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Economics and Law Medicine, Psychiatry, Psychology, Health Law
Education Law Property Law
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Air and Space Law

Johnson-Freese, Space as a Strategic Asset (2007).
JZ5695 J64 2007

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Nolan, Labor and Employment Arbitration in a Nutshell, 2nd ed. (2007).
Law Reserve: KF3425 N638 2007

 American Indians & Indigenous Peoples

 

Biography

Shaw, Melvin Belli: King of the Courtroom (2007).
KF373 S53 2007

Business Organizations/Regulation

Anson, Intangible Assets Handbook: Maximizing Value from Intangible Assets (2007).
KF2979 A845 2007

Kaye Scholer, LLP, Deskbook of Internal Investigations, Corporate Compliance and White Collar Issues (loose-leaf) (2007).
KF1416 D47 2007

Lagesse & Norrbom, Restrictive Covenants in Employment Contracts and Other Mechanisms for Protection of Corporate Confidential Information (2006).
K1577 R43 2006

Lipman, et al., Audit Committees (BNA Corporate Practice Series No. 49-5th) (2007).
HD5667.15 M322

Toker & Hudson, Initial Public Offerings (BNA Corporate Practice Series No. 60-2nd) (2007).
KF1439 T65

Civil Procedure, Trial & Appellate Practice

Lubet, Lawyers' Poker: 52 Lessons That Lawyers Can Learn from Card Players (2006).
KF300 Z9 L83 2006

Commercial, Banking, and UCC Law

Kelly, Uniform Commercial Code: Drafts (23 vols.) (1984).
KF879.518 A15 1984 V.__

Comparative Law

Hammergren, Envisioning Reform: Improving Judicial Performance in Latin America (2007).
KG86 H36 2007

Mwenda, Comparing American and British Legal Education Systems: Lessons for Commonwealth African Law Schools (2007).
KQC48 M84 2007

Pötgens, Income from International Private Employment (2006).
K4460 P68 2006

Sarat & Boulanger, Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment: Comparative Analysis (2005).
VV8694 C77 2005

Constitutional Law

Browne-Marshall, Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to Present (2007).
KF4755 B76 2007

Conley & Flanders, Rhode Island Constitution: A Reference Guide (2007).
KFR401 1986 A6 C66 2007

Dierenfield, Battle Over School Prayer: How Engel v. Vitale Changed America (2007).
KF228 E54 D54 2007

Glouboff, Lost Promise of Civil Rights (2007).
E185.61 G64 2007

Landsberg, Free at Last to Vote: The Alabama Origins of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (2007).
KF4891 L35 2007

Magliocca, Andrew Jackson and the Constitution: The Rise and Fall of Generational Regimes (2007).
KF4541 M27 2007

May & Ides, Constitutional Law: National Power and Federalism, 4th ed. (Examples & Explanations Series) (2007).
KF4550 M34 2007

Mezey, Queers in Court: Gay Rights Law and Public Policy (2007).
KF4754.5 Z9 M49 2007

Pallitto & Weaver, Presidential Secrecy and the Law (2007).
JK468 S4 P35 2007

Sullivan, Constitutional Context: Women and Rights Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America (2007).
KF478 S85 2007

White, History and the Constitution: Collected Essays (2007).
KF4541 A2 W48 2007

Zurn, Deliberative Democracy and the Institutions of Judicial Review (2007).
KF4550 Z9 Z87 2007

Contracts

 

Courts, Judges

Cross, Decision Making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals (2007).
KF8990 C76 2007

Knibb, Federal Court of Appeals Manual, 5th ed. (2007).
KF9052 K63 2007

Nemacheck, Strategic Selection: Presidential Nomination of Supreme Court Justices from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush (2007).
KF8742 N46 2007

Creditors' Rights

 

Criminal Law and Procedure

American Law Institute, Model Penal Code: Sentencing: Tentative Draft No. 1 (April 9, 2007).
Law Reserve: KF9685 A16 A443 2007

Bailey & Chermak, Famous American Crimes and Trials (5 vols.) (2004-).
HV9950 F36 2004 v.__

Davis, Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor (2007).
KF9640 D38 2007

Fitzgerald, Informants and Undercover Investigations: A Practical Guide to Law, Policy, and Procedure (2007).
KF9665 F584 2007

Fletcher, Grammar of Criminal Law: American, Comparative, and International--Volume 1: Foundations (2007).
K5018 F53 2007

Lippke, Rethinking Imprisonment (2007).
HV8705 L56 2007

Economics and Law

Hackney, Under Cover of Science: American Legal-Economic Theory and the Quest for Objectivity (2007).
K487 E3 H33 2007

