problem of race in the United States and the tensions between the rule of law as a protector of property rights and the rule of law as a restricter on arbitrary power and a guarantor of legal equality. In that context, it explores the distinctive role of Black liberation movements in developing the American rule of law. Finally, it considers the extent to which the American rule of law is compromised at its frontiers, and the extent that those compromises undermine legal protections Americans enjoy in the interior. It asks how America reflects the legal contradictions of capitalism and empire outside its borders, and the impact of those contradictions on its external goal.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF4757 .G659 2021ISBN: 9781509939992Publication Date: December 16, 2021
- The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson by
The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson is the story of a wrongfully accused Black sharecropper who was sentenced to die three different times for a murder he didn't commit, and the prosecution desperate to pin the crime on him despite scant evidence. The book also tells the story of Homer Chase, a former World War II paratrooper and New England radical who was sent to the South by the Communist Party to recruit African Americans to the cause while offering them a chance at increased freedom. And it's the story of Thurgood Marshall's NAACP and their battle against not only entrenched racism but a Communist Party -- despite facing nearly as much prejudice as those they were trying to help -- intent on winning the hearts and minds of Black voters.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF224.H46 J69 2022ISBN: 9781419756368Publication Date: January 11, 2022
Uncivil Warriors by
Comprehensive in coverage, Uncivil Warriors focuses on the legal side of America's worst conflict and will reshape our understanding of the Civil War itself. Both sides in the Civil War had their complement of lawyers, and eminent legal historian Peter Hoffer provides coverage of both sides' leading lawyers. In positions of leadership, they struggled to make sense of the conflict and, in the course of that struggle, they began to glimpse into a new world of law. It was a law that empowered as well as limited government, a law that conferred personal dignity and rights on those who, at the war's beginning, could claim neither in law.
Call Number: Treatise KF7221 .H644 2018ISBN: 9780190851767Publication Date: 2018- Western Water Rights and the U. S. Supreme Court by
Exploring the little-known history behind the legal doctrine of prior appropriation 'first in time is first in right' used to apportion water resources in the western United States, this book focuses on the important case of Wyoming v. Colorado (1922). U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter, a former Chief Justice of Wyoming, ruled in that state's favor, finding that prior appropriation applied across state lines a controversial opinion influenced by cronyism. The dicta in the case, that the U.S. Government has no interest in state water allocation law, drove the balkanization of interstate water systems and resulted in the Colorado River Interstate Compact between Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California. Mr. Davenport's exhaustive research has uncovered the secret that Associate Justice Van Devanter had waited eleven years to publish his opinion in this important, but politically self-serving, case, at last finding a moment when his senior colleagues were sufficiently absent or incapacitated to either concur or dissent.
Call Number: Environment KF5569 .D38 2020ISBN: 9781476681207Publication Date: 2020
Practice of Law
Legal Design by
This innovative book proposes new theories on how the legal system can be made more comprehensible, usable and empowering for people through the use of design principles. Utilising key case studies and providing real-world examples of legal innovation, the book moves beyond discussion to action. It offers a rich set of examples, demonstrating how various design methods, including information, service, product and policy design, can be leveraged within research and practice.
Call Number: Treatise K487.T4 L442 2021ISBN: 9781839107252Publication Date: October 26, 2021- Pursuing The Horizon: Stories of Justice by
Pursuing the Horizon offers a collection of essays and courtroom stories from an activist, death penalty lawyer, and Washington, D.C., judge struggling to seek justice in the courtroom, in the fields where migrant farmworkers toil, and in the rice paddies of Vietnam. The book allows the reader to sample some of the most horrifying, perplexing, and important issues in life and the law, offering the general public, via suspenseful and riveting stories, a rare lens into the daily life and minds of those seeking to achieve justice and those who must live, or sometimes die, with the consequences of their efforts. Pursuing the Horizon is about the author's search for justice together with dedicated judges, lawyers, jurors, those accused of crime, those who are the victims of crime, police, social workers, nurses, mental health workers, and the public at large.
Call Number: Treatise KF373.C354 A3 2021ISBN: 9781946074324Publication Date: August 20, 2020
Property Law
The Politics of Private Property by
The Politics of Private Property investigates the functions of private property within U.S. cultural discourse. It mobilizes property as an analytical category and examines how social and political debates from the early nineteenth to the twenty-first century have generated competing and contested claims to ownership.
Call Number: Treatise KF562 .K54 2021ISBN: 9781793623751Publication Date: April 21, 2021- Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago by
A history of how Chicago's lakefront, with its parkland and Lake Shore Drive, has come to be. Beginning with the mid-nineteenth century, this book considers both local and broader social, economic, and legal forces, with particular emphasis on the conflict between public and private rights.
Call Number: Treatise HD268.C4 K33 2021ISBN: 9781501754654Publication Date: May 15, 2021
Torts
There Are No Accidents by
A journalist recounts the surprising history of accidents and reveals how they've come to define all that's wrong with America. Singer uncovers just how the term "accident" itself protects those in power and leaves the most vulnerable in harm's way. Drawing connections between traffic accidents, accidental opioid overdoses, and accidental oil spills, Singer proves that what we call accidents are hardly random. Rather, who lives and dies by an accident in America is defined by money and power. She also presents a variety of actions we can take as individuals and as a society to stem the tide of "accidents"--saving lives and holding the guilty to account.
Call Number: Treatise HB1323.A2 S56 2022ISBN: 9781982129668Publication Date: February 15, 2022
