Introduction
Each month the Law Library adds new books to our collection. Here is a selection of titles added in the last month. You'll find them on the New Book display by the front door of the Boley Law Library, or shelved in their proper spot.
Click on the titles to see if they are available. Come to the library and check them out or, literally, come check them out of the library. Faculty, send us your requests and we'll have them in your inbox the next day.
Animal Law
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The Ethics of Animal Shelters
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The everyday operations of animal shelters and animal protection organizations involve a host of ethical decisions. The present volume is the outcome of a collaboration between a team of animal ethicists and representatives and employees of an animal shelter, the Montreal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Montreal SPCA). The volume offers a set of recommendations on how animal shelters can respond to the difficult ethical questions they face, given the many constraints they must operate under. These recommendations are informed by a commitment to taking seriously the moral status of non-human animals. The volume also contains seven chapters that explore in more detail some of the ethical questions involved in everyday animal shelter operations.
Call Number: Treatise ; HV4708 .E844 2023ISBN: 9780197678633Publication Date: April 21, 2023
Business, Investment, and Tax Law
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State Consumer Protection Law
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State consumer protection law is a particular challenge to practitioners because there are significant differences in the laws of each state. This treatise has a chapter devoted to each of the fifty states and the District of Columbia, with nearly every chapter written by an attorney practicing in that state. ... This is the first of three volumes updating the former Consumer Protection Law Developments, which was last published in 2016.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF1609 .S73 2022ISBN: 9781639051656Publication Date: January 1, 2022
Civil Rights and Constitutional Law
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The Law of American State Constitutions
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The second edition of The Law of American State Constitutions provides complete coverage of the legal doctrines surrounding, applying to, and arising from American state constitutions and their judicial interpretation. Drawing on examples from specific states, Professors Williams and Friedman analyze the nature and function of state constitutions in contrast to the federal Constitution, including rights, separation of powers, issues of interpretation, and the processes for amendment and revision. In this edition, Williams and Friedman focus on recent developments, including the state constitutional dimensions of same-sex marriage and the reaction of state courts to U.S. Supreme Court decision making. This edition of The Law of American State Constitutions remains an important analytical tool that explains the unique character and the range of interpretive approaches to these constitutions. It covers the structure of state governments under state constitutions as well as the distribution of powers among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. Like the first edition, this edition presents a complete picture of state constitutional law and the attributes and features that make this body of law so distinctive.
Call Number: Treatise KF4530 .W538 2023ISBN: 9780190068806Publication Date: April 28, 2023 -
The Shadow Docket
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In The Shadow Docket, University of Texas law professor Steve Vladeck offers a comprehensive analysis of the shadow docket, tracing its emergence in the 1970s in the wake of major court decisions on the death penalty and its recent embrace by a conservative-leaning Court that has expanded it to set policy on everything from election law to abortion to immigration. Yet while Republican appointees have been most enthusiastic in their use of the shadow docket, the docket itself is not partisan, and Vladeck makes the case that Americans of all political stripes have a stake in bringing the Court's decision-making processes back into the light. The Shadow Docket exposes a disturbing institutional crisis that threatens the foundations of our democracy, and calls for sweeping reform.
Call Number: Treatise KF8748 .V53 2023ISBN: 9781541602632Publication Date: May 16, 2023
Criminal Law
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Essentials of Victimology
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Introduction book for victimology for criminal justice students.
Call Number: Crime Victims ; HV6250.25 .Y34 2022ISBN: 9781543829334Publication Date: October 3, 2021 -
Free Joan Little: The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence, and Imprisonment
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Early on a summer morning in 1974, local officials found the jailer Clarence Alligood stabbed to death in a cell in the women's section of a rural North Carolina jail. Fleeing the scene was Joan Little, twenty years old, poor, Black, and in trouble. Little claimed that she had killed Alligood in self-defense against sexual assault. After a five-week trial, Little was acquitted. But the case stirred debate about a woman's right to use deadly force to resist sexual violence. Through the prism of Little's rape-murder trial and the Free Joan Little campaign, Christina Greene explores the intersecting histories of African American women, mass incarceration, sexual violence, and 1970s and 1980s social movements.
Call Number: Crime Victims ; KF224.L52 G74 2022ISBN: 9781469671314Publication Date: November 22, 2022 -
When Should Law Forgive?
