Introduction
Each month the Law Library adds new books to our collection. Here is a selection of titles added in the last month. You'll find them on the New Book display by the front desk of the Boley Law Library, or shelved in their proper spot.
Click on the titles to see if they are available. Come to the library and check them out or, literally, come check them out of the library. Faculty, send us your requests and we'll have them in your inbox the next day.
Business, Investment, and Tax Law
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Careers in Business Law
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If you are considering a career in business law, seeking a new practice area, or contemplating a shift in your legal career, this new guide provides practical advice, valuable insights, and actionable strategies that you can employ to prepare for a successful and fulfilling career in business law. The guide includes personal narratives and profiles of individuals from varied practice areas who have made significant strides in business law, often against the backdrop of historical underrepresentation and adversity. Their stories offer valuable lessons for lawyers at any career stage. Author Lana Manganiello, provides a detailed roadmap to a career in business law, including developing a deep understanding of the field, identifying niche areas of specialization, leveraging technology and innovation, and building a robust professional network. Beginning with choosing the right path and exploring career choices to navigating career evolution and challenges, this guide will help you: navigate the complexities of the legal profession integrate market realities with career aspirations; navigate career evolution and challenges; overcome professional challenges; cultivate key professional relationships; build expertise in your chosen area; forge your path in business law; leverage your success to effect positive change within the profession.
Call Number: Legal Careers ; HF5381 .M36 2024ISBN: 9781639055340Publication Date: April 1, 2024 -
Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy
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A stirring, comprehensive look at the state of women in the workforce--why women's progress has stalled, how our economy fosters unproductive competition, and how we can fix the system that holds women back. In an era of supposed great equality, women are still falling behind in the workplace. Even with more women in the workforce than in decades past, wage gaps continue to increase. It is the most educated women who have fallen the furthest behind. Blue-collar women hold the most insecure and badly paid jobs in our economy. And even as we celebrate high-profile representation--women on the board of Fortune 500 companies and our first female vice president--women have limited recourse when they experience harassment and discrimination. Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy explains that the system that governs our economy--a winner-take-all economy--is the root cause of these myriad problems. The WTA economy self-selects for aggressive, cutthroat business tactics, which creates a feedback loop that sidelines women. The authors, three legal scholars, call this feedback loop "the triple bind": if women don't compete on the same terms as men, they lose; if women do compete on the same terms as men, they're punished more harshly for their sharp elbows or actual misdeeds; and when women see that they can't win on the same terms as men, they take themselves out of the game (if they haven't been pushed out already). With odds like these stacked against them, it's no wonder women feel like, no matter how hard they work, they can't get ahead. Fair Shake is not a "fix the woman" book; it's a "fix the system" book. It not only diagnoses the problem of what's wrong with the modern economy, but shows how, with awareness and collective action, we can build a truly just economy for all.
Call Number: Treatises ; HD6060.5.U5 C34 2024ISBN: 9781982115128Publication Date: May 7, 2024 -
Guidebook for Directors of Nonprofit Corporations, Fourth Edition
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Call Number: Treatises ; KF1388.7 G85 2024ISBN: 9781639054695Publication Date: April 1, 2025 -
Preventing the Dispute Before it Begins: Proven Mechanisms for Fostering Better Business Relationships
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To help you understand and adopt more proactive dispute prevention practices, this comprehensive guide provides effective dispute prevention mechanisms to help control and eliminate contract disputes and successfully manage better business relationships. The guide focuses on proven dispute prevention mechanisms, why they help prevent disputes, and how they work in practice. Contract disputes are costly, interfere with business productivity, result in economic waste, and destroy business relationships. If you are ready to take action to prevent disputes before they occur, this valuable guide provides proven prevention mechanisms to effectively avoid and prevent business disputes. Written by leading authorities, the book introduces the why and what of dispute prevention and includes a case study of an organization that is shifting from reactive dispute resolution to applying proactive dispute prevention practices. This guide will help you better understand the detailed workings of prevention-focused mechanisms, which include formalizing and managing the business relationship. An overview of the mechanisms is discussed, why they are effective in preventing disputes, and how organizations are putting them into practice. Additionally, the authors include suggestions for designing a Dispute Management System, as well as a compelling business case for why you should make the shift to dispute prevention.
Call Number: Treatises ; KF9085 .V58 2025ISBN: 9781639055555Publication Date: 2025 -
The Tokenised Economy and the Law
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This topical book offers a comprehensive examination of the legal framework behind the tokenised economy, illustrating the business applications of blockchain and distributed-ledger technologies. Conducting a thorough analysis of the different taxonomies of crypto assets, Riccardo de Caria focuses on a range of legal areas, including currency, property, contract, investment and corporate law. Presenting a multijurisdictional perspective on the legal challenges that arise from economic application of tokens, de Caria approaches the subject by looking primarily at the business implications of the regulatory choices facing policy-makers. Chapters explore relevant case studies such as the implementation of the EU's MiCAR and the Data Act. Contextualising his discussion within the broader framework of the relationship between law and new technologies, de Caria underscores the need for lawyers to reflect on the extent to which computer code can replace traditional legal categories. The Tokenised Economy and the Lawis an accessible resource for scholars of public and private law, as well as scholars of macro-economics, business management and corporate finance. Legal practitioners and researchers will also find the policy debates and market insights presented here beneficial.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9781800883215Publication Date: December 13, 2024
Civil Rights and Constitutional Law
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Age Discrimination: A Legal Research Guide
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Age discrimination in employment is both a federal and state legal problem found in numerous primary and secondary sources. Since the passage of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 and succeeding legislation, age discrimination in employment and in other areas of the law has affected both federal and state governments. As the population of the country grows older and economic conditions affect the ability of older Americans to retire, age discrimination has grown over the years as demonstrated in the rise of court cases at all levels of the government. As senior adults we recognize the need for a detailed bibliography on this topic. The major focus of this bibliography is in employment law, but have included some other areas as well such as receiving benefits from federal and local governments that require the acceptance of federal legislation in this area. We have included state statutes and regulations as well.
