New Titles List for the Week of January 9, 2011

                                                                                                                          

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List of Subjects

  • Featured Resource List
  • Administrative Law
  • Analytic Methods
  • Animal Law
  • Business Organizations
  • Children’s Rights
  • Civil Rights
  • Comparative Law
  • Constitutional Law
  • Copyright
  • Corporate Tax
  • Death Penalty
  • Evidence
  • Insurance Law
  • International Law
  • International Litigation and Arbitration
  • Judicial Process
  • Juvenile Law
  • Legal Education
  • Legal Profession
  • Maritime Law
  • Practice Management
  • Professional Responsibility
  • Remedies
  • Supreme Courts
  • Terrorism
  • Trusts and Wills
  • Government Documents

 

Featured Resource List

 

 

 

Dee Pridgen, Richard M. Alderman. Consumer protection and the law. 2010-2011 ed. Thomson/West, c2010.

KF1609.P75 2010

 

This two volume work, co-authored by Associate Dean Richard Alderman, serves as a reference for attorneys and professionals involved with modern consumer law.  It covers consumer protection laws related to advertising, sales practices, unfair and deceptive trade practices, consumer fraud, and product warranties, and it surveys each topic through analysis of its administration, procedures, remedies, and litigation strategies.

 

 

 

 

 


Arthur Linton Corbin, Peter Linzer, Joseph M. Perillo. Corbin on contracts. Rev. ed. West Pub. Co., 1993-

KF801.C66 1993 v.6 2010

 

This volume of the revised edition of Corbin on Contracts was written by Professor Peter Linzer.  It includes an overview of the parol evidence rule with a discussion of integration, ambiguity, and exceptions to the rule.  In addition, it provides a parol evidence sampler explaining the use of parol evidence in various states as well as information about implied terms, default rules, and the concept of good faith. 

 

New Titles List

 

Administrative Law

Jack M. Beermann. Inside administrative law : what matters and why. Aspen Publishers, c2011.

KF5402.B444 2011

The Oxford handbook of regulation / edited by Robert Baldwin, Martin Cave, Martin Lodge. Oxford University Press, 2010.

KF1600.O94 2010

Analytic Methods

 

Itzhak Gilboa. Theory of decision under uncertainty. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

 

QA279.4.G556 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John R. Koza, et al. Genetic programming IV : routine human-competitive machine intelligence. Springer, c2003.

QA76.623.G692 2003

 

 

 

 

Martin Peterson. An introduction to decision theory. Cambridge University Press, c2009.

 

QA279.4.P48 2009

 

 

 

 

 

Peter P. Wakker. Prospect theory : for risk and ambiguity. Cambridge University Press, 2010.

HD30.23.W34 2010

Duncan J. Watts. Six degrees : the science of a connected age. W.W. Norton, c2003.

QA166.W37 2003

Animal Law

Paul Waldau. Animal rights : what everyone needs to know. Oxford University Press, c2011.

K3620.W35 2011

Business Organizations

Robert W. Hamilton, Richard D. Freer. The law of corporations in a nutshell. 6th ed. West, c2011.

KF1414.3.H35 2011

Children's Rights

Internet child abuse : current research and policy / edited by Julia Davidson, Petter Gottschalk. Routledge, 2011.

K5189.I59 2011

Civil Rights

Michael G. Collins. Section 1983 litigation in a nutshell. 4th ed. West, 2011.

KF1325.C58C65 2011

Comparative Law

The costs and funding of litigation : a comparative perspective / edited by Christopher Hodges, Stefan Vogenauer, Magdalena Tulibacka. Hart, 2010.

K2305.C67 2010

Constitutional Law

Ran Hirschl. Constitutional theocracy. Harvard University Press, 2010.

K3280.H57 2010

Martin J. Sweet. Merely judgment : ignoring, evading, and trumping the Supreme Court. University of Virginia Press, 2010.

KF4749.S93 2010

Copyright

Zohar Efroni. Access-right : the future of digital copyright law. Oxford University Press, c2011.

K1420.5.E38 2011

Modernism and copyright / edited by Paul K. Saint-Amour. Oxford University Press, 2011.

K1420.5.M63 2011

Corporate Tax

Steven A. Bank. From sword to shield : the transformation of the corporate income tax, 1861 to present. Oxford University Press, c2010.

KF6464.B36 2010

Death Penalty

Invitation to an execution : a history of the death penalty in the United States / edited by Gordon Morris Bakken. University of New Mexico Press, 2010.

KF9227.C2I58 2010

Evidence

The new Wigmore : a treatise on evidence : expert evidence / edited by David H. Kaye, David E. Bernstein, Jennifer L. Mnookin   Richard D. Friedman. 2nd ed. Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, c2011-

KF8935.W543 2011

Insurance Law

Tom Baker, Sean J. Griffith. Ensuring corporate misconduct : how liability insurance undermines shareholder litigation. University of Chicago Press, 2010.

