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.
Administrative Law
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Oregon Cannabis & Psilocybin Codebook
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Cannabis, both medical and recreational, has been legal in Oregon since 2015. The legislatures and agencies continue to add to the statutes and rules to address this rapidly evolving area of law. Get the latest edition of Oregon Cannabis and Psilocybin Codebook and have the statutes and related administrative rules in this growing area of law at your fingertips. Now Includes Psilocybin statutes.
Call Number: Treatise KFO2773.A34 O7 2022ISBN: 9781638660156Publication Date: March 31, 2022
Animal Law
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
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The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world. This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension--the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires (and fireworks), songbirds that can see the Earth's magnetic fields, and brainless jellyfish that nonetheless have complex eyes. We discover that a crocodile's scaly face is as sensitive as a lover's fingertips, that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see sparkling whales, and that even fingernail-sized spiders can make out the craters of the moon. We meet people with unusual senses, from women who can make out extra colors to blind individuals who can navigate using reflected echoes like bats. Yong tells the stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, and also looks ahead at the many mysteries which lie unsolved.
Call Number: Treatise QP431 .Y68 2022ISBN: 9780593133231Publication Date: June 21, 2022 -
Juris Zoology: A Dissection of Animals as Legal Objects
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At the intersection of law and biology, this book provides a framework to objectively assess the role and significance of animals in American civil and criminal law.
Call Number: Treatise KF390.5.A5 D83 2022ISBN: 9781793655721Publication Date: March 14, 2022 -
Legal Personhood: Animals, Artificial Intelligence and the Unborn
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This edited work collates novel contributions on contemporary topics that are related to human rights. The essays address analytic-descriptive questions, such as what legal personality actually means, and normative questions, such as who or what should be recognised as a legal person. As is well-known among jurists, the law has a special conception of personhood: corporations are persons, whereas slaves have traditionally been considered property rather than persons. This odd state of affairs has not garnered the interest of legal theorists for a while and the theory of legal personhood has been a relatively peripheral topic in jurisprudence for at least 50 years.
Call Number: Treatise ; K625 .I44 2017ISBN: 9783319851594Publication Date: July 21, 2018 -
The Market in Birds
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The book examines wildfowl market hunting in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America and its formative effects on both early conservation policy and cultural valuations of wildlife in modernizing America.
Call Number: Treatise SK313 .S525 2022ISBN: 9781421443409Publication Date: April 5, 2022 -
Rethinking the American Animal Rights Movement
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Along with Civil Rights and Women's liberation, Animal Rights became one of leading social moments of the twentieth century. This book critically reviews all principal contributions to the American animal rights debate by activists, campaigners, academics, and lawyers, while placing animal rights in context with other related and competing movements. Rethinking the American Animal Rights Movement examines the strategies employed within the movement to advance its goals, which ranged from public advocacy and legal reforms to civil disobedience, vigilantism, anarchism, and even 'terrorism.' It summarizes key theoretical and legal frameworks that inspired those strategies, as well as the ideological motivations of the movement.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9781138915107Publication Date: 2022-02-01
Cannabis Law
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Oregon Cannabis & Psilocybin Codebook
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Cannabis, both medical and recreational, has been legal in Oregon since 2015. The legislatures and agencies continue to add to the statutes and rules to address this rapidly evolving area of law. Get the latest edition of Oregon Cannabis and Psilocybin Codebook and have the statutes and related administrative rules in this growing area of law at your fingertips. Now Includes Psilocybin statutes.
Call Number: Treatise KFO2773.A34 O7 2022ISBN: 9781638660156Publication Date: March 31, 2022
Civil Rights and Constitutional Law
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A Constitution for a Democracy: (An Excursion in Nonfiction)
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The two basic models of democracy in the world today are the parliamentary form as practiced in the United Kingdom, and the presidential form as practiced in the United States of America. The author analyzes each, and develops a new model that synthesizes their relative advantages while minimizing their shortcomings. The proposed constitution in this book is primarily based on the parliamentary model with some elements of the presidential form. The author has also incorporated some elements of the French, German, Japanese, and Russian constitutions in the interest of thoroughness. The result is a constitution for a democracy that is secular, accountable, efficient and cost-effective.