Call Number: Treatises ; KF3465.A1 F57 2025ISBN: 9780837743295Publication Date: 2025 -
Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws that are Ruining America
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In this New York Times bestseller, Elie Mystal offers a brilliant takedown of ten shocking pieces of legislation that continue to perpetuate hate, racial bias, injustice, and inequality today--an urgent yet hopeful read for our current political climate. In Bad Law, the New York Times bestselling author of Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution reimagines what our legal system, and society at large, could look like if we could move past legislation plagued by racism, misogyny, and corruption. Through accessible yet detailed prose and trenchant wit, Mystal argues that these egregiously awful laws--his "Bill of Wrongs"--continue to cause systematic and individual harm and should be repealed completely. By exposing the flawed foundations of the rules we live by, and through biting humor and insight, Bad Law offers a crisp, pertinent take on: abortion and the Hyde Amendment, and the role federal funding, or lack thereof, has played in depriving women of necessary health and reproductive care; immigration and illegal reentry, and the illusions that have been sold to us regarding immigration policy, reform, and whiteness at large; voter registration laws, and how the right to vote has become a moral issue; and ironically, antidemocratic gun control and the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, and the extreme yet obvious dangers of granting immunity to gun manufacturers. But, as the man Samantha Bee calls "irrepressible and righteously indignant" and Matt Levine of Bloomberg Opinion calls "the funniest lawyer in America," points out, these laws do not come to us from on high; we write them, and we can and should unwrite them. In a fierce, funny, and wholly original takedown spanning all the hot-button topics in the country today, one of our most brilliant legal thinkers points the way to a saner tomorrow.
Call Number: Treatises ; KF4945 .M97 2025ISBN: 9781620978580Publication Date: March 25, 2025
Criminal Law
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Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws that are Ruining America
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In this New York Times bestseller, Elie Mystal offers a brilliant takedown of ten shocking pieces of legislation that continue to perpetuate hate, racial bias, injustice, and inequality today--an urgent yet hopeful read for our current political climate. In Bad Law, the New York Times bestselling author of Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution reimagines what our legal system, and society at large, could look like if we could move past legislation plagued by racism, misogyny, and corruption. Through accessible yet detailed prose and trenchant wit, Mystal argues that these egregiously awful laws--his "Bill of Wrongs"--continue to cause systematic and individual harm and should be repealed completely. By exposing the flawed foundations of the rules we live by, and through biting humor and insight, Bad Law offers a crisp, pertinent take on: abortion and the Hyde Amendment, and the role federal funding, or lack thereof, has played in depriving women of necessary health and reproductive care; immigration and illegal reentry, and the illusions that have been sold to us regarding immigration policy, reform, and whiteness at large; voter registration laws, and how the right to vote has become a moral issue; and ironically, antidemocratic gun control and the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, and the extreme yet obvious dangers of granting immunity to gun manufacturers. But, as the man Samantha Bee calls "irrepressible and righteously indignant" and Matt Levine of Bloomberg Opinion calls "the funniest lawyer in America," points out, these laws do not come to us from on high; we write them, and we can and should unwrite them. In a fierce, funny, and wholly original takedown spanning all the hot-button topics in the country today, one of our most brilliant legal thinkers points the way to a saner tomorrow.
Call Number: Treatises ; KF4945 .M97 2025ISBN: 9781620978580Publication Date: March 25, 2025
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Civilizing Torture
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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. Most Americans believe that a civilized state does not resort to torture, and yet, as W. Fitzhugh Brundage reveals in this essential and disturbing study, there is a long American tradition of excusing as well as decrying its use. The pilgrims and merchants who first came to America from Europe professed an intention to create a society free of the barbarism of Old World tyranny and New World savagery. But over the centuries Americans have turned to torture during moments of crisis at home and abroad and have debated its legitimacy in defense of law and order. From the Indian wars to Civil War POW prisons and early penitentiaries, from ?the third degree? in police stations and racial lynchings to the War on Terror, U.S. institutions have proven to be far more amenable to torture than the nation's professed commitment to liberty would suggest. Legal and racial inequality fostered many opportunities for state agents to wield excessive power, which they justified as essential for American safety and well-being. Reconciling state violence with the aspirations of Americans for social and political justice is an enduring challenge. By tracing the historical debates about the efficacy of torture and the attempt to adapt it to democratic values, Civilizing Torture reveals the recurring struggle to decide what limits Americans are willing to impose on the power of the state. At a time of escalating rhetoric aimed at cleansing the nation of the undeserving, as well as ongoing military involvement in conflicts around the world, the debate over torture remains a critical and unresolved part of America's tradition.
Call Number: HV8599.U6 B78 2018ISBN: 9780674737662Publication Date: November 12, 2018
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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Age Discrimination: A Legal Research Guide
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Age discrimination in employment is both a federal and state legal problem found in numerous primary and secondary sources. Since the passage of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 and succeeding legislation, age discrimination in employment and in other areas of the law has affected both federal and state governments. As the population of the country grows older and economic conditions affect the ability of older Americans to retire, age discrimination has grown over the years as demonstrated in the rise of court cases at all levels of the government. As senior adults we recognize the need for a detailed bibliography on this topic. The major focus of this bibliography is in employment law, but have included some other areas as well such as receiving benefits from federal and local governments that require the acceptance of federal legislation in this area. We have included state statutes and regulations as well.
