New Titles List for the Week of February 26, 2012
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John
D. Bessler. Cruel & unusual : the American death penalty and the
founders' Eighth Amendment. Northeastern University Press, c2012. KF9227.C2B478
2012 The conventional wisdom is that the founders were avid death penalty supporters. In this examination of America’s Eighth Amendment, the author explores this myth and shows the founders’ conflicting and ambivalent views on capital punishment. The book takes the reader back in time to show how the indiscriminate use of executions gave way to a more enlightened approach—one that has been evolving ever since. After critiquing the U.S. Supreme Court’s existing case law, this volume argues that America’s death penalty—a vestige of a bygone era in which ear cropping and other gruesome corporal punishments were thought acceptable—should be declared unconstitutional. |
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Julian
Ku, John Yoo. Taming globalization : international law, the U. S.
Constitution, and the new world order. Oxford University Press, 2012. KF4581.K8
2012 In 1997, a Mexican national named Jose Ernesto Medellin was sentenced to death for raping and murdering two teenage girls in Texas. In 2004, the International Court of Justice ruled that he was entitled to a new trial, but in 2008, amid fierce controversy, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that the international ruling had no weight. Medellin subsequently was executed. In this book, the authors contend that the Medellin case only hints at the legal complications that will embroil American courts in the twenty-first century. To reconcile the demands of globalization with a traditional, formal constitutional structure, they write, we must re-conceptualize the Constitution, as Americans did in the early twentieth century, when faced with nationalization. |
New Titles List
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British Law |
Martin Partington. Introduction
to the English legal system : 2011-2012. 6th ed. Oxford University Press,
2011. |
KD661.P37 2011 |
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Constitutional Law |
The challenge of
originalism : theories of constitutional interpretation / edited by Grant Huscroft, Bradley Miller. Cambridge
University Press, 2011. |
K3165.C428 2011 |
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Jay Wexler. The odd
clauses : understanding the Constitution through ten of its most curious
provisions. Beacon Press, c2011. |
KF4550.W465 2011 |
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Contracts |
Martin Hogg. Promises and
contract law : comparative perspectives. Cambridge University Press,
2011. |
K845.P76H64 2011 |
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Copyright |
William Patry. How to fix
copyright. Oxford University Press, c2011. |
K1420.5.P3757 2011 |
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Criminal Justice |
John A. Eterno, Eli B.
Silverman. The crime numbers game : management by manipulation. CRC
Press, c2012. |
HV8148.N5E837 2012 |
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Criminal Procedure |
Paul S. Diamond. Federal
grand jury practice and procedure. 5th ed. Juris Pub., c2012. |
KF9642.D53 2012 |
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International Commercial
Arbitration |
Conflict of laws in
international arbitration / edited by
Franco Ferrari, Stefan Kröll. Sellier, c2011. |
K2400.A6C645 2011 |
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International Energy
Transactions |
Scott Gaille.
International energy development. c2011. |
HD62.4.G35 2012 |
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Japanese Law |
Japan's diversity dilemmas
: ethnicity, citizenship, and education
/ edited by Soo im Lee, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Harumi Befu.
IUniverse, Inc., c2006. |
DS830.J356 2006 |
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Judicial Process |
Richard L. Pacelle, Jr.,
Brett W. Curry, Bryan W. Marshall. Decision making by the modern Supreme
Court. Cambridge University Press, 2011. |
KF8748.P234 2011 |
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Jurisprudence |
Jeffrie G. Murphy. Punishment
and the moral emotions : essays in law, morality, and religion. Oxford
University Press, c2012. |
K5103.M85 2012 |
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Property |
Thomas J. Miceli. The
economic theory of eminent domain : private property, public use.
