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.
Administrative Law
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Administrative Law Stories
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This book explores the statutory and historical setting of the cases presented, rather than mere doctrine. It examines lawyers' judgments and tactics in detail, and frequently references recently revealed papers of Supreme Court Justices to discuss the often surprising elements of Court decisions. Students learn how disputes are handled at the administrative level, before they ever get to court - a perspective essential to understanding the field, but difficult to discern from the reported cases. The commentary also addresses how decisions can affect future developments, helping students understand how administrative disputes develop and the role lawyers play in developing them.
Call Number: Treatises ; KF5402.A4 A352 2006; also EBOOKISBN: 9781587789595Publication Date: 2005
Business, Investment, and Tax Law
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The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism
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Public understanding of, and outcry over, the dire state of the climate and environment is greater than ever before. Parties across the political spectrum claim to be climate leaders, and overt denial is on the way out. Yet when it comes to slowing the course of the climate and nature crises, despite a growing number of pledges, policies and summits, little ever seems to change. Nature is being destroyed at an unprecedented rate. We remain on course for a catastrophic 3°C of warming. What's holding us back? In this searing and insightful critique, Adrienne Buller examines the fatal biases that have shaped the response of our governing institutions to climate and environmental breakdown, and asks: are the 'solutions' being proposed really solutions? Tracing the intricate connections between financial power, economic injustice and ecological crisis, she exposes the myopic economism and market-centric thinking presently undermining a future where all life can flourish. The book examines what is wrong with mainstream climate and environmental governance, from carbon pricing and offset markets to 'green growth', the commodification of nature and the growing influence of the finance industry on environmental policy. In doing so, it exposes the self-defeating logic of a response to these challenges based on creating new opportunities for profit, and a refusal to grapple with the inequalities and injustices that have created them. Both honest and optimistic, The Value of a Whale asks us - in the face of crisis - what we really value.
Call Number: Environment ; HC79.E5 B8484 2022ISBN: 9781526162632Publication Date: July 26, 2022
Civil Procedure
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American Law in a Global Context, Second Edition
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American Law in a Global Context: The Basics, now in a thoroughly revised edition, is an elegant and erudite introduction to the American legal system from a global perspective. Drawing on some comparative examples with a focus on American law, George P. Fletcher, Hoi L. Kong, and Steve Sheppard introduce underlying principles of common and civil law, constitutional, criminal, and public law, and property and procedure. The appendices include an introduction to the common law method, instruction on how to read a case, the interpretation of statutes, and an introduction to the Federal system and US courts systems. This revised edition offers a greater focus on American law itself and includes the addition of an easy-to-use Bibliography as well as a new Civil Procedure Appendix. Fletcher, Kong, and Sheppard provide a clear roadmap through essential areas of US law with in-depth analyses of well-known cases. These cases allow readers the opportunity to examine not only law as theory but as practice, while guiding them to further exploration through suggested readings. A must-own reference source for LLM students, undergraduates, and students of US law in other countries.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9780190886943Publication Date: September 3, 2025
Civil Rights and Constitutional Law
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Listening to the Law
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From Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a glimpse of her journey to the Court and an account of her approach to the Constitution. Since her confirmation hearing, Americans have peppered Justice Amy Coney Barrett with questions. How has she adjusted to the Court? What is it like to be a Supreme Court justice with school-age children? Do the justices get along? What does her normal day look like? How does the Court get its cases? How does it decide them? How does she decide? In Listening to the Law, Justice Barrett answers these questions and more. She lays out her role (and daily life) as a justice, touching on everything from her deliberation process to dealing with media scrutiny. With the warmth and clarity that made her a popular law professor, she brings to life the making of the Constitution and explains her approach to interpreting its text. Whether sharing stories of clerking for Justice Scalia or walking readers through prominent cases, she invites readers to wrestle with originalism and to embrace the rich heritage of our Constitution.