Call Number: Treatises ; KF3465.A1 F57 2025ISBN: 9780837743295Publication Date: 2025
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Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws that are Ruining America
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In this New York Times bestseller, Elie Mystal offers a brilliant takedown of ten shocking pieces of legislation that continue to perpetuate hate, racial bias, injustice, and inequality today--an urgent yet hopeful read for our current political climate. In Bad Law, the New York Times bestselling author of Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution reimagines what our legal system, and society at large, could look like if we could move past legislation plagued by racism, misogyny, and corruption. Through accessible yet detailed prose and trenchant wit, Mystal argues that these egregiously awful laws--his "Bill of Wrongs"--continue to cause systematic and individual harm and should be repealed completely. By exposing the flawed foundations of the rules we live by, and through biting humor and insight, Bad Law offers a crisp, pertinent take on: abortion and the Hyde Amendment, and the role federal funding, or lack thereof, has played in depriving women of necessary health and reproductive care; immigration and illegal reentry, and the illusions that have been sold to us regarding immigration policy, reform, and whiteness at large; voter registration laws, and how the right to vote has become a moral issue; and ironically, antidemocratic gun control and the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, and the extreme yet obvious dangers of granting immunity to gun manufacturers. But, as the man Samantha Bee calls "irrepressible and righteously indignant" and Matt Levine of Bloomberg Opinion calls "the funniest lawyer in America," points out, these laws do not come to us from on high; we write them, and we can and should unwrite them. In a fierce, funny, and wholly original takedown spanning all the hot-button topics in the country today, one of our most brilliant legal thinkers points the way to a saner tomorrow.
Call Number: Treatises ; KF4945 .M97 2025ISBN: 9781620978580Publication Date: March 25, 2025
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Beyond Blood Quantum: Refusal to Disappear
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Both informational and poetic, Beyond Blood Quantum: Refusal to Disappear is a guide for conversation in-community and a songline of voices grappling with contemporary Native identity and the sovereignty inherent in defining citizenship with analysis softened by appreciation for kin, land, and promises to future generations from the descendants of generations who continue to resist, who refuse to disappear.
Call Number: Treatises ; KDZ481 .B49 2025ISBN: 9781682754627Publication Date: March 18, 2025 -
Civilizing Torture
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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. Most Americans believe that a civilized state does not resort to torture, and yet, as W. Fitzhugh Brundage reveals in this essential and disturbing study, there is a long American tradition of excusing as well as decrying its use. The pilgrims and merchants who first came to America from Europe professed an intention to create a society free of the barbarism of Old World tyranny and New World savagery. But over the centuries Americans have turned to torture during moments of crisis at home and abroad and have debated its legitimacy in defense of law and order. From the Indian wars to Civil War POW prisons and early penitentiaries, from ?the third degree? in police stations and racial lynchings to the War on Terror, U.S. institutions have proven to be far more amenable to torture than the nation's professed commitment to liberty would suggest. Legal and racial inequality fostered many opportunities for state agents to wield excessive power, which they justified as essential for American safety and well-being. Reconciling state violence with the aspirations of Americans for social and political justice is an enduring challenge. By tracing the historical debates about the efficacy of torture and the attempt to adapt it to democratic values, Civilizing Torture reveals the recurring struggle to decide what limits Americans are willing to impose on the power of the state. At a time of escalating rhetoric aimed at cleansing the nation of the undeserving, as well as ongoing military involvement in conflicts around the world, the debate over torture remains a critical and unresolved part of America's tradition.
Call Number: HV8599.U6 B78 2018ISBN: 9780674737662Publication Date: November 12, 2018
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Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy
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A stirring, comprehensive look at the state of women in the workforce--why women's progress has stalled, how our economy fosters unproductive competition, and how we can fix the system that holds women back. In an era of supposed great equality, women are still falling behind in the workplace. Even with more women in the workforce than in decades past, wage gaps continue to increase. It is the most educated women who have fallen the furthest behind. Blue-collar women hold the most insecure and badly paid jobs in our economy. And even as we celebrate high-profile representation--women on the board of Fortune 500 companies and our first female vice president--women have limited recourse when they experience harassment and discrimination. Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy explains that the system that governs our economy--a winner-take-all economy--is the root cause of these myriad problems. The WTA economy self-selects for aggressive, cutthroat business tactics, which creates a feedback loop that sidelines women. The authors, three legal scholars, call this feedback loop "the triple bind": if women don't compete on the same terms as men, they lose; if women do compete on the same terms as men, they're punished more harshly for their sharp elbows or actual misdeeds; and when women see that they can't win on the same terms as men, they take themselves out of the game (if they haven't been pushed out already). With odds like these stacked against them, it's no wonder women feel like, no matter how hard they work, they can't get ahead. Fair Shake is not a "fix the woman" book; it's a "fix the system" book. It not only diagnoses the problem of what's wrong with the modern economy, but shows how, with awareness and collective action, we can build a truly just economy for all.
Call Number: Treatises ; HD6060.5.U5 C34 2024ISBN: 9781982115128Publication Date: May 7, 2024
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Gender Trouble
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One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine.' Best known however, but also most often misinterpreted, is Butler's concept of gender as a reiterated social performance rather than the expression of a prior reality. Thrilling and provocative, few other academic works have roused passions to the same extent.
Call Number: Treatises ; HQ1154 .B88 2006; also EBOOKISBN: 9780415389556Publication Date: May 12, 2006
Employment and Labor Law
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Age Discrimination: A Legal Research Guide
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Age discrimination in employment is both a federal and state legal problem found in numerous primary and secondary sources. Since the passage of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 and succeeding legislation, age discrimination in employment and in other areas of the law has affected both federal and state governments. As the population of the country grows older and economic conditions affect the ability of older Americans to retire, age discrimination has grown over the years as demonstrated in the rise of court cases at all levels of the government. As senior adults we recognize the need for a detailed bibliography on this topic. The major focus of this bibliography is in employment law, but have included some other areas as well such as receiving benefits from federal and local governments that require the acceptance of federal legislation in this area. We have included state statutes and regulations as well.