Mayes & Wood, Structure of Economic Regulation (2007).
HG3881 S785 2007

Munnell & Sass, Social Security and the Stock Market: How the Pursuit of Market Magic Shapes the System (2006).
HD7125 M755 2006

Education Law

Gerstein & Gerstein, Education Law: An Essential Guide for Attorneys, Teachers, Administrators, Parents, and Students, 2nd ed. (2007).
KF4119 G47 2007

Energy, Oil, and Gas Law

Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Federal and Indian Oil & Gas Royalty Valuation & Management (2 vol. loose-leaf) (2007).
KF1865 A75 F4 2007 v.__

Environmental Law

Murchison, The Snail Darter Case: TVA versus the Environmental Species Act (2007).
KF5640 A7 M87 2007

Estate Planning, Probate, Trusts, Wills

Clifford, Making Your Own Living Trust, 8th ed. (2007).
KF734 Z9 C57 2007

Horn, Flexible Trusts and Estates for Uncertain Times, 3rd ed. (2007).
KF730 H67 2007

Evidence

Koesel, Turnbull, & Gourash, Spoliation of Evidence: Sanctions and Remedies for Destruction of Evidence in Civil Litigation, 2nd ed. (2006).
KF8935 K64 2006

Family Law & Children

 

First Amendment and Mass Media

 

Foreign Law

Ayittey, Indigenous African Institutions, 2nd ed. (2006).
GN645 A88 2006

Butler, Russian Foreign Relations and Investment Law (2006).
KLB3405 B88 2006

Cheshire, Fifoot, & Furmston, Law of Contract, 15th ed. [U.K.] (2007).
KD1554 C47 2007

Guellec & van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Economics of the European Patent System: IP Policy for Innovation and Competition (2007).
KJC2725 G84 2007

Hofmann & Tondl, European Union and the WTO Doha Round (2007).
HF2580.9 E876 2007

Kawaguchi, Essentials of Japanese Patent Law: Cases and Practice (2007).
KNX1202 K39 2007

Knights, Freedom of Religion, Minorities, and the Law (2007).
KD4100 K65 2007

Kuner, European Data Protection Law: Corporate Compliance and Regulation, 2nd ed. (2007).
KJE6071 K86 2007

Law Commission, Post-Legislative Scrutiny (Law Com No. 302) [U.K.] (2006).
KD654 G74 2006

Law Commission, Termination of Tenancies for Tenant Default (Law Com No. 303) [U.K.] (2006).
KD893.4 G74 2006

Mulheron, Modern Cy-près Doctrine: Applications and Implications (2006).
KD1488 M85 2006

Price & Al Tamimi, United Arab Emirates Court of Cassation Judgments 1998-2003 (2005).
KMV18 A4 2005

Shadle, "Girl Cases": Marriage and Colonialism in Gusiiland, Kenya, 1890-1970 (2006).
DT433.545 G86 S43 2006

Stacey, Dark Speech: The Performance of Law in Early Ireland (2007).
KDK156 S73 2007

Homeland Security, Terrorism

Anglim, The Iraq War (2003): A Documentary Legal History (7 vols.) (2004).
DS79.76 A55 2004 v.__

Butler, Guantanamo Bay and the Judicial-Moral Treatment of the Other (2007).
HV6432 G825 2007

Silkenat & Shulman, Imperial Presidency and the Consequences of 9/11: Lawyers React to the Global War on Terrorism (2 vols.) (2007).
KF5060 I47 2007 v.__

Human Rights

Bilchitz, Poverty and Fundamental Rights: The Justification and Enforcement of Socio-economic Rights (2007).
K3240 B54 2007

Fein, Human Rights and Wrongs: Slavery, Terror, Genocide (2007).
JC571 F423 2007

O'Flaherty, Human Rights Field Operation: Law, Theory and Practice (2007).
JC571 H865 2007

Pikis, Constitutionalism, Human Rights -- Separation of Powers: The Cyprus Precedent (2006).
KJN207 P55 2006

Weiss, Humanitarian Intervention: War and Conflict in the Modern World (2007).
JZ6369 W448 2007

Immigration Law

Kanstroom, Deportation Nation: Outsiders in American History (2007).
KF4842 K25 2007

van Walsum & Spijkerboer, Women and Immigration Law: New Variations on Classical Feminist Themes (2007).
KJC6050 W66 2007

Intellectual Property

Covin, Trademarks Throughout the World (3 vol. loose-leaf) (2007).
K1555.4 T722 v.__

Halpern, Nard, & Port, Fundamentals of United States Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patent, Trademark (2007).
KF2979 H357 2007

Harmon, Patents and the Federal Circuit, 8th ed. (2007).
KF3114 H347 2007

Zemer, Idea of Authorship in Copyright (2007).
K1440 Z46 2007

International Law

Buergenthal & Murphy, Public International Law in a Nutshell, 4th ed. (2007).
Law Reserve: KZ3410 B84 2007

