New
Titles List for the Week of September 15, 2008
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Curtis J. Milhaupt, Katharina Pistor, Law and capitalism: what corporate crises
reveal about legal systems and economic development around the
world, K487.E3M55 2008 This text sets forth a new analytic framework for
understanding the problems inherent in legal regulation of business
practices in capitalist economies. The authors question the view that law
is an instrumental function for financial market development and economic
growth. They argue that law and markets evolve together in a “rolling
relationship,” and legal systems, including those of the most successful
economies, therefore differ significantly in their organizational
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Rachel Ida Buff, ed., Immigrant rights in the shadows of citizenship, New York University Press, c2008. KF4819.I49 2008 Prominent activists and scholars examine the
emergence and significance of the contemporary immigrant rights movement.
The book places the contemporary immigrant rights movement in historical
and comparative contexts by looking at the ways immigrants and their
allies have staked claims to rights in the past, and by examining
movements based in different communities around the |
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Administrative
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George A. Bermann, Charles H.
Koch, Jr. and James T. O'Reilly, Administrative law of the European Union:
Introduction, ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory
Practice, c2008. |
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KJE5602.B47
2008 |
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Cynthia R. Farina, Sindey A.
Shapiro and Thomas M. Susman George A. Bermann, Charles H.
Koch, Jr. and James T. O'Reilly, eds., Administrative law of the European Union:
Transparency and data protection, ABA Section of Administrative
Law and Regulatory Practice, c2008. |
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KJE6071.L56
2008 |
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Peter L. Strauss, Turner T.
Smith, Jr. and Lucas Bergkamp George A. Bermann, Charles H.
Koch, Jr. and Jame T. O'Reilly, eds., Administrative law of the European Union:
Rulemaking, ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory
Practice, c2008. |
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KJE5349.S77
2008 |
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Michael Asimow and Lisl J.
Dunlop George A. Bermann, Charles H. Koch, Jr. and James T.
O'Reilly, eds., Administrative law of
the European Union: Adjudication, ABA Section of Administrative
Law and Regulatory Practice, c2008. |
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KJE5607.A984
2008 |
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Ronald M. Levin, Frank Emmert
and Christoph T. Feddersen George A. Bermann, Charles H. Koch,
Jr. and James T. O'Reilly, eds., Administrative law of the European Union:
Judicial review, ABA Section of Administrative Law and
Regulatory Practice, c2008. |
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KJE5640.L48
2008 |
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Health
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Donald P. Wilcox, Transitions: legal considerations in selling or
closing a medical practice, Texas Medical Association,
c2007. |
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KFT1560.W55
2007 |
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Immigration
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Rachel Ida Buff, ed., Immigrant rights in the shadows of
citizenship, New York University Press,
c2008. |
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KF4819.I49
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International
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Multilateral
treaty framework: an invitation to universal participation: 2008 treaty
event: towards universal participation and implementation: dignity and
justice for all of us, United Nations,
2008. |
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KZ171.M88
2008 |
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Carl Baudenbacher, ed.,
The role of international courts,
German Law Publishers 2008 |
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KZ6250.R65
2008 |
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Law and
Economics |
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Curtis J. Milhaupt, Katharina
Pistor Law and capitalism: what
corporate crises reveal about legal systems and economic development
around the world, University of Chicago Press,
2008. |
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K487.E3M55
2008 |
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Law and Religion
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Jonathan Rothchild, Matthew
Myer Boulton and Kevin Jung, eds., Doing justice to mercy: religion, law, and
criminal justice, University of Virginia Press,
2007. |
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K3280.D65
2007 |
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Law Office
Management |
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American Bar Association
Legal Technology Resource Center
survey report, American Bar Association, Legal Technology
Resource Center |
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KF320.A9L433 |
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Legal
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Nancy P. Johnson, Susan T.
Phillips, Legal research exercises,
following the Bluebook: a uniform system of citation, 10th ed.,
Thomson West, 2008. |
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KF240.J65
2008 |
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Maritime
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Ecosystem
approaches and oceans: panel presentations during the United Nations
Open-ended Informal Consultive Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea
(Consultive Process), Seventh meeting,
United Nations Headquarters, New York, 12 to 16 June 2006. United Nations,
c2008. |
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KZA1145.E36
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New Government Documents
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Eliminating and recovering
improper payments. |
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KF26.H632
2007e |
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Evaluating the progress and
identifying obstacles in improving the federal government's security
clearance process. |
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KF26.H636
2007h |
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Federal government's role in
empowering Americans to make informed financial
decisions. |
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KF26.H636
2007b |
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Foreclosures at the front step
of the Federal Reserve Bank of |
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KF27.G6
2007r |
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Hearing on the use of robocalls
in federal campaigns. |
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KF27.H645
2007x |
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Human capital needs of the
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KF26.H636
2007v |
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Improving federal financial
management: progress made and the challenges
ahead. |
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KF26.H632
2007f |
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Iraq reconstruction: an
overview: hearing before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform,
House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session,
February 15, 2007. |
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KF27.G6
2007q |
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Is this any way to treat our
troops?: the care and conditions of wounded soldiers at Walter
Reed. |
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KF27.G6689
2007e |
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Not a matter of if, but of
when: the status of |
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KF26.H636
2007w |
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Oversight hearing on election
day registration and provisional
voting. |
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KF27.H645
2007y |
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Perchlorate: health and
environmental impacts of unregulated
exposure. |
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KF27.E5527
2007g |
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The Genetic Information
Nondiscrimination Act |
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KF27.E553
2007e |
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The Leegin decision: the end of
the consumer discounts or good antitrust
policy? |
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KF26.J8352
2007n |
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The road ahead: implementing
postal reform. |
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KF26.H632
2007g |