KF1220.E83B35 2010

International Law

Nico Krisch. Beyond constitutionalism : the pluralist structure of postnational law. Oxford University Press, 2010.

KZ3900.K75 2010

International Litigation and Arbitration

Nigel Blackaby, Constantine Partasides, Alan Redfern, Martin Hunter. Redfern and Hunter on international arbitration. 5th ed. Oxford University Press, 2009.

K2400.R43 2009

Judicial Process

David Dyzenhaus. Hard cases in wicked legal systems : pathologies of legality. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2010.

KTL1610.D99 2010

Juvenile Law

Catherine Y. Kim, Daniel J. Losen, Damon T. Hewitt. The school-to-prison pipeline : structuring legal reform. New York University, c2010.

KF4159.K56 2010

Legal Education

 

Helene Shapo, Marshall Shapo. Law school without fear : strategies for success. 3rd ed. Foundation Press, 2009.

 

KF386.S44 2009

 

 

 

 

 

Venturing beyond the classroom / edited by Christopher Honeyman, James Coben, Giuseppe De Palo. DRI Press , c2010.

K2390.V46 2010

Legal Profession

William T. Coleman Jr., Donald T. Bliss. Counsel for the situation : shaping the law to realize America's promise. Brookings Institution Press, c2010.

KF373.C625A3 2010

Maritime Law

Richard Coles, Edward Watt. Ship registration : law and practice. 2nd ed. Informa, 2009.

K4158.C65 2009

Julian Cooke, et al. Voyage charters. 3rd ed. Informa, 2007.

K1182.V69 2007

James Kraska. Maritime power and the law of the sea : expeditionary operations in world politics. Oxford University Press, c2011.

KZA1560.K73 2011

John Schofield. Laytime and demurrage. 5th ed. LLP, 2005.

KD1834.D4S36 2005

Practice Management

Rachel Giesber Clingman. Litigation management. Law Journal Press, 2010.

KF300.C52

Professional Responsibility

W. Bradley Wendel. Professional responsibility. 3rd ed. Aspen Publishers, c2011.

KF306.W46 2011

Remedies

Linda L. Schlueter. Punitive damages. 6th ed. LexisNexis, c2010-

KF1249.S35 2010

Supreme Courts

Jeff Shesol. Supreme power : Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court. W.W. Norton, c2010.

KF8742.S495 2010

Terrorism

Jeremy Waldron. Torture, terror, and trade-offs : philosophy for the White House. Oxford University Press, 2010.

K5256.W35 2010

Trusts and Wills

Tamar Frankel. Fiduciary law. Oxford University Press, c2011.

KF730.F728 2011

 

 

New Government Documents List

 

A voter's guide to federal elections / U.S. Election Assistance Commission, 2010.

JK1976.V68 2010

Reviewing FinCEN oversight reports : hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, April 28, 2010.

KF27.B54428 2010g

Nomination of John T. Morton : hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate of the One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session : nomination of John T. Morton to be assistant secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, April 22, 2009.

KF26.H63 2009g

Crisis in the future : long-run deficits and debt : hearing before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, June 17, 2008.

KF26.F5 2008x

Foundation of international tax reform : worldwide, territorial, and something in between : hearing before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, June 26, 2008.

KF26.F5 2008y

Transportation infrastructure : issues and options : hearing before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, July 10, 2008.

KF26.F5 2008z

After the dust settles : examining challenges and lessons learned in transitioning the federal government : hearing before the Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia Subcommittee of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, April 22, 2010.

KF26.H636 2010h

Assessing foster care and family services in the District of Columbia : challenges and solutions : hearing before the Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia Subcommittee of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, March 16, 2010.

KF26.H636 2010f

Hearing on climate change : costs of inaction : hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, June 26, 2008.

KF27.E5524 2008k

H.R. 3014, Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2007 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, Tuesday, June 24, 2008.

KF27.E553 2008m

Human rights and democracy assistance : increasing the effectiveness of U.S. foreign aid : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, June 10, 2010.

KF27.F6 2010k

Prosecuting terrorists : civilian and military trials for GTMO and beyond : hearing before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security [sic] of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, July 28, 2009.

KF26.J8747 2009n

Restoring fairness to federal sentencing : addressing the crack-powder disparity : hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, April 29, 2009.

KF26.J83765 2009g

Horn of Africa : current conditions and U.S. policy : hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, June 17, 2010.

KF27.F627 2010k

An overview of U.S. policy in  Africa : hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, March 24, 2010.

KF27.F627 2010e

Nomination of Daniel I. Werfel : hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate of the One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session : nomination of Daniel I. Werfel to be controller, Office of Federal Financial Management, Office of Management and Budget, September 16, 2009.

KF26.H63 2009o