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When Should Law Forgive? will help readers understand the thorny complexities of forgiveness under law. A solid, accessible contribution to the literature of restorative justice. Minow's new book thoroughly explores one enduring means of conflict resolution that is far too often overlooked: forgiveness.
Call Number: Treatise ; K5135 .M56 2020ISBN: 9780393531749Publication Date: August 25, 2020
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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Free Joan Little: The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence, and Imprisonment
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Early on a summer morning in 1974, local officials found the jailer Clarence Alligood stabbed to death in a cell in the women's section of a rural North Carolina jail. Fleeing the scene was Joan Little, twenty years old, poor, Black, and in trouble. Little claimed that she had killed Alligood in self-defense against sexual assault. After a five-week trial, Little was acquitted. But the case stirred debate about a woman's right to use deadly force to resist sexual violence. Through the prism of Little's rape-murder trial and the Free Joan Little campaign, Christina Greene explores the intersecting histories of African American women, mass incarceration, sexual violence, and 1970s and 1980s social movements.
Call Number: Crime Victims ; KF224.L52 G74 2022ISBN: 9781469671314Publication Date: November 22, 2022
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Indigenous Peoples, Natural Resources and Permanent Sovereignty
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This book illustrates the evolution and the current content of indigenous rights with respect to natural resources under customary international law, the possibility and the practical consequences to conceive those rights in terms of permanent sovereignty over natural resources and, finally, the latest developments on the implementation of such rights at the domestic level.
Call Number: Treatise ; KI352 .M46 2023ISBN: 9789004523982Publication Date: October 22, 2022 -
Resource Devastation on Native American Lands
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This book focuses on the toxic legacy of Native North America, which is pervasive but largely invisible to most non-Native peoples. Many toxic sites are located in out-of-the-way rural areas largely forgotten by the majority of America, but which nonetheless have supplied its industries with the rudiments of manufacturing for the better part of a century before being closed and cast aside. Thousands of contaminated sites exist in the United States due to dumped, left out, or otherwise improperly managed hazardous waste. These sites include manufacturing facilities, processing plants, landfills, and mining sites. Based on the 1980 Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cleans up these so-called Superfund sites, of which roughly 40 percent are located in Native country. The book links present-day Native American cultural and economic revival to a fundamental struggle to restore the health of both Native peoples and their homelands. It links past and present with a sense of Native Americans' perceptions of nature and the sacred land. By doing so, it also provides the majority society with an example to emulate as we emerge, by necessity, from the age of fossil fuels into a sustainable energy paradigm. This makes the book a must-read for students, scholars, and researchers of Native American studies, US politics, environmental studies, public policy, as well as policy-makers interested in a better understanding of the environmental devastation of Native land and its consequences.
Call Number: Environment ; TD1040 .J64 2023ISBN: 9783031218958Publication Date: February 10, 2023
Environmental, Energy, and Natural Resources Law
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EcoLaw
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This book re-imagines law as ecolaw. The key insight of ecological thinking, that everything is connected to everything else - at least on the earth, and possibly in the cosmos - has become a truism of contemporary theory. Taking this insight as a starting point for understanding law involves suspending theoretical certainties and boundaries. It involves suspending theory itself as a conceptual project and practicing it as an embodied and material project. Although an ecological imagining of law can be metaphorical, and can be highly imaginative and suggestive, this book shows that it is also literal. Law is part of the material 'everything' that is connected to everything else. This means that once the previous certainties of legal thinking have been dismantled, it is after all possible to think of law as 'natural' - as embedded in and emergent from a normative biophysical nature. The book proposes that there exists a natural nomos: animals, plants, and Earth systems that produce their own values and norms from which human norms and laws emerge. This book, then, proposes a new way to understand law, and pursues specific arguments to demonstrate the feasibility of law as ecolaw. Drawing inspiration from current trends in the posthumanities, socio-ecological thought, and developments across the natural sciences in their specific intersections with humanities and social science disciplines, this book will appeal both to legal theorists and to others with interests in these areas.
