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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Federal Indian Law and Policy
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Federal Indian Law and Policy: An Introduction is designed to help students, instructors, and others without a legal background to learn and teach about the legal landscape that shapes Native America. Covering both the historical foundations that continue to inform the present as well as hot button issues facing Native America today, each of the thirty chapters is a concise, readable synopsis of an aspect of this dynamic, ever evolving field of law. Anyone interested in any aspect of Native America, regardless of their familiarity with the law, will find their own studies, classes, and knowledge enhanced by this text.
Call Number: Diversity Case ; KF8205 .R54 2020ISBN: 9781642426052Publication Date: 2020-03-09 -
Native Agency
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This work provides an essential national-level look at an intriguing and impactful form of Indigenous resistance. It describes, in great detail, the continuing assaults made on Native peoples and tribal sovereignty in the United States during the twenty-first century, and it sketches the visions of the future that Indians at the BIA and in Indian Country have been crafting for themselves
Call Number: Diversity Case ; E93 .L28 2022ISBN: 9781517914530Publication Date: 2023-01-03
Business, Investment, and Tax Law
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ESG in the Boardroom
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ESG, CSR, and sustainability have become a dynamic and critical focus of corporate governance. The ESG challenges for corporate boards are complicated and this valuable guide sets out to carefully explore what happens when governance meets sustainability. The book serves as a guide to current ideas about ESG and governance and provides insight to directors on their role with respect to ESG matters.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF1416 .E84 2022ISBN: 9781639050512Publication Date: 2022-03-09 -
A Practitioner's Guide to Innocent Spouse Relief, Third Edition
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In straightforward language, the third edition of A Practitioner's Guide to Innocent Spouse Relief takes you step-by-step through the innocent spouse claim process, from information gathering, to administrative proceedings, to determination, to trial, and to refund relief. It provides a comprehensive yet accessible guide for practitioners representing taxpayers in innocent spouse proceedings.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF6400 .N33 2022ISBN: 9781639051496Publication Date: 2023-06-13 -
The Profit Motive
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Corporations dominate our economy and society. Defining their social purpose thus matters a great deal to everyone, not just lawyers and businesspeople. In clear and accessible language, Bainbridge explains that shareholder capitalism-not stakeholder capitalism-is both what the law requires and what the law ought to require
Call Number: Treatise ; KF1414 .B349 2023ISBN: 9781316515471Publication Date: 2023-02-09
Cannabis Law
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Weed Rules
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With full legalization seeming inevitable, it's time to shift the conversation-from whether recreational cannabis should be legalized to how. Weed Rules argues that it's time for states to abandon their "grudging tolerance" approach to legal weed and to embrace a new "careful exuberance" approach. In this thorough and witty book, law professor Jay Wexler invites policy makers to responsibly embrace the enormous benefits of cannabis, including the joy and euphoria it brings to those who use it. The "grudging tolerance" approach has led to restrictions that are too strict in some cases-limiting how and where cannabis can be used, cultivated, marketed, and sold-and far too loose in others, allowing employers and police to discriminate against weed users. Weed Rules shows how focusing on joy and community can lead us to an equitable marijuana policy in which minority communities, most harmed by the war on drugs, play a leading role in the industry. Centering pleasure and fun as legitimate policy goals, Weed Rules puts forth specific policies to advocate for a more just, sensible, and joyous post-legalization society
Call Number: Treatise ; KF3891.M2 W49 2023ISBN: 9780520343924Publication Date: 2023-04-18
Civil Rights and Constitutional Law
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At the Schoolhouse Gate
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The objective of this edited volume is to shed light upon K-12 perspectives of various school stakeholders in the current unique context of increasing political polarization and heightened teacher and student activism. It is grounded in academic freedom case law and the majority of opinion of the Supreme Court in the Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969) that held that certain forms of expression are protected by the First Amendment. Justice Fortas wrote in the majority opinion that "it can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." This volume is timely and instructive, as protections afforded by the First Amendment are a topic of enduring concern, with such freedoms requiring vigilant advocacy and protection from each generation. Paulo Freire stated, "Citizenship is not obtained by chance: It is a construction that, never finished, demands we fight for it" (1998, p. 90). There is confusion and much debate in and outside of schools about how and when these and other rights described in the First Amendment may or may not be limited, and the time is now to clarify the place of such rights in public education. At the Schoolhouse Gate is divided into three sections: Foundations, Case Studies of Rights in Schools, and Choices to Act. The "Foundations" section presents the case law pertaining to the rights of both teachers and students, setting the tone for what presently is permissible and chronicling the ongoing struggle with defining rights and responsibilities in schools. In "Case Studies of Rights in Schools," various authors examine teacher and student interactions with rights and responsibilities in schools, including the interest of students in participating with their teachers in the democratic experiment of schooling, the promise of student-led conferences, a new teacher's success with democratizing her classroom, and student views of news and technology. "Choices to Act" includes a portrait of teacher activism during the Oklahoma Walkout, a general counsel's advice to teachers for availing themselves of their rights, a story of a civic education curriculum generating student agency, and vignettes of two public high school students who took action in their schools and communities
Call Number: Treatise ; KF4155.5 .A98 2022ISBN: 9781648027246Publication Date: 2022-04-01 -
Constitutional Contagion
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This book looks at Supreme Court decisions, legal history, and public health theory to tell the story of how the Supreme Court stymied efforts to control the pandemic, as well as how its pre-pandemic decisions left the United States especially vulnerable to COVID-19 and other health threats
Call Number: Treatise ; KF3803.C68 P37 2023ISBN: 9781009098335Publication Date: 2023-06-01 -
Roe: The History of a National Obsession
