New Titles List for the Week of April 18, 2010
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E. Fletcher, Eric Stover. The Guantánamo effect : exposing the
consequences of U.S. detention and interrogation practices. University of
California Press, c2009. KZ6495.F54
2009 This
book, based on a two-year study of former prisoners of the U.S. government’s
detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, provides information about the effects
of the intelligence policies developed under the Bush administration.
Interviewing former detainees, the authors describe the events surrounding
their capture, their years of incarceration, and the difficulties preventing
many from resuming a normal life once returning home. |
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Fangfei Wang. Law of electronic commercial transactions : contemporary
issues in the EU, US and China. Routledge, 2010. K1005.W35
2010 This book compares the legislative frameworks of e-commerce in the EU, the US, China, and International Organizations. It provides information about how to remove barriers to the validity of electronic contracts and signatures, enforce data privacy protection, and resolve questions regarding internet jurisdiction and choice of law. It advocates modernizing and harmonizing the laws of electronic commercial transactions through the use of well-balanced, area-specific international agreements. |
New Titles List
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Bankruptcy |
Bankruptcy road map : navigating the landscape,
avoiding the pitfalls. State Bar of Texas, 2010. |
KF1524.B368 2010 |
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Children's Rights |
Mitchell A. Rosenwald, Beth N. Riley. Advocating for
children in foster and kinship care : a guide to getting the best out of the
system for caregivers and practitioners. Columbia University Press,
c2010. |
KF3736.5.R67 2010 |
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Contracts |
John D. Calamarie, Joseph M. Perillo. Contracts.
5th ed. Thomson/West, c2010 |
KF801.Z9C27 2010 |
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Digital Transactions |
Principles of the law, software contracts : as
adopted and promulgated by the American Law Institute at Washington, D.C. May
19, 2009. American Law Institute Publishers, 2010. |
KF905.C6P75 2010 |
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Education Law |
Philippa Strum. Mendez v. Westminster : school
desegregation and Mexican-American rights. University Press of Kansas,
c2010. |
KF4155.S77 2010 |
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Immigration Law |
Galina Cornelisse. Immigration detention and human
rights : rethinking territorial sovereignty. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers,
c2010. |
KJC6044.C67 2010 |
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International Law and the
Use of Force |
Prisoners in war / edited by Sibylle Scheipers.
Oxford University Press, c2010. |
KZ6495.S36 2010 |
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Law and Psychology |
Sherrie Bourg Carter. Justice for all : challenges
of the mentally ill in the legal system. National Institute for Trial Advocacy,
c2009. |
KF480.B68 2009 |
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Legal Aspects of Bioethics |
Biomedicine and human rights : the Oviedo Convention
and its additional protocols. Council of Europe Pub., c2009. |
KJC6227.A41997B56 2009 |
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Professional Responsibility |
Lawrence J. Fox, Susan R. Martyn. Red flags : a
lawyer's handbook on legal ethics. 2nd ed. ALI-ABA, c2010. |
KF306.F69 2010 |
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Rule of Law |
Relocating the rule of law / edited by Gianluigi
Palombella, Neil Walker. Hart, 2009. |
K3171.R456 2009 |
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Russian Law |
Civil code of the Russian Federation /
translated & edited by William E. Butler. Wildy, Simmonds & Hill,
2010. |
KLB494.31994.A52 2010 |
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Russian public law : the foundations of a
rule-of-law state : legislation and documents / edited, with
translations, by William E. Butler. 2nd rev. ed. Wildy, Simmonds & Hill
Publishers, c2009. |
KLA13.R87 2009 |
New Government Documents List
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The Treasury Department's report to Congress on international
economic and exchange rate policy (IEERP) and the U.S.-China strategic
economic dialogue : hearing before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and
Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first
session, on reviewing developments in international economics and the
exchange rate policies of our key trading partners with an emphasis on the
U.S.-China strategic economic dialogue, Wednesday, January 31, 2007. |
KF26.B39 2007b |
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The effective regulation of the over-the-counter
derivatives market : hearing before the Subcommittee on Capital Markets,
Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises of the Committee on Financial
Services, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first
session, June 9, 2009. |
KF27.B515 2009c |
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Compensation structure and systemic risk : hearing
before the Committee of Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives,
One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, June 11, 2009. |
KF27.B5 2009r |
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Preventing worker exploitation : protecting individuals
with disabilities and other vulnerable populations : hearing of the Committee
on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh
Congress, first session, on examining preventing worker exploitation,
focusing on protecting individuals with disabilities and other vulnerable
populations, March 9, 2009. |
KF26.L27 2009e |
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Current issues in deposit insurance : hearing before
the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions of the Committee on Banking,
Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh
Congress, first session, on strengthening deposit insurance and reviewing
increasing the FDIC and NCUA's borrowing authority from Treasury, March 19,
2009. |
KF26.B3943 2009f |
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Combating child pornography by eliminating
pornographers' access to the financial payment system : hearing before the
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One
Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, on drawing attention to the problem
of child pornography and to highlight what financial service companies can do
to eliminate it from the financial payment system, Tuesday, September 19,
2006. |
KF26.B39 2006zb |
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Making sense of it all : an examination of USPS's
station and branch optimization initiative and delivery route adjustments : hearing
before the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the
District of Columbia of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform,
House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, July
30, 2009. |
KF27.O9425 2009o |
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Calculated risk : assessing non-traditional mortgage
products : hearing before the Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation and
the Subcommittee on Economic Policy of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and
Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second
session, on the issues surrounding non-traditional mortgages and their
possible implications for consumers, financial institutions, and the economy,
Wednesday, September 20, 2006. |
KF26.B3945 2006r |
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Regulatory restructuring : balancing the independence
of the Federal Reserve in monetary policy with systemic risk regulation :
hearing before the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology of
the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, One
Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, July 9, 2009. |
KF27.B5368 2009n |
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Community and consumer advocates' perspectives on the Obama
administration's financial regulatory reform proposals : hearing before the
Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred
Eleventh Congress, first session, July 16, 2009. |
KF27.B5 2009s |