Call Number: Treatise KF4550 .K346 2020ISBN: 9798608896804Publication Date: 2020 -
Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse
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Political speech in the United States is undergoing a crisis. Glendon's acclaimed book traces the evolution of the strident language of rights in America and shows how it has captured the nation's devotion to individualism and liberty, but omitted the American traditions of hospitality and care for the community.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9781439108680Publication Date: June 30, 2008 -
The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? (Second Edition)
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This book contends that it's nearly impossible to generate significant reforms through litigation. The reason? American courts are ineffective and relatively weak--far from the uniquely powerful sources for change they're often portrayed as. Rosenberg supports this claim by documenting the direct and secondary effects of key court decisions--particularly Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade. He reveals, for example, that Congress, the White House, and a determined civil rights movement did far more than Brown to advance desegregation, while pro-choice activists invested too much in Roe at the expense of political mobilization. Further illuminating these cases, as well as the ongoing fight for same-sex marriage rights, Rosenberg also marshals impressive evidence to overturn the common assumption that even unsuccessful litigation can advance a cause by raising its profile.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9780226726687Publication Date: September 15, 2008
Criminal Law
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Juris Zoology: A Dissection of Animals as Legal Objects
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At the intersection of law and biology, this book provides a framework to objectively assess the role and significance of animals in American civil and criminal law.
Call Number: Treatise KF390.5.A5 D83 2022ISBN: 9781793655721Publication Date: March 14, 2022
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The Spectacle of Criminal Justice: Mass Media and the Criminal Trial
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Delving into how institutions of justice, as well as public expressions of justice, such as rage and grief, are played out in the media, Smith helps us understand how this represents a shift away from historical community displays of punishment towards a media sanitized public engagement with the implementation of control and justice.
ISBN: 9781839828232Publication Date: March 29, 2022
Disabilities Law
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Twenty-Two Cents an Hour
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In 1938 the Fair Labor Standards Act authorized the use of subminimum wages for workers with disabilities. While some states have banned their use, it remains legal federally. The program known as 14(c) has a long history of poor oversight and abuse. While disability rights have grown in the United States, this issue lags decades behind.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF3469 .C73 2022ISBN: 9781501763588Publication Date: April 15, 2022
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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Much Sound and Fury, or the New Jim Crow?
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Intensive look at restrictive new voting laws ostensibly designed to target voter fraud but criticized as being racially-based voter suppression.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF4893 .M83 2022ISBN: 9781438486833Publication Date: January 1, 2022 -
The Politicization of Trans Identity
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The politicization of trans identity-also affecting gender non-binary and gender non-conforming persons-is a form of backlash to the Obergefell ruling (legalizing same sex marriage) and increased LGBTQ equality. This book provides a conceptual analysis and application of the notions of backlash, scapegoating, dog-whistling, and virtue signaling.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF4754.5 .C36 2022ISBN: 9781793623812Publication Date: February 25, 2022 -
Protection from Refuge: From Refugee Rights to Migration Management
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The places in which refugees seek sanctuary are often as dangerous and bleak as the conditions they fled. In response, many travel within and across borders in search of safety. As part of these journeys, refugees are increasingly turning to courts to ask for protection, not from persecution in their homeland, but from a place of 'refuge'. This book is the first global and comparative study of 'protection from refuge' litigation, examining whether courts facilitate or hamper refugee journeys with a particular focus on gender. Drawing on jurisprudence from Africa, Europe, North America and Oceania, Kate Ogg shows that courts have transitioned from adopting robust ideas of refuge to rudimentary ones. This trajectory indicates that courts can play a powerful role in creating more just and equitable refugee protection policies, but have, ultimately, compounded the difficulties inherent in finding sanctuary, perpetuating global inequities in refugee responsibility and rendering refuge elusive.