Call Number: Treatises ; KF3465.A1 F57 2025ISBN: 9780837743295Publication Date: 2025
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America, Let Me In: A Choose Your Immigration Story
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A hilarious and satirically accurate introduction to the United States immigration system from comedian and writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Felipe Torres Medina. Born in Colombia, Felipe Torres Medina moved to the US at the age of 21 and has spent over ten years of his life both navigating the chaos and confusion of the immigration system and explaining that craziness to the clueless Americans around him. There are few subjects that Americans have stronger opinions on. And there are few subjects that they know less about. So, like many immigrants before him, Torres Medina sets out to do the job American-born citizens won't: make the US immigration process accessible, relatable, and, hey, a little bit funny. With an outsider's eye, an insider's affection, and a biting, humorous flair, Torres Medina invites readers from all passport lines to explore the multiple paths and potholes of moving to America, and experience just how many choices it takes to choose a new home. In this laugh-out-loud book, you will be taken down a multitude of possible immigration stories that range from the kafkaesquely silly to an uproarious good time. Some of them are real things that happened to Felipe--like discovering in an immigration interview that he shares a name with several criminals--and some of them are totally invented and will make you question your sanity. By the end of this handy guide, you'll learn all you need to know about visas like the H-1B work visa, the infamous 90-day fiancé visa, the so-called Einstein visa, and many more. Remember, the fate of each character's journey is all in your hands. So choose at your own risk.
Call Number: Treatises ; JV6465 .M435 2025ISBN: 9781419776397Publication Date: March 11, 2025 -
Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy
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A stirring, comprehensive look at the state of women in the workforce--why women's progress has stalled, how our economy fosters unproductive competition, and how we can fix the system that holds women back. In an era of supposed great equality, women are still falling behind in the workplace. Even with more women in the workforce than in decades past, wage gaps continue to increase. It is the most educated women who have fallen the furthest behind. Blue-collar women hold the most insecure and badly paid jobs in our economy. And even as we celebrate high-profile representation--women on the board of Fortune 500 companies and our first female vice president--women have limited recourse when they experience harassment and discrimination. Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy explains that the system that governs our economy--a winner-take-all economy--is the root cause of these myriad problems. The WTA economy self-selects for aggressive, cutthroat business tactics, which creates a feedback loop that sidelines women. The authors, three legal scholars, call this feedback loop "the triple bind": if women don't compete on the same terms as men, they lose; if women do compete on the same terms as men, they're punished more harshly for their sharp elbows or actual misdeeds; and when women see that they can't win on the same terms as men, they take themselves out of the game (if they haven't been pushed out already). With odds like these stacked against them, it's no wonder women feel like, no matter how hard they work, they can't get ahead. Fair Shake is not a "fix the woman" book; it's a "fix the system" book. It not only diagnoses the problem of what's wrong with the modern economy, but shows how, with awareness and collective action, we can build a truly just economy for all.
Call Number: Treatises ; HD6060.5.U5 C34 2024ISBN: 9781982115128Publication Date: May 7, 2024
Environmental, Energy, and Natural Resources Law
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Research Handbook on Climate Change and Biodiversity Law
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This Research Handbook tackles the intersecting crises of biodiversity loss and climate change from a legal perspective, delivering cutting edge insights into the evolution of these laws, and their shortfalls and opportunities. Experts critically analyse international and regional laws and institutions that were designed to protect biodiversity. They highlight the ways in which legal frameworks are being challenged by climate change and historical biodiversity loss, and the potential for these laws to transition or be transformed in anticipation of ongoing change. The contributing authors examine what biodiversity laws need to achieve as the climate continues to change, and outline innovations within conservation, climate mitigation and adaptation research and practice. They focus on emerging legal gaps, and explore civil litigation rules and industry arrangements such as international fishing regulations and invasive species management. They examine core international and transboundary environmental law regimes, as well as multilateral environment agreements, and review how domestic legal instruments contribute to implementing international rules and targets. The chapters in this Research Handbook cover a broad range of sectors, disciplines and jurisdictions, including NGO, government and industry-led approaches, providing insights into the potential of legal strategies to address threats posed by climate-driven biodiversity loss. The Research Handbook on Climate Change and Biodiversity Lawis invaluable to students and academics in climate change and environmental law, conveying a clear understanding of how multiple legal regimes interact and instigate legal, political and governance reform. Policymakers, lawmakers and litigators seeking to enforce international and domestic laws will also find it a key resource.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9781800370289Publication Date: December 13, 2024
Family Law
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Children's Rights in Professional Practices with Children and Youth
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In this insightful book, Tara M. Collins uses critical analysis and practical examples to illustrate the essential connection between children's rights and professional practices. Collins identifies key conceptual considerations to inform and guide a pattern of professional work that respects children, youth and their families. Children's Rights in Professional Practices with Children and Youthemphasises the importance of understanding, reflecting upon, respecting and implementing children's rights in the context of relational practices involving young people. Adopting an international perspective, it addresses the predominance of legalism in children's rights which hinders understanding and respect by professionals. It explores the ways in which a relational children's rights-based praxis can inform professional practices. Multidisciplinary in scope, this book is crucial reading for academics, researchers and students of law and other professional disciplines with an interest in human rights. Varied professionals and policymakers at local, regional, national and international levels will also benefit from this fundamental resource due to its practical application.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9781802202342Publication Date: December 6, 2024
Health Law and Elder Care
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Age Discrimination: A Legal Research Guide
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Age discrimination in employment is both a federal and state legal problem found in numerous primary and secondary sources. Since the passage of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 and succeeding legislation, age discrimination in employment and in other areas of the law has affected both federal and state governments. As the population of the country grows older and economic conditions affect the ability of older Americans to retire, age discrimination has grown over the years as demonstrated in the rise of court cases at all levels of the government. As senior adults we recognize the need for a detailed bibliography on this topic. The major focus of this bibliography is in employment law, but have included some other areas as well such as receiving benefits from federal and local governments that require the acceptance of federal legislation in this area. We have included state statutes and regulations as well.