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Over its half-century of public life, Roe v. Wade took on meanings that extended far beyond its original purpose of protecting the privacy of the doctor-patient relationship. At various times, it forced us to confront hard questions about judicial activism and restraint, the believability of science, racial justice, the suppression of religion, and much more. Mary Ziegler explores the transformations of meaning that have kept abortion on the front lines of our political and social battles
Call Number: Diversity Case ; HQ767.5.U5 Z544 2023ISBN: 9780300266108Publication Date: 2023-01-24 -
You Can't Always Say What You Want
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The freedom to think what you want and to say what you think has always generated a pushback of regulation and censorship. This raises the thorny question: to what extent does free speech actually endanger speech protection? This book examines today's calls for speech legislation and places it into historical perspective, using fascinating examples from the past 200 years, to explain the historical context of laws regulating speech. Over time, the freedom to speak has grown, the ways in which we communicate have evolved due to technology, and our ideas about speech protection have been challenged as a result. Now more than ever, we are living in a free speech paradox: powerful speakers weaponize their rights in order to silence those less-powerful speakers who oppose them. By understanding how this situation has developed, we can stand up to these threats to the freedom of speech.
Call Number: Treatise ; K3254 .B375 2023ISBN: 9781009198905Publication Date: 2023-02-28
Criminal Law
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Advancing Equity at the Intersection of Race, Mental Illness, and Criminal Justice Involvement
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This book starts the conversation about what attorneys can do to improve both health and justice outcomes for people of diverse backgrounds who have mental illness. Focusing on the role of litigators working in the criminal justice system-particularly prosecutors and defense attorneys-this book offers an overview of foundational concepts, lawyering skills, and legal theories that attorneys can use in day-to-day practice as they work toward achieving fair and equitable access to justice for all
Call Number: Diversity Case ; KF9223 .A9243 2023ISBN: 9781639052363Publication Date: 2023-03-01 -
Inequality Across State Lines
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Every year, one in four women will be victims of domestic violence in the United States. This book shows how and why U.S. domestic violence politics and policies have failed to keep them safe at all income levels, and across racial and ethnic lines
Call Number: Diversity Case ; HV6626.2 .S545 2023ISBN: 9781009279116Publication Date: 2023-03-02 -
Representing People with Dementia
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The reason for this book on dementia is three-fold: first, there is a growing recognition that people with dementia become involved with the criminal justice system and need vigorous, informed, compassionate advocacy; second, there is a need for practical, easily digestible information for lawyers about this non-traditional criminal defendant; and third, this book is an attempt to get in front of the curve
Call Number: Treatise ; KF3803.D46 R47 2022ISBN: 9781639051328Publication Date: 2022-11-30 -
Weed Rules
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With full legalization seeming inevitable, it's time to shift the conversation-from whether recreational cannabis should be legalized to how. Weed Rules argues that it's time for states to abandon their "grudging tolerance" approach to legal weed and to embrace a new "careful exuberance" approach. In this thorough and witty book, law professor Jay Wexler invites policy makers to responsibly embrace the enormous benefits of cannabis, including the joy and euphoria it brings to those who use it. The "grudging tolerance" approach has led to restrictions that are too strict in some cases-limiting how and where cannabis can be used, cultivated, marketed, and sold-and far too loose in others, allowing employers and police to discriminate against weed users. Weed Rules shows how focusing on joy and community can lead us to an equitable marijuana policy in which minority communities, most harmed by the war on drugs, play a leading role in the industry. Centering pleasure and fun as legitimate policy goals, Weed Rules puts forth specific policies to advocate for a more just, sensible, and joyous post-legalization society
Call Number: Treatise ; KF3891.M2 W49 2023ISBN: 9780520343924Publication Date: 2023-04-18
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You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent
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Justin Brooks offers accounts of the cases he's fought, embedding them within a larger landscape of innocence claims and research on what we know about the causes of wrongful convictions. The stories of Brooks' cases and clients paint the picture of a broken justice system, one where innocence is no protection from incarceration
Call Number: Treatise ; KF9756 .B76 2023ISBN: 9780520386839Publication Date: 2023-04-04
Disabilities Law
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Representing People with Dementia
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The reason for this book on dementia is three-fold: first, there is a growing recognition that people with dementia become involved with the criminal justice system and need vigorous, informed, compassionate advocacy; second, there is a need for practical, easily digestible information for lawyers about this non-traditional criminal defendant; and third, this book is an attempt to get in front of the curve
Call Number: Treatise ; KF3803.D46 R47 2022ISBN: 9781639051328Publication Date: 2022-11-30
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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Advancing Equity at the Intersection of Race, Mental Illness, and Criminal Justice Involvement
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This book starts the conversation about what attorneys can do to improve both health and justice outcomes for people of diverse backgrounds who have mental illness. Focusing on the role of litigators working in the criminal justice system-particularly prosecutors and defense attorneys-this book offers an overview of foundational concepts, lawyering skills, and legal theories that attorneys can use in day-to-day practice as they work toward achieving fair and equitable access to justice for all
Call Number: Diversity Case ; KF9223 .A9243 2023ISBN: 9781639052363Publication Date: 2023-03-01
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Federal Indian Law and Policy
by
Federal Indian Law and Policy: An Introduction is designed to help students, instructors, and others without a legal background to learn and teach about the legal landscape that shapes Native America. Covering both the historical foundations that continue to inform the present as well as hot button issues facing Native America today, each of the thirty chapters is a concise, readable synopsis of an aspect of this dynamic, ever evolving field of law. Anyone interested in any aspect of Native America, regardless of their familiarity with the law, will find their own studies, classes, and knowledge enhanced by this text.