Call Number: Diversity Case KZ6530 . O35 2021ISBN: 9781316519738Publication Date: March 24, 2022 -
They Don't Want Her There: Fighting Sexual and Racial Harassment in the American University
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Decades before the #MeToo movement, Chinese American professor Jean Jew M.D. brought a lawsuit against the University of Iowa, alleging a sexually hostile work environment within the university's College of Medicine. As Jew gained accolades and advanced through the ranks at Iowa, she was met with increasingly vicious attacks on her character by her White male colleagues. After years of demoralizing sexual, racial, and ethnic discrimination, finding herself without any higher-up departmental support, and noting her professional progression beginning to suffer by the hands of hate, Jean Jew decided to fight back. Carolyn Chalmers was her lawyer. This book tells the inside story of pioneering litigation unfolding during the eight years of a university investigation, a watershed federal trial, and a state court jury trial. They Don't Want Her There is a brilliant, original work of legal history that is deeply personal and shows today's professional women just how recently some of our rights have been won--and at what cost.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF228.J49 C43 2022ISBN: 9781609388195Publication Date: April 27, 2022 -
Twenty-Two Cents an Hour
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In 1938 the Fair Labor Standards Act authorized the use of subminimum wages for workers with disabilities. While some states have banned their use, it remains legal federally. The program known as 14(c) has a long history of poor oversight and abuse. While disability rights have grown in the United States, this issue lags decades behind.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF3469 .C73 2022ISBN: 9781501763588Publication Date: April 15, 2022
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Whose Choice Is It?: Abortion, Medicine, and the Law
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This edition strives to give a comprehensive view of the entire subject of abortion: safety, morality, legality, accessibility, human rights and freedoms, reproductive justice, and a host of other issues as it relates to ongoing public policy.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF9315 .A93 2021ISBN: 9781641058896Publication Date: June 1, 2022
Employment and Labor Law
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They Don't Want Her There: Fighting Sexual and Racial Harassment in the American University
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Decades before the #MeToo movement, Chinese American professor Jean Jew M.D. brought a lawsuit against the University of Iowa, alleging a sexually hostile work environment within the university's College of Medicine. As Jew gained accolades and advanced through the ranks at Iowa, she was met with increasingly vicious attacks on her character by her White male colleagues. After years of demoralizing sexual, racial, and ethnic discrimination, finding herself without any higher-up departmental support, and noting her professional progression beginning to suffer by the hands of hate, Jean Jew decided to fight back. Carolyn Chalmers was her lawyer. This book tells the inside story of pioneering litigation unfolding during the eight years of a university investigation, a watershed federal trial, and a state court jury trial. They Don't Want Her There is a brilliant, original work of legal history that is deeply personal and shows today's professional women just how recently some of our rights have been won--and at what cost.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF228.J49 C43 2022ISBN: 9781609388195Publication Date: April 27, 2022
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Twenty-Two Cents an Hour
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In 1938 the Fair Labor Standards Act authorized the use of subminimum wages for workers with disabilities. While some states have banned their use, it remains legal federally. The program known as 14(c) has a long history of poor oversight and abuse. While disability rights have grown in the United States, this issue lags decades behind.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF3469 .C73 2022ISBN: 9781501763588Publication Date: April 15, 2022
Environmental, Energy, and Natural Resources Law
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All the Water the Law Allows
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Examines how natural and legal limitations to water spurred the creation of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, a unique water agency imbued with local, county, and state level authority, and how this agency made Las Vegas a major actor in the politics of the Colorado River.
Call Number: Environment KFN1046 .H37 2021ISBN: 9780806169323Publication Date: August 12, 2021 -
Climate Refugees
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The last few years have witnessed a flurry of activity in global governance and international law seeking to address the protection gaps for people fleeing the effects of climate change. This book discusses developments in law and policy on climate change and forced displacement, including theories and potential solutions, issues of governance, local and regional concerns, and future challenges. Chapters are written by a range of authors from academics to key figures in intergovernmental organizations, and offer detailed case studies of policy developments in the Americas, Europe, South-East Asia, and the Pacific.
