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Foreign Law
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Biography Immigration Law
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Civil Procedure, Trial & Appellate Practice International Law
Commercial, Banking, and UCC Law International Trade, Business Transactions
Comparative Law Jewish Law
Constitutional Law Jurisprudence
Contracts Labor and Employment Law
Courts, Judges Law of the Sea
Creditors' Rights Legal History
Criminal Law and Procedure Legal Profession, Legal Education, Law Students, and Legal Ethics
Economics and Law Legal Research and Writing
Education Law Medicine, Psychiatry, Psychology, Health Law
Energy, Oil, and Gas Law Property Law
Environmental Law Reference
Estate Planning, Probate, Trusts, Wills Securities Regulation and Accounting
Evidence Taxation
Family Law, Children Technology, Telecommunications, Internet Law
First Amendment and Mass Media Torts and Remedies, Insurance

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Air and Space Law

Diederiks-Verschoor & Kopal, Introduction to Space Law, 3rd rev. ed. (2008).
K4135 D54 2008

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Horn & Hopkins, Arbitration Law Handbook (2007).
K2400 A48 2007

UNCITRAL, Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (New York 1958), Status as of Jan. 1, 2008 (2008).
K2400 A35 U55 2008

Woolford & Ratner, Informal Reckonings: Conflict Resolution in Mediation, Restorative Justice and Reparations (2008).
K970 W66 2008

American Indians & Indigenous Peoples

Duthu, American Indians and the Law (2008).
KF8210 R32 D88 2008

Loukacheva, Arctic Promise: Legal and Political Autonomy of Greenland and Nunavut (2007).
KEN8454 L68 2007
 

Biography

 

Business Organizations/Regulation

ABA, Mergers and Acquisitions: Understanding the Antitrust Issues, 3rd ed. (2008).
KF1655 M474 2008

Antitrust Modernization Commission: Report and Recommendations (2007, r2008).
KF1649 U55 2008

Texas Bar Assn, Advanced Business Law Course 2007 (2007).
Law Reserve: KFT1405 A75 A38 2007

Civil Procedure, Trial & Appellate Practice

American Law Institute, Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments: Analysis and Proposed Federal Statute (2006).
KF8729 A95 2006

Finley & Baker, Texas Summary Judgment and Related Termination Motions, 2007-2008 ed. (2008).
Texas Collection: 2-A KFT1746 S8 T48 2007/2008

Joseph, Sanctions: The Federal Law of Litigation Abuse, 4th ed. (2008).
KF8887 J66 2008

Commercial, Banking, and UCC Law

Peretore, Workouts and Enforcement for the Secured Creditor and Equipment Lessor (2008).
KF1539 P47 2008

Wiggers, International Commercial Law: Source Materials, 2nd rev. ed. (2007).
K1003 I58 2007

Wood, International Loans, Bonds, Guarantees, Legal Opinions, 2nd ed. (2007).
K1094.3 W66 2007

Comparative Law

Aaron & Stone, Rethinking Comparative Labour Law: Bridging the Past and the Future (2007).
K1705 R47 2007

Dickson, Judicial Activism in Common Law Supreme Courts (2007).
K3367 J825 2007

Siems, Convergence in Shareholder Law (2008).
K1338 S57 2008

Constitutional Law

Gearty, Civil Liberties (2007).
K3240 G43 2007

Goldberg, Bleached Faith: The Tragic Cost When Religion is Forced into the Public Square (2008).
KF4783 G65 2008

Kirkland, Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood (2008).
KF4757.5 )94 K57 2008

Murray, Religious Liberty in America: The First Amendment in Historical and Contemporary Perspective (2008).
KF4783 M87 2008

Persily, Citrin & Egan, Public Opinion and Constitutional Controversy (2008).
KF4550 P82 2008

Rule, Privacy in Peril (2007).
JC596 R85 2007

Sollenberger, President Shall Nominate: How Congress Trumps Executive Power (2008).
KF5050 S66 2008

Contracts

Speidel, Contracts in Crises: Excuse Doctrine and Retrospective Government Acts (2007).
KF832 S64 2007

Courts, Judges

Dyckman, Most Disorderly Court: Scandal and Reform in the Florida Judiciary (2008).
KFF525.5 D5 D93 2008

Paris, Sun Climbs Slow: Justice in the Age of Imperial America (2008).
KZ6314 P37 2008

Creditors' Rights

 

Criminal Law and Procedure

Leong, Disruption of International Organised Crime: An Analysis of Legal and Non-legal Strategies (2007).
K5240 L46 2007

Williams & Johnson, Genetic Policing: The Use of DNA in Criminal Investigations (2008).
RA1057.55 W55 2008

Economics and Law

Zahariadis, State Subsidies in the Global Economy (2008).
HF1711 Z34 2008

Education Law

Dunn, Complex Justice: The Case of Missouri v. Jenkins (2008).
KF4155 D86 2008

Fossey, DeMitchell, & Eckes, Sexual Orientation. Public Schools, and the Law (2007).
KF4754.5 F67 2007