Call Number: Treatises ; KF8745.B39 A3 2025ISBN: 9780593421864Publication Date: September 9, 2025 -
American Law in a Global Context, Second Edition
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American Law in a Global Context: The Basics, now in a thoroughly revised edition, is an elegant and erudite introduction to the American legal system from a global perspective. Drawing on some comparative examples with a focus on American law, George P. Fletcher, Hoi L. Kong, and Steve Sheppard introduce underlying principles of common and civil law, constitutional, criminal, and public law, and property and procedure. The appendices include an introduction to the common law method, instruction on how to read a case, the interpretation of statutes, and an introduction to the Federal system and US courts systems. This revised edition offers a greater focus on American law itself and includes the addition of an easy-to-use Bibliography as well as a new Civil Procedure Appendix. Fletcher, Kong, and Sheppard provide a clear roadmap through essential areas of US law with in-depth analyses of well-known cases. These cases allow readers the opportunity to examine not only law as theory but as practice, while guiding them to further exploration through suggested readings. A must-own reference source for LLM students, undergraduates, and students of US law in other countries.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9780190886943Publication Date: September 3, 2025
Criminal Law
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American Law in a Global Context, Second Edition
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American Law in a Global Context: The Basics, now in a thoroughly revised edition, is an elegant and erudite introduction to the American legal system from a global perspective. Drawing on some comparative examples with a focus on American law, George P. Fletcher, Hoi L. Kong, and Steve Sheppard introduce underlying principles of common and civil law, constitutional, criminal, and public law, and property and procedure. The appendices include an introduction to the common law method, instruction on how to read a case, the interpretation of statutes, and an introduction to the Federal system and US courts systems. This revised edition offers a greater focus on American law itself and includes the addition of an easy-to-use Bibliography as well as a new Civil Procedure Appendix. Fletcher, Kong, and Sheppard provide a clear roadmap through essential areas of US law with in-depth analyses of well-known cases. These cases allow readers the opportunity to examine not only law as theory but as practice, while guiding them to further exploration through suggested readings. A must-own reference source for LLM students, undergraduates, and students of US law in other countries.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9780190886943Publication Date: September 3, 2025
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Toward an Abolitionist Human Rights Court
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Contemporary international human rights law increasingly obligates states to heighten their criminalization of certain human rights violations, including gendered, racialized, and homophobic violence. This Element uses prison and police abolitionist thought to challenge this trend. It focuses on the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), arguing that the Court's reliance on punishment and policing threatens to undo earlier European approaches to criminal law and human rights that resonate with abolitionist thought. It also contends that the criminalization approach provides the Court with an alibi for not recognizing or attending to the deeply structural racialized, colonial, sexual, gendered, and homophobic violence in Europe, particularly but not only against Roma communities and Black and Muslim migrants. Encouraging human rights advocates and judges to take seriously prison and police abolition in Europe and elsewhere, the Element calls for the ECtHR to pave the way for an abolitionist-oriented turn among human rights courts.
Call Number: Treatises ; K3240.5 .E54 2025ISBN: 9781009690126Publication Date: July 3, 2025
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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Toward an Abolitionist Human Rights Court
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Contemporary international human rights law increasingly obligates states to heighten their criminalization of certain human rights violations, including gendered, racialized, and homophobic violence. This Element uses prison and police abolitionist thought to challenge this trend. It focuses on the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), arguing that the Court's reliance on punishment and policing threatens to undo earlier European approaches to criminal law and human rights that resonate with abolitionist thought. It also contends that the criminalization approach provides the Court with an alibi for not recognizing or attending to the deeply structural racialized, colonial, sexual, gendered, and homophobic violence in Europe, particularly but not only against Roma communities and Black and Muslim migrants. Encouraging human rights advocates and judges to take seriously prison and police abolition in Europe and elsewhere, the Element calls for the ECtHR to pave the way for an abolitionist-oriented turn among human rights courts.
Call Number: Treatises ; K3240.5 .E54 2025ISBN: 9781009690126Publication Date: July 3, 2025
Environmental, Energy, and Natural Resources Law
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The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism
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Public understanding of, and outcry over, the dire state of the climate and environment is greater than ever before. Parties across the political spectrum claim to be climate leaders, and overt denial is on the way out. Yet when it comes to slowing the course of the climate and nature crises, despite a growing number of pledges, policies and summits, little ever seems to change. Nature is being destroyed at an unprecedented rate. We remain on course for a catastrophic 3°C of warming. What's holding us back? In this searing and insightful critique, Adrienne Buller examines the fatal biases that have shaped the response of our governing institutions to climate and environmental breakdown, and asks: are the 'solutions' being proposed really solutions? Tracing the intricate connections between financial power, economic injustice and ecological crisis, she exposes the myopic economism and market-centric thinking presently undermining a future where all life can flourish. The book examines what is wrong with mainstream climate and environmental governance, from carbon pricing and offset markets to 'green growth', the commodification of nature and the growing influence of the finance industry on environmental policy. In doing so, it exposes the self-defeating logic of a response to these challenges based on creating new opportunities for profit, and a refusal to grapple with the inequalities and injustices that have created them. Both honest and optimistic, The Value of a Whale asks us - in the face of crisis - what we really value.