Cambridge University Press, c2011. |
KF5599.M45 2011 |
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Rule of Law |
Richard A. Epstein. Design
for liberty : private property, public administration, and the rule of law. Harvard
University Press, 2011 |
K487.L5E66 2011 |
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Separation of Power |
Stephen M. Engel. American
politicians confront the court : opposition politics and changing responses
to judicial power. Cambridge University Press, 2011. |
KF5130.E446 2011 |
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Tax Law |
Michael B. Lang, Elliott
Manning, Mona L. Hymel. Federal tax accounting. 2nd ed. LexisNexis,
c2011. |
KF6314.L36 2011 |
New Government Documents List
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The government of Belarus :
crushing human rights at home? : joint hearing before the Subcommittee on
Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights and the Subcommittee on Europe and
Eurasia of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred
Twelfth Congress, first session, April 1, 2011. |
KF27.F629 2011a |
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The integration of unmanned
aircraft systems (UASs) into the National Airspace System (NAS) : fulfilling
imminent operational and training requirements : field hearing before the
Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security of the Committee on
Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred
Eleventh Congress, second session, September 13, 2010. |
KF26.C69215 2010b |
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Financial literacy :
empowering Americans to make informed financial decisions : 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 Twelfth Congress,
first session, April 12, 2011. |
KF26.G6763 2011 |
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Green jobs and red tape :
assessing federal efforts to encourage employment : hearing before the
Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, Committee on Science, Space,
and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first
session, Wednesday, April 13, 2011. |
KF27.S3975 2011 |
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State and municipal debt :
the coming crisis? : hearing before the Subcommittee on TARP, Financial
Services, and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs of the Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred
Twelfth Congress, first session. |
KF27.O948 2011a |
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Fighting drunk driving :
lessons learned in New Mexico : field hearing before the Committee on
Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred
Twelfth Congress, first session, August 10, 2011. |
KF26.C69 2011 |
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Impact of monetary policy on
the economy : a regional Fed perspective on inflation, unemployment, and QE3
: hearing before the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology
of the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, One
Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, July 26, 2011. |
KF27.B5373 2011 |
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Evaluating goals and progress
in Afghanistan and Pakistan : hearing before the Committee on Foreign
Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session,
June 23, 2011. |
KF26.F6 2011j |
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Governance, democracy, human
rights, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation in Africa : the fiscal year
2012 proposed budget : hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa, Global
Health, and Human Rights of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of
Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, May 10, 2011. |
KF27.F627 2011 |
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Keeping America's families
safe : reforming the food safety system : hearing of the Committee on Health,
Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate, one Hundred Eleventh
Congress, first session, on examining keeping America's families safe, focusing
on reforming the food safety system, October 22, 2009. |
KF26.L27 2009zc |
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Pipeline safety : assessing
the San Bruno, California explosion and other recent accidents : hearing
before the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine
Infrastructure, Safety, and Security of the Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress,
second session, September 28, 2010. |
KF26.C69914 2011 |
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Nomination of Eugene L.
Dodaro : hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session
: nomination of Eugene L. Dodaro to be Comptroller General of the United States,
U.S. Government Accountability Office, November 18, 2010. |
KF26.H63 2010a |
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Hinder the Administration's
Legalization Temptation (HALT) Act : hearing before the Subcommittee on
Immigration Policy and Enforcement of the Committee on the Judiciary, House
of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, on H.R.
2497, July 26, 2011. |
KF27.J8644 2011 |
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The Department of Energy
fiscal year 2012 research and development budget request : hearing before the
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, House of Representatives, One
Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, March 3, 2011. |
KF27.S39 2011 |
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Intelligence reform--2010 :
hearings before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs,
United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session. |
KF26.H63 2010b |
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Federal Employees'
Compensation Act : a fair approach? : hearing before the Subcommittee on
Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and Labor Policy of the Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred
Twelfth Congress, first session, April 13, 2011. |
KF27.O9425 2011 |
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Oversight of the Metropolitan
Washington Airports Authority, Reagan Washington National Airport, and the
perimeter rule : hearing before the Subcommittee on Aviation Operations,
Safety, and Security of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second
session, September 16, 2010. |
KF26.C69215 2010a |
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Crisis in Côte d'Ivoire :
implications for the country and region : hearing before the Subcommittee on
Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights of the Committee on Foreign Affairs,
House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, April
13, 2011. |
KF27.F627 2011a |
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Department of Homeland
Security financial management : hearing before the Subcommittee on Government
Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management of the Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred
Twelfth Congress, first session, May 13, 2011. |
KF27.O9433 2011b |