Call Number: Diversity Case ; KF8205 .R54 2020ISBN: 9781642426052Publication Date: 2020-03-09
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Inequality Across State Lines
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Every year, one in four women will be victims of domestic violence in the United States. This book shows how and why U.S. domestic violence politics and policies have failed to keep them safe at all income levels, and across racial and ethnic lines
Call Number: Diversity Case ; HV6626.2 .S545 2023ISBN: 9781009279116Publication Date: 2023-03-02
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Native Agency
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This work provides an essential national-level look at an intriguing and impactful form of Indigenous resistance. It describes, in great detail, the continuing assaults made on Native peoples and tribal sovereignty in the United States during the twenty-first century, and it sketches the visions of the future that Indians at the BIA and in Indian Country have been crafting for themselves
Call Number: Diversity Case ; E93 .L28 2022ISBN: 9781517914530Publication Date: 2023-01-03
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A Promise Kept
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"At the end of the Trail of Tears there was a promise," U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the decision issued on July 9, 2020, in the case of McGirt v. Oklahoma. And that promise, made in treaties between the United States and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation more than 150 years earlier, would finally be kept. With the Court's ruling, the full extent of the Muscogee (Creek) Reservation was reaffirmed--meaning that 3.25 million acres of land in Oklahoma, including part of the city of Tulsa, were recognized once again as "Indian Country" as defined by federal law. A Promise Kept explores the circumstances and implications of McGirt v. Oklahoma, likely the most significant Indian law case in well over 100 years. Combining legal analysis and historical context, this book gives an in-depth, accessible account of how the case unfolded and what it might mean for Oklahomans, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and other tribes throughout the United States. For context, Robbie Ethridge traces the long history of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation from its inception in present-day Georgia and Alabama in the seventeenth century; through the tribe's rise to regional prominence in the colonial era, the tumultuous years of Indian Removal, and the Civil War and allotment; and into its resurgence in Oklahoma in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Against this historical background, Robert J. Miller considers McGirt v. Oklahoma, examining important related cases, precedents that informed the Court's decision, and future ramifications--legal, civil, regulatory, and practical--for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, federal Indian law, the United States, the state of Oklahoma, and Indian nations in Oklahoma and elsewhere. Their work clarifies the stakes of a decision that, while long overdue, raises numerous complex issues profoundly affecting federal, state, and tribal relations and law--and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future
Call Number: Diversity Case ; KIG3918 .M55 2023ISBN: 9780806191713Publication Date: 2023-01-26 -
Roe: The History of a National Obsession
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Over its half-century of public life, Roe v. Wade took on meanings that extended far beyond its original purpose of protecting the privacy of the doctor-patient relationship. At various times, it forced us to confront hard questions about judicial activism and restraint, the believability of science, racial justice, the suppression of religion, and much more. Mary Ziegler explores the transformations of meaning that have kept abortion on the front lines of our political and social battles
Call Number: Diversity Case ; HQ767.5.U5 Z544 2023ISBN: 9780300266108Publication Date: 2023-01-24
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The Slow Violence of Immigration Court
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Grounded in the illuminating stories of immigrants facing deportation, the family members who support them, and the attorneys who defend them, this book invites readers to question matters of fairness and justice in immigration court and beyond
Call Number: Diversity Case ; KF4822 .B37 2023ISBN: 9781479821037Publication Date: 2023-03-14 -
The Transition