Call Number: Environment ; HC79.E5 B8484 2022ISBN: 9781526162632Publication Date: July 26, 2022
Health Law and Elder Care
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Biotechnology, Gestation, and the Law
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We are all the result of gestation: the process of becoming before birth. The very nature of human gestation, however, has shifted and will continue to shift as a result of technology. Uterus transplantation and ectogestation, and the novel modalities of gestation beyond sex and beyond bodies that they potentially make possible, raise unique conceptual problems that have received little attention.Biotechnology, Gestation and the Law presents the first comprehensive ethico-legal analysis of the nature of gestation and of technologies enabling gestation, offering a concept analysis grounded in ontology, phenomenology, politics, and law. The first three chapters develop a transdisciplinary approach for identifying and exploring the ethical issues raised by uterus transplantation and ectogestation. This addresses the ontological and legal confusion about what gestation is, how we should classify procreative technologies in relation to gestation, and why it is important to have precise classification. The remaining chapters use this framework to undertake a rigorous examination of pressing socio-legal implications of uterus transplantation and ectogestation: who has access to technologies enabling gestation and under what circumstances? Who is/are the parent/s when novel forms of gestation are used? How do these technologies disrupt our notions of reproductive biosex and are they tools of emancipation from gendered roles? This book, and the original conceptual lens it sets out, forges a new direction for legal and social reform directed at addressing the harms of constructed gendered procreative and parenting roles. In speculating about future possibilities, Elizabeth Chloe Romanis brings visibility to the oppressive propagation of biological essentialism that underpins the contemporary regulation of human procreation, and considers how to address this issue now and into the future.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9780191986574Publication Date: 2025 -
Research Handbook on End of Life Care and Society
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This comprehensive Research Handbook provides an accessible overview of research on palliative and end of life care in its social context. It examines key theories, methods, and research findings, presenting crucial social science and public health perspectives. Leading and emerging international scholars discuss a range of issues including population ageing, growing pressures on health and social care systems, assisted dying, and new cultural responses to human mortality and bereavement. They delve into detailed case studies, such as the genealogies of culturally specific nursing, home care in Europe, patient and public involvement in the UK, end of life care pathways in Japan, and palliative care in resource-poor settings within African countries. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the Research Handbook also addresses models of end of life care in relation to wider society, and outlines future research priorities. This insightful Research Handbook will greatly benefit students and scholars of sociology, anthropology, and social policy, particularly those who are studying public health, the welfare state, and social work. It is also a vital resource for practitioners and policymakers in palliative and end of life care.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9781035317332Publication Date: September 23, 2025 -
Risk, Death, and Well-Being: The Ethical Foundations of Fatality Risk Regulation by A wide range of governmental policies characteristic of the modern state seek to reduce individuals' fatality risks, risks that arise from air and water pollution, pathogens, food ingredients and contaminants, motor vehicles, infrastructure, radiation, workplace accidents, alcohol and recreational drugs, firearms, consumer products, tobacco, natural disasters, and other sources. 'Risk, Death, and Well-Being' provides a rigorous treatment of the ethics of fatality risk regulation. It does so through the lens of welfare-consequentialism, specifically, lifetime welfarism, with a particular focus on utilitarianism and prioritarianism.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9780197505984Publication Date: 2025
Indigenous Law
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Sovereignty Symposium XXXVII
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This book contains conference proceedings of Sovereignty Symposium XXXVII, held June 12-13, 2025, at the OKANA Resort, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It offers a vital platform for the exchange of ideas among a broad range of sovereign stakeholders. Tribal governments from Oklahoma and across the United States continue to pioneer innovative ideas that both protect and enhance self-governance, working in partnership with federal, state and local entitites to maximize positive outcomes. Through fostering dynamic and forward-thinking discussions, the Sovereignty Symposium has sparked meaningful collaboration and partnerships, demonstrating how collective progress can benefit all.