Call Number: Environment K3230.R45 C58 2022ISBN: 9781108828772Publication Date: March 17, 2022 -
Food in a Planetary Emergency
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This book is a timely overview of the current food systems and the required transformations to respond to the challenges of climate change, population pressures, biodiversity loss and use of natural resources, such as soils, water and phosphorus. This book takes a planetary health perspective which explores the links between natural systems and human wellbeing, implying that there is need for united actions to achieve important environmental and population health co-benefits.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9789811677069Publication Date: May 4, 2022 -
The History and Evolution of the North American Wildlife Conservation Model
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This book explains how six policies collectively called the North American Wildlife Conservation Model (NAWCM), put in place around the turn of the twentieth century, saved numerous iconic big game species from extinction. Rigid adherence to the NAWCM, however, especially its ban on the commercial sale of wild game meat, has allowed deer and some other species to become overabundant pests in areas where hunting pressure recently declined and habitat rebounded. Texas and South Africa have proven that scientific insight and market incentives can combine to prevent game overabundance and decrease the fragility and extend the range of iconic mammal game species. This book outlines how intermediate steps, like proxy hunting and other wildlife regulation reforms, could be used to lure more hunters into the field and move other states towards the Texas model incrementally, thereby minimizing risks to wildlife or human stakeholders.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9783031061622Publication Date: June 16, 2022 -
The Ideal River
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The ideal river examines nineteenth-century efforts to establish international commissions on three transboundary rivers - the Rhine, the Danube, and the Congo. It charts how the Enlightenment ambition to tame the natural world, and human nature itself, became an international standard for rational and civilized authority and informed our geographical imagination of the international. This relationship of domination over nature shaped three core IR concepts central to the emergence of early international order: the territorial sovereign state; imperial hierarchies; and international organizations. The book contributes to environmental politics and international relations by highlighting how the relationship between society and nature is not a peripheral concern, but one at the heart of international politics.
Call Number: Environment KZ3685 .Y36 2022ISBN: 9781526154385Publication Date: March 8, 2022 -
Making and Unmaking of Puget Sound
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The Puget Sound is a complex fjord-estuary system in Washington State that is connected to the Pacific Ocean by the Juan de Fuca Strait and surrounded by several large population centers. This book describes the natural history and evolution of Puget Sound over the last 100 million years through the present and into the future.
Call Number: Environment QH105.W2 H693 2022ISBN: 9781032201184Publication Date: February 1, 2022 -
Melville's Mistake
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In 1977, Michael J. Bean introduced the concept of "wildlife law" as a distinct new component of environmental law. Known fittingly thereafter as the "dean of wildlife law," Bean has since written scores of articles shaping the policies that impact the natural world. Survival and Recovery: Essays in Defense of the Natural World is built around a collection of those writings, both previously published and unpublished, with a principal focus on the Endangered Species Act-the legislative cornerstone of conservation and recovery efforts for imperiled wild plants and animals in the United States.
Call Number: Environment QH76 .B428 2022ISBN: 9781648430268Publication Date: August 24, 2022 -
Our Common Ground: A History of America's Public Lands
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The U.S. government holds nearly one-third of the nation's land-more than 600 million acres of forests, plains, mountains, wetlands, deserts, and shorelines found in every part of the country. In this book, John Leshy, a leading expert in public lands policy, discusses the key political decisions that led to this result, beginning at the very founding of the nation. He traces the emergence of a bipartisan political consensus in favor of the national government managing vast areas of land primarily for recreation, education, science, and conservation of biodiversity and cultural resources. That consensus remains strong and continues to shape American identity. Such a success story of the political system is a bright spot in an era when many doubt whether government can ever produce good results. This book is essential reading for anyone who cares about public lands, and it is particularly timely as the world grapples with the challenges of climate change.
Call Number: Environment HD216 .L475 2021ISBN: 9780300235784Publication Date: March 1, 2022 -
Pacific Salmon Law and the Environment
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Author Michael Blumm is the Jeffrey Bain Faculty Scholar and a Professor of Law at Lewis & Clark Law School. The law and policy of salmon protection and restoration are complex, and matters surrounding salmon implicate topics as varied as Indian treaty fishing rights, dam management and removal, international treaties, predator control, and climate change. Pacific Salmon Law and the Environment chronicles the diverse issues concerning salmon allocation, management, and restoration in the 21st century, providing the historical understanding necessary for an accurate perspective of the present-day problems salmon face. The book is a must-read for ecologists, biologists, attorneys, educators, activists, students, and others concerned about the fate of salmon in the Pacific Northwest in the climate-challenged 21st Century.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9781585762392Publication Date: June 24, 2022 -
Wild by Design
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Laura J. Martin examines ecological restoration's long history. Since the early 1900s, restorationists have confronted vexing philosophical questions: Which states of nature should be restored? Who should choose? Is human-designed wilderness really wild? Restoration work leads us to reimagine nature and the nature of environmental justice.