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Every Supreme Court transition presents an opportunity for a shift in the balance of the third branch of American government, but the replacement of Thurgood Marshall with Clarence Thomas in 1991 proved particularly momentous. Not only did it shift the ideological balance on the Court; it was inextricably entangled with the persistent American dilemma of race. In The Transition, this most significant transition from 1953 to the present is explored through the lives and writings of the first two African American justices on Court, touching on the lasting consequences for understandings of American citizenship as well as the central currents of Black political thought over the past century. In their lives, Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas experienced the challenge of living and learning in a world that had enslaved their relatives and that continued to subjugate members of their racial group. On the Court, their judicial writings--often in concurrences or dissents--richly illustrate the ways in which these two individuals embodied these crucial American (and African American) debates--on the balance between state and federal authority, on the government's responsibility to protect its citizens against discrimination, and on the best strategies for pursuing equality. The gap between Justices Marshall and Thomas on these questions cannot be overstated, and it reveals an extraordinary range of thought that has yet to be fully appreciated. The 1991 transition from Justice Marshall to Justice Thomas has had consequences that are still unfolding at the Court and in society. Arguing that the importance of this transition has been obscured by the relegation of these Justices to the sidelines of Supreme Court history, Daniel Kiel shows that it is their unique perspective as Black justices--the lives they have lived as African Americans and the rooting of their judicial philosophies in the relationship of government to African Americans--that makes this succession echo across generations
Call Number: Diversity Case ; KF8744 .K54 2023ISBN: 9781503630659Publication Date: 2023-04-04
Environmental, Energy, and Natural Resources Law
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Border Water
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This is the first scholarly study to detail the history and international politics of managing water flowing across the U.S.-Mexico border. Written from both a historical and political science perspective, the study's primary aim is to provide students and scholars with a reliable one-volume account of the history of binational cooperation on transboundary water management for the 70-year period under consideration. The historical narrative relies on archival sources, interviews, government documents, advocacy organizations' reports and correspondence, and a wide-ranging canvas of scholarly and popular press materials focused on transboundary water management. The author offers a unique periodization for better understanding developments in international cooperation through time
Call Number: Environment ; HD1694.A3 M66 2023ISBN: 9780816548316Publication Date: 2023-03-21 -
An Environmental Leader's Tool Kit
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This book is a training handbook of tools, techniques, approaches, and practical how-to skills for taking on place-based conservation and natural resource challenges and problems. It is for environmentally inclined people who want to make a difference-but lack the experience, knowledge, confidence, or skills to be effective
Call Number: Environment ; S944.5.L42 H84 2023ISBN: 9781501768606Publication Date: 2023-03-15 -
ESG in the Boardroom
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ESG, CSR, and sustainability have become a dynamic and critical focus of corporate governance. The ESG challenges for corporate boards are complicated and this valuable guide sets out to carefully explore what happens when governance meets sustainability. The book serves as a guide to current ideas about ESG and governance and provides insight to directors on their role with respect to ESG matters.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF1416 .E84 2022ISBN: 9781639050512Publication Date: 2022-03-09
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Hydronarratives
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The story of water in the United States is one of ecosystemic disruption and social injustice. From the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and Flint, Michigan, to the Appalachian coal and gas fields and the Gulf Coast, low-income communities, Indigenous communities, and communities of color face the disproportionate effects of floods, droughts, sea level rise, and water contamination. In Hydronarratives Matthew S. Henry examines cultural representations that imagine a just transition, a concept rooted in the U.S. labor and environmental justice movements to describe an alternative economic paradigm predicated on sustainability, economic and social equity, and climate resilience. Focused on regions of water insecurity, from central Arizona to central Appalachia, Henry explores how writers, artists, and activists have creatively responded to intensifying water crises in the United States and argues that narrative and storytelling are critical to environmental and social justice advocacy. By drawing on a wide and comprehensive range of narrative texts, historical documentation, policy papers, and literary and cultural scholarship, Henry presents a timely project that examines the social movement, just transition, and the logic of the Green New Deal, in addition to contemporary visions of environmental justice.