Olivas & Schneider, Education Law Stories (2007).
KF4119 E48 2007

Energy, Oil, and Gas Law

RMMLF, Air Quality Challenges Facing the Natural Resources Industry in the Western United States (2007).
KF3812 A75 A57 2007

RMMLF, Mineral Title Examination: Fundamentals for Practice in the 21st Century (2007).
KF678 M56 2007

Environmental Law

King, Toxic Mold Litigation, 2nd ed. (2008).
KF3964 M64 T69 2008

Schiffman, Marine Conservation Agreements: the Law and Policy of Reservations and Vetoes (2008).
K3483 S35 2008

Estate Planning, Probate, Trusts, Wills

Angel, Inheritance in Contemporary America: The Social Dimensions of Giving across Generations (2008).
HB715 A55 2008

Evidence

Digital Evidence in the Courtroom: A Guide for Law Enforcement and Prosecutors (2007).
KF8947 D54 2007

Eades, Mastering Evidence (2008).
KF8935 E15 2008

Elm, Vouching: A Defense Attorney's Guide to Witness Credibility, Law and Strategy (2008).
KF8950 E46 2008

Family Law & Children

Gerstmann, Same-sex Marriage and the Constitution, 2nd ed. (2008).
KF539 G47 2008

Jordan & Henry, Domestic Violence Civil Law Manual: Protection Orders and Family Law Cases, 3rd ed. (2007).
KF9320 J67 2007

Rohrbaugh, Comprehensive Guide to Child Custody Evaluations: Mental Health and Legal Perspectives (2008).
KF547 R63 2008

Sanger, Family Law Stories (2008).
KF504 F35 2008

First Amendment and Mass Media

Gies, Law and the Media: The Future of an Uneasy Relationship (2008).
KJC3655 G54 2008

Foreign Law

Biddulph, Legal Reform and Administrative Detention Powers in China (2007).
KNQ4657 B53 2007

Council of Europe, Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities: Collected Texts, 4th ed. (2007).
KJC5144 M56 A3 2007

Fontana & Keeshan, Law of Search & Seizure in Canada, 7th ed. (2007).
KE9270 F66 2007

Foote, Law in Japan: A Turning Point (2007).
KNX120 L39 2007

Haentjens, Harmonisation of Securities Law: Custody and Transfer of Securities in European Private Law (2007).
KJC2247 H34 2007

Husni & Newman, Muslim Women in Law and Society (2007).
KBP526.32 H33 A34613 2007

Klosse & Hartlief, Shifts in Compensating Work-related Injuries and Diseases (2007).
KJE3350 S53 2007

Lau, Role of Islam in the Legal System of Pakistan (2006).
KPL469.5 L38 2006

Muller, Netherlands in International Tax Planning, 2nd rev. ed. (2007).
KKM3550 M848 2007

Nethercott, Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism: Criminal Justice, Politics, and the Public Sphere (2007).
KLB3950 N48 2007

Panayi, Double Taxation, Tax Treaties, Treaty-shopping and the European Community (2007).
KJE7105 P36 2007

Patel, Hindu Women's Property Rights in Rural India (2007).
KNS516 P38 2007

Seymour, Law, Antisemitism and the Holocaust (2007).
KJC5144 M56 S48 2007

Van Bueren, Child Rights in Europe (2007).
KJC5144 C44 V36 2007

Homeland Security, Terrorism

Mehta, International Encyclopaedia of Terrorism Laws (3 vols.) (2007).
K5256 A48 2007 v. __

Stuart, Creating the National Security State: A History of the Law that Transformed America (2008).
UA23 S88 2008

Human Rights

Council of Europe, Eliminating Corporal Punishment: A Human Rights Perspective for Europe's Children, 2nd ed. (2007).
KJC5144 C44 E45 2007

UN Office of the High Comm'r for Human Rights, Good Governance Practices for the Protection of Human Rights (2007).
JC571 G639 2007

Weissbrodt & de la Vega, International Human Rights Law: An Introduction (2007).
K3240 W453 2007

Weller, Universal Minority Rights: A Commentary on the Jurisprudence of International Courts and Treaty Bodies (2007).
K3242 U57 W45 2007

Immigration Law

Morrison, Schiff, & Sjoblom, International Migration of Women (2008).
JV6347 I58 2008

Intellectual Property

Cottier & Veron, Concise International and European IP Law: TRIPS, Paris Convention, European Enforcement and Transfer of Technology (2008).
KJE2636 C66 2008

Gollin, Driving Innovation: Intellectual Property Strategies for a Dynamic World (2008).
K1401 G65 2008

McLeod, Freedom of Expression®: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007).
KF2979 M348 2007

International Law

Bsoul, International Treaties (Mu 'āhadāt) in Islam: Theory and Practice in the Light of Islamic International Law (Siyar) According to Orthodox Schools (2008).
KZ1301 B79 2008

Craven, Decolonization of International Law: State Succession and the Law of Treaties (2007).
KZ4024 C73 2007

Kearney, Prohibition of Propaganda for War in International Law (2007).
KZ5594 K43 2007

Noyes, Dickinson, & Janis, International Law Stories (2007).
KZ3410 I68 2007

Richardson, Origins of African-American Interests in International Law (2008).
KF4757 R53 2008