Call Number: Treatises ; KF8204.6 .S68 2025Publication Date: 2025
Innovation, Technology, & the Law
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Automated Decision-Making and Effective Remedies
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This timely book explores the legal and practical challenges created by the increasingly automated decision-making procedures underpinning EU multilevel cooperation, for example, in the fields of border control and law enforcement. It argues that such procedures impact not only the rights to privacy and data protection, but fundamentally challenge the EU constitutional promise of effective judicial protection. Focusing on informational cooperation in the EU Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, this book examines the extent to which the EU's system of remedies allows individuals to enforce their rights against automated decisions - such as in cases of the rejection of a residence permit application or the execution of search warrants. Concluding that enforcement of rights is difficult to achieve, the book calls for the comprehensive legal empowerment of individuals through a deep procedural review of automated decision-making. It advances the academic and policy debate on human-centric digital innovation, presenting an empirical case for greater scrutiny of the uses of new technology. The book will be a fascinating read for scholars and students of European law, the law of technology, and human rights. It will also be a useful guide for human and digital rights organisations, policy-makers, and judges seeking to empower individuals in the age of automation.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 1035306603Publication Date: 2023 -
Biotechnology, Gestation, and the Law
by
We are all the result of gestation: the process of becoming before birth. The very nature of human gestation, however, has shifted and will continue to shift as a result of technology. Uterus transplantation and ectogestation, and the novel modalities of gestation beyond sex and beyond bodies that they potentially make possible, raise unique conceptual problems that have received little attention.Biotechnology, Gestation and the Law presents the first comprehensive ethico-legal analysis of the nature of gestation and of technologies enabling gestation, offering a concept analysis grounded in ontology, phenomenology, politics, and law. The first three chapters develop a transdisciplinary approach for identifying and exploring the ethical issues raised by uterus transplantation and ectogestation. This addresses the ontological and legal confusion about what gestation is, how we should classify procreative technologies in relation to gestation, and why it is important to have precise classification. The remaining chapters use this framework to undertake a rigorous examination of pressing socio-legal implications of uterus transplantation and ectogestation: who has access to technologies enabling gestation and under what circumstances? Who is/are the parent/s when novel forms of gestation are used? How do these technologies disrupt our notions of reproductive biosex and are they tools of emancipation from gendered roles? This book, and the original conceptual lens it sets out, forges a new direction for legal and social reform directed at addressing the harms of constructed gendered procreative and parenting roles. In speculating about future possibilities, Elizabeth Chloe Romanis brings visibility to the oppressive propagation of biological essentialism that underpins the contemporary regulation of human procreation, and considers how to address this issue now and into the future.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9780191986574Publication Date: 2025
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Preserving Government Information
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The book examines how preservation practices of the past affect the preservation of digitally published government information today, analyzes publishing and preservation data to characterize the current gaps in preservation, and looks to the future by charting a path to a distributed Digital Preservation Infrastructure for government information.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9798218669317Publication Date: May 1, 2025
International, Foreign, & Human Rights Law
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American Law in a Global Context, Second Edition
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American Law in a Global Context: The Basics, now in a thoroughly revised edition, is an elegant and erudite introduction to the American legal system from a global perspective. Drawing on some comparative examples with a focus on American law, George P. Fletcher, Hoi L. Kong, and Steve Sheppard introduce underlying principles of common and civil law, constitutional, criminal, and public law, and property and procedure. The appendices include an introduction to the common law method, instruction on how to read a case, the interpretation of statutes, and an introduction to the Federal system and US courts systems. This revised edition offers a greater focus on American law itself and includes the addition of an easy-to-use Bibliography as well as a new Civil Procedure Appendix. Fletcher, Kong, and Sheppard provide a clear roadmap through essential areas of US law with in-depth analyses of well-known cases. These cases allow readers the opportunity to examine not only law as theory but as practice, while guiding them to further exploration through suggested readings. A must-own reference source for LLM students, undergraduates, and students of US law in other countries.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9780190886943Publication Date: September 3, 2025
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Automated Decision-Making and Effective Remedies
by
This timely book explores the legal and practical challenges created by the increasingly automated decision-making procedures underpinning EU multilevel cooperation, for example, in the fields of border control and law enforcement. It argues that such procedures impact not only the rights to privacy and data protection, but fundamentally challenge the EU constitutional promise of effective judicial protection. Focusing on informational cooperation in the EU Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, this book examines the extent to which the EU's system of remedies allows individuals to enforce their rights against automated decisions - such as in cases of the rejection of a residence permit application or the execution of search warrants. Concluding that enforcement of rights is difficult to achieve, the book calls for the comprehensive legal empowerment of individuals through a deep procedural review of automated decision-making. It advances the academic and policy debate on human-centric digital innovation, presenting an empirical case for greater scrutiny of the uses of new technology. The book will be a fascinating read for scholars and students of European law, the law of technology, and human rights. It will also be a useful guide for human and digital rights organisations, policy-makers, and judges seeking to empower individuals in the age of automation.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 1035306603Publication Date: 2023
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Research Handbook on End of Life Care and Society