Call Number: Environment ; HD1694.A5 H46 2022ISBN: 9781496227898Publication Date: 2023-01-01 -
Nature's Temples
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An old-growth forest is one that has formed naturally over a long period of time with little or no disturbance from humankind. They are increasingly rare and largely misunderstood. In this book, Joan Maloof, the director of the Old-Growth Forest Network, makes a heartfelt and passionate case for their importance. This evocative and accessible narrative defines old-growth and provides a brief history of forests. It offers a rare view into how the life-forms in an ancient, undisturbed forest-including not only its majestic trees but also its insects, plant life, fungi, and mammals-differ from the life-forms in a forest manipulated by humans. What emerges is a portrait of a beautiful, intricate, and fragile ecosystem that now exists only in scattered fragments. Black-and-white illustrations by Andrew Joslin help clarify scientific concepts and capture the beauty of ancient trees
Call Number: Environment ; SD387.O43 M33 2023ISBN: 9780691230504Publication Date: 2023-04-04 -
Sustainability Essentials: A Leadership Guide for Lawyers
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A short practice guide for legal professionals to engage in sustainable development in their law practice
Call Number: Environment ; KF300 .D47 2022ISBN: 9781639051694Publication Date: 2022-01-01 -
Toxic Exposure
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A behind-the-scenes look inside the three trials involving a popular weed killer (Roundup), cancer, and the search for justice--written by a physician expert witness who saw it al
Call Number: Environment ; HD9482.U64 N33 2023ISBN: 9781421445359Publication Date: 2023-02-28 -
Universities on Fire
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This book connects climate research to a deep, futures-informed analysis of academia. It starts with a small focus, a given campus, then gradually expands its view to the level of how academia as a whole interacts with civilization's broadest movements. Each chapter is powered by real world examples and current research
Call Number: Environment ; GE70 .A44 2023ISBN: 9781421446486Publication Date: 2023-03-28
Family Law
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Cost-Effective Child Custody Litigation
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Cost-Effective Child-Custody Litigation is an invaluable guide for family law attorneys looking for cost saving tips to help advocate for clients.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF547 .T46 2022ISBN: 9781639051168Publication Date: 2022 -
The Family Law Professionals Field Guide to High-Conflict Litigation
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This book is about shifting the focus of family law assessments and interventions and legal representation from the individual to relationships
Call Number: Treatise ; KF505 .G37 2022ISBN: 9781639050109Publication Date: 2022-01-01
Health Law and Elder Care
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Constitutional Contagion
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This book looks at Supreme Court decisions, legal history, and public health theory to tell the story of how the Supreme Court stymied efforts to control the pandemic, as well as how its pre-pandemic decisions left the United States especially vulnerable to COVID-19 and other health threats
Call Number: Treatise ; KF3803.C68 P37 2023ISBN: 9781009098335Publication Date: 2023-06-01
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Representing People with Dementia
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The reason for this book on dementia is three-fold: first, there is a growing recognition that people with dementia become involved with the criminal justice system and need vigorous, informed, compassionate advocacy; second, there is a need for practical, easily digestible information for lawyers about this non-traditional criminal defendant; and third, this book is an attempt to get in front of the curve
Call Number: Treatise ; KF3803.D46 R47 2022ISBN: 9781639051328Publication Date: 2022-11-30
Immigration Law
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Disappearing Rooms
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In Disappearing Rooms Michelle Castañeda lays bare the criminalization of race enacted every day in U.S. immigration courts and detention centers. She uses a performance studies perspective to show how the theatrical concept of mise-en-scéne offers new insights about immigration law and the absurdist dynamics of carceral space. Castañeda draws upon her experiences in immigration trials as an interpreter and courtroom companion to analyze the scenography-lighting, staging, framing, gesture, speech, and choreography-of specific rooms within the immigration enforcement system. Castañeda's ethnographies of proceedings in a "removal" office in New York City, a detention center courtroom in Texas, and an asylum office in the Northeast reveal the depersonalizing violence enacted in immigration law through its embodied, ritualistic, and affective components. She shows how the creative practices of detained and disappeared peoples living under acute duress imagine the abolition of detention and borders. Featuring original illustrations by artist-journalist, Molly Crabapple, Disappearing Rooms shines a light into otherwise hidden spaces of law within the contemporary deportation regime. Duke University of Press Scholars of Color First Book Award Recipient
Call Number: Treatise ; KF4819 .C37 2023ISBN: 9781478019633Publication Date: 2023-03-17 -
The Slow Violence of Immigration Court
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Grounded in the illuminating stories of immigrants facing deportation, the family members who support them, and the attorneys who defend them, this book invites readers to question matters of fairness and justice in immigration court and beyond
Call Number: Diversity Case ; KF4822 .B37 2023ISBN: 9781479821037Publication Date: 2023-03-14
Indigenous Law
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Federal Indian Law and Policy
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Federal Indian Law and Policy: An Introduction is designed to help students, instructors, and others without a legal background to learn and teach about the legal landscape that shapes Native America. Covering both the historical foundations that continue to inform the present as well as hot button issues facing Native America today, each of the thirty chapters is a concise, readable synopsis of an aspect of this dynamic, ever evolving field of law. Anyone interested in any aspect of Native America, regardless of their familiarity with the law, will find their own studies, classes, and knowledge enhanced by this text.