Call Number: Treatises ; KF3465.A1 F57 2025ISBN: 9780837743295Publication Date: 2025
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Socio-Economic Rights, Inequalities and Vulnerability in Times of Crises
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This timely book explores the key lessons that can be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, adopting a forward-looking approach to the socio-economic rights of vulnerable groups. It highlights the ways in which we can better prepare for future times of crises. Contributing authors utilize a human rights-based approach centred on equality, in order to deepen current knowledge and understanding of a range of economic, social and cultural rights issues, including often neglected rights such as the right to science. In addition, they advocate for the (re-)prioritization of the domestic implementation of socio-economic rights protection. They explore how this can be achieved via increased investment in scientific progress and its applications, by regulating private actors, and with increased international cooperation. Building on important research in the field, this innovative book is an essential resource for human rights scholars and law students looking to broaden their knowledge of key socio-economic challenges post-COVID. Policymakers and human rights organizations seeking to understand the inequalities compounded by the pandemic will also benefit from this prescient book.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9781035306640Publication Date: December 13, 2024
Immigration Law
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America, Let Me In: A Choose Your Immigration Story
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A hilarious and satirically accurate introduction to the United States immigration system from comedian and writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Felipe Torres Medina. Born in Colombia, Felipe Torres Medina moved to the US at the age of 21 and has spent over ten years of his life both navigating the chaos and confusion of the immigration system and explaining that craziness to the clueless Americans around him. There are few subjects that Americans have stronger opinions on. And there are few subjects that they know less about. So, like many immigrants before him, Torres Medina sets out to do the job American-born citizens won't: make the US immigration process accessible, relatable, and, hey, a little bit funny. With an outsider's eye, an insider's affection, and a biting, humorous flair, Torres Medina invites readers from all passport lines to explore the multiple paths and potholes of moving to America, and experience just how many choices it takes to choose a new home. In this laugh-out-loud book, you will be taken down a multitude of possible immigration stories that range from the kafkaesquely silly to an uproarious good time. Some of them are real things that happened to Felipe--like discovering in an immigration interview that he shares a name with several criminals--and some of them are totally invented and will make you question your sanity. By the end of this handy guide, you'll learn all you need to know about visas like the H-1B work visa, the infamous 90-day fiancé visa, the so-called Einstein visa, and many more. Remember, the fate of each character's journey is all in your hands. So choose at your own risk.
Call Number: Treatises ; JV6465 .M435 2025ISBN: 9781419776397Publication Date: March 11, 2025
Indigenous Law
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Beyond Blood Quantum: Refusal to Disappear
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Both informational and poetic, Beyond Blood Quantum: Refusal to Disappear is a guide for conversation in-community and a songline of voices grappling with contemporary Native identity and the sovereignty inherent in defining citizenship with analysis softened by appreciation for kin, land, and promises to future generations from the descendants of generations who continue to resist, who refuse to disappear.
Call Number: Treatises ; KDZ481 .B49 2025ISBN: 9781682754627Publication Date: March 18, 2025
Innovation, Technology, & the Law
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Beyond Smart: Lawyering With Emotional Intelligence, Second Edition
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Ronda Muir's second edition of her user-friendly best-selling Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence updates the research that shows how lawyers in all walks of the profession can use the burgeoning science of emotional intelligence (EI) to address the pressing issues individual lawyers and practices are currently being confronted with, including how to: Become smarter, better practitioners - as negotiators, civil and criminal litigators, and judges; Be personally more productive and profitable; Become physically and mentally healthier in an era of high post-Covid stress; Be more effective leaders in an increasingly challenging profession; Develop practices that can thrive in a competitive and technologically complex marketplace, so as to be able to outperform even the rise of artificial intelligence; Build practices that profit from higher emotional intelligence through increased performance, enhanced teamwork, and greater client satisfaction, as well as lower attrition, healthcare, and professional liability costs; Address the workplace issues arising from remote work, high-stress and disengagement that are bedeviling legal practices; and Take the steps available to individuals, law schools, and workplaces to raise personal and profession-wide emotional intelligence. For legal professionals wanting to improve their productivity, communication, client service and leadership skills and create a high performance, high functioning and more profitable workplace in the 21st century, there is no better guide than the second edition of Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence.
