Introduction
Each month the Law Library adds new books to the collection. Here is a selection of titles added in the last month. You'll find them on the New Book display by the front desk of the Boley Law Library, or shelved in their proper spot.
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Animal Law
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Creatures of Fashion
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Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalization. Creatures of Fashion upends this, revealing how the exploitation of animals--terrestrial and marine, domesticated and wild, living and dead--was central to the region's transformation from Indigenous lands into the national territories of Argentina and Chile. Drawing on evidence from archives and digital repositories, John Soluri traces the circulation of furs and fibers to explore how the power of fashion stretched far beyond Europe's houses of haute couture to entangle the fates of Indigenous hunters, migrant workers, and textile manufacturers with those of fur seals, guanacos, and sheep at the "end of the world." From the nineteenth-century rise of commercial hunting to twentieth-century sheep ranching to contemporary conservation-based tourism, Soluri's narrative explains how struggles for control over the production of commodities and the reproduction of animals drove the social and environmental changes that tied Patagonia to global markets, empires, and wildlife conservation movements. By exposing seams in national territories and global markets knit together by force, this book provides perspectives and analyses vital for understanding contemporary conflicts over mass consumption, the conservation of biodiversity, and struggles for environmental justice in Patagonia and beyond.
Call Number: Treatise ; HD9424.A83 P387 2024ISBN: 9781469675725Publication Date: 2024-04-02 -
Guide to Representing Animal Protection Organizations
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This guide offers practical advice for lawyers who represent animal protection organizations. Beginning with an overview of the organizations whose missions are to promote the humane treatment of animals and how lawyers can support them, the book covers governance, operations, constitutional matters, DEI, legal ethics, and laws that are most relevant to animals and organizations protecting them
Call Number: Legal Practice ; KF3841.A75 G85 2023ISBN: 9781639053964Publication Date: 2024
Business, Investment, and Tax Law
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The Arbitration Conversation
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Arbitration, a cornerstone of dispute resolution, has witnessed a profound transformation in recent years, impacting all sectors. Businesses have embraced arbitration for its privacy, speed, and the expertise it offers in resolving intricate disputes.The Arbitration Conversation underscores the significance of arbitration, especially in contexts where specialist arbitrators are needed, or business secrets must be safeguarded. It delves into the nuances of arbitration for international parties seeking neutral forums, underpinned by the New York Convention's enforceable awards. It also notes the benefits and pitfalls of arbitration in more controversial areas like business-to-consumer and employment contracts. The Arbitration Conversation also sheds unique light on the emergence of online arbitration (OArb), catalyzed by the COVID-19 pandemic and advancements in technology. OArb leverages technology to streamline processes, sometimes offering parties a convenient and cost-effective alternative to in-person arbitration. The text explores OArb's promise and pitfalls, including discussion of AI, blockchain, and the metaverse in arbitration. The book also includes an appendix of OArb protocols that have developed in recent years, as well as providing guidance for arbitrators and arbitration counsel navigating this technological shift, addressing concerns such as cybersecurity and uneven access to technology. Throughout its pages, The Arbitration Conversation underscores the importance of arbitration as a versatile problem-solving tool. It highlights wisdom learned from seasoned arbitrators, as well as newer voices in arbitration, focused on using arbitration in a flexible manner to help parties achieve their dispute resolution goals. The lessons learned from interviews with experts in various arbitration contexts provide fresh perspective, emphasizing the ever-changing nature of arbitration and the critical role of technology in shaping its future. For educators and instructors in dispute resolution, the book offers insights into engaging students in virtual learning environments, as well as the challenges and opportunities presented by online legal procedures. The book also can serve as a guide for educators using The Arbitration Conversation videos and podcasts for class exercises. Accordingly, the book also includes an appendix with an index of the free videos and topics covered. This book is a must-have for dispute resolution practitioners, students, teachers, and anyone interested in taking a peak behind the privacy curtain of arbitration.
Call Number: Legal Practice ; KF9085 .S36 2024ISBN: 9781639054244Publication Date: 2024-05-07 -
Corporate Governance : Understanding the Board-Management Relationship
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This book provides an analysis of corporate management, the legal liability of directors and officers, and an examination of how the corporate board has evolved and changed. Beginning with a discussion of economic fundamentals and specific legal issues, the authors address board-management relationships, importance of internal reporting, intellectual capital, board selection, and more. This book presents an economics-based legal and business perspective of essential elements of organization governance. The authors share their wisdom and experience by providing a unique and focused perspective to help you evaluate and understand the actions of directors and officers and their implications for corporate executives, legal counsel, business managers, stockholders, and consumers. By providing essential guidance to develop a comprehensive, strategic view of organizational responsibilities, this guide: Outlines economic fundamentals and specific legal issues underlying organization governance. Discusses the need for a shift from a governance structure based on tone at the top to a structure based on substantive checks and balances. Examines information gaps often facing boards and board committees. Drills into the monitoring of cash flows, the responsibilities of the board, the CLO, the CFO, and others. Addresses an organization's intellectual capital and the requirements for board and management action and interaction. Looks ahead when reviewing current issues such as ESG investing and the evolution of governance responsibilities. Provides the reader with a firm grasp of the developments of corporate governance and what it means for prosecuting or defending corporate litigation arising from governance issues.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF1422 .G73 2024ISBN: 9781639054343Publication Date: 2024
Civil Procedure
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Jury Instructions : A Legal Research Guide
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In jury trials, the judge at the end of the trial issues jury instructions on the various charges that the jury has to consider in determining a verdict. These jury instructions can originate from official committees of the highest court of the state, state bar associations, or individuals. It is also possible for the lawyers in the case to present to the judge their own jury instructions that the court must determine whether they will use them or not. Jury instructions are divided first by jurisdiction, federal or state. Federal jury instructions fall under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 51 and Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 30. There are federal jury instructions for the U.S. District Courts of the U.S. Circuit Court. Almost all states have civil and criminal jury instructions also derived from statutory and court rule origins. In most cases both Westlaw and Lexis have published their own versions of the jury instructions (sometimes with slightly different titles, some differences in the introductory/front matter, and date of publications (sometimes vary between print and electronic copy checked against electronic card catalogs)). In a few states, there are additional jury instructions, e.g., Illinois Non-Pattern Jury Instructions, North Carolina Vehicle Negligence Instructions, or Wisconsin Children's Jury Instructions. In addition, there are a number of specific-topic jury instructions listed under treatises that are done under the auspices of the American Bar Association or commercial publishers like Matthew Bender or Thomson Reuters (West). Because of the length of the volume, we could only provide a select few cases, and case digests and/or KeyCite or Shepard's Citations of statutes and rules, will be needed. Nor did we include Legal Newsletters/Legal Newspapers but offer a wide range of legal periodical citations that maybe of more permanent use.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF8984.A1 F57 2024ISBN: 9780837743066Publication Date: 2024
Civil Rights and Constitutional Law
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The Court V. the Voters
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An urgent and gripping look at the erosion of voting rights and its implications for democracy, told through the stories of 9 Supreme Court decisions -- and the next looming case. In The Court V. The Voters, law professor Joshua Douglas takes us behind the scenes of significant cases in voting rights -- some surprising and unknown, some familiar -- to investigate the historic crossroads that have irrevocably changed our elections and the nation. In crisp and accessible prose, Douglas tells the story of each case, sheds light on the intractable election problems we face as a result, and highlights the unique role the highest court has played in producing a broken electoral system. Douglas charts infamous cases such as Bush v. Gore, which opened the door to many election law claims; Citizens United, which contributed to skewed representation, but perhaps not in the way you might think; Shelby County v. Holder, which gutted the vital protections of the Voting Rights Act; and Crawford v. Marion County Elections Board, which allowed states to enforce voter ID laws and make it harder for people to vote. The Court V. The Voters powerfully reminds us of the tangible, real-world effects from the Court's voting rights decisions. While we can -- and should -- lament the democracy that might have been, Douglas argues that we can -- and should -- double down in our efforts to protect the right to vote.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF4886 .D68 2024ISBN: 9780807010938Publication Date: 2024-05-14 -
The Fall of Roe
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In June 2022, Americans watched in shock as the Supreme Court reversed one of the nation's landmark rulings. For nearly a half century, Roe v. Wade was synonymous with women's rights and freedoms. This book reveals the inside story of how it happened. The authors' investigation charts the political and religious campaign to take down abortion rights and remake American families, womanhood, and the nation itself. Reeling from Barack Obama's 2012 landslide presidential victory--and motivated by a spiritual mission--a small but determined network of elite conservative Christian lawyers and powerbrokers worked quietly and methodically to keep their true cause alive: ending abortion rights. Thinking in generational terms, they devised a strategic, top-down takeover at every level of political and legal life, from little-known anti-abortion lobbyists in far flung statehouses to the arbiters of the Constitution at the highest court in the land. Broad swaths of liberal America did not register the severity of the threat until it was far too late. At a moment when women had more power than ever before, the feminist movement suffered one of the greatest political defeats in American history.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF3771 .D53 2024ISBN: 9781250881397Publication Date: 2024-06-04 -
Keeping the Republic