Call Number: Diversity Case ; KF8205 .R54 2020ISBN: 9781642426052Publication Date: 2020-03-09
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Native Agency
by
This work provides an essential national-level look at an intriguing and impactful form of Indigenous resistance. It describes, in great detail, the continuing assaults made on Native peoples and tribal sovereignty in the United States during the twenty-first century, and it sketches the visions of the future that Indians at the BIA and in Indian Country have been crafting for themselves
Call Number: Diversity Case ; E93 .L28 2022ISBN: 9781517914530Publication Date: 2023-01-03
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A Promise Kept
by
"At the end of the Trail of Tears there was a promise," U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the decision issued on July 9, 2020, in the case of McGirt v. Oklahoma. And that promise, made in treaties between the United States and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation more than 150 years earlier, would finally be kept. With the Court's ruling, the full extent of the Muscogee (Creek) Reservation was reaffirmed--meaning that 3.25 million acres of land in Oklahoma, including part of the city of Tulsa, were recognized once again as "Indian Country" as defined by federal law. A Promise Kept explores the circumstances and implications of McGirt v. Oklahoma, likely the most significant Indian law case in well over 100 years. Combining legal analysis and historical context, this book gives an in-depth, accessible account of how the case unfolded and what it might mean for Oklahomans, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and other tribes throughout the United States. For context, Robbie Ethridge traces the long history of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation from its inception in present-day Georgia and Alabama in the seventeenth century; through the tribe's rise to regional prominence in the colonial era, the tumultuous years of Indian Removal, and the Civil War and allotment; and into its resurgence in Oklahoma in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Against this historical background, Robert J. Miller considers McGirt v. Oklahoma, examining important related cases, precedents that informed the Court's decision, and future ramifications--legal, civil, regulatory, and practical--for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, federal Indian law, the United States, the state of Oklahoma, and Indian nations in Oklahoma and elsewhere. Their work clarifies the stakes of a decision that, while long overdue, raises numerous complex issues profoundly affecting federal, state, and tribal relations and law--and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future
Call Number: Diversity Case ; KIG3918 .M55 2023ISBN: 9780806191713Publication Date: 2023-01-26
Innovation, Technology, & the Law
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Esports and the Law
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The rapid growth of the esports industry ... presents a range of new questions about underlying legal issues. First, there are questions about whether esports actually constitute sports. ... Second, there are questions about which laws govern exports, and how the bodies of law that apply in the context of traditional sports are both similar to, and distinct from, those governing esports. ... Third, there are questions about who will emerge as the lawyers who play an important role in developing the structure of commercial esports, and what credentials will make them most qualified
Call Number: Treatise ; KF3994 .E34 2022ISBN: 9781639050178Publication Date: 2021-12-20 -
You Can't Always Say What You Want
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The freedom to think what you want and to say what you think has always generated a pushback of regulation and censorship. This raises the thorny question: to what extent does free speech actually endanger speech protection? This book examines today's calls for speech legislation and places it into historical perspective, using fascinating examples from the past 200 years, to explain the historical context of laws regulating speech. Over time, the freedom to speak has grown, the ways in which we communicate have evolved due to technology, and our ideas about speech protection have been challenged as a result. Now more than ever, we are living in a free speech paradox: powerful speakers weaponize their rights in order to silence those less-powerful speakers who oppose them. By understanding how this situation has developed, we can stand up to these threats to the freedom of speech.
Call Number: Treatise ; K3254 .B375 2023ISBN: 9781009198905Publication Date: 2023-02-28
International, Foreign, & Human Rights Law
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Border Water
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This is the first scholarly study to detail the history and international politics of managing water flowing across the U.S.-Mexico border. Written from both a historical and political science perspective, the study's primary aim is to provide students and scholars with a reliable one-volume account of the history of binational cooperation on transboundary water management for the 70-year period under consideration. The historical narrative relies on archival sources, interviews, government documents, advocacy organizations' reports and correspondence, and a wide-ranging canvas of scholarly and popular press materials focused on transboundary water management. The author offers a unique periodization for better understanding developments in international cooperation through time
Call Number: Environment ; HD1694.A3 M66 2023ISBN: 9780816548316Publication Date: 2023-03-21
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The Slow Violence of Immigration Court
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Grounded in the illuminating stories of immigrants facing deportation, the family members who support them, and the attorneys who defend them, this book invites readers to question matters of fairness and justice in immigration court and beyond
Call Number: Diversity Case ; KF4822 .B37 2023ISBN: 9781479821037Publication Date: 2023-03-14
Legal Education
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Championship Mock Trial
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This book is a comprehensive guide to mock trial. If you're a beginner, Championship Mock Trial will teach you the nuts and bolts you need to be competitive. If you're experienced, this books advanced advice will take you from good to great.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF281.A2 N45 2022ISBN: 9781639050925Publication Date: 2022-07-01 -
Trauma-Informed Law