Call Number: Legal Practice ; K120 .M83 2025ISBN: 9781639055791Publication Date: March 11, 2025
International, Foreign, & Human Rights Law
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Children's Rights in Professional Practices with Children and Youth
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In this insightful book, Tara M. Collins uses critical analysis and practical examples to illustrate the essential connection between children's rights and professional practices. Collins identifies key conceptual considerations to inform and guide a pattern of professional work that respects children, youth and their families. Children's Rights in Professional Practices with Children and Youthemphasises the importance of understanding, reflecting upon, respecting and implementing children's rights in the context of relational practices involving young people. Adopting an international perspective, it addresses the predominance of legalism in children's rights which hinders understanding and respect by professionals. It explores the ways in which a relational children's rights-based praxis can inform professional practices. Multidisciplinary in scope, this book is crucial reading for academics, researchers and students of law and other professional disciplines with an interest in human rights. Varied professionals and policymakers at local, regional, national and international levels will also benefit from this fundamental resource due to its practical application.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9781802202342Publication Date: December 6, 2024
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Civilizing Torture
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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. Most Americans believe that a civilized state does not resort to torture, and yet, as W. Fitzhugh Brundage reveals in this essential and disturbing study, there is a long American tradition of excusing as well as decrying its use. The pilgrims and merchants who first came to America from Europe professed an intention to create a society free of the barbarism of Old World tyranny and New World savagery. But over the centuries Americans have turned to torture during moments of crisis at home and abroad and have debated its legitimacy in defense of law and order. From the Indian wars to Civil War POW prisons and early penitentiaries, from ?the third degree? in police stations and racial lynchings to the War on Terror, U.S. institutions have proven to be far more amenable to torture than the nation's professed commitment to liberty would suggest. Legal and racial inequality fostered many opportunities for state agents to wield excessive power, which they justified as essential for American safety and well-being. Reconciling state violence with the aspirations of Americans for social and political justice is an enduring challenge. By tracing the historical debates about the efficacy of torture and the attempt to adapt it to democratic values, Civilizing Torture reveals the recurring struggle to decide what limits Americans are willing to impose on the power of the state. At a time of escalating rhetoric aimed at cleansing the nation of the undeserving, as well as ongoing military involvement in conflicts around the world, the debate over torture remains a critical and unresolved part of America's tradition.
Call Number: HV8599.U6 B78 2018ISBN: 9780674737662Publication Date: November 12, 2018
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Legitimacy and Legality in International Law
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It has never been more important to understand how international law enables and constrains international politics. By drawing together the legal theory of Lon Fuller and the insights of constructivist international relations scholars, this book articulates a pragmatic view of how international obligation is created and maintained. First, legal norms can only arise in the context of social norms based on shared understandings. Second, internal features of law, or 'criteria of legality', are crucial to law's ability to promote adherence, to inspire 'fidelity'. Third, legal norms are built, maintained or destroyed through a continuing practice of legality. Through case studies of the climate change regime, the anti-torture norm, and the prohibition on the use of force, it is shown that these three elements produce a distinctive legal legitimacy and a sense of commitment among those to whom law is addressed.
Call Number: Treatises ; KZ1251 .B78 2010ISBN: 9780521706834Publication Date: 2010-08-05 -
Socio-Economic Rights, Inequalities and Vulnerability in Times of Crises
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This timely book explores the key lessons that can be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, adopting a forward-looking approach to the socio-economic rights of vulnerable groups. It highlights the ways in which we can better prepare for future times of crises. Contributing authors utilize a human rights-based approach centred on equality, in order to deepen current knowledge and understanding of a range of economic, social and cultural rights issues, including often neglected rights such as the right to science. In addition, they advocate for the (re-)prioritization of the domestic implementation of socio-economic rights protection. They explore how this can be achieved via increased investment in scientific progress and its applications, by regulating private actors, and with increased international cooperation. Building on important research in the field, this innovative book is an essential resource for human rights scholars and law students looking to broaden their knowledge of key socio-economic challenges post-COVID. Policymakers and human rights organizations seeking to understand the inequalities compounded by the pandemic will also benefit from this prescient book.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9781035306640Publication Date: December 13, 2024
Law and Religion
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Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730-1805
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The early political culture of the American republic was deeply influenced by the religious consciousness of the New England preachers. Indeed, it was often through the political sermon -- the pulpit of the American Revolution -- that the political rhetoric of the period was formed, refined, and transmitted. And yet the centrality of religious concerns in the lives of eighteenth-century Americans is largely neglected. This has created a blind spot regarding the fundamental acts of the American founding.Political sermons such as the fifty-five collected in this volume are unique to America, in both kind and significance. This volume thus fills an important need if the American founding period is to be adequately understood.
Call Number: Treatises ; BR115.P7 P53 1991ISBN: 9780865970908Publication Date: Jan. 1, 1991
Legal Careers
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Careers in Business Law
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If you are considering a career in business law, seeking a new practice area, or contemplating a shift in your legal career, this new guide provides practical advice, valuable insights, and actionable strategies that you can employ to prepare for a successful and fulfilling career in business law. The guide includes personal narratives and profiles of individuals from varied practice areas who have made significant strides in business law, often against the backdrop of historical underrepresentation and adversity. Their stories offer valuable lessons for lawyers at any career stage. Author Lana Manganiello, provides a detailed roadmap to a career in business law, including developing a deep understanding of the field, identifying niche areas of specialization, leveraging technology and innovation, and building a robust professional network. Beginning with choosing the right path and exploring career choices to navigating career evolution and challenges, this guide will help you: navigate the complexities of the legal profession integrate market realities with career aspirations; navigate career evolution and challenges; overcome professional challenges; cultivate key professional relationships; build expertise in your chosen area; forge your path in business law; leverage your success to effect positive change within the profession.
Call Number: Legal Careers ; HF5381 .M36 2024ISBN: 9781639055340Publication Date: April 1, 2024
Legal Education
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American Legal Systems: A Resource and Reference Guide, Fourth Editions
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American Legal Systems: A Resource and Reference Guide, now in its fourth edition, is a reader-friendly introduction to U.S. legal principles, terms, institutions, and sources of law, including a discussion of precedent and the defining concept of stare decisis. Many of the concepts covered are tied to the realities of law practice. The text provides practice, tips, and instruction, including templates, on how to prepare commonplace legal documents. Website sources are provided for additional information. The information is largely presented in charts, with explanatory interspatial text to provide context, and can be used as a complement to other coursework or on its own as an introduction to the U.S. legal system.