Call Number: Environment H104 .M38 2022ISBN: 9780674979420Publication Date: May 17, 2022
Health Law and Elder Care
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Oregon Cannabis & Psilocybin Codebook
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Cannabis, both medical and recreational, has been legal in Oregon since 2015. The legislatures and agencies continue to add to the statutes and rules to address this rapidly evolving area of law. Get the latest edition of Oregon Cannabis and Psilocybin Codebook and have the statutes and related administrative rules in this growing area of law at your fingertips. Now Includes Psilocybin statutes.
Call Number: Treatise KFO2773.A34 O7 2022ISBN: 9781638660156Publication Date: March 31, 2022
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Whose Choice Is It?: Abortion, Medicine, and the Law
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This edition strives to give a comprehensive view of the entire subject of abortion: safety, morality, legality, accessibility, human rights and freedoms, reproductive justice, and a host of other issues as it relates to ongoing public policy.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF9315 .A93 2021ISBN: 9781641058896Publication Date: June 1, 2022
Immigration Law
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Protection from Refuge: From Refugee Rights to Migration Management
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The places in which refugees seek sanctuary are often as dangerous and bleak as the conditions they fled. In response, many travel within and across borders in search of safety. As part of these journeys, refugees are increasingly turning to courts to ask for protection, not from persecution in their homeland, but from a place of 'refuge'. This book is the first global and comparative study of 'protection from refuge' litigation, examining whether courts facilitate or hamper refugee journeys with a particular focus on gender. Drawing on jurisprudence from Africa, Europe, North America and Oceania, Kate Ogg shows that courts have transitioned from adopting robust ideas of refuge to rudimentary ones. This trajectory indicates that courts can play a powerful role in creating more just and equitable refugee protection policies, but have, ultimately, compounded the difficulties inherent in finding sanctuary, perpetuating global inequities in refugee responsibility and rendering refuge elusive.
Call Number: Diversity Case KZ6530 . O35 2021ISBN: 9781316519738Publication Date: March 24, 2022
Innovation, Technology, & the Law
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Legal Personhood: Animals, Artificial Intelligence and the Unborn
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This edited work collates novel contributions on contemporary topics that are related to human rights. The essays address analytic-descriptive questions, such as what legal personality actually means, and normative questions, such as who or what should be recognised as a legal person. As is well-known among jurists, the law has a special conception of personhood: corporations are persons, whereas slaves have traditionally been considered property rather than persons. This odd state of affairs has not garnered the interest of legal theorists for a while and the theory of legal personhood has been a relatively peripheral topic in jurisprudence for at least 50 years.
Call Number: Treatise ; K625 .I44 2017ISBN: 9783319851594Publication Date: July 21, 2018
Intellectual Property Law
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Research Guide to Chinese Patent Law and Practice
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This book teaches one how to conduct research in Chinese patent law and practice. It describes, in general terms, the patent legal system of China and how it is administered; it pulls together all relevant information sources, printed and electronic, for finding statutes, regulations, cases and other matters; and it provides a comprehensive bibliography, plus other useful resources. This new edition offers a revision of the first edition research guide. Every chapter of the first edition has been revised or reorganized to reflect the changes of the last decades.
Call Number: Treatise KNQ1194 .H76 2022ISBN: 9780837742649Publication Date: 2022
International, Foreign, & Human Rights Law
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The Cambridge Companion to International Organizations Law
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The Cambridge Companion to International Organizations Law illuminates, from a legal perspective, what international organizations are, what makes them 'tick' and how they affect the world around them. It critically discusses such classic issues as the concept of international organization and membership, as well as questions of internal relations, accountability and how they make law, set standards and otherwise affect both their member states and the world around them.
Call Number: Treatise KZ4850 .C36 2022ISBN: 9781108467643Publication Date: April 7, 2022 -
Climate Refugees
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The last few years have witnessed a flurry of activity in global governance and international law seeking to address the protection gaps for people fleeing the effects of climate change. This book discusses developments in law and policy on climate change and forced displacement, including theories and potential solutions, issues of governance, local and regional concerns, and future challenges. Chapters are written by a range of authors from academics to key figures in intergovernmental organizations, and offer detailed case studies of policy developments in the Americas, Europe, South-East Asia, and the Pacific.