Call Number: Environment ; K230.D38 A34 2022ISBN: 9780367651992Publication Date: May 2, 2022 -
Governing for Sustainability
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Sustainable development may be one of the most important and potentially transformational ideas to come out of the last century. The ultimate objectives of sustainable development are freedom, opportunity, justice, and quality of life for everyone in this and future generations. While the United States has a substantial body of environmental and social protection laws, we are far from being a sustainable society. The question is what to do.This book provides a detailed set of recommendations for federal, state, tribal, territorial, and local governments, as well as the private sector and civil society. The various contributions that personal behavior can make toward both public and private governance are included as well. These recommendations would help make America a better place for all. Every American has a role to play.
Call Number: Environment ; HC79.E5 D47 2023ISBN: 9781585762491Publication Date: May 10, 2023 -
Indigenous Peoples, Natural Resources and Permanent Sovereignty
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This book illustrates the evolution and the current content of indigenous rights with respect to natural resources under customary international law, the possibility and the practical consequences to conceive those rights in terms of permanent sovereignty over natural resources and, finally, the latest developments on the implementation of such rights at the domestic level.
Call Number: Treatise ; KI352 .M46 2023ISBN: 9789004523982Publication Date: October 22, 2022
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Resource Devastation on Native American Lands
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This book focuses on the toxic legacy of Native North America, which is pervasive but largely invisible to most non-Native peoples. Many toxic sites are located in out-of-the-way rural areas largely forgotten by the majority of America, but which nonetheless have supplied its industries with the rudiments of manufacturing for the better part of a century before being closed and cast aside. Thousands of contaminated sites exist in the United States due to dumped, left out, or otherwise improperly managed hazardous waste. These sites include manufacturing facilities, processing plants, landfills, and mining sites. Based on the 1980 Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cleans up these so-called Superfund sites, of which roughly 40 percent are located in Native country. The book links present-day Native American cultural and economic revival to a fundamental struggle to restore the health of both Native peoples and their homelands. It links past and present with a sense of Native Americans' perceptions of nature and the sacred land. By doing so, it also provides the majority society with an example to emulate as we emerge, by necessity, from the age of fossil fuels into a sustainable energy paradigm. This makes the book a must-read for students, scholars, and researchers of Native American studies, US politics, environmental studies, public policy, as well as policy-makers interested in a better understanding of the environmental devastation of Native land and its consequences.
Call Number: Environment ; TD1040 .J64 2023ISBN: 9783031218958Publication Date: February 10, 2023
Indigenous Law
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Indigenous Peoples, Natural Resources and Permanent Sovereignty
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This book illustrates the evolution and the current content of indigenous rights with respect to natural resources under customary international law, the possibility and the practical consequences to conceive those rights in terms of permanent sovereignty over natural resources and, finally, the latest developments on the implementation of such rights at the domestic level.
Call Number: Treatise ; KI352 .M46 2023ISBN: 9789004523982Publication Date: October 22, 2022
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Resource Devastation on Native American Lands
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This book focuses on the toxic legacy of Native North America, which is pervasive but largely invisible to most non-Native peoples. Many toxic sites are located in out-of-the-way rural areas largely forgotten by the majority of America, but which nonetheless have supplied its industries with the rudiments of manufacturing for the better part of a century before being closed and cast aside. Thousands of contaminated sites exist in the United States due to dumped, left out, or otherwise improperly managed hazardous waste. These sites include manufacturing facilities, processing plants, landfills, and mining sites. Based on the 1980 Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cleans up these so-called Superfund sites, of which roughly 40 percent are located in Native country. The book links present-day Native American cultural and economic revival to a fundamental struggle to restore the health of both Native peoples and their homelands. It links past and present with a sense of Native Americans' perceptions of nature and the sacred land. By doing so, it also provides the majority society with an example to emulate as we emerge, by necessity, from the age of fossil fuels into a sustainable energy paradigm. This makes the book a must-read for students, scholars, and researchers of Native American studies, US politics, environmental studies, public policy, as well as policy-makers interested in a better understanding of the environmental devastation of Native land and its consequences.