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Our focus is on trauma as it impacts and applies to lawyers and clients in practice, legal education, courts and judges, and the legal system and profession as a whole. This book gives voice to only some of the many traumatic experiences that arise in all aspects of law. Unless we hear these voices, we cannot begin to address the many legal, ethical, moral, educational, juridical systems or other issues they raise even where we have tools to do so. The pursuit of justice means voices of trauma in the legal system deserve to be heard, individually and collectively, even when it's difficult to listen
Call Number: Treatise ; KF314.T73 M3 2023ISBN: 9781639052752Publication Date: 2023-01-01
Legal History
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Border Water
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This is the first scholarly study to detail the history and international politics of managing water flowing across the U.S.-Mexico border. Written from both a historical and political science perspective, the study's primary aim is to provide students and scholars with a reliable one-volume account of the history of binational cooperation on transboundary water management for the 70-year period under consideration. The historical narrative relies on archival sources, interviews, government documents, advocacy organizations' reports and correspondence, and a wide-ranging canvas of scholarly and popular press materials focused on transboundary water management. The author offers a unique periodization for better understanding developments in international cooperation through time
Call Number: Environment ; HD1694.A3 M66 2023ISBN: 9780816548316Publication Date: 2023-03-21
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Constitutional Contagion
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This book looks at Supreme Court decisions, legal history, and public health theory to tell the story of how the Supreme Court stymied efforts to control the pandemic, as well as how its pre-pandemic decisions left the United States especially vulnerable to COVID-19 and other health threats
Call Number: Treatise ; KF3803.C68 P37 2023ISBN: 9781009098335Publication Date: 2023-06-01
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Federal Indian Law and Policy
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Federal Indian Law and Policy: An Introduction is designed to help students, instructors, and others without a legal background to learn and teach about the legal landscape that shapes Native America. Covering both the historical foundations that continue to inform the present as well as hot button issues facing Native America today, each of the thirty chapters is a concise, readable synopsis of an aspect of this dynamic, ever evolving field of law. Anyone interested in any aspect of Native America, regardless of their familiarity with the law, will find their own studies, classes, and knowledge enhanced by this text.
Call Number: Diversity Case ; KF8205 .R54 2020ISBN: 9781642426052Publication Date: 2020-03-09
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A Promise Kept
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"At the end of the Trail of Tears there was a promise," U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the decision issued on July 9, 2020, in the case of McGirt v. Oklahoma. And that promise, made in treaties between the United States and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation more than 150 years earlier, would finally be kept. With the Court's ruling, the full extent of the Muscogee (Creek) Reservation was reaffirmed--meaning that 3.25 million acres of land in Oklahoma, including part of the city of Tulsa, were recognized once again as "Indian Country" as defined by federal law. A Promise Kept explores the circumstances and implications of McGirt v. Oklahoma, likely the most significant Indian law case in well over 100 years. Combining legal analysis and historical context, this book gives an in-depth, accessible account of how the case unfolded and what it might mean for Oklahomans, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and other tribes throughout the United States. For context, Robbie Ethridge traces the long history of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation from its inception in present-day Georgia and Alabama in the seventeenth century; through the tribe's rise to regional prominence in the colonial era, the tumultuous years of Indian Removal, and the Civil War and allotment; and into its resurgence in Oklahoma in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Against this historical background, Robert J. Miller considers McGirt v. Oklahoma, examining important related cases, precedents that informed the Court's decision, and future ramifications--legal, civil, regulatory, and practical--for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, federal Indian law, the United States, the state of Oklahoma, and Indian nations in Oklahoma and elsewhere. Their work clarifies the stakes of a decision that, while long overdue, raises numerous complex issues profoundly affecting federal, state, and tribal relations and law--and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future
Call Number: Diversity Case ; KIG3918 .M55 2023ISBN: 9780806191713Publication Date: 2023-01-26
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Roe: The History of a National Obsession
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Over its half-century of public life, Roe v. Wade took on meanings that extended far beyond its original purpose of protecting the privacy of the doctor-patient relationship. At various times, it forced us to confront hard questions about judicial activism and restraint, the believability of science, racial justice, the suppression of religion, and much more. Mary Ziegler explores the transformations of meaning that have kept abortion on the front lines of our political and social battles
Call Number: Diversity Case ; HQ767.5.U5 Z544 2023ISBN: 9780300266108Publication Date: 2023-01-24
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Skywalks: Robert Gordon's Untold Story of Hallmark's Kansas City Disaster
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The subject of R. Eli Paul's study is the 1981 Hyatt Regency Kansas City hotel disaster in which 114 people were killed. The story is told through the actions of Kansas City attorney Robert Gordon, an insider to the investigation and litigation of the "Federal Skywalk Cases.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF228.H93 P38 2023ISBN: 9781496233134Publication Date: 2023-03-01 -
Toxic Exposure
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A behind-the-scenes look inside the three trials involving a popular weed killer (Roundup), cancer, and the search for justice--written by a physician expert witness who saw it al
Call Number: Environment ; HD9482.U64 N33 2023ISBN: 9781421445359Publication Date: 2023-02-28
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The Transition