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Keeping the Republic is an eloquent defense of the American constitutional order and a response to its critics, including those who are estranged from the very idea of a fixed constitution in which "the living are governed by the dead." Dennis Hale and Marc Landy take seriously the criticisms of the United States Constitution. Before mounting their argument, they present an intellectual history of the key critics, including Thomas Paine, William Lloyd Garrison, Henry David Thoreau, Woodrow Wilson, Robert Dahl, Sanford Levinson, and the authors of The 1619 Project. Why, they ask, if the constitutional order is so well-designed, do so many American citizens have a negative view of the American political order? To address that question, they examine the most crucial episodes in American political development from the Founding to the present. Hale and Landy frame their defense of the Constitution by understanding America in terms of modernity, where small republics are no longer possible and there is a need to protect the citizens of a massive modern state while still preserving liberty. The Constitution makes large, popular government possible by placing effective limits on the exercise of power. The Constitution forces the people to be governed by the dead, both to pay the debt we owe to those who came before us and to preserve society for generations yet unborn. The central argument of Keeping the Republic is that the Constitution provides for a free government because it places effective limits on the exercise of power--an essential ingredient of any good government, even one that aims to be a popular government. That the people should rule is a given among republicans; that the people can do anything they want is a proposition that no one could accept with their eyes wide open. Thus, the limits that the Constitution place on American political life are not a problem, but a solution to a problem. Hale and Landy offer both a survey of American anti-constitutionalism and a powerful argument for maintaining the constitutional order of the nation's Framers.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF4550 .H3435 2024ISBN: 9780700636235Publication Date: 2024-01-01 -
The Originalism Trap
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A rallying cry for a more just approach to the law that bolsters social justice movements by throwing out originalism--the theory that judges should interpret the Constitution exactly as conservatives say the Founders meant it "The greatest trick conservatives ever pulled was convincing the world that originalism exists. This book is vital for understanding why the world sucks right now."--Elie Mystal, author of Allow Me to Retort There is no one true way to interpret the Constitution, but that's not what originalists want you to think. They'd rather we be held hostage to their "objective" theory that our rights and liberties are bound by history--an idea that was once confined to the fringes of academia. Americans saw just how subjective originalism can be when the Supreme Court cherry-picked the past to deny bodily autonomy to millions of Americans in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health. Though originalism is supposed to be a serious intellectual theory, a closer look reveals its many inherent faults, as it deliberately over-emphasizes a version of history that treats civil rights gains as categorically suspect. According to Madiba K. Dennie, it's time to let it go. Dennie discards originalism in favor of a new approach that serves everyone: inclusive constitutionalism. She disentangles the Constitution's ideals from originalist ideology and underscores the ambition of the Reconstruction Amendments, which were adopted in the wake of the Civil War and sought to build a democracy with equal membership for marginalized persons. The Originalism Trap argues that the law must serve to make that promise of democracy real. Seamlessly blending scholarship with sass and written for law people and laypeople alike, The Originalism Trap shows readers that the Constitution belongs to them and how, by understanding its possibilities, they can use it to fight for their rights. As courts--and the Constitution--increasingly become political battlegrounds, The Originalism Trap is a necessary guide to what's at stake and a vision for a more just future.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF4552 .D46 2024ISBN: 9780593729250Publication Date: 2024-06-04 -
The People's Justice
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"Amul Thapar sets the record straight with this can't-put-down series of stories that reveal the courage, decency, and humanity of the man behind what many are calling the Thomas Court." --Megyn Kelly, journalist "Amul Thapar has done what even gifted law professors and professional 'Court watchers' often fail to do: Thapar has focused on the men and women whose lives are before the nine and on how one justice, Clarence Thomas, has carefully, consistently, and compassionately applied his understanding of the Constitution to those lives." -- Hugh Hewitt, host of The Hugh Hewitt Show and professor of law For thirty years, Clarence Thomas has been denounced as the "cruelest justice," a betrayer of his race, an ideologue, and the enemy of the little guy. In this compelling study of the man and the jurist, Amul Thapar demolishes that caricature. Every day, Americans go to court. Invoking the Constitution, they fight for their homes, for a better education for their children, and to save their cities from violence. Recounting the stories of a handful of these ordinary Americans whose struggles for justice reached the Supreme Court, Thapar shines new light on the heart and mind of Clarence Thomas. A woman in debilitating pain whose only effective medication has been taken away by the government, the motherless children of a slain police officer, victims of sexual assault-- read their eye-opening stories, stripped of legalese, and decide for yourself whether Thomas's originalist jurisprudence delivers equal justice under law. "Finding the right answer," Justice Thomas has observed, "is often the least difficult problem." What is needed is "the courage to assert that answer and stand firm in the face of the constant winds of protest and criticism." That courage--along with wisdom and compassion--shines out from every page of The People's Justice. At the heart of this book is the question: Would you want to live in Justice Thomas's America? After reading these stories, even his critics might be surprised by their answer.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF8745.T48 T443 2023ISBN: 9781684514526Publication Date: 2023-06-20 -
Religious Liberty and the American Founding
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An insightful rethinking of the meaning of the First Amendment's protection of religious freedom. The Founders understood religious liberty to be an inalienable natural right. Vincent Phillip Muñoz explains what this means for church-state constitutional law, uncovering what we can and cannot determine about the original meanings of the First Amendment's Religion Clauses and constructing a natural rights jurisprudence of religious liberty. Drawing on early state constitutions, declarations of religious freedom, Founding-era debates, and the First Amendment's drafting record, Muñoz demonstrates that adherence to the Founders' political philosophy would lead neither to consistently conservative nor consistently liberal results. Rather, adopting the Founders' understanding would lead to a minimalist church-state jurisprudence that, in most cases, would return authority from the judiciary to the American people. Thorough and convincing, Religious Liberty and the American Founding is key reading for those seeking to understand the Founders' political philosophy of religious freedom and the First Amendment Religion Clauses.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF4783 .M859 2022ISBN: 9780226821443Publication Date: 2022-08-31 -
Rot and Revival
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Rot and Revival is one of the first scholarly works to comprehensively theorize and document how politics make American constitutional law and how the courts affect the path of partisan politics. Rejecting the idea that the Constitution's significance and interpretation can be divorced from contemporary political realities, Anthony Michael Kreis explains how American constitutional law reflects the ideological commitments of dominant political coalitions, the consequences of major public policy choices, and the influences of intervening social movements. Drawing on rich historical research and political science methodologies, Kreis convincingly demonstrates that the courts have never been--and cannot be--institutions lying outside the currents of national politics.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF4541 .K74 2024ISBN: 9780520394193Publication Date: 2024-06-04
Criminal Law
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Jury Instructions : A Legal Research Guide
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In jury trials, the judge at the end of the trial issues jury instructions on the various charges that the jury has to consider in determining a verdict. These jury instructions can originate from official committees of the highest court of the state, state bar associations, or individuals. It is also possible for the lawyers in the case to present to the judge their own jury instructions that the court must determine whether they will use them or not. Jury instructions are divided first by jurisdiction, federal or state. Federal jury instructions fall under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 51 and Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 30. There are federal jury instructions for the U.S. District Courts of the U.S. Circuit Court. Almost all states have civil and criminal jury instructions also derived from statutory and court rule origins. In most cases both Westlaw and Lexis have published their own versions of the jury instructions (sometimes with slightly different titles, some differences in the introductory/front matter, and date of publications (sometimes vary between print and electronic copy checked against electronic card catalogs)). In a few states, there are additional jury instructions, e.g., Illinois Non-Pattern Jury Instructions, North Carolina Vehicle Negligence Instructions, or Wisconsin Children's Jury Instructions. In addition, there are a number of specific-topic jury instructions listed under treatises that are done under the auspices of the American Bar Association or commercial publishers like Matthew Bender or Thomson Reuters (West). Because of the length of the volume, we could only provide a select few cases, and case digests and/or KeyCite or Shepard's Citations of statutes and rules, will be needed. Nor did we include Legal Newsletters/Legal Newspapers but offer a wide range of legal periodical citations that maybe of more permanent use.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF8984.A1 F57 2024ISBN: 9780837743066Publication Date: 2024
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N*gga Theory
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"A MUST-READ FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN UNDERSTANDING AND DISMANTLING MASS INCARCERATION." --Chesa Boudin, District Attorney of San FranciscoAmerica's criminal justice system is among the deadliest and most racist in the world and it disproportionately targets Black Americans, who are also disproportionately poor, hungry, houseless, jobless, sick, and poorly educated. By every metric of misery, this nation does not act like Black Lives Matter.In order to break out of the trap ofracialized mass incarceration and relentless racial oppression, we, as a society, need to rethink our basic assumptions about blame and punishment, words and symbols, social perceptions and judgments, morality, politics, and the power of the performing arts.N*gga Theory interrogates conventional assumptions and frames a transformational new way of thinking about law, language, moral judgments, politics, and transgressive art--especially profane genres like gangsta rap--and exposes where racial bias lives in the administration of justice and everyday life.Professor Jody Armour (Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism) calls for bold action: electing progressive prosecutors, defunding or dismantling the police, abolition of the prison industrial complex. But only after eradicating the anti-black bias buried in the hearts and minds of millions of Americans and baked into our legal system will we be able to say that Black Lives Matter in America.