by
This comprehensive Research Handbook provides an accessible overview of research on palliative and end of life care in its social context. It examines key theories, methods, and research findings, presenting crucial social science and public health perspectives. Leading and emerging international scholars discuss a range of issues including population ageing, growing pressures on health and social care systems, assisted dying, and new cultural responses to human mortality and bereavement. They delve into detailed case studies, such as the genealogies of culturally specific nursing, home care in Europe, patient and public involvement in the UK, end of life care pathways in Japan, and palliative care in resource-poor settings within African countries. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the Research Handbook also addresses models of end of life care in relation to wider society, and outlines future research priorities. This insightful Research Handbook will greatly benefit students and scholars of sociology, anthropology, and social policy, particularly those who are studying public health, the welfare state, and social work. It is also a vital resource for practitioners and policymakers in palliative and end of life care.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9781035317332Publication Date: September 23, 2025
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Toward an Abolitionist Human Rights Court
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Contemporary international human rights law increasingly obligates states to heighten their criminalization of certain human rights violations, including gendered, racialized, and homophobic violence. This Element uses prison and police abolitionist thought to challenge this trend. It focuses on the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), arguing that the Court's reliance on punishment and policing threatens to undo earlier European approaches to criminal law and human rights that resonate with abolitionist thought. It also contends that the criminalization approach provides the Court with an alibi for not recognizing or attending to the deeply structural racialized, colonial, sexual, gendered, and homophobic violence in Europe, particularly but not only against Roma communities and Black and Muslim migrants. Encouraging human rights advocates and judges to take seriously prison and police abolition in Europe and elsewhere, the Element calls for the ECtHR to pave the way for an abolitionist-oriented turn among human rights courts.
Call Number: Treatises ; K3240.5 .E54 2025ISBN: 9781009690126Publication Date: July 3, 2025
Legal Education
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American Law in a Global Context, Second Edition
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American Law in a Global Context: The Basics, now in a thoroughly revised edition, is an elegant and erudite introduction to the American legal system from a global perspective. Drawing on some comparative examples with a focus on American law, George P. Fletcher, Hoi L. Kong, and Steve Sheppard introduce underlying principles of common and civil law, constitutional, criminal, and public law, and property and procedure. The appendices include an introduction to the common law method, instruction on how to read a case, the interpretation of statutes, and an introduction to the Federal system and US courts systems. This revised edition offers a greater focus on American law itself and includes the addition of an easy-to-use Bibliography as well as a new Civil Procedure Appendix. Fletcher, Kong, and Sheppard provide a clear roadmap through essential areas of US law with in-depth analyses of well-known cases. These cases allow readers the opportunity to examine not only law as theory but as practice, while guiding them to further exploration through suggested readings. A must-own reference source for LLM students, undergraduates, and students of US law in other countries.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9780190886943Publication Date: September 3, 2025
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Handbook on Corruption in Higher Education
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This insightful Handbook provides an overview of corruption within the context of higher education. Through a variety of international case studies, theoretical frameworks and methodologies, it examines the underlying issues involved in corruption as well as the damaging impact on scholarly cultures and the academic enterprise. Leading and emerging global experts discuss how the success of universities is particularly dependent on an honest community of scholars and students, as well as on a research culture based on the tradition of peer review and open analysis. They identify the ways in which corruption can enter academia through direct and indirect student involvement and in monetary or non-monetary forms, including cheating in exams, plagiarism, academic promotions, student admissions and financial crimes. The Handbook further investigates the reputational damage and distrust in higher education that these incidents can create among wider society. Scholars and students of education policy, academic integrity, corruption studies and sociology will greatly benefit from this informative Handbook. Timely and engaging, it is also an essential resource for policymakers and practitioners in university management and higher education.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9781035320233Publication Date: September 30, 2025 -
Legal Research Demystified: A Step-by-Step Approach, Third Edition
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Legal Research Demystified provides a practical approach to legal research. The textbook guides law students through eight steps to research common law issues and ten steps to research statutory issues. These research steps are demonstrated through factual hypotheticals and visual aids. Students and professors have praised the textbook for its illustrative charts, such as charts on KeyCite and Shepard's, Boolean searching, and finding relevant secondary sources and statutes. The third edition includes a new chapter on leveraging generative AI (GenAI) for legal research. The chapter covers how GenAI works, five good uses of GenAI for legal research, creating effective prompts for research projects (RICER framework), evaluating AI-generated responses for accuracy and completeness, and the risks and limitations of using GenAI. The chapter also equips students to identify fake authorities and other inaccurate information in AI responses. Other key updates to the third edition include the following: Added section on GenAI in the chapter on secondary sources. Updated four charts on the KeyCite and Shepard's negative treatment signals for statutes and cases to incorporate the latest citator signals. Revised charts on methods to find statutes and limitations of citators to provide more guidance to students. Added sections on case annotations and sorting search results in the chapter on interpretive cases. Shifted focus to the Key Number System on Westlaw instead of the print digest to reflect current usage. Included a chart summarizing finding tools available for secondary sources, statutes, and cases to help students navigate the research process. Updated Westlaw and Lexis screen captures throughout the book.