Darcy, Collective Responsibility and Accountability under International Law (2007).
KZ4080 S53 2007

Kennedy, Of Law and War (2007).
KZ6396 K46 2007

International Trade & Business Transactions

Girvin, Carriage of Goods by Sea (2007).
KD1819 G57 2007

Schwenzer & Fountoulakis, International Sales Law (2007).
K1030 I57 2007

Zeller, CISG and the Unification of International Trade Law (2007).
K1028.3198 Z35 2007

Jurisprudence

Bankowski & MacLean, The Universal and the Particular in Legal Reasoning (2006).
K213 U548 2006

Kennedy & Fisher, Canon of American Legal Thought (2006).
KF380 C296 2007

Loizidou, Judith Butler: Ethics, Law, Politics (2007).
K230 B88 L65 2007

Schwartzberg, Democracy and Legal Change (2007).
K552 S29 2007

Labor and Employment Law

 

Law of the Sea

United Nations, Training Manual for Delineation of the Outer Limits of the Continental Shelf Beyond 200 Nautical Miles and for Preparation of Submissions to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (2006).
KZA1660 L395 2006

Legal History

DeLombard, Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture (2007).
KF4545 S5 D45 2007

Dirck, Lincoln as Lawyer (2007).
E457.2 D575 2007

Shaw, Pederson, & Williams, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Transformation of the Supreme Court (2004).
KF8742 F73 2004

Stebbings, Legal Foundations of Tribunals in Nineteenth Century England (2007).
KD4890 S74 2007

Tucker, Law Courts and Lawyers in the City of London, 1300-1550 (2007).
KD6857 T83 2007

Urofsky & Finkelman, Documents of American Constitutional & Legal History: Volume 1 From the Founding to 1896 (2008).
KF350 D633 2008 v. 1

Legal Profession, Legal Education, and Legal Ethics

Barrett & Mingo, Dracula was a Lawyer: Hundreds of Fascinating Facts from the World of Law (2002).
K183 B38 2002

Empson, Managing the Modern Law Firm: New Challenges, New Perspectives (2007).
K129 M36 2007

Feinman, Professional Liability to Third Parties, 2nd ed. (2007).
KF1289 F45 2007

Herring, Texas Legal Malpractice & Lawyer Discipline, 6th ed. (2007).
Law Reserve: KFT1276.5 K46 2007

Quinn, et al., Law Firm Accounting and Financial Management, 4th ed. (2007).
KF320 A2 Q55 2007

Siemer, Rothschild, & Zwier, Teaching Legal Strategy (2006).
KF272 S54 2006

Texas Bar Association, New Lawyer Course 2007 (2007).
Law Reserve: KF300 A2 N49 2007

Legal Research and Writing

Larson & Shaeffer, Federal Tax Research (2007).
KF241 T38 L37 2007

Oettle, Making Your Point: A Practical Guide to Persuasive Legal Writing (2007).
KF250 O384 2007

Medicine, Psychiatry, Psychology and Health Law

Cody & Scully-Hayes, Practical Guide to Medicare Appeals (2007).
KF3608 A4 S38 2007

Institute of Medicine, Ethical Considerations for Research Involving Prisoners (2007).
R853 H8 E8253 2007

Lewis, Assisted Dying and Legal Change (2007).
K3611 E95 L49 2007

Parry & Drogin, Mental Disability Law, Evidence and Testimony: A Comprehensive Reference Manual for Lawyers, Judges, and Mental Disability Professionals (2007).
KF480 P3696 2007

Rivlin & Antos, Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2007: The Health Spending Challenge (2007).
RA410.53 R488 2007

Property Law

 

Reference

 

Securities Regulation and Accounting

AICPA, AICPA Technical Practice Aids (as of June 1, 2006) (2 vols.) (2006).
HF5616 U5 A574b 2006 June v.__

Taxation

Hopkins, Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations, 9th ed. (2007).
KF6449 H6 2007

Pomp & Oldman, State and Local Taxation, 5th ed. (3 vols.) (2005).
Law Storage: KF6730 A7 P65 2005 v.__

Westin, International Taxation of Electronic Commerce, 2nd ed. (2007).
K4487 E43 W47 2007

Technology, Telecommunications, Internet Law

 

Torts and Remedies

Bakken, et al., Slips, Trips, Missteps and Their Consequences, 2nd ed. (2007).
KF1290 S55 F35 2007

Weaver, Shoben & Kelly, Principles of Remedies Law (Concise Hornbooks) (2007).
Law Reserve: KF9010 Z9 W42 2007

 

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