Call Number: Diversity Case ; HV7419 .A76 N5 2020ISBN: 9781940660684Publication Date: 2020-08-18
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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The Cost of Voting in the American States
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In the wake of Shelby County v. Holder and the January 6 Capitol insurrection, changes to election laws, policies, and especially access to voting have become a key political battleground. A central point of contention is whether new restrictive voting laws intentionally discriminate against Black and Hispanic subpopulations in the United States. Conversely, do policies that expand voting access favor Democrats and increase the possibility of election fraud? In The Cost of Voting in the American States, Michael J. Pomante II, Scot Schraufnagel, and Quan Li test these questions. The authors look specifically for systematic outcomes produced by distinctive election policies in the American states. First, they establish a competent measure of voting restrictions to begin this unraveling. The authors create a Cost of Voting Index (COVI) for the fifty states, which uses a statistical procedure to extract an underlying dimension and to determine significance from state laws based on how restrictive the polices are. The authors call the underlying dimension extracted the "cost of voting." With this measure in place, they evaluate which states have a higher cost of voting, how this cost impacts who votes, and whether there is a correlation between the cost of voting and minority populations. Using Racial Threat Theory arguments, the authors demonstrate that states with larger or growing Black and Hispanic populations have more restricted voting, and that these restrictive voting laws disproportionately demobilize these populations in predictable ways. States with a higher cost of voting also show lower minority electoral success as well as a larger gap in Black and female representation, and the authors reveal that decreasing the cost of voting does not lead to fraud or favor one party over another. The Cost of Voting in the American States makes a case for a new preclearance formula, and the COVI provides a viable approach for future election law.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF4898 .P66 2023ISBN: 9780700635924Publication Date: 2023-11-24 -
Counting Feminicide
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Why grassroots data activists in Latin America count feminicide-and how this vital social justice work challenges mainstream data science. What isn't counted doesn't count. And mainstream institutions systematically fail to account for feminicide, the gender-related killing of women and girls, including cisgender and transgender women. Against this failure, Counting Feminicidebrings to the fore the work of data activists across the Americas who are documenting such murders-and challenging the reigning logic of data science by centering care, memory, and justice in their work. Drawing on Data Against Feminicide, a large-scale collaborative research project, Catherine D'Ignazio describes the creative, intellectual, and emotional labor of feminicide data activists who are at the forefront of a data ethics that rigorously and consistently takes power and people into account. Individuals, researchers, and journalists-these data activists scour news sources to assemble spreadsheets and databases of women killed by gender-related violence, then circulate those data in a variety of creative and political forms. Their work reveals the potential of restorative/transformative data science-the use of systematic information to, first, heal communities from the violence and trauma produced by structural inequality and, second, envision and work toward the world in which such violence has been eliminated. Specifically, D'Ignazio explores the possibilities and limitations of counting and quantification-reducing complex social phenomena to convenient, sortable, aggregable forms-when the goal is nothing short of the elimination of gender-related violence. Counting Feminicideshowcases the incredible power of data feminism in practice, in which each murdered woman or girl counts, and, in being counted, joins a collective demand for the restoration of rights and a transformation of the gendered order of the world.
Call Number: Diversity Case ; HQ1190 .D5735 2024ISBN: 9780262048873Publication Date: 2024-04-30 -
Ghost Citizens
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Ghost Citizens is about in situ stateless people, persons who live in a country they consider their own but which does not recognize them as citizens. Liew develops the concept of the "ghost citizen" to understand a global experience and a double oppression: of being invisible and feared in law. The term also refers to two troubling state practices: ghosting their own citizens and conferring ghost citizenship (casting persons as foreigners without legal proof). Told through an examination of law, legal processes and interviews with stateless persons and their advocates, this deeply researched book examines international and domestic jurisprudence as well as administrative decision making to show an emerging practice where states are pointing to a mother figure, constructed in law as racialized, foreign and potentially disloyal, to depict persons as not kin and therefore the responsibility of other states. By tracing British colonial legal vestiges in the case study of Malaysia, Liew shows how contemporary post-colonial, democratic and multi-juridical states deploy law and its processes and historical ideas of racial categories to create and maintain statelessness. This book challenges established norms of state recognition and calls for a discussion of ideas borrowed from other areas of law, including Indigenous legal traditions and family law, on how we should organize our communities with more respectful relations and treatment among kin.
Call Number: Treatise ; K7128.S7 L54 2024ISBN: 9781773636665Publication Date: 2024-02-22 -
N*gga Theory
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"A MUST-READ FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN UNDERSTANDING AND DISMANTLING MASS INCARCERATION." --Chesa Boudin, District Attorney of San FranciscoAmerica's criminal justice system is among the deadliest and most racist in the world and it disproportionately targets Black Americans, who are also disproportionately poor, hungry, houseless, jobless, sick, and poorly educated. By every metric of misery, this nation does not act like Black Lives Matter.In order to break out of the trap ofracialized mass incarceration and relentless racial oppression, we, as a society, need to rethink our basic assumptions about blame and punishment, words and symbols, social perceptions and judgments, morality, politics, and the power of the performing arts.N*gga Theory interrogates conventional assumptions and frames a transformational new way of thinking about law, language, moral judgments, politics, and transgressive art--especially profane genres like gangsta rap--and exposes where racial bias lives in the administration of justice and everyday life.Professor Jody Armour (Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism) calls for bold action: electing progressive prosecutors, defunding or dismantling the police, abolition of the prison industrial complex. But only after eradicating the anti-black bias buried in the hearts and minds of millions of Americans and baked into our legal system will we be able to say that Black Lives Matter in America.
Call Number: Diversity Case ; HV7419 .A76 N5 2020ISBN: 9781940660684Publication Date: 2020-08-18
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National Parks, Native Sovereignty
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The history of national parks in the United States mirrors the fraught relations between the Department of the Interior and the nation's Indigenous peoples. But amidst the challenges are examples of success. National Parks, Native Sovereignty proposes a reorientation of relationships between tribal nations and national parks, placing Indigenous peoples as co-stewards through strategic collaboration. More than simple consultation, strategic collaboration, as the authors define it, involves the complex process by which participants come together to find ways to engage with one another across sometimes-conflicting interests. In case studies and interviews focusing on a wide range of National Park Service sites, the authors and editors of this volume--scholars as well as National Park Service staff and tribal historic preservation officers--explore pathways for collaboration that uphold tribal sovereignty. These efforts serve to better educate the general public about Native peoples; consider new ways of understanding and interpreting the peoples (Native and non-Native) connected to national park lands; and recognize alternative ways of knowing and using park lands based on Native peoples' expertise. National Parks, Native Sovereignty emphasizes emotional commitment, mutual respect, and patience, rather than focusing on "land-back" solutions, in the cocreation of a socially sensible public lands policy. Ultimately it succeeds in promoting the theme of strategic collaboration, highlighting how Indigenous peoples assert agency and sovereignty in reconnecting with significant landscapes, and how non-Native scholars and park staff can incrementally assist Native partners in this process.
Call Number: Environment ; E93 .N283 2024ISBN: 9780806193687Publication Date: 2024-03-12 -
Unbuild Walls
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"Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I am going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls." --Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed Drawing from over twenty years of activism on local and national levels, this striking book offers an organizer's perspective on the intersections of immigrant rights, racial justice, and prison abolition. In the wake of post-9/11 xenophobia, Obama's record-level deportations, Trump's immigration policies, and the 2020 uprisings for racial justice, the US remains entrenched in a circular discourse regarding migrant justice. As organizer Silky Shah argues in Unbuild Walls, we must move beyond building nicer cages or advocating for comprehensive immigration reform. Our only hope for creating a liberated society for all, she insists, is abolition. Unbuild Walls dives into US immigration policy and its relationship to mass incarceration, from the last forty years up to the present, showing how the prison-industrial complex and immigration enforcement are intertwined systems of repression. Incorporating historical and legal analyses, Shah's personal experience as an organizer, as well as stories of people, campaigns, organizations, and localities that have resisted detention and deportation, Shah assesses the movement's strategies, challenges, successes, and shortcomings. Featuring a foreword by Amna A. Akbar, Unbuild Walls is an expansive and radical intervention, bridging the gaps between movements for immigrant rights, racial justice, and prison abolition.