Tochilovsky, Jurisprudence of the International Criminal Courts and the European Court of Human Rights: Procedure and Evidence (2008).
KZ6310 T63 2008

von Dannenberg, Foundations of Ostpolitik: The Making of the Moscow Treaty between West Germany and the USSR (2008).
KZ699 1970 V66 2008

International Trade & Business Transactions

Delimatsis, International Trade in Services and Domestic Regulations: Necessity, Transparency, and Regulatory Diversity (2007).
K3973 D45 2007

Konigsberg, International Franchising, 3rd ed. (2008).
K3966 K66 2008

Mavroidis, Trade in Goods: The GATT and Other Agreements Regulating Trade in Goods (2007).
K4600 M393 2007

Nakagawa, Anti-dumping Laws and Practices of the New Users (2007).
K4635 A95 2007

Jewish Law

Alexander, Transmitting Mishnah: The Shaping Influence of Oral Tradition (2006).
KBM497.85 A44 2006

Goldstein, Defending the Human Spirit: Jewish Law's Vision for a Moral Society (2006).
KBM524.14 G65 2006

Lewittes, Jewish Marriage: Rabbinic Law, Legend, and Custom (1994).
KBM542 L48 1994

Neusner, Midrash: An Introduction (1990).
KBM514 N482 1990

Neusner, Mishnah: An Introduction (1989).
KBM497.8 N478 1989

Jurisprudence

Hunter & Cowan, Choice and Consent: Feminist Engagements with Law and Subjectivity (2007).
K644 C46 2007

Scott, Dismantling American Common Law: Liberty and Justice in Our Transformed Courts (2007).
KF394 S395 2007

Teles, Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law (2008).
KF385 T45 2008

Labor and Employment Law

Leslie, Labor Law in a Nutshell, 5th ed. (2008).
Law Reserve: KF3369.3 L39 2008

Murphy, Azoff, & Grant, Practice and Procedure Before the National Labor Relations Board (BNA Corporate Practice Series, No. 41-4th) (2008).
KF3369 M87 2008

Ocker & Schick, Executive Employment Agreements (BNA Corporate Practice Series, No. 88) (2008).
KF1424 O35 2008

Reicher, Springer, & Dowd, Reductions in Force (BNA Corporate Practice Series, No. 42) (2008).
KF3471 R45 2008

Texas Bar Assn, Nuts & Bolts of Employment Law 2008 (2008).
Law Reserve: KFT1531 A75 N88 2008

Law of the Sea

Christodoulou-Varotsi & Pentsov, Maritime Work Law Fundamentals: Responsible Shipowners, Reliable Seafarers (2008).
K1196 C48 2008

Legal History

Fishman, Faithless Fiduciary and the Quest for Charitable Accountability, 1200-2005 (2007).
KD1487 F57 2007

Merrill, Watergate Prosecutor (2008).
KF374 W38 M47 2008

Legal Profession, Legal Education, Law Students, and Legal Ethics

Gerson & Gerson, Modern Rules of Business Etiquette (2008).
KF319 G475 2008

MacFarlane, New Lawyer: How Settlement is Transforming the Practice of Law (2008).
K120 M33 2008

Salkin, Pioneering Women Lawyers: From Kate Stoneman to the Present (2008).
KF299 W6 P56 2008

Strickland & Read, Lawyer Myth: A Defense of the American Legal Profession (2008).
KF298 S775 2008

Legal Research and Writing

 

Medicine, Psychiatry, Psychology and Health Law

Erin & Ost, Criminal Justice System and Heath Care (2007).
K4365 C75 2007

Sloan & Chepke, Medical Malpractice (2008).
KF2905.3 S58 2008

Property Law

Epstein, Supreme Neglect: How to Revive Constitutional Protection for Private Property (2008).
KF562 E67 2008

Nie, Governance of Western Public Lands: Mapping Its Present and Future (2008).
KF5605 N54 2008

Texas Bar Assn, Residential Real Estate Construction Law 2008 (2008).
Law Reserve: KFT1475 A6 R47 2008

Reference

Kaplan, Legal Dictionary: English-Spanish, Spanish-English, 3rd ed. (2008).
Law Reference: 2-C Ref. K52 S6 K36 2008

Securities Regulation and Accounting

Hung, et al., Investor and Industry Perspectives on Investment Advisers and Broker-Dealers (2008).
KF1070 I58 2008

Taxation

Abrams & Doernberg, Federal Corporation Taxation, 6th ed. (Concepts & Insights Series) (2008).
KF6464 A73 2008

Burke, Federal Income Taxation of Corporations and Stockholders in a Nutshell, 6th ed. (2007).
Law Reserve: KF6465 S58 2007

Hamil, As Certain As Death: A Fifty-State Survey of State and Local Tax Laws (2007).
KF6750 Z95 H36 2007

Rosenberg & Daher, Law of Federal Income Taxation (Hornbook Series) (2008).
Law Reserve: KF6369 R673

Zimmerman, Silence of Congress: State Taxation of Interstate Commerce (2007).
HJ275 Z56 2007

Technology, Telecommunications, Internet