Call Number: Treatises ; KF240 .J34 2025ISBN: 9781531028657Publication Date: December 16, 2024 -
Beyond Smart: Lawyering With Emotional Intelligence, Second Edition
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Ronda Muir's second edition of her user-friendly best-selling Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence updates the research that shows how lawyers in all walks of the profession can use the burgeoning science of emotional intelligence (EI) to address the pressing issues individual lawyers and practices are currently being confronted with, including how to: Become smarter, better practitioners - as negotiators, civil and criminal litigators, and judges; Be personally more productive and profitable; Become physically and mentally healthier in an era of high post-Covid stress; Be more effective leaders in an increasingly challenging profession; Develop practices that can thrive in a competitive and technologically complex marketplace, so as to be able to outperform even the rise of artificial intelligence; Build practices that profit from higher emotional intelligence through increased performance, enhanced teamwork, and greater client satisfaction, as well as lower attrition, healthcare, and professional liability costs; Address the workplace issues arising from remote work, high-stress and disengagement that are bedeviling legal practices; and Take the steps available to individuals, law schools, and workplaces to raise personal and profession-wide emotional intelligence. For legal professionals wanting to improve their productivity, communication, client service and leadership skills and create a high performance, high functioning and more profitable workplace in the 21st century, there is no better guide than the second edition of Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence.
Call Number: Legal Practice ; K120 .M83 2025ISBN: 9781639055791Publication Date: March 11, 2025
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Legal Literacy and Communication Skills: Working with Law and Lawyers, Second Edition
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Legal Literacy and Communication Skills: Working with Law and Lawyers is a first-of-its-kind text, designed expressly for students in Juris Master, Master of Jurisprudence, and Master of Legal Studies programs. This concise paperback empowers students whose professional background is outside of law with a foundational understanding of the U.S. legal system and insight into what lawyers do. The second edition offers a new chapter on understanding litigation documents and dockets, providing students with the tools to find and follow civil lawsuits relevant to their interests. The second edition also both expands and streamlines its approach to regulations and administrative adjudication. Developments in generative artificial intelligence are also expanded to foster critical exploration of AI in the legal field. Legal Literacy and Communication Skills covers key concepts, including: Understanding the roles of legislatures, agencies, and courts; Recognizing and using basic legal vocabulary in context; Reading a variety of legal documents efficiently and effectively; Writing law-related reports and correspondence; Reading and understanding the function of primary sources of law, including statutes, regulations, and cases; Understanding the basic elements of a contract and participating in contracting processes; Understanding the general course and process of litigation and discovery from a client's perspective; and Recognizing and avoiding the unauthorized practice of law. Students will develop skills to help them find and use legal information for themselves or as part of a collaborative project with attorneys. The text includes exercises built around an ongoing case study and contains helpful "Traditions and Trends" commentary, which puts today's legal landscape into a broader context.
Call Number: Treatises ; KF250 .R66 2024ISBN: 9781531028589Publication Date: December 12, 2024
Legal History
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Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws that are Ruining America
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In this New York Times bestseller, Elie Mystal offers a brilliant takedown of ten shocking pieces of legislation that continue to perpetuate hate, racial bias, injustice, and inequality today--an urgent yet hopeful read for our current political climate. In Bad Law, the New York Times bestselling author of Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution reimagines what our legal system, and society at large, could look like if we could move past legislation plagued by racism, misogyny, and corruption. Through accessible yet detailed prose and trenchant wit, Mystal argues that these egregiously awful laws--his "Bill of Wrongs"--continue to cause systematic and individual harm and should be repealed completely. By exposing the flawed foundations of the rules we live by, and through biting humor and insight, Bad Law offers a crisp, pertinent take on: abortion and the Hyde Amendment, and the role federal funding, or lack thereof, has played in depriving women of necessary health and reproductive care; immigration and illegal reentry, and the illusions that have been sold to us regarding immigration policy, reform, and whiteness at large; voter registration laws, and how the right to vote has become a moral issue; and ironically, antidemocratic gun control and the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, and the extreme yet obvious dangers of granting immunity to gun manufacturers. But, as the man Samantha Bee calls "irrepressible and righteously indignant" and Matt Levine of Bloomberg Opinion calls "the funniest lawyer in America," points out, these laws do not come to us from on high; we write them, and we can and should unwrite them. In a fierce, funny, and wholly original takedown spanning all the hot-button topics in the country today, one of our most brilliant legal thinkers points the way to a saner tomorrow.
Call Number: Treatises ; KF4945 .M97 2025ISBN: 9781620978580Publication Date: March 25, 2025
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Civilizing Torture
by
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. Most Americans believe that a civilized state does not resort to torture, and yet, as W. Fitzhugh Brundage reveals in this essential and disturbing study, there is a long American tradition of excusing as well as decrying its use. The pilgrims and merchants who first came to America from Europe professed an intention to create a society free of the barbarism of Old World tyranny and New World savagery. But over the centuries Americans have turned to torture during moments of crisis at home and abroad and have debated its legitimacy in defense of law and order. From the Indian wars to Civil War POW prisons and early penitentiaries, from ?the third degree? in police stations and racial lynchings to the War on Terror, U.S. institutions have proven to be far more amenable to torture than the nation's professed commitment to liberty would suggest. Legal and racial inequality fostered many opportunities for state agents to wield excessive power, which they justified as essential for American safety and well-being. Reconciling state violence with the aspirations of Americans for social and political justice is an enduring challenge. By tracing the historical debates about the efficacy of torture and the attempt to adapt it to democratic values, Civilizing Torture reveals the recurring struggle to decide what limits Americans are willing to impose on the power of the state. At a time of escalating rhetoric aimed at cleansing the nation of the undeserving, as well as ongoing military involvement in conflicts around the world, the debate over torture remains a critical and unresolved part of America's tradition.