Call Number: Treatise ; JV6483 .S53 2024ISBN: 9798888900840Publication Date: 2024-05-07
Election Law
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The Cost of Voting in the American States
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In the wake of Shelby County v. Holder and the January 6 Capitol insurrection, changes to election laws, policies, and especially access to voting have become a key political battleground. A central point of contention is whether new restrictive voting laws intentionally discriminate against Black and Hispanic subpopulations in the United States. Conversely, do policies that expand voting access favor Democrats and increase the possibility of election fraud? In The Cost of Voting in the American States, Michael J. Pomante II, Scot Schraufnagel, and Quan Li test these questions. The authors look specifically for systematic outcomes produced by distinctive election policies in the American states. First, they establish a competent measure of voting restrictions to begin this unraveling. The authors create a Cost of Voting Index (COVI) for the fifty states, which uses a statistical procedure to extract an underlying dimension and to determine significance from state laws based on how restrictive the polices are. The authors call the underlying dimension extracted the "cost of voting." With this measure in place, they evaluate which states have a higher cost of voting, how this cost impacts who votes, and whether there is a correlation between the cost of voting and minority populations. Using Racial Threat Theory arguments, the authors demonstrate that states with larger or growing Black and Hispanic populations have more restricted voting, and that these restrictive voting laws disproportionately demobilize these populations in predictable ways. States with a higher cost of voting also show lower minority electoral success as well as a larger gap in Black and female representation, and the authors reveal that decreasing the cost of voting does not lead to fraud or favor one party over another. The Cost of Voting in the American States makes a case for a new preclearance formula, and the COVI provides a viable approach for future election law.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF4898 .P66 2023ISBN: 9780700635924Publication Date: 2023-11-24
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The Court V. the Voters
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An urgent and gripping look at the erosion of voting rights and its implications for democracy, told through the stories of 9 Supreme Court decisions -- and the next looming case. In The Court V. The Voters, law professor Joshua Douglas takes us behind the scenes of significant cases in voting rights -- some surprising and unknown, some familiar -- to investigate the historic crossroads that have irrevocably changed our elections and the nation. In crisp and accessible prose, Douglas tells the story of each case, sheds light on the intractable election problems we face as a result, and highlights the unique role the highest court has played in producing a broken electoral system. Douglas charts infamous cases such as Bush v. Gore, which opened the door to many election law claims; Citizens United, which contributed to skewed representation, but perhaps not in the way you might think; Shelby County v. Holder, which gutted the vital protections of the Voting Rights Act; and Crawford v. Marion County Elections Board, which allowed states to enforce voter ID laws and make it harder for people to vote. The Court V. The Voters powerfully reminds us of the tangible, real-world effects from the Court's voting rights decisions. While we can -- and should -- lament the democracy that might have been, Douglas argues that we can -- and should -- double down in our efforts to protect the right to vote.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF4886 .D68 2024ISBN: 9780807010938Publication Date: 2024-05-14
Environmental, Energy, and Natural Resources Law
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Creatures of Fashion
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Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalization. Creatures of Fashion upends this, revealing how the exploitation of animals--terrestrial and marine, domesticated and wild, living and dead--was central to the region's transformation from Indigenous lands into the national territories of Argentina and Chile. Drawing on evidence from archives and digital repositories, John Soluri traces the circulation of furs and fibers to explore how the power of fashion stretched far beyond Europe's houses of haute couture to entangle the fates of Indigenous hunters, migrant workers, and textile manufacturers with those of fur seals, guanacos, and sheep at the "end of the world." From the nineteenth-century rise of commercial hunting to twentieth-century sheep ranching to contemporary conservation-based tourism, Soluri's narrative explains how struggles for control over the production of commodities and the reproduction of animals drove the social and environmental changes that tied Patagonia to global markets, empires, and wildlife conservation movements. By exposing seams in national territories and global markets knit together by force, this book provides perspectives and analyses vital for understanding contemporary conflicts over mass consumption, the conservation of biodiversity, and struggles for environmental justice in Patagonia and beyond.
Call Number: Treatise ; HD9424.A83 P387 2024ISBN: 9781469675725Publication Date: 2024-04-02
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National Parks, Native Sovereignty
by
The history of national parks in the United States mirrors the fraught relations between the Department of the Interior and the nation's Indigenous peoples. But amidst the challenges are examples of success. National Parks, Native Sovereignty proposes a reorientation of relationships between tribal nations and national parks, placing Indigenous peoples as co-stewards through strategic collaboration. More than simple consultation, strategic collaboration, as the authors define it, involves the complex process by which participants come together to find ways to engage with one another across sometimes-conflicting interests. In case studies and interviews focusing on a wide range of National Park Service sites, the authors and editors of this volume--scholars as well as National Park Service staff and tribal historic preservation officers--explore pathways for collaboration that uphold tribal sovereignty. These efforts serve to better educate the general public about Native peoples; consider new ways of understanding and interpreting the peoples (Native and non-Native) connected to national park lands; and recognize alternative ways of knowing and using park lands based on Native peoples' expertise. National Parks, Native Sovereignty emphasizes emotional commitment, mutual respect, and patience, rather than focusing on "land-back" solutions, in the cocreation of a socially sensible public lands policy. Ultimately it succeeds in promoting the theme of strategic collaboration, highlighting how Indigenous peoples assert agency and sovereignty in reconnecting with significant landscapes, and how non-Native scholars and park staff can incrementally assist Native partners in this process.
Call Number: Environment ; E93 .N283 2024ISBN: 9780806193687Publication Date: 2024-03-12
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On the Swamp
by
Despite centuries of colonialism, Indigenous peoples still occupy parts of their ancestral homelands in what is now Eastern North Carolina--a patchwork quilt of forested swamps, sandy plains, and blackwater streams that spreads across the Coastal Plain between the Fall Line and the Atlantic Ocean. In these backwaters, Lumbees and other American Indians have adapted to a radically transformed world while maintaining vibrant cultures and powerful connections to land and water. Like many Indigenous communities worldwide,they continue to assert their rights to self-determination by resisting legacies of colonialism and the continued transformation of their homelands through pollution, unsustainable development, and climate change. Environmental scientist Ryan E. Emanuel, a member of the Lumbee tribe, shares stories from North Carolina about Indigenous survival and resilience in the face of radical environmental changes. Addressing issues from the loss of wetlands to the arrival of gas pipelines, these stories connect the dots between historic patterns of Indigenous oppression and present-day efforts to promote environmental justice and Indigenous rights on the swamp. Emanuel's scientific insight and deeply personal connections to his home blend together in a book that is both a heartfelt and an analytical call to acknowledge and protect sacred places.
Call Number: Environment ; GE185.N8 E63 2024ISBN: 9781469678320Publication Date: 2024-04-02 -
Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism
by
In the half century after World War II, California's Santa Clara Valley transformed from a rolling landscape of fields and orchards into the nation's most consequential high-tech industrial corridor. How Santa Clara Valley became Silicon Valley and came to embody both the triumphs and the failures of a new vision of the American West is the question Jason A. Heppler explores in this book. A revealing look at the significance of nature in social, cultural, and economic conceptions of place, the book is also a case study on the origins of American environmentalism and debates about urban and suburban sustainability. Between 1950 and 1990, business and community leaders pursued a new vision of the landscape stretching from Palo Alto to San Jose--a vision that melded the bucolic naturalism of orchards, pleasant weather, and green spaces with the metropolitan promise of modern industry, government-funded research, and technology. Heppler describes the success of a new, clean, future-facing economy, coupled with a pleasant, green environment, in drawing people to Silicon Valley. And in this overwhelming success, he also locates the rapidly emerging faults created by competing ideas about forming these idyllic communities--specifically, widespread environmental degradation and increasing social stratification. Cities organized around high-tech industries, suburban growth, and urban expansion were, as Heppler shows, crucibles for empowering elites, worsening human health, and spreading pollution. What do "nature" and "place" mean, and who gets to define these terms? Key to Heppler's work is the idea that these questions reflect and determine what, and who, matters in any conversation about the environment. Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism vividly traces that idea through the linked histories of Silicon Valley and environmentalism in the West.
Call Number: Environment ; GF504.C2 H47 2024ISBN: 9780806193748Publication Date: 2024-04-23 -
This System Is Killing Us
by
An insider look at the catastrophic effects of energy infrastructure and mining on communities, their land, and our planet. Alexander Dunlap spent almost a decade living and working with indigenous activists worldwide to uncover evidence of repression and activism of people and their environment in the wake of untamed capitalist growth. From Zapotec and Ikoot people struggling against wind energy projects in Oaxaca, Mexico, to the violence of the Hambach mine in the German Rhineland, Dunlap presents the truth that lies behind the green re-branding of capitalism that social movements in the Global North have been slow to challenge. By centering the struggles of systematically destroyed people, Dunlap reveals blind spots within the current political debates around socialist modernism and degrowth. While changing public policy could play a constructive role in remediating climate catastrophe, understanding the successes and failures of those 'on the front lines' makes it clear that decentralized - and ideally viral - self-organization could be the only way out of this nightmare.
Call Number: Environment ; HC79.E5 D86 2024ISBN: 9780745348827Publication Date: 2024-03-20
Health Law and Elder Care
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The Fall of Roe
by
In June 2022, Americans watched in shock as the Supreme Court reversed one of the nation's landmark rulings. For nearly a half century, Roe v. Wade was synonymous with women's rights and freedoms. This book reveals the inside story of how it happened. The authors' investigation charts the political and religious campaign to take down abortion rights and remake American families, womanhood, and the nation itself. Reeling from Barack Obama's 2012 landslide presidential victory--and motivated by a spiritual mission--a small but determined network of elite conservative Christian lawyers and powerbrokers worked quietly and methodically to keep their true cause alive: ending abortion rights. Thinking in generational terms, they devised a strategic, top-down takeover at every level of political and legal life, from little-known anti-abortion lobbyists in far flung statehouses to the arbiters of the Constitution at the highest court in the land. Broad swaths of liberal America did not register the severity of the threat until it was far too late. At a moment when women had more power than ever before, the feminist movement suffered one of the greatest political defeats in American history.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF3771 .D53 2024ISBN: 9781250881397Publication Date: 2024-06-04
Immigration Law
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Ghost Citizens
by
Ghost Citizens is about in situ stateless people, persons who live in a country they consider their own but which does not recognize them as citizens. Liew develops the concept of the "ghost citizen" to understand a global experience and a double oppression: of being invisible and feared in law. The term also refers to two troubling state practices: ghosting their own citizens and conferring ghost citizenship (casting persons as foreigners without legal proof). Told through an examination of law, legal processes and interviews with stateless persons and their advocates, this deeply researched book examines international and domestic jurisprudence as well as administrative decision making to show an emerging practice where states are pointing to a mother figure, constructed in law as racialized, foreign and potentially disloyal, to depict persons as not kin and therefore the responsibility of other states. By tracing British colonial legal vestiges in the case study of Malaysia, Liew shows how contemporary post-colonial, democratic and multi-juridical states deploy law and its processes and historical ideas of racial categories to create and maintain statelessness. This book challenges established norms of state recognition and calls for a discussion of ideas borrowed from other areas of law, including Indigenous legal traditions and family law, on how we should organize our communities with more respectful relations and treatment among kin.