Call Number: Treatises ; KF240 .V53 2025ISBN: 9781531033156Publication Date: July 1, 2025 -
Oregon Legal Research, Sixth Edition
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The sixth edition of Oregon Legal Research emphasizes a user-friendly, process-oriented approach to state legal research, with significant additions of checklists and summaries to provide easy, efficient access to important information. The organization of chapters follows steps in the research process but reflects recent law student and professor feedback on how readers are using this book. New chapters cover local and tribal law, as these topics may be important aspects of thorough research in the state. Oregon Legal Research explains the sources, search techniques, and analysis of secondary source materials, constitutional law, statutes, legislative history, local law, administrative law, cases, and tribal law. Each chapter on primary sources integrates relevant information on updating the law. This book was designed specifically for teaching legal research to first-year law students, but it has also been successful with upper-level classes. Moreover, practitioners, paralegals, librarians, college students, and even laypeople will find it a useful introduction to Oregon legal sources.
Call Number: Reference ; KFO2475 .R69 2025ISBN: 9781531029630Publication Date: September 1, 2025
Legal History
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Administrative Law Stories
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This book explores the statutory and historical setting of the cases presented, rather than mere doctrine. It examines lawyers' judgments and tactics in detail, and frequently references recently revealed papers of Supreme Court Justices to discuss the often surprising elements of Court decisions. Students learn how disputes are handled at the administrative level, before they ever get to court - a perspective essential to understanding the field, but difficult to discern from the reported cases. The commentary also addresses how decisions can affect future developments, helping students understand how administrative disputes develop and the role lawyers play in developing them.
Call Number: Treatises ; KF5402.A4 A352 2006; also EBOOKISBN: 9781587789595Publication Date: 2005
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Listening to the Law
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From Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a glimpse of her journey to the Court and an account of her approach to the Constitution. Since her confirmation hearing, Americans have peppered Justice Amy Coney Barrett with questions. How has she adjusted to the Court? What is it like to be a Supreme Court justice with school-age children? Do the justices get along? What does her normal day look like? How does the Court get its cases? How does it decide them? How does she decide? In Listening to the Law, Justice Barrett answers these questions and more. She lays out her role (and daily life) as a justice, touching on everything from her deliberation process to dealing with media scrutiny. With the warmth and clarity that made her a popular law professor, she brings to life the making of the Constitution and explains her approach to interpreting its text. Whether sharing stories of clerking for Justice Scalia or walking readers through prominent cases, she invites readers to wrestle with originalism and to embrace the rich heritage of our Constitution.
Call Number: Treatises ; KF8745.B39 A3 2025ISBN: 9780593421864Publication Date: September 9, 2025
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Preserving Government Information
by
The book examines how preservation practices of the past affect the preservation of digitally published government information today, analyzes publishing and preservation data to characterize the current gaps in preservation, and looks to the future by charting a path to a distributed Digital Preservation Infrastructure for government information.
Call Number: EBOOKISBN: 9798218669317Publication Date: May 1, 2025
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The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism
by
Public understanding of, and outcry over, the dire state of the climate and environment is greater than ever before. Parties across the political spectrum claim to be climate leaders, and overt denial is on the way out. Yet when it comes to slowing the course of the climate and nature crises, despite a growing number of pledges, policies and summits, little ever seems to change. Nature is being destroyed at an unprecedented rate. We remain on course for a catastrophic 3°C of warming. What's holding us back? In this searing and insightful critique, Adrienne Buller examines the fatal biases that have shaped the response of our governing institutions to climate and environmental breakdown, and asks: are the 'solutions' being proposed really solutions? Tracing the intricate connections between financial power, economic injustice and ecological crisis, she exposes the myopic economism and market-centric thinking presently undermining a future where all life can flourish. The book examines what is wrong with mainstream climate and environmental governance, from carbon pricing and offset markets to 'green growth', the commodification of nature and the growing influence of the finance industry on environmental policy. In doing so, it exposes the self-defeating logic of a response to these challenges based on creating new opportunities for profit, and a refusal to grapple with the inequalities and injustices that have created them. Both honest and optimistic, The Value of a Whale asks us - in the face of crisis - what we really value.