Call Number: Environment ; TD1040 .J64 2023ISBN: 9783031218958Publication Date: February 10, 2023
Law in Popular Culture
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Justice Is Served
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When Leslie Karst learned that her offer to cook dinner for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her renowned tax law professor husband, Marty, had been accepted, she was thrilled--and terrified. A small-town lawyer who hated her job and had taken up cooking as a way to add a bit of spice to the daily grind of pumping out billable hours, Karst had never before thrown such a high-stakes dinner party. Could she really pull this off? Justice Is Served is Karst's light-hearted, earnest account of the journey this unexpected challenge launched her on--starting with a trip to Paris for culinary inspiration, and ending with the dinner itself. Along the way, she imparts details of Ginsburg's transformation from a young Jewish girl from Flatbush, Brooklyn, to one of the most celebrated Supreme Court justices in our nation's history, and shares recipes for the mouthwatering dishes she came up with as she prepared for the big night. But this memoir isn't simply a tale of prepping for and cooking dinner for the famous RBG; it's also about how this event, and all the planning and preparation that went into it, created a new sort of connection between Karst, her partner, and her parents, and also inspired Karst to make life changes that would reverberate far beyond one dinner party. A heartfelt story of simultaneously searching for delicious recipes and purpose in life, Justice Is Served is an inspiring reminder that it's never too late to discover--and follow--your deepest passion.
Call Number: Margolin Collection ; KF8745.G56 K377 2023ISBN: 9781647424589Publication Date: April 4, 2023
Legal Education
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The Complete Pre-Law Writer
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The Complete Pre-Law Writer teaches pre-law students, paralegals, and students preparing to attend law school the skills necessary to succeed in law school or in support positions in law firms. Covering the foundations of the U.S. legal system, reading judicial opinions, conducting legal research, and writing legal documents such as case briefs, office memos, law firm blog posts, and more, the book serves as both a textbook and a reference for those stepping into the legal profession.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF250 .P79 2022ISBN: 9781531021610Publication Date: July 1, 2022 -
Persuasion Science for Trial Lawyers
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In this must-have text for both new advocates and experienced trial attorneys, veteran trial lawyer John P. Blumberg shows the reader how persuasion science can lead to successful jury verdicts. Blumberg’s new methodology for approaching courtroom advocacy solves the mystery of what makes certain strategies successful, and why information is accepted or rejected by jurors. Persuasion Science for Trial Lawyers is presented in an easily understandable way, using examples of how to deploy winning tactics throughout every aspect of a trial. Blumberg expertly explains how decisions by juries can be affected by cognitive overload, mental shortcuts, and biases that cause some arguments to be dismissed. Trial lawyers who understand the science of persuasion will be able to avoid these pitfalls and gain a significant advantage over opponents.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF8972 .B55 2022ISBN: 9781949884661Publication Date: December 1, 2021 -
The Scribes Manual for Law Review Editors
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Our goal for this Manual is to help new editors understand their roles and responsibilities, learn how the review fits within their law school's program of legal education, anticipate challenges, plan for the year, and gain tips and ideas to improve the review. We hope faculty advisors and incoming editors will use this Manual during the annual transition process. We also hope editors will use the Manual as a resource when different challenges or questions arise during the year. The Manual can also assist law review members considering an editorial position and faculty members who teach seminars for student-editors.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF272 .S27 2022ISBN: 9781531022716Publication Date: August 1, 2022
Legal History
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A Brief American Legal History in a Nutshell
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Author Michael Blumm is Jeffrey Bain Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law at Lewis & Clark Law School. A Brief American Legal History is an accessible survey of the law throughout American history, written for lawyers and law students without an historical background as well as for those interested in American history without law school training.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF352 .B58 2023ISBN: 9781685617028Publication Date: June 28, 2023 -
Free Joan Little: The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence, and Imprisonment
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Early on a summer morning in 1974, local officials found the jailer Clarence Alligood stabbed to death in a cell in the women's section of a rural North Carolina jail. Fleeing the scene was Joan Little, twenty years old, poor, Black, and in trouble. Little claimed that she had killed Alligood in self-defense against sexual assault. After a five-week trial, Little was acquitted. But the case stirred debate about a woman's right to use deadly force to resist sexual violence. Through the prism of Little's rape-murder trial and the Free Joan Little campaign, Christina Greene explores the intersecting histories of African American women, mass incarceration, sexual violence, and 1970s and 1980s social movements.
Call Number: Crime Victims ; KF224.L52 G74 2022ISBN: 9781469671314Publication Date: November 22, 2022
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The Shadow Docket
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In The Shadow Docket, University of Texas law professor Steve Vladeck offers a comprehensive analysis of the shadow docket, tracing its emergence in the 1970s in the wake of major court decisions on the death penalty and its recent embrace by a conservative-leaning Court that has expanded it to set policy on everything from election law to abortion to immigration. Yet while Republican appointees have been most enthusiastic in their use of the shadow docket, the docket itself is not partisan, and Vladeck makes the case that Americans of all political stripes have a stake in bringing the Court's decision-making processes back into the light. The Shadow Docket exposes a disturbing institutional crisis that threatens the foundations of our democracy, and calls for sweeping reform.