Call Number: Treatise ; K7128.S7 L54 2024ISBN: 9781773636665Publication Date: 2024-02-22
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Unbuild Walls
by
"Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I am going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls." --Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed Drawing from over twenty years of activism on local and national levels, this striking book offers an organizer's perspective on the intersections of immigrant rights, racial justice, and prison abolition. In the wake of post-9/11 xenophobia, Obama's record-level deportations, Trump's immigration policies, and the 2020 uprisings for racial justice, the US remains entrenched in a circular discourse regarding migrant justice. As organizer Silky Shah argues in Unbuild Walls, we must move beyond building nicer cages or advocating for comprehensive immigration reform. Our only hope for creating a liberated society for all, she insists, is abolition. Unbuild Walls dives into US immigration policy and its relationship to mass incarceration, from the last forty years up to the present, showing how the prison-industrial complex and immigration enforcement are intertwined systems of repression. Incorporating historical and legal analyses, Shah's personal experience as an organizer, as well as stories of people, campaigns, organizations, and localities that have resisted detention and deportation, Shah assesses the movement's strategies, challenges, successes, and shortcomings. Featuring a foreword by Amna A. Akbar, Unbuild Walls is an expansive and radical intervention, bridging the gaps between movements for immigrant rights, racial justice, and prison abolition.
Call Number: Treatise ; JV6483 .S53 2024ISBN: 9798888900840Publication Date: 2024-05-07
Indigenous Law
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Creatures of Fashion
by
Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalization. Creatures of Fashion upends this, revealing how the exploitation of animals--terrestrial and marine, domesticated and wild, living and dead--was central to the region's transformation from Indigenous lands into the national territories of Argentina and Chile. Drawing on evidence from archives and digital repositories, John Soluri traces the circulation of furs and fibers to explore how the power of fashion stretched far beyond Europe's houses of haute couture to entangle the fates of Indigenous hunters, migrant workers, and textile manufacturers with those of fur seals, guanacos, and sheep at the "end of the world." From the nineteenth-century rise of commercial hunting to twentieth-century sheep ranching to contemporary conservation-based tourism, Soluri's narrative explains how struggles for control over the production of commodities and the reproduction of animals drove the social and environmental changes that tied Patagonia to global markets, empires, and wildlife conservation movements. By exposing seams in national territories and global markets knit together by force, this book provides perspectives and analyses vital for understanding contemporary conflicts over mass consumption, the conservation of biodiversity, and struggles for environmental justice in Patagonia and beyond.
Call Number: Treatise ; HD9424.A83 P387 2024ISBN: 9781469675725Publication Date: 2024-04-02
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National Parks, Native Sovereignty
by
The history of national parks in the United States mirrors the fraught relations between the Department of the Interior and the nation's Indigenous peoples. But amidst the challenges are examples of success. National Parks, Native Sovereignty proposes a reorientation of relationships between tribal nations and national parks, placing Indigenous peoples as co-stewards through strategic collaboration. More than simple consultation, strategic collaboration, as the authors define it, involves the complex process by which participants come together to find ways to engage with one another across sometimes-conflicting interests. In case studies and interviews focusing on a wide range of National Park Service sites, the authors and editors of this volume--scholars as well as National Park Service staff and tribal historic preservation officers--explore pathways for collaboration that uphold tribal sovereignty. These efforts serve to better educate the general public about Native peoples; consider new ways of understanding and interpreting the peoples (Native and non-Native) connected to national park lands; and recognize alternative ways of knowing and using park lands based on Native peoples' expertise. National Parks, Native Sovereignty emphasizes emotional commitment, mutual respect, and patience, rather than focusing on "land-back" solutions, in the cocreation of a socially sensible public lands policy. Ultimately it succeeds in promoting the theme of strategic collaboration, highlighting how Indigenous peoples assert agency and sovereignty in reconnecting with significant landscapes, and how non-Native scholars and park staff can incrementally assist Native partners in this process.
Call Number: Environment ; E93 .N283 2024ISBN: 9780806193687Publication Date: 2024-03-12
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On the Swamp
by
Despite centuries of colonialism, Indigenous peoples still occupy parts of their ancestral homelands in what is now Eastern North Carolina--a patchwork quilt of forested swamps, sandy plains, and blackwater streams that spreads across the Coastal Plain between the Fall Line and the Atlantic Ocean. In these backwaters, Lumbees and other American Indians have adapted to a radically transformed world while maintaining vibrant cultures and powerful connections to land and water. Like many Indigenous communities worldwide,they continue to assert their rights to self-determination by resisting legacies of colonialism and the continued transformation of their homelands through pollution, unsustainable development, and climate change. Environmental scientist Ryan E. Emanuel, a member of the Lumbee tribe, shares stories from North Carolina about Indigenous survival and resilience in the face of radical environmental changes. Addressing issues from the loss of wetlands to the arrival of gas pipelines, these stories connect the dots between historic patterns of Indigenous oppression and present-day efforts to promote environmental justice and Indigenous rights on the swamp. Emanuel's scientific insight and deeply personal connections to his home blend together in a book that is both a heartfelt and an analytical call to acknowledge and protect sacred places.
Call Number: Environment ; GE185.N8 E63 2024ISBN: 9781469678320Publication Date: 2024-04-02
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This System Is Killing Us
by
An insider look at the catastrophic effects of energy infrastructure and mining on communities, their land, and our planet. Alexander Dunlap spent almost a decade living and working with indigenous activists worldwide to uncover evidence of repression and activism of people and their environment in the wake of untamed capitalist growth. From Zapotec and Ikoot people struggling against wind energy projects in Oaxaca, Mexico, to the violence of the Hambach mine in the German Rhineland, Dunlap presents the truth that lies behind the green re-branding of capitalism that social movements in the Global North have been slow to challenge. By centering the struggles of systematically destroyed people, Dunlap reveals blind spots within the current political debates around socialist modernism and degrowth. While changing public policy could play a constructive role in remediating climate catastrophe, understanding the successes and failures of those 'on the front lines' makes it clear that decentralized - and ideally viral - self-organization could be the only way out of this nightmare.
Call Number: Environment ; HC79.E5 D86 2024ISBN: 9780745348827Publication Date: 2024-03-20
Innovation, Technology, & the Law
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The Arbitration Conversation
by
Arbitration, a cornerstone of dispute resolution, has witnessed a profound transformation in recent years, impacting all sectors. Businesses have embraced arbitration for its privacy, speed, and the expertise it offers in resolving intricate disputes.The Arbitration Conversation underscores the significance of arbitration, especially in contexts where specialist arbitrators are needed, or business secrets must be safeguarded. It delves into the nuances of arbitration for international parties seeking neutral forums, underpinned by the New York Convention's enforceable awards. It also notes the benefits and pitfalls of arbitration in more controversial areas like business-to-consumer and employment contracts. The Arbitration Conversation also sheds unique light on the emergence of online arbitration (OArb), catalyzed by the COVID-19 pandemic and advancements in technology. OArb leverages technology to streamline processes, sometimes offering parties a convenient and cost-effective alternative to in-person arbitration. The text explores OArb's promise and pitfalls, including discussion of AI, blockchain, and the metaverse in arbitration. The book also includes an appendix of OArb protocols that have developed in recent years, as well as providing guidance for arbitrators and arbitration counsel navigating this technological shift, addressing concerns such as cybersecurity and uneven access to technology. Throughout its pages, The Arbitration Conversation underscores the importance of arbitration as a versatile problem-solving tool. It highlights wisdom learned from seasoned arbitrators, as well as newer voices in arbitration, focused on using arbitration in a flexible manner to help parties achieve their dispute resolution goals. The lessons learned from interviews with experts in various arbitration contexts provide fresh perspective, emphasizing the ever-changing nature of arbitration and the critical role of technology in shaping its future. For educators and instructors in dispute resolution, the book offers insights into engaging students in virtual learning environments, as well as the challenges and opportunities presented by online legal procedures. The book also can serve as a guide for educators using The Arbitration Conversation videos and podcasts for class exercises. Accordingly, the book also includes an appendix with an index of the free videos and topics covered. This book is a must-have for dispute resolution practitioners, students, teachers, and anyone interested in taking a peak behind the privacy curtain of arbitration.