Call Number: Environment ; HC79.E5 B8484 2022ISBN: 9781526162632Publication Date: July 26, 2022
Lewis & Clark Law School Faculty Authors
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Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law
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With contributions from over 135 international experts including Lewis & Clark Law School's Joyce Tischler, Russ Mead, Rajesh Reddy, Erica Lyman, Hira Jaleel, and Nick Fromherz, this Encyclopedia provides an expansive overview of the emerging field of animal law. Focusing on the legal regulation of human interactions with non-human animals, the volume serves as an insightful guide to how the law can promote the wellbeing of animals as well as the environment. Entries by leading specialists delve into the history of the animal law movement, the science exploring animal welfare and animal sentience, and ethics, law, and politics. They also examine the relationship between animals and artificial intelligence and discuss how human responsibility for animals manifests economically and socially, including through insurance and civil and criminal liability. The Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Lawis a vital resource for students and scholars in animal studies, criminal law, and law and society, as well as lawyers and policymakers. The contributions are also invaluable to animal advocates and to lawyers working in a variety of contexts, including for government agencies and non-profit organisations. Key Features: Includes 119 doctrinal entries covering a variety of practice and doctrinal areas Brings together over 135 experts from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe Provides comprehensive and timely coverage of laws governing and affecting animals across the globe.
Call Number: Treatises ; K3630 .E55 2025ISBN: 9781803923666Publication Date: July 29, 2025 -
Water Moves the Color
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By retired Lewis & Clark Law School Lawyering Professor Beth Enos (writing under the pen name Galen Pearl), with photographs by Professor Lydia Loren and retired Dean of Students Martha Spense. Whether you are new to the Dao De Jing or have followed its teaching for decades, this book offers a fresh perspective on living in harmony, joy, and transcendent self-realization. Although steeped in decades of study, Galen Pearl does not offer analysis or explanation of the Dao De Jing, but rather shares the insight and transformation gained from engaging directly with the timeless beauty of the truths therein. The poetic translations, engaging reflections, evocative photos, and inspiration drawn from the Chinese characters invite you into your own contemplative relationship with this classic text. Mystical in concept, practical in application, these 81 chapters bring ancient wisdom into modern times. Allow the beauty of words and images to sing in your soul and guide your steps. You already know the tune.
Call Number: Treatises ; BL1900.L26 E5 2024ISBN: 9780985846275Publication Date: Feburary 1, 2025
Oregon Law
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2025 Oregon Structural Specialty Code
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This is a fully integrated custom code, as adopted by the State of Oregon, Building Codes Division, includes portions of the 2024 International Building Code, New construction provisions of the 2024 International Fire Code, the 2024 International Existing Building Code and existing Oregon Amendments in the 2022 OSSC.
Call Number: Treatises ; KFO2859 .A1 O74 2025ISBN: 9781967590506Publication Date: September 22, 2025 -
Oregon Legal Research, Sixth Edition
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The sixth edition of Oregon Legal Research emphasizes a user-friendly, process-oriented approach to state legal research, with significant additions of checklists and summaries to provide easy, efficient access to important information. The organization of chapters follows steps in the research process but reflects recent law student and professor feedback on how readers are using this book. New chapters cover local and tribal law, as these topics may be important aspects of thorough research in the state. Oregon Legal Research explains the sources, search techniques, and analysis of secondary source materials, constitutional law, statutes, legislative history, local law, administrative law, cases, and tribal law. Each chapter on primary sources integrates relevant information on updating the law. This book was designed specifically for teaching legal research to first-year law students, but it has also been successful with upper-level classes. Moreover, practitioners, paralegals, librarians, college students, and even laypeople will find it a useful introduction to Oregon legal sources.