Call Number: Environment K3230.R45 C58 2022ISBN: 9781108828772Publication Date: March 17, 2022
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A Constitution for a Democracy: (An Excursion in Nonfiction)
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The two basic models of democracy in the world today are the parliamentary form as practiced in the United Kingdom, and the presidential form as practiced in the United States of America. The author analyzes each, and develops a new model that synthesizes their relative advantages while minimizing their shortcomings. The proposed constitution in this book is primarily based on the parliamentary model with some elements of the presidential form. The author has also incorporated some elements of the French, German, Japanese, and Russian constitutions in the interest of thoroughness. The result is a constitution for a democracy that is secular, accountable, efficient and cost-effective.
Call Number: Treatise KF4550 .K346 2020ISBN: 9798608896804Publication Date: 2020
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Human Right to Water and International Economic Law
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This book discusses the international right to water and the liberalization of water services. It is concerned with the harmonization of the right to water with the legal systems under which liberalization of water services has taken or may take place. It assesses paths of harmonization between international human rights law and international economic law in this specific field. The issue of the compatibility between the fulfilment of the right to water and the liberalization of water services has been at the heart of a passionate public debate between opponents and advocates of the privatization of the utility. The book provides an unbiased analysis of different international legal regimes under which the liberalization of water services has occurred or is likely to occur, notably international investment law, international trade law, and European Union law, in order to assess whether the main features of the right to water can be guaranteed under each of these systems of law and whether there is space for prospective harmonization.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9780367505806Publication Date: 2022 -
The Ideal River
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The ideal river examines nineteenth-century efforts to establish international commissions on three transboundary rivers - the Rhine, the Danube, and the Congo. It charts how the Enlightenment ambition to tame the natural world, and human nature itself, became an international standard for rational and civilized authority and informed our geographical imagination of the international. This relationship of domination over nature shaped three core IR concepts central to the emergence of early international order: the territorial sovereign state; imperial hierarchies; and international organizations. The book contributes to environmental politics and international relations by highlighting how the relationship between society and nature is not a peripheral concern, but one at the heart of international politics.
Call Number: Environment KZ3685 .Y36 2022ISBN: 9781526154385Publication Date: March 8, 2022
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Legal Personhood: Animals, Artificial Intelligence and the Unborn
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This edited work collates novel contributions on contemporary topics that are related to human rights. The essays address analytic-descriptive questions, such as what legal personality actually means, and normative questions, such as who or what should be recognised as a legal person. As is well-known among jurists, the law has a special conception of personhood: corporations are persons, whereas slaves have traditionally been considered property rather than persons. This odd state of affairs has not garnered the interest of legal theorists for a while and the theory of legal personhood has been a relatively peripheral topic in jurisprudence for at least 50 years.
Call Number: Treatise ; K625 .I44 2017ISBN: 9783319851594Publication Date: July 21, 2018
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The Most Human Right
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Eric Heinze explains why global human rights systems have failed. International organizations constantly report on how governments manage human goods, such as fair trials, humane conditions of detention, healthcare, or housing. But to appease autocratic regimes, experts have ignored the primacy of free speech. Heinze argues that goods become rights only when citizens can claim them publicly and fearlessly: free speech is the fundamental right, without which the very concept of a 'right' makes no sense. Heinze argues that throughout history countless systems of justice have promised human goods. What, then, makes human rights different? What must human rights have that other systems have lacked? Heinze revisits the origins of the concept, exploring what it means for a nation to protect human rights, and what a citizen needs in order to pursue them. He explains how free speech distinguishes human rights from other ideas about justice, past and present.
Call Number: Treatise K3254 .H45 2022ISBN: 9780262046459Publication Date: April 12, 2022 -
Protection from Refuge: From Refugee Rights to Migration Management
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The places in which refugees seek sanctuary are often as dangerous and bleak as the conditions they fled. In response, many travel within and across borders in search of safety. As part of these journeys, refugees are increasingly turning to courts to ask for protection, not from persecution in their homeland, but from a place of 'refuge'. This book is the first global and comparative study of 'protection from refuge' litigation, examining whether courts facilitate or hamper refugee journeys with a particular focus on gender. Drawing on jurisprudence from Africa, Europe, North America and Oceania, Kate Ogg shows that courts have transitioned from adopting robust ideas of refuge to rudimentary ones. This trajectory indicates that courts can play a powerful role in creating more just and equitable refugee protection policies, but have, ultimately, compounded the difficulties inherent in finding sanctuary, perpetuating global inequities in refugee responsibility and rendering refuge elusive.