Call Number: Legal Practice ; KF9085 .S36 2024ISBN: 9781639054244Publication Date: 2024-05-07
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Co-Intelligence
by
From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI Something new entered our world in November 2022 -- the first general purpose AI that could pass for a human and do the kinds of creative, innovative work that only humans could do previously. Wharton professor Ethan Mollick immediately understood what ChatGPT meant: after millions of years on our own, humans had developed a kind of co-intelligence that could augment, or even replace, human thinking. Through his writing, speaking, and teaching, Mollick has become one of the most prominent and provocative explainers of AI, focusing on the practical aspects of how these new tools for thought can transform our world. In Co-Intelligence, Mollick urges us to engage with AI as co-worker, co-teacher, and coach. He assesses its profound impact on business and education, using dozens of real-time examples of AI in action. Co-Intelligence shows what it means to think and work together with smart machines, and why it's imperative that we master that skill. Mollick challenges us to utilize AI's enormous power without losing our identity, to learn from it without being misled, and to harness its gifts to create a better human future. Wide ranging, hugely thought-provoking, optimistic, and lucid, Co-Intelligence reveals the promise and power of this new era.
Call Number: Treatise ; QA76.76.E95 M655 2024ISBN: 9780593716717Publication Date: 2024-04-02 -
Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality
by
Renée DiResta's powerful, original investigation into the way power and influence have been profoundly transformed reveals how a virtual rumor mill of niche propagandists increasingly shapes public opinion. While propagandists position themselves as trustworthy Davids, their reach, influence, and economics make them classic Goliaths--invisible rulers who create bespoke realities to revolutionize politics, culture, and society. Their work is driven by a simple maxim: if you make it trend, you make it true. By revealing the machinery and dynamics of the interplay between influencers, algorithms, and online crowds, DiResta vividly illustrates the way propagandists deliberately undermine belief in the fundamental legitimacy of institutions that make society work. This alternate system for shaping public opinion, unexamined until now, is rewriting the relationship between the people and their government in profound ways. It has become a force so shockingly effective that its destructive power seems limitless. Scientific proof is powerless in front of it. Democratic validity is bulldozed by it. Leaders are humiliated by it. But they need not be. With its deep insight into the power of propagandists to drive online crowds into battle--while bearing no responsibility for the consequences--Invisible Rulers not only predicts those consequences but offers ways for leaders to rapidly adapt and fight back.
Call Number: Treatise HM1231 .D57 2024ISBN: 9781541703377Publication Date: June 11, 2024 -
The Secret Life of Data
by
How data surveillance, digital forensics, and generative AI pose new long-term threats and opportunities--and how we can use them to make better decisions in the face of technological uncertainty. In The Secret Life of Data, Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert explore the many unpredictable, and often surprising, ways in which data surveillance, AI, and the constant presence of algorithms impact our culture and society in the age of global networks. The authors build on this basic premise: no matter what form data takes, and what purpose we think it's being used for, data will always have a secret life. How this data will be used, by other people in other times and places, has profound implications for every aspect of our lives--from our intimate relationships to our professional lives to our political systems. With the secret uses of data in mind, Sinnreich and Gilbert interview dozens of experts to explore a broad range of scenarios and contexts--from the playful to the profound to the problematic. Unlike most books about data and society that focus on the short-term effects of our immense data usage, The Secret Life of Data focuses primarily on the long-term consequences of humanity's recent rush toward digitizing, storing, and analyzing every piece of data about ourselves and the world we live in. The authors advocate for "slow fixes" regarding our relationship to data, such as creating new laws and regulations, ethics and aesthetics, and models of production for our data-fied society. Cutting through the hype and hopelessness that so often inform discussions of data and society, The Secret Life of Data clearly and straightforwardly demonstrates how readers can play an active part in shaping how digital technology influences their lives and the world at large.
Call Number: Treatise ; HD30.3815 .S566 2024ISBN: 9780262048811Publication Date: 2024-04-30 -
Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism
by
In the half century after World War II, California's Santa Clara Valley transformed from a rolling landscape of fields and orchards into the nation's most consequential high-tech industrial corridor. How Santa Clara Valley became Silicon Valley and came to embody both the triumphs and the failures of a new vision of the American West is the question Jason A. Heppler explores in this book. A revealing look at the significance of nature in social, cultural, and economic conceptions of place, the book is also a case study on the origins of American environmentalism and debates about urban and suburban sustainability. Between 1950 and 1990, business and community leaders pursued a new vision of the landscape stretching from Palo Alto to San Jose--a vision that melded the bucolic naturalism of orchards, pleasant weather, and green spaces with the metropolitan promise of modern industry, government-funded research, and technology. Heppler describes the success of a new, clean, future-facing economy, coupled with a pleasant, green environment, in drawing people to Silicon Valley. And in this overwhelming success, he also locates the rapidly emerging faults created by competing ideas about forming these idyllic communities--specifically, widespread environmental degradation and increasing social stratification. Cities organized around high-tech industries, suburban growth, and urban expansion were, as Heppler shows, crucibles for empowering elites, worsening human health, and spreading pollution. What do "nature" and "place" mean, and who gets to define these terms? Key to Heppler's work is the idea that these questions reflect and determine what, and who, matters in any conversation about the environment. Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism vividly traces that idea through the linked histories of Silicon Valley and environmentalism in the West.
Call Number: Environment ; GF504.C2 H47 2024ISBN: 9780806193748Publication Date: 2024-04-23
International, Foreign, & Human Rights Law
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The Arbitration Conversation
by
Arbitration, a cornerstone of dispute resolution, has witnessed a profound transformation in recent years, impacting all sectors. Businesses have embraced arbitration for its privacy, speed, and the expertise it offers in resolving intricate disputes.The Arbitration Conversation underscores the significance of arbitration, especially in contexts where specialist arbitrators are needed, or business secrets must be safeguarded. It delves into the nuances of arbitration for international parties seeking neutral forums, underpinned by the New York Convention's enforceable awards. It also notes the benefits and pitfalls of arbitration in more controversial areas like business-to-consumer and employment contracts. The Arbitration Conversation also sheds unique light on the emergence of online arbitration (OArb), catalyzed by the COVID-19 pandemic and advancements in technology. OArb leverages technology to streamline processes, sometimes offering parties a convenient and cost-effective alternative to in-person arbitration. The text explores OArb's promise and pitfalls, including discussion of AI, blockchain, and the metaverse in arbitration. The book also includes an appendix of OArb protocols that have developed in recent years, as well as providing guidance for arbitrators and arbitration counsel navigating this technological shift, addressing concerns such as cybersecurity and uneven access to technology. Throughout its pages, The Arbitration Conversation underscores the importance of arbitration as a versatile problem-solving tool. It highlights wisdom learned from seasoned arbitrators, as well as newer voices in arbitration, focused on using arbitration in a flexible manner to help parties achieve their dispute resolution goals. The lessons learned from interviews with experts in various arbitration contexts provide fresh perspective, emphasizing the ever-changing nature of arbitration and the critical role of technology in shaping its future. For educators and instructors in dispute resolution, the book offers insights into engaging students in virtual learning environments, as well as the challenges and opportunities presented by online legal procedures. The book also can serve as a guide for educators using The Arbitration Conversation videos and podcasts for class exercises. Accordingly, the book also includes an appendix with an index of the free videos and topics covered. This book is a must-have for dispute resolution practitioners, students, teachers, and anyone interested in taking a peak behind the privacy curtain of arbitration.
Call Number: Legal Practice ; KF9085 .S36 2024ISBN: 9781639054244Publication Date: 2024-05-07
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Creatures of Fashion
by
Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalization. Creatures of Fashion upends this, revealing how the exploitation of animals--terrestrial and marine, domesticated and wild, living and dead--was central to the region's transformation from Indigenous lands into the national territories of Argentina and Chile. Drawing on evidence from archives and digital repositories, John Soluri traces the circulation of furs and fibers to explore how the power of fashion stretched far beyond Europe's houses of haute couture to entangle the fates of Indigenous hunters, migrant workers, and textile manufacturers with those of fur seals, guanacos, and sheep at the "end of the world." From the nineteenth-century rise of commercial hunting to twentieth-century sheep ranching to contemporary conservation-based tourism, Soluri's narrative explains how struggles for control over the production of commodities and the reproduction of animals drove the social and environmental changes that tied Patagonia to global markets, empires, and wildlife conservation movements. By exposing seams in national territories and global markets knit together by force, this book provides perspectives and analyses vital for understanding contemporary conflicts over mass consumption, the conservation of biodiversity, and struggles for environmental justice in Patagonia and beyond.
Call Number: Treatise ; HD9424.A83 P387 2024ISBN: 9781469675725Publication Date: 2024-04-02
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Ghost Citizens
by
Ghost Citizens is about in situ stateless people, persons who live in a country they consider their own but which does not recognize them as citizens. Liew develops the concept of the "ghost citizen" to understand a global experience and a double oppression: of being invisible and feared in law. The term also refers to two troubling state practices: ghosting their own citizens and conferring ghost citizenship (casting persons as foreigners without legal proof). Told through an examination of law, legal processes and interviews with stateless persons and their advocates, this deeply researched book examines international and domestic jurisprudence as well as administrative decision making to show an emerging practice where states are pointing to a mother figure, constructed in law as racialized, foreign and potentially disloyal, to depict persons as not kin and therefore the responsibility of other states. By tracing British colonial legal vestiges in the case study of Malaysia, Liew shows how contemporary post-colonial, democratic and multi-juridical states deploy law and its processes and historical ideas of racial categories to create and maintain statelessness. This book challenges established norms of state recognition and calls for a discussion of ideas borrowed from other areas of law, including Indigenous legal traditions and family law, on how we should organize our communities with more respectful relations and treatment among kin.
