New Titles List for the Week of March 24, 2008

 

These titles were recently acquired by the O'Quinn Law Library.

 

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List of Subjects

  • Featured Resource List
  • American Legal System
  • Brazilian Law
  • British Law
  • Business Organizations
  • Chinese Law
  • Civil Procedure
  • Civil Rights
  • Constitutional Law
  • Copyright
  • Dispute Resolution
  • Employment Welfare Plans & Benefits
  • Environmental Law and Policy
  • European Union Law
  • Evidence
  • Family Law
  • Financing
  • First Amendment
  • Insurance Law
  • International Commercial Arbitration
  • International Criminal Law
  • International Law
  • International Tax
  • Jurisprudence
  • Labor Law
  • Land Tenure
  • Law and Economics
  • Legal Education
  • Legal History
  • Legal Reference Work
  • Legal Writing
  • Legislation
  • Maritime Law
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Native Americans
  • Patent Law
  • Pensions
  • Remedies
  • Supreme Court
  • Tax Law
  • Taxation of Compensation
  • Terrorism
  • Trusts and Wills
  • War Crimes
  • Government Documents

Featured Resource List

 

 

 

David Crump

Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure

LexisNexis Matthew Bender, 2008

KF8839.C357 2008

 

The fifth edition of this casebook is organized to follow the lines of the events in a lawsuit, and has been updated to reflect recent changes in the law.  It includes several features that are helpful to students and instructors, such as: instructions that explain how to read difficult cases, actual litigation documents, summary problems at the end of each chapter, and examples drawn from federal practices as well as those of California, New York, and Texas.

 

William P. Streng & Mickey R. Davis

Retirement Planning: Tax and Financial Strategies

WG&L : Thomson/Tax & Accounting, 2007

KF6297.S845 2007

 

The third edition of Retirement Planning: Tax and Financial Strategies is designed to assist retirement planners in answering client questions about a variety of types of retirement issues.  It is divided into eight parts, each of which addresses different aspects of the retirement process, such as developing retirement plans, the tax treatment of employment benefits, income tax and estate planning, and multijurisdictional issues that can arise when retirees relocate.

 

 


New Titles List

American Legal System

 

Albert P. Melone and Allan Karnes The American legal system : perspectives, politics, processes, and policies, 2nd ed., Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c2008.

 

KF386.M45 2008

 

 

 

 

 

Brazilian Law

 

Charles D. Cole Comparative constitutional law : Brazil and the United States, 2nd ed., Vandeplas Pub., c2008.

 

KHD2921.C65 2008

 

 

 

 

 

British Law

 

John Wheeler Essentials of the English legal system, 2nd ed., Pearson Longman, 2006.

 

KD660.W445 2006

 

 

 

 

 

Business Organizations

 

Robert A. Baskerville and Woo Taik Kim Business operations in the Republic of Korea, Tax Management, c2007.

 

KF6289.A1T35

 

 

 

 

 

Chinese Law

 

Zhongfei Zhou Banking laws in China, Kluwer Law International: Sold and distributed in North, Central, and South America by Aspen Pub., c2007.

 

KNQ940.Z487 2007

 

 

 

 

 

Civil Procedure

 

David Crump, et al. Cases and materials on civil procedure, 5th ed., LexisNexis Matthew Bender, c2008.

 

KF8839.C357 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kevin M. Clermont, Editor Civil procedure stories, 2nd ed., Thomson/West, c2008.

 

KF8839.C455 2008

 

 

 

 

 

Civil Rights

 

Human rights in international law : basic texts, 3rd ed., Council of Europe Pub.: distributed by Manhattan Pub. Co., 2007.

 

K3238.H85 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Good governance practices for the protection of human rights, United Nations, 2007.

 

K3240.G66 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

George Letsas A theory of interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights, Oxford University Press, 2007.

 

KJC5132.L485 2007

 

 

 

 

 

Constitutional Law

 

Evan Gerstmann Same-sex marriage and the Constitution, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2008.

 

KF539.G47 2008

 

 

 

 

 

Copyright

 

Bryan M. Carson The law of libraries and archives, Scarecrow Press, 2007.

 

KF4315.C37 2007

 

 

 

 

 

Dispute Resolution

 

Julie Macfarlane The new lawyer : how settlement is transforming the practice of law,

 

K120.M33 2008

 

 

 

 

 

Employment Welfare Plans & Benefits

 

John L. Utz Restricted property : Section 83, Tax Management Inc., c2008.

 

KF6289.A1T35

 

 

 

 

 

Environmental Law and Policy

 

Jan H. Jans European environmental law, 3rd ed., Europa Law Pub., c2008.

 

KJE6242.J36 2008

 

 

 

 

 

European Union Law

 

Rene Seerden, Editor Administrative law of the European Union, its member states and the United States : a comparative analysis, 2nd ed., Intersentia, c2007.

 

K3400.A935 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Werner Weidenfeld with the collaboration of: Janis A. Emmanouilidis, Almut Moller and Sibylle Reiter Europische Verfassung verstehen. English; Understanding the European constitution, Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung, c2007.

 

KJE4445.W4513 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Roger J. Van den Bergh and Peter D. Camesasca European competition law and economics : a comparative perspective, 2nd ed., Sweet & Maxwell, c2006.

 

KJE6456.V36 2006

 

 

 

 

 

Evidence

 

Albert J. Marcella, Jr., Doug Menendez Cyber forensics : a field manual for collecting, examining, and preserving evidence of computer crimes, 2nd ed., Auerbach Publications, c2008.

 

KF390.5.C6C93 2008

 

 

 

 

 

Family Law

 

Heather Brook Conjugal rites : marriage and marriage-like relationships before the law, 1st ed., Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

 

K670.B76 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Katharina Boele-Woelki, et al. in collaboration with Masha Antokolskaia, et al. Principles of European family law regarding parental responsibilities, Intersentia, 2007.

 

KJC1189.P75 2007

 

 

 

 

 

Financing

 

Joanna Benjamin Financial law, Oxford University Press, 2007.

 

K4430.B46 2007

 

 

 

 

 

First Amendment

 

Jeremy Harris Lipschultz Broadcast and internet indecency : defining free speech, Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2008.

 

KF4772.L575 2008

 

 

 

 

 

Insurance Law

 

D. Rhidian Thomas, Editor Marine insurance : the law in transition, Informa, 2006.

 

K1226.A6M37 2006

 

 

 

 

 

International Commercial Arbitration

 

UNCITRAL model law on international commercial conciliation 1985 : with amendments as adopted in 2006, United Nations, 2008.

 

K2400.U48 2008

 

 

 

 

 

International Criminal Law

 

Edel Hughes, William A. Schabas and Ramesh Thakur, Editors Atrocities and international accountability : beyond transitional justice, United Nations University Press, 2007.

 

K5301.A978 2007

 

 

 

 

 

International Law

 

Holly Cullen The role of international law i