Call Number: Diversity Case KZ6530 . O35 2021ISBN: 9781316519738Publication Date: March 24, 2022
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Research Guide to Chinese Patent Law and Practice
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This book teaches one how to conduct research in Chinese patent law and practice. It describes, in general terms, the patent legal system of China and how it is administered; it pulls together all relevant information sources, printed and electronic, for finding statutes, regulations, cases and other matters; and it provides a comprehensive bibliography, plus other useful resources. This new edition offers a revision of the first edition research guide. Every chapter of the first edition has been revised or reorganized to reflect the changes of the last decades.
Call Number: Treatise KNQ1194 .H76 2022ISBN: 9780837742649Publication Date: 2022
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Whose Choice Is It?: Abortion, Medicine, and the Law
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This edition strives to give a comprehensive view of the entire subject of abortion: safety, morality, legality, accessibility, human rights and freedoms, reproductive justice, and a host of other issues as it relates to ongoing public policy.
Call Number: Diversity Case KF9315 .A93 2021ISBN: 9781641058896Publication Date: June 1, 2022
Legal Education
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Subversive Legal History : A Manifesto for the Future of Legal Education
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Provocative, audacious and challenging, this book rejuvenates not only the historical study of law and but also the role of Law Schools by asking which stories we tell and which stories we forget. It argues that a historical approach to law should be at the beating heart of the Law School curriculum. Far from being archaic, elitist and dull, historical perspectives on law are and should be subversive. Comparison with the past underscores: how the law and legal institutions are not fixed but are constructed; that every line drawn in the law and everything the law holds as sacred is arbitrary; and how the environment into which law students are socialized is a historical construct. A subversive approach is needed to highlight, question, de-construct and re-construct the authored nature of the law, revealing that that legal change on a larger scale is possible.
Call Number: Treatise K103.H57 S26 2021ISBN: 9780367191290Publication Date: 2021
Legal History
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The Burdens of All: A Social History of American Tort Law
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Tort law, the law of how the costs of accidents and other harms should be allocated, is part of America's larger story of social conflict and progress. This book recounts tort law's place in that story. The book describes the law's struggle to move from nineteenth-century individualism, which required accident victims to shift for themselves and protected corporations, to the view that accidents are an inevitable part of modern industrial society and must be paid for by society as a whole. Also, the book paints pictures of the judges and social reformers who have shaped tort law's course; the current struggle between individualism and socialization; and the historical struggle over the proper balance of power between judges and juries in tort cases.
Call Number: Treatise KF1250 .R36 2022ISBN: 9781531023331Publication Date: November 1, 2011 -
The Credentialed Court: Inside the Cloistered Elite World of American Justice
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The Credentialed Court starts by establishing just how different today's Justices are from their predecessors. The book combines two massive empirical studies of every Justices' background from John Jay to Amy Coney Barrett with short, readable bios of past greats to demonstrate that today's Justices arrive on the Court with much narrower experiences than they once did. The modern Supreme Court specializes in cloistered and elite lives. Today's Justices have spent more time in elite academic settings (both as students and faculty) than any previous Courts. Every Justice but Barrett attended either Harvard or Yale Law School, and four of the Justices were tenured professors at prestigious law schools. They also spent more time as Federal Appellate Court Judges than any previous Courts. These two jobs (tenured law professor and appellate judge) share two critical components: both jobs are basically lifetime appointments that involve little or no contact with the public at large. The current Supreme Court is packed with a very specific type of person: type-A overachievers who have triumphed in a long tournament measuring academic and technical legal excellence. This Court desperately lacks individuals who reflect a different type of "merit". The book examines the exceptional and varied lives of past greats from John Marshall to Thurgood Marshall and asks how many, if any, of these giants would be nominated today. The book argues against our current bookish and narrow meritocracy. Healthier societies offer multiple different routes to success and onto bodies like our Supreme Court.