Call Number: Treatise ; K7128.S7 L54 2024ISBN: 9781773636665Publication Date: 2024-02-22
Legal History
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The Court V. the Voters
by
An urgent and gripping look at the erosion of voting rights and its implications for democracy, told through the stories of 9 Supreme Court decisions -- and the next looming case. In The Court V. The Voters, law professor Joshua Douglas takes us behind the scenes of significant cases in voting rights -- some surprising and unknown, some familiar -- to investigate the historic crossroads that have irrevocably changed our elections and the nation. In crisp and accessible prose, Douglas tells the story of each case, sheds light on the intractable election problems we face as a result, and highlights the unique role the highest court has played in producing a broken electoral system. Douglas charts infamous cases such as Bush v. Gore, which opened the door to many election law claims; Citizens United, which contributed to skewed representation, but perhaps not in the way you might think; Shelby County v. Holder, which gutted the vital protections of the Voting Rights Act; and Crawford v. Marion County Elections Board, which allowed states to enforce voter ID laws and make it harder for people to vote. The Court V. The Voters powerfully reminds us of the tangible, real-world effects from the Court's voting rights decisions. While we can -- and should -- lament the democracy that might have been, Douglas argues that we can -- and should -- double down in our efforts to protect the right to vote.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF4886 .D68 2024ISBN: 9780807010938Publication Date: 2024-05-14
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Creatures of Fashion
by
Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalization. Creatures of Fashion upends this, revealing how the exploitation of animals--terrestrial and marine, domesticated and wild, living and dead--was central to the region's transformation from Indigenous lands into the national territories of Argentina and Chile. Drawing on evidence from archives and digital repositories, John Soluri traces the circulation of furs and fibers to explore how the power of fashion stretched far beyond Europe's houses of haute couture to entangle the fates of Indigenous hunters, migrant workers, and textile manufacturers with those of fur seals, guanacos, and sheep at the "end of the world." From the nineteenth-century rise of commercial hunting to twentieth-century sheep ranching to contemporary conservation-based tourism, Soluri's narrative explains how struggles for control over the production of commodities and the reproduction of animals drove the social and environmental changes that tied Patagonia to global markets, empires, and wildlife conservation movements. By exposing seams in national territories and global markets knit together by force, this book provides perspectives and analyses vital for understanding contemporary conflicts over mass consumption, the conservation of biodiversity, and struggles for environmental justice in Patagonia and beyond.
Call Number: Treatise ; HD9424.A83 P387 2024ISBN: 9781469675725Publication Date: 2024-04-02
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The Fall of Roe
by
In June 2022, Americans watched in shock as the Supreme Court reversed one of the nation's landmark rulings. For nearly a half century, Roe v. Wade was synonymous with women's rights and freedoms. This book reveals the inside story of how it happened. The authors' investigation charts the political and religious campaign to take down abortion rights and remake American families, womanhood, and the nation itself. Reeling from Barack Obama's 2012 landslide presidential victory--and motivated by a spiritual mission--a small but determined network of elite conservative Christian lawyers and powerbrokers worked quietly and methodically to keep their true cause alive: ending abortion rights. Thinking in generational terms, they devised a strategic, top-down takeover at every level of political and legal life, from little-known anti-abortion lobbyists in far flung statehouses to the arbiters of the Constitution at the highest court in the land. Broad swaths of liberal America did not register the severity of the threat until it was far too late. At a moment when women had more power than ever before, the feminist movement suffered one of the greatest political defeats in American history.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF3771 .D53 2024ISBN: 9781250881397Publication Date: 2024-06-04
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Keeping the Republic
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Keeping the Republic is an eloquent defense of the American constitutional order and a response to its critics, including those who are estranged from the very idea of a fixed constitution in which "the living are governed by the dead." Dennis Hale and Marc Landy take seriously the criticisms of the United States Constitution. Before mounting their argument, they present an intellectual history of the key critics, including Thomas Paine, William Lloyd Garrison, Henry David Thoreau, Woodrow Wilson, Robert Dahl, Sanford Levinson, and the authors of The 1619 Project. Why, they ask, if the constitutional order is so well-designed, do so many American citizens have a negative view of the American political order? To address that question, they examine the most crucial episodes in American political development from the Founding to the present. Hale and Landy frame their defense of the Constitution by understanding America in terms of modernity, where small republics are no longer possible and there is a need to protect the citizens of a massive modern state while still preserving liberty. The Constitution makes large, popular government possible by placing effective limits on the exercise of power. The Constitution forces the people to be governed by the dead, both to pay the debt we owe to those who came before us and to preserve society for generations yet unborn. The central argument of Keeping the Republic is that the Constitution provides for a free government because it places effective limits on the exercise of power--an essential ingredient of any good government, even one that aims to be a popular government. That the people should rule is a given among republicans; that the people can do anything they want is a proposition that no one could accept with their eyes wide open. Thus, the limits that the Constitution place on American political life are not a problem, but a solution to a problem. Hale and Landy offer both a survey of American anti-constitutionalism and a powerful argument for maintaining the constitutional order of the nation's Framers.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF4550 .H3435 2024ISBN: 9780700636235Publication Date: 2024-01-01
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Lawyer Nation
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Explores the critical role that American lawyers have played since the nation's founding and what the future holds for the profession The American legal profession faces significant challenges: the changing nature of work in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic; calls for greater racial and gender justice; threats to democracy; the inaccessibility of legal services for the majority of Americans; the risk of obsolescence owing to the emergence of new technologies; and the disaffection many lawyers feel toward their work. Ambitious in its scope yet straightforward in its approach, Lawyer Nation seeks to address these crises by offering a path forward for the legal profession. Ray Brescia provides concrete ideas for transforming law into a field whose services are accessible, egalitarian, and viable in the long term. Further, he addresses how the profession can improve so that the health of its practitioners is not compromised in the process. If the legal profession does not respond to its crises in an effective way, he argues, the dysfunction and unfairness plaguing the legal world will deepen. This is an unprecedented opportunity for the world of law to reimagine its future in way that honors its highest ideals: preserving the rule of law, protecting individual liberty, and addressing social inequality in all of its forms.
