New
Titles List for the Week of May 12, 2008
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John Ventura Kiplinger’s Estate Planning:
The Complete Guide to Wills, Trusts, and Maximizing Your
Legacy Kaplan Pub., 2008 KF750.V46 2008 In Kiplinger's Estate Planning, Law Center Professor John Ventura offers guidance on all of the tools of estate planning, from wills, trusts, and custodial accounts to insurance, employee befits, and durable power of attorney for finance and health care. This book explains concepts such as how a living trust works, what can and cannot be done with a will, and how to transfer assets to a spouse or partner. |
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Roseanne van Alebeek The Immunities of States and
Their Officials in International Criminal
Law KZ4012.A42 2008 This book examines the tension between international immunity rules, international human rights law, and international criminal law. The author sets out to distinguish the different scope and nature of the rule of state immunity, the rule of functional immunity and the personal immunity of diplomatic agents and heads of state. |
New Titles
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Civil
Rights |
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Dinah Shelton Regional protection of human rights,
Oxford University Press, c2008 |
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K3240.S526
2008 |
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Frans Viljoen International human rights law in
Africa, Oxford University Press,
2007 |
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KQC572.V55
2007 |
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Comparative
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Esin Orucu and David Nelken
(eds.) Comparative law : a
handbook, Hart, c2007 |
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K559.C656
2007 |
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Constitutional
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Robin D. Barnes The nature and scope of individual rights :
emerging debates in constitutional law, Carolina Academic
Press, c2008 |
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KF4550.B275
2008 |
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Contracts |
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Richard Stone The modern law of contract, 7th ed.,
Routledge-Cavendish, 2008 |
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KD1554.Z9S76
2008 |
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Estate
Planning |
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John Ventura
Kiplinger's estate planning : the
complete guide to wills, trusts, and maximizing your legacy,
Kaplan Pub., 2008 |
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KF750.V46
2008 |
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First
Amendment |
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Lawrence McNamara Reputation and defamation, Oxford
University Press, 2007 |
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K930.M36
2007 |
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Health
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Bonnie F. Fremgen Medical law and ethics, 3rd ed.,
Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008 |
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KF3821.F74
2009 |
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Insurance
Law |
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Allan D. Windt Insurance claims & disputes :
representation of insurance companies and insureds, 5th ed.,
Thomson/West, c2007- |
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KF1164.W56
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International
Criminal Law |
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Rosanne van Alebeek The immunity of states and their officials in
international criminal law and international human rights law,
Oxford University Press, 2008 |
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KZ4012.A42
2008 |
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International
Law |
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Henry J. Richardson, III
The origins of African-American
interests in international law, Carolina Academic Press,
c2008 |
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KF4757.R53
2008 |
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Dieter Fleck (ed.), in
collaboration with Michael Bothe [et al.] The handbook of international humanitarian
law, 2nd ed., |
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KZ6471.H36
2007 |
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International
Trade |
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Petros C. Mavroidis Trade in goods : the GATT and the other
agreements regulating trade in goods, Oxford University Press,
c2007 |
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K4600.M393
2007 |
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Internet
Law |
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David Lindsay International domain name law : ICANN and the
UDRP, Hart Pub., 2007 |
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K564.C6L557
2007 |
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Jurisprudence |
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Robert Benson The interpretation game : how judges and
lawyers make the law, Carolina Academic Press,
c2008 |
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KF425.B46
2008 |
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Lars Vinx Hans Kelsen's pure theory of law : legality and
legitimacy, Oxford University Press,
2007 |
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K339.V558
2007 |
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Law and Social
Science |
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James M. Donovan Legal anthropology : an
introduction, Altamira Press,
c2008 |
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K487.A57D663
2008 |
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Andrei Marmor Law in the age of pluralism, Oxford
University Press, c2007 |
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K230.M356L39
2007 |
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Legal Aspects of
Bioethics |
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Ana S. Iltis, Sandra H. Johnson
and Barbara A. Hinze (eds.) Legal
perspectives in bioethics, Routledge,
2008 |
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KF3821.L445
2008 |
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Legal
Education |
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Randall S. Abate Directory of environmental law education
opportunities at American law schools, 2nd ed., Carolina
Academic Press, c2008 |
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KF277.E5A23
2008 |
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Paul Maharg Transforming legal education : learning and
teaching the law in the early twenty-first century, Ashgate,
c2007 |
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K100.M34
2007 |
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Patent
Law |
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Keith Aoki Seed wars : controversies and cases on plant
genetic resources and intellectual property, Carolina Academic
Press, c2008 |
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K3876.A92
2008 |
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Mark Simon Davies Patent appeals : the elements of effective
advocacy in the Federal Circuit, Oxford University Press,
c2008 |
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KF3155.D38
2008 |
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Pretrial
Litigation |
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R. Lawrence Dessem Pretrial litigation in a nutshell,
4th ed., Thomson/West, c2008 |
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KF8900.D49
2008 |
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Supreme
Court |
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Henry J. Abraham Justices, presidents, and senators : a history
of the U.S. Supreme Court appointments from Washington to Bush
II, 5th new and rev. ed., Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
c2008 |
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KF8742.A72
2008 |
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Terrorism |
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David K. Linnan (ed.) Enemy combatants, terrorism, and armed conflict
law : a guide to the issues, Praeger Security International,
2008 |
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KF9430.E54
2008 |
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War
Crimes |
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Neil Boister and Robert Cryer
The Tokyo International Military
Tribunal : a reappraisal, Oxford University Press,
2008 |
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KZ1181.B65
2008 |
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Rachel Kerr & Eirin Mobekk
Peace and justice : seeking
accountability after war, Polity,
2007 |
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JZ6045.K47
2007 |
New Government Documents
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Chad and the Central African Republic : the regional impact of the Darfur crisis : hearing before the Subcommittee on African Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first |