Call Number: Treatise KF8748 .B277 2022ISBN: 9781641772044Publication Date: March 8, 2022 -
Faith, Force, and Reason: An Armchair History of the Rule of Law
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Faith, Force, and Reason follows the evolution of the rule of law from its birth in the marshes of Mesopotamia over 4,000 years ago, to its battle against Apartheid in South Africa in the last twenty-five years. It is recounted through the voices of emperors and kings, judges and jurists, popes and philosophers who have thought about what the rule of law is all about and how it works. All of law's most momentous achievements--Justinian's Corpus Juris Civilis, Magna Carta and the American Bill of Rights--and most celebrated advocates, including Plato and Aristotle, Cicero, Aquinas, Edward Coke, Hugo Grotius and John Marshall, are featured. So are law's darkest moments: the trial of Socrates, the burning and beheading of witches and heretics, the persecution of Jews and the proclamation of Lex Regia which legalized the dictatorial powers of Roman emperors and medieval kings, In its concluding part Faith, Force, and Reason challenges readers to think about the lessons of the history they have read. What does the rule of law mean in our own time? What does it demand of us as well as our political leaders?
Call Number: Treatise K3171 .B429 2022ISBN: 9781487540821Publication Date: 2022 -
Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse
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Political speech in the United States is undergoing a crisis. Glendon's acclaimed book traces the evolution of the strident language of rights in America and shows how it has captured the nation's devotion to individualism and liberty, but omitted the American traditions of hospitality and care for the community.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9781439108680Publication Date: June 30, 2008
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Subversive Legal History : A Manifesto for the Future of Legal Education
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Provocative, audacious and challenging, this book rejuvenates not only the historical study of law and but also the role of Law Schools by asking which stories we tell and which stories we forget. It argues that a historical approach to law should be at the beating heart of the Law School curriculum. Far from being archaic, elitist and dull, historical perspectives on law are and should be subversive. Comparison with the past underscores: how the law and legal institutions are not fixed but are constructed; that every line drawn in the law and everything the law holds as sacred is arbitrary; and how the environment into which law students are socialized is a historical construct. A subversive approach is needed to highlight, question, de-construct and re-construct the authored nature of the law, revealing that that legal change on a larger scale is possible.
Call Number: Treatise K103.H57 S26 2021ISBN: 9780367191290Publication Date: 2021
Lewis & Clark Law School Faculty Authors
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Pacific Salmon Law and the Environment
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Author Michael Blumm is the Jeffrey Bain Faculty Scholar and a Professor of Law at Lewis & Clark Law School. The law and policy of salmon protection and restoration are complex, and matters surrounding salmon implicate topics as varied as Indian treaty fishing rights, dam management and removal, international treaties, predator control, and climate change. Pacific Salmon Law and the Environment chronicles the diverse issues concerning salmon allocation, management, and restoration in the 21st century, providing the historical understanding necessary for an accurate perspective of the present-day problems salmon face. The book is a must-read for ecologists, biologists, attorneys, educators, activists, students, and others concerned about the fate of salmon in the Pacific Northwest in the climate-challenged 21st Century.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9781585762392Publication Date: June 24, 2022
Practice of Law
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Negotiate to Win
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Negotiation is one skill everyone needs in order to get more of what they want---to sell more, to keep costs down, to manage better, to strengthen relationships---to win! Thomas shows you exactly how the best negotiators reach long-lasting positive solutions that build profits, performance, and relationships.
Call Number: Treatise ; BF637.N4 T45 2005ISBN: 9780060781064Publication Date: September 6, 2005 -
The Wounded Attorney: How Psychological Disorders Impact Attorneys
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In The Wounded Attorney, authors Young and Packman explore how mental health issues appear in the legal profession by examining attorney disbarment records and arguing for a therapeutic approach to attorney discipline that destigmatizes mental health issues.
Call Number: Treatise KF308 .Y68 2022ISBN: 9781793626462Publication Date: February 28, 2022
Other Subject Areas
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Powerful Teaching
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In this book, cognitive scientist Pooja K. Agarwal, Ph. D., and veteran K-12 teacher Patrice M. Bain, Ed. S., decipher cognitive science research and illustrate ways to successfully apply the science of learning in classrooms settings. This practical resource is filled with evidence-based strategies that are easily implemented in less than a minute-without additional prepping, grading, or funding! Research demonstrates that these powerful strategies raise student achievement by a letter grade or more; boost learning for diverse students, grade levels, and subject areas; and enhance students' higher order learning and transfer of knowledge beyond the classroom.
Call Number: Treatise ; LB1062 .A36 2019ISBN: 9781119521846Publication Date: June 5, 2019