Call Number: Treatise KF8748 .V53 2023ISBN: 9781541602632Publication Date: May 16, 2023
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Sharpening the Legal Mind
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The way lawyers and judges think about the law can appear deeply mysterious. They see nuance and meaning in statutes and long-ranging implications in rules that seem hidden to the rest of us. Accessible and thought provoking, Sharpening the Legal Mind helps explain the cases and controversies that come before the courts. Written by William Powers, the former president of the University of Texas at Austin, this concise and precise reference introduces the philosophical and intellectual history of legal thought, including the academic study of law and legal reasoning and analysis. Powers discusses topics such as the distinction between laws and morals, the relationship been courts and legislatures, and the role of coercion in laws. In eight chapters, he follows the evolution of debates on these issues and others through different generations and movements in American social and legal thought-formalism, realism, utilitarianism-to critical legal studies and postmodern theory. The perfect read for anyone looking for a primer on legal reasoning, Sharpening the Legal Mind is a brief introduction to the historical debates that still influence the rule of law in our lives.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF380 .P69 2023ISBN: 9781477326411Publication Date: February 14, 2023
Lewis & Clark Law School Faculty Authors
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A Brief American Legal History in a Nutshell
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Author Michael Blumm is Jeffrey Bain Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law at Lewis & Clark Law School. A Brief American Legal History is an accessible survey of the law throughout American history, written for lawyers and law students without an historical background as well as for those interested in American history without law school training.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF352 .B58 2023ISBN: 9781685617028Publication Date: June 28, 2023
Practice of Law
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Design Your Law Practice: Using Design Thinking to Get Next Level Results
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This book introduces lawyers and other legal professionals to design thinking as a process that can help implement change in legal practices and the legal system.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF300 .D473 2023ISBN: 9781639052592Publication Date: June 6, 2023 -
Persuasion Science for Trial Lawyers
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In this must-have text for both new advocates and experienced trial attorneys, veteran trial lawyer John P. Blumberg shows the reader how persuasion science can lead to successful jury verdicts. Blumberg’s new methodology for approaching courtroom advocacy solves the mystery of what makes certain strategies successful, and why information is accepted or rejected by jurors. Persuasion Science for Trial Lawyers is presented in an easily understandable way, using examples of how to deploy winning tactics throughout every aspect of a trial. Blumberg expertly explains how decisions by juries can be affected by cognitive overload, mental shortcuts, and biases that cause some arguments to be dismissed. Trial lawyers who understand the science of persuasion will be able to avoid these pitfalls and gain a significant advantage over opponents.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF8972 .B55 2022ISBN: 9781949884661Publication Date: December 1, 2021
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Sharpening the Legal Mind
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The way lawyers and judges think about the law can appear deeply mysterious. They see nuance and meaning in statutes and long-ranging implications in rules that seem hidden to the rest of us. Accessible and thought provoking, Sharpening the Legal Mind helps explain the cases and controversies that come before the courts. Written by William Powers, the former president of the University of Texas at Austin, this concise and precise reference introduces the philosophical and intellectual history of legal thought, including the academic study of law and legal reasoning and analysis. Powers discusses topics such as the distinction between laws and morals, the relationship been courts and legislatures, and the role of coercion in laws. In eight chapters, he follows the evolution of debates on these issues and others through different generations and movements in American social and legal thought-formalism, realism, utilitarianism-to critical legal studies and postmodern theory. The perfect read for anyone looking for a primer on legal reasoning, Sharpening the Legal Mind is a brief introduction to the historical debates that still influence the rule of law in our lives.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF380 .P69 2023ISBN: 9781477326411Publication Date: February 14, 2023
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When Should Law Forgive?
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When Should Law Forgive? will help readers understand the thorny complexities of forgiveness under law. A solid, accessible contribution to the literature of restorative justice. Minow's new book thoroughly explores one enduring means of conflict resolution that is far too often overlooked: forgiveness.
Call Number: Treatise ; K5135 .M56 2020ISBN: 9780393531749Publication Date: August 25, 2020