Call Number: Legal Practice ; KF297 .B697 2024ISBN: 9781479823680Publication Date: 2024-02-06 -
The Originalism Trap
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A rallying cry for a more just approach to the law that bolsters social justice movements by throwing out originalism--the theory that judges should interpret the Constitution exactly as conservatives say the Founders meant it "The greatest trick conservatives ever pulled was convincing the world that originalism exists. This book is vital for understanding why the world sucks right now."--Elie Mystal, author of Allow Me to Retort There is no one true way to interpret the Constitution, but that's not what originalists want you to think. They'd rather we be held hostage to their "objective" theory that our rights and liberties are bound by history--an idea that was once confined to the fringes of academia. Americans saw just how subjective originalism can be when the Supreme Court cherry-picked the past to deny bodily autonomy to millions of Americans in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health. Though originalism is supposed to be a serious intellectual theory, a closer look reveals its many inherent faults, as it deliberately over-emphasizes a version of history that treats civil rights gains as categorically suspect. According to Madiba K. Dennie, it's time to let it go. Dennie discards originalism in favor of a new approach that serves everyone: inclusive constitutionalism. She disentangles the Constitution's ideals from originalist ideology and underscores the ambition of the Reconstruction Amendments, which were adopted in the wake of the Civil War and sought to build a democracy with equal membership for marginalized persons. The Originalism Trap argues that the law must serve to make that promise of democracy real. Seamlessly blending scholarship with sass and written for law people and laypeople alike, The Originalism Trap shows readers that the Constitution belongs to them and how, by understanding its possibilities, they can use it to fight for their rights. As courts--and the Constitution--increasingly become political battlegrounds, The Originalism Trap is a necessary guide to what's at stake and a vision for a more just future.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF4552 .D46 2024ISBN: 9780593729250Publication Date: 2024-06-04
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The People's Justice
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"Amul Thapar sets the record straight with this can't-put-down series of stories that reveal the courage, decency, and humanity of the man behind what many are calling the Thomas Court." --Megyn Kelly, journalist "Amul Thapar has done what even gifted law professors and professional 'Court watchers' often fail to do: Thapar has focused on the men and women whose lives are before the nine and on how one justice, Clarence Thomas, has carefully, consistently, and compassionately applied his understanding of the Constitution to those lives." -- Hugh Hewitt, host of The Hugh Hewitt Show and professor of law For thirty years, Clarence Thomas has been denounced as the "cruelest justice," a betrayer of his race, an ideologue, and the enemy of the little guy. In this compelling study of the man and the jurist, Amul Thapar demolishes that caricature. Every day, Americans go to court. Invoking the Constitution, they fight for their homes, for a better education for their children, and to save their cities from violence. Recounting the stories of a handful of these ordinary Americans whose struggles for justice reached the Supreme Court, Thapar shines new light on the heart and mind of Clarence Thomas. A woman in debilitating pain whose only effective medication has been taken away by the government, the motherless children of a slain police officer, victims of sexual assault-- read their eye-opening stories, stripped of legalese, and decide for yourself whether Thomas's originalist jurisprudence delivers equal justice under law. "Finding the right answer," Justice Thomas has observed, "is often the least difficult problem." What is needed is "the courage to assert that answer and stand firm in the face of the constant winds of protest and criticism." That courage--along with wisdom and compassion--shines out from every page of The People's Justice. At the heart of this book is the question: Would you want to live in Justice Thomas's America? After reading these stories, even his critics might be surprised by their answer.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF8745.T48 T443 2023ISBN: 9781684514526Publication Date: 2023-06-20
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Rot and Revival
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Rot and Revival is one of the first scholarly works to comprehensively theorize and document how politics make American constitutional law and how the courts affect the path of partisan politics. Rejecting the idea that the Constitution's significance and interpretation can be divorced from contemporary political realities, Anthony Michael Kreis explains how American constitutional law reflects the ideological commitments of dominant political coalitions, the consequences of major public policy choices, and the influences of intervening social movements. Drawing on rich historical research and political science methodologies, Kreis convincingly demonstrates that the courts have never been--and cannot be--institutions lying outside the currents of national politics.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF4541 .K74 2024ISBN: 9780520394193Publication Date: 2024-06-04
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Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism
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In the half century after World War II, California's Santa Clara Valley transformed from a rolling landscape of fields and orchards into the nation's most consequential high-tech industrial corridor. How Santa Clara Valley became Silicon Valley and came to embody both the triumphs and the failures of a new vision of the American West is the question Jason A. Heppler explores in this book. A revealing look at the significance of nature in social, cultural, and economic conceptions of place, the book is also a case study on the origins of American environmentalism and debates about urban and suburban sustainability. Between 1950 and 1990, business and community leaders pursued a new vision of the landscape stretching from Palo Alto to San Jose--a vision that melded the bucolic naturalism of orchards, pleasant weather, and green spaces with the metropolitan promise of modern industry, government-funded research, and technology. Heppler describes the success of a new, clean, future-facing economy, coupled with a pleasant, green environment, in drawing people to Silicon Valley. And in this overwhelming success, he also locates the rapidly emerging faults created by competing ideas about forming these idyllic communities--specifically, widespread environmental degradation and increasing social stratification. Cities organized around high-tech industries, suburban growth, and urban expansion were, as Heppler shows, crucibles for empowering elites, worsening human health, and spreading pollution. What do "nature" and "place" mean, and who gets to define these terms? Key to Heppler's work is the idea that these questions reflect and determine what, and who, matters in any conversation about the environment. Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism vividly traces that idea through the linked histories of Silicon Valley and environmentalism in the West.
Call Number: Environment ; GF504.C2 H47 2024ISBN: 9780806193748Publication Date: 2024-04-23
Practice of Law
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The Arbitration Conversation
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Arbitration, a cornerstone of dispute resolution, has witnessed a profound transformation in recent years, impacting all sectors. Businesses have embraced arbitration for its privacy, speed, and the expertise it offers in resolving intricate disputes.The Arbitration Conversation underscores the significance of arbitration, especially in contexts where specialist arbitrators are needed, or business secrets must be safeguarded. It delves into the nuances of arbitration for international parties seeking neutral forums, underpinned by the New York Convention's enforceable awards. It also notes the benefits and pitfalls of arbitration in more controversial areas like business-to-consumer and employment contracts. The Arbitration Conversation also sheds unique light on the emergence of online arbitration (OArb), catalyzed by the COVID-19 pandemic and advancements in technology. OArb leverages technology to streamline processes, sometimes offering parties a convenient and cost-effective alternative to in-person arbitration. The text explores OArb's promise and pitfalls, including discussion of AI, blockchain, and the metaverse in arbitration. The book also includes an appendix of OArb protocols that have developed in recent years, as well as providing guidance for arbitrators and arbitration counsel navigating this technological shift, addressing concerns such as cybersecurity and uneven access to technology. Throughout its pages, The Arbitration Conversation underscores the importance of arbitration as a versatile problem-solving tool. It highlights wisdom learned from seasoned arbitrators, as well as newer voices in arbitration, focused on using arbitration in a flexible manner to help parties achieve their dispute resolution goals. The lessons learned from interviews with experts in various arbitration contexts provide fresh perspective, emphasizing the ever-changing nature of arbitration and the critical role of technology in shaping its future. For educators and instructors in dispute resolution, the book offers insights into engaging students in virtual learning environments, as well as the challenges and opportunities presented by online legal procedures. The book also can serve as a guide for educators using The Arbitration Conversation videos and podcasts for class exercises. Accordingly, the book also includes an appendix with an index of the free videos and topics covered. This book is a must-have for dispute resolution practitioners, students, teachers, and anyone interested in taking a peak behind the privacy curtain of arbitration.
Call Number: Legal Practice ; KF9085 .S36 2024ISBN: 9781639054244Publication Date: 2024-05-07
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Guide to Representing Animal Protection Organizations
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This guide offers practical advice for lawyers who represent animal protection organizations. Beginning with an overview of the organizations whose missions are to promote the humane treatment of animals and how lawyers can support them, the book covers governance, operations, constitutional matters, DEI, legal ethics, and laws that are most relevant to animals and organizations protecting them
Call Number: Legal Practice ; KF3841.A75 G85 2023ISBN: 9781639053964Publication Date: 2024
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Law Democratized
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A practical plan for providing legal help to all, regardless of resources Millions of people in the United States face legal problems without lawyers to help them. Why? How do we educate and inform the public about the law so they can understand when the services of a lawyer are necessary or desirable? When can individuals solve legal problems on their own or with the assistance of a specialist without a traditional law degree? In short, how do we democratize the law? Law Democratized offers a blueprint to increase legal help for everyone, regardless of their ability to pay. Building on more than a decade of research into innovation in legal services, the book advances a series of recommendations inspired by success stories from around the globe. Renee Knake Jefferson outlines different paths pursued by bar associations, courts, entrepreneurs, law schools, nonprofits, and others, evaluating the promise and pitfalls of each. She analyzes regulatory reforms employed in other nations, along with emerging efforts in a handful of US states. If the rule of law is the bedrock that American democracy rests upon, then the justice transformed system must be open and user-friendly to all. Law Democratized makes a compelling argument for transforming the American legal landscape through engaged citizenship, ethical innovation, expanded education, and regulatory reform, in order to democratize law and make legal help more accessible.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF336 .J44 2024ISBN: 9781479820399Publication Date: 2024-01-09 -
Lawyer Nation
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Explores the critical role that American lawyers have played since the nation's founding and what the future holds for the profession The American legal profession faces significant challenges: the changing nature of work in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic; calls for greater racial and gender justice; threats to democracy; the inaccessibility of legal services for the majority of Americans; the risk of obsolescence owing to the emergence of new technologies; and the disaffection many lawyers feel toward their work. Ambitious in its scope yet straightforward in its approach, Lawyer Nation seeks to address these crises by offering a path forward for the legal profession. Ray Brescia provides concrete ideas for transforming law into a field whose services are accessible, egalitarian, and viable in the long term. Further, he addresses how the profession can improve so that the health of its practitioners is not compromised in the process. If the legal profession does not respond to its crises in an effective way, he argues, the dysfunction and unfairness plaguing the legal world will deepen. This is an unprecedented opportunity for the world of law to reimagine its future in way that honors its highest ideals: preserving the rule of law, protecting individual liberty, and addressing social inequality in all of its forms.
Call Number: Legal Practice ; KF297 .B697 2024ISBN: 9781479823680Publication Date: 2024-02-06
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Trial by Numbers
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A significant problem within the legal profession is that many of the lawyers litigating cases and the judges deciding them have only a limited understanding of how to properly interpret empirical evidence. Trial by Numbers provides an easy way for members of the legal profession to acquire a basic understanding of the most common methods that serve as the building blocks for empirical evidence in academic articles, policy briefs, and expert witness reports. Adam Chilton and Kyle Rozema take a different approach to other introductory books on empirical methods, omitting the formulas and equations found in other books, and instead focusing on explaining the intuition and logic of common empirical methods. The work also exclusively use examples that are relevant to law school and legal practice.
Call Number: Legal Practice ; K2264.E4 C4 2024ISBN: 9780197747858Publication Date: 2024-05-07
Other Subject Areas
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Professional Wrestling and the Law
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Written by a law professor (who also happens to be a wrestling fan), this book is an entertaining and informative exploration of legal cases involving professional wrestling. Relying upon judicial decisions and court documents, it discusses the legal theories and procedures involved in legal disputes involving professional wrestling and explores how the legal system--an institution devoted to arriving at the truth involved in any conflict--has dealt with the business of professional wrestling, a business with a long history of obscuring the truth. Topics include: the legal issues involved when a wrestler goes into the crowd and beats up a fan; Hulk Hogan's defamation lawsuit against World Championship Wrestling for statements made during a live pay-per-view event; and race and sex discrimination in professional wrestling.
Call Number: Treatise ; KF3989 .L66 2024ISBN: 9781476692975Publication Date: 2024-05-15