Call Number: HV8599.U6 B78 2018ISBN: 9780674737662Publication Date: November 12, 2018
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Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730-1805
by
The early political culture of the American republic was deeply influenced by the religious consciousness of the New England preachers. Indeed, it was often through the political sermon -- the pulpit of the American Revolution -- that the political rhetoric of the period was formed, refined, and transmitted. And yet the centrality of religious concerns in the lives of eighteenth-century Americans is largely neglected. This has created a blind spot regarding the fundamental acts of the American founding.Political sermons such as the fifty-five collected in this volume are unique to America, in both kind and significance. This volume thus fills an important need if the American founding period is to be adequately understood.
Call Number: Treatises ; BR115.P7 P53 1991ISBN: 9780865970908Publication Date: Jan. 1, 1991
Practice of Law
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American Legal Systems: A Resource and Reference Guide, Fourth Editions
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American Legal Systems: A Resource and Reference Guide, now in its fourth edition, is a reader-friendly introduction to U.S. legal principles, terms, institutions, and sources of law, including a discussion of precedent and the defining concept of stare decisis. Many of the concepts covered are tied to the realities of law practice. The text provides practice, tips, and instruction, including templates, on how to prepare commonplace legal documents. Website sources are provided for additional information. The information is largely presented in charts, with explanatory interspatial text to provide context, and can be used as a complement to other coursework or on its own as an introduction to the U.S. legal system.
Call Number: Treatises ; KF240 .J34 2025ISBN: 9781531028657Publication Date: December 16, 2024
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Beyond Smart: Lawyering With Emotional Intelligence, Second Edition
by
Ronda Muir's second edition of her user-friendly best-selling Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence updates the research that shows how lawyers in all walks of the profession can use the burgeoning science of emotional intelligence (EI) to address the pressing issues individual lawyers and practices are currently being confronted with, including how to: Become smarter, better practitioners - as negotiators, civil and criminal litigators, and judges; Be personally more productive and profitable; Become physically and mentally healthier in an era of high post-Covid stress; Be more effective leaders in an increasingly challenging profession; Develop practices that can thrive in a competitive and technologically complex marketplace, so as to be able to outperform even the rise of artificial intelligence; Build practices that profit from higher emotional intelligence through increased performance, enhanced teamwork, and greater client satisfaction, as well as lower attrition, healthcare, and professional liability costs; Address the workplace issues arising from remote work, high-stress and disengagement that are bedeviling legal practices; and Take the steps available to individuals, law schools, and workplaces to raise personal and profession-wide emotional intelligence. For legal professionals wanting to improve their productivity, communication, client service and leadership skills and create a high performance, high functioning and more profitable workplace in the 21st century, there is no better guide than the second edition of Beyond Smart: Lawyering with Emotional Intelligence.
Call Number: Legal Practice ; K120 .M83 2025ISBN: 9781639055791Publication Date: March 11, 2025
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Preventing the Dispute Before it Begins: Proven Mechanisms for Fostering Better Business Relationships
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To help you understand and adopt more proactive dispute prevention practices, this comprehensive guide provides effective dispute prevention mechanisms to help control and eliminate contract disputes and successfully manage better business relationships. The guide focuses on proven dispute prevention mechanisms, why they help prevent disputes, and how they work in practice. Contract disputes are costly, interfere with business productivity, result in economic waste, and destroy business relationships. If you are ready to take action to prevent disputes before they occur, this valuable guide provides proven prevention mechanisms to effectively avoid and prevent business disputes. Written by leading authorities, the book introduces the why and what of dispute prevention and includes a case study of an organization that is shifting from reactive dispute resolution to applying proactive dispute prevention practices. This guide will help you better understand the detailed workings of prevention-focused mechanisms, which include formalizing and managing the business relationship. An overview of the mechanisms is discussed, why they are effective in preventing disputes, and how organizations are putting them into practice. Additionally, the authors include suggestions for designing a Dispute Management System, as well as a compelling business case for why you should make the shift to dispute prevention.
Call Number: Treatises ; KF9085 .V58 2025ISBN: 9781639055555Publication Date: 2025
Other Subject Areas
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Consumer Protection: Understanding Enforcement Actions Brought by State Attorneys General
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Consumer Protection: Understanding Enforcement Actions Brought by State Attorneys General is a guide to a critical realm of consumer protection - enforcement investigations, litigation, and settlements by state attorneys general. These state officials and their enforcement staff are on the front lines of engaging with companies over practices that are alleged to be deceptive or unfair to consumers or otherwise unlawful. Whether on their own, or with other states as well as federal agencies, attorneys general wield considerable power to influence businesses' behavior in the marketplace. Attorney general consumer protection thus has emerged as a distinctive area of practice - drawing in not just attorney general staff but also a substantial community of private practitioners, including attorneys who advise and defend companies when their business practices are challenged as well as attorneys who represent states as outside counsel. This book examines the set of unique authorities, processes, and practices by which state attorney general enforcement activity takes place. Chapters explore attorney general policymaking; enforcement authorities, including the state "UDAP" laws that are at the heart of this practice area; the remedies available in public enforcement actions; the investigative process; public records issues; states' collaboration with federal agencies; and what is perhaps the hallmark of state attorney general practice, the "multistate" investigation. Punctuating these chapters are case studies and essays that illustrate the breadth of economic activity encompassed by attorney general enforcement, from live-event ticketing to pharmaceutical marketing to potentially abusive debt collection. The book serves as a reference guide to both seasoned practitioners and newcomers to the attorney general consumer protection arena.
Call Number: Treatises ; KF1608 .C66 2025ISBN: 9781639054954Publication Date: 2025