Call Number: Reference ; KFO2475 .R69 2025ISBN: 9781531029630Publication Date: September 1, 2025
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Listening to the Law
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From Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a glimpse of her journey to the Court and an account of her approach to the Constitution. Since her confirmation hearing, Americans have peppered Justice Amy Coney Barrett with questions. How has she adjusted to the Court? What is it like to be a Supreme Court justice with school-age children? Do the justices get along? What does her normal day look like? How does the Court get its cases? How does it decide them? How does she decide? In Listening to the Law, Justice Barrett answers these questions and more. She lays out her role (and daily life) as a justice, touching on everything from her deliberation process to dealing with media scrutiny. With the warmth and clarity that made her a popular law professor, she brings to life the making of the Constitution and explains her approach to interpreting its text. Whether sharing stories of clerking for Justice Scalia or walking readers through prominent cases, she invites readers to wrestle with originalism and to embrace the rich heritage of our Constitution.
Call Number: Treatises ; KF8745.B39 A3 2025ISBN: 9780593421864Publication Date: September 9, 2025
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Oregon Legal Research, Sixth Edition
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The sixth edition of Oregon Legal Research emphasizes a user-friendly, process-oriented approach to state legal research, with significant additions of checklists and summaries to provide easy, efficient access to important information. The organization of chapters follows steps in the research process but reflects recent law student and professor feedback on how readers are using this book. New chapters cover local and tribal law, as these topics may be important aspects of thorough research in the state. Oregon Legal Research explains the sources, search techniques, and analysis of secondary source materials, constitutional law, statutes, legislative history, local law, administrative law, cases, and tribal law. Each chapter on primary sources integrates relevant information on updating the law. This book was designed specifically for teaching legal research to first-year law students, but it has also been successful with upper-level classes. Moreover, practitioners, paralegals, librarians, college students, and even laypeople will find it a useful introduction to Oregon legal sources.
Call Number: Reference ; KFO2475 .R69 2025ISBN: 9781531029630Publication Date: September 1, 2025
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Legal Research Demystified: A Step-by-Step Approach, Third Edition
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Legal Research Demystified provides a practical approach to legal research. The textbook guides law students through eight steps to research common law issues and ten steps to research statutory issues. These research steps are demonstrated through factual hypotheticals and visual aids. Students and professors have praised the textbook for its illustrative charts, such as charts on KeyCite and Shepard's, Boolean searching, and finding relevant secondary sources and statutes. The third edition includes a new chapter on leveraging generative AI (GenAI) for legal research. The chapter covers how GenAI works, five good uses of GenAI for legal research, creating effective prompts for research projects (RICER framework), evaluating AI-generated responses for accuracy and completeness, and the risks and limitations of using GenAI. The chapter also equips students to identify fake authorities and other inaccurate information in AI responses. Other key updates to the third edition include the following: Added section on GenAI in the chapter on secondary sources. Updated four charts on the KeyCite and Shepard's negative treatment signals for statutes and cases to incorporate the latest citator signals. Revised charts on methods to find statutes and limitations of citators to provide more guidance to students. Added sections on case annotations and sorting search results in the chapter on interpretive cases. Shifted focus to the Key Number System on Westlaw instead of the print digest to reflect current usage. Included a chart summarizing finding tools available for secondary sources, statutes, and cases to help students navigate the research process. Updated Westlaw and Lexis screen captures throughout the book.
Call Number: Treatises ; KF240 .V53 2025ISBN: 9781531033156Publication Date: July 1, 2025
Other Subject Areas
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The Right to Farm: A Legal Research Guide
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This research guide aims to assist lawyers, judges, and law students in navigating the intricate landscape of right-to-farm laws across the United States. It also serves as a valuable resource for researchers outside the legal field, offering useful insights as they analyze the implications of these laws. Currently, no federal "right-to-farm" laws exist, but every U.S. state has enacted its own right-to-farm statute. In addition, several states have recently passed constitutional amendments addressing right-to-farm issues. The original purpose of these laws was to protect agricultural land from nuisance lawsuits brought by non-agricultural neighbors, particularly as residential development and urbanization began encroaching on traditionally rural, farmed areas. These laws were intended to preserve rural landscapes and provide increased protections for agricultural producers. Over time, the definition of "farming" under right-to-farm laws has expanded through litigation and practice. As a result, these statutes are now often applied in ways lawmakers may not have anticipated. A body of laws initially designed to safeguard farmers' interests and promote agricultural sustainability has increasingly become central to debates on property rights, land use, corporate influence, environmental impact, rural economic resilience, and public health.
Call Number: Treatises ; KF1681.A1 A47 2025ISBN: 9780837743417Publication Date: 2025