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Every Supreme Court transition presents an opportunity for a shift in the balance of the third branch of American government, but the replacement of Thurgood Marshall with Clarence Thomas in 1991 proved particularly momentous. Not only did it shift the ideological balance on the Court; it was inextricably entangled with the persistent American dilemma of race. In The Transition, this most significant transition from 1953 to the present is explored through the lives and writings of the first two African American justices on Court, touching on the lasting consequences for understandings of American citizenship as well as the central currents of Black political thought over the past century. In their lives, Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas experienced the challenge of living and learning in a world that had enslaved their relatives and that continued to subjugate members of their racial group. On the Court, their judicial writings--often in concurrences or dissents--richly illustrate the ways in which these two individuals embodied these crucial American (and African American) debates--on the balance between state and federal authority, on the government's responsibility to protect its citizens against discrimination, and on the best strategies for pursuing equality. The gap between Justices Marshall and Thomas on these questions cannot be overstated, and it reveals an extraordinary range of thought that has yet to be fully appreciated. The 1991 transition from Justice Marshall to Justice Thomas has had consequences that are still unfolding at the Court and in society. Arguing that the importance of this transition has been obscured by the relegation of these Justices to the sidelines of Supreme Court history, Daniel Kiel shows that it is their unique perspective as Black justices--the lives they have lived as African Americans and the rooting of their judicial philosophies in the relationship of government to African Americans--that makes this succession echo across generations
Call Number: Diversity Case ; KF8744 .K54 2023ISBN: 9781503630659Publication Date: 2023-04-04
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Vaulting Ambition
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This book is about Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1937 effort to pack the Supreme Court. Unlike most work on the subject, Michael Nelson's focus is more on the president's decisions than on the Court's responses. It analytically narrates what FDR was doing (or choosing not to do) in response to these developments as they occurred. While keeping Court-packing front and center, Nelson embeds the effort in FDR's larger campaign to direct American government and politics in pursuit of his desire to entrench the New Deal lastingly in several of the country's major political and governmental institutions: Congress, the Democratic Party, and the executive branch, as well as the Court. It was an understandable effort: the Republicans had dominated all three branches for varying but considerable lengths of time. In the end, the president's effort was unevenly successful
Call Number: Treatise ; KF8742 .N456 2023ISBN: 9780700634125Publication Date: 2023-02-24
Nonprofit Law
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Beginner's Guide to Nonprofit and Affordable Housing Partnerships
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The purpose of this book is to provide fundamental information and best practices to legal practitioners so they can guide NPOs as they engage in affordable housing activities
Call Number: Treatise ; KF5729 .S26 2022ISBN: 9781639050703Publication Date: 2022-03-02
Practice of Law
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Cost-Effective Child Custody Litigation
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Cost-Effective Child-Custody Litigation is an invaluable guide for family law attorneys looking for cost saving tips to help advocate for clients.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF547 .T46 2022ISBN: 9781639051168Publication Date: 2022
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The Family Law Professionals Field Guide to High-Conflict Litigation
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This book is about shifting the focus of family law assessments and interventions and legal representation from the individual to relationships
Call Number: Treatise ; KF505 .G37 2022ISBN: 9781639050109Publication Date: 2022-01-01
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A Practitioner's Guide to Innocent Spouse Relief, Third Edition
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In straightforward language, the third edition of A Practitioner's Guide to Innocent Spouse Relief takes you step-by-step through the innocent spouse claim process, from information gathering, to administrative proceedings, to determination, to trial, and to refund relief. It provides a comprehensive yet accessible guide for practitioners representing taxpayers in innocent spouse proceedings.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF6400 .N33 2022ISBN: 9781639051496Publication Date: 2023-06-13
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Representing People with Dementia
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The reason for this book on dementia is three-fold: first, there is a growing recognition that people with dementia become involved with the criminal justice system and need vigorous, informed, compassionate advocacy; second, there is a need for practical, easily digestible information for lawyers about this non-traditional criminal defendant; and third, this book is an attempt to get in front of the curve
Call Number: Treatise ; KF3803.D46 R47 2022ISBN: 9781639051328Publication Date: 2022-11-30
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Sustainability Essentials: A Leadership Guide for Lawyers
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A short practice guide for legal professionals to engage in sustainable development in their law practice
Call Number: Environment ; KF300 .D47 2022ISBN: 9781639051694Publication Date: 2022-01-01
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Trauma-Informed Law
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Our focus is on trauma as it impacts and applies to lawyers and clients in practice, legal education, courts and judges, and the legal system and profession as a whole. This book gives voice to only some of the many traumatic experiences that arise in all aspects of law. Unless we hear these voices, we cannot begin to address the many legal, ethical, moral, educational, juridical systems or other issues they raise even where we have tools to do so. The pursuit of justice means voices of trauma in the legal system deserve to be heard, individually and collectively, even when it's difficult to listen
Call Number: Treatise ; KF314.T73 M3 2023ISBN: 9781639052752Publication Date: 2023-01-01
Other Subject Areas
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The Valuation of Monetary Damages in Injury Cases
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This book focuses on damages claims emanating from injuries, especially those associated with claims of loss of earning capacity and situation-specific future rehabilitation needs that life care plans encapsulate
Call Number: Treatise ; KF1257 .S524 2022ISBN: 9781639051519Publication Date: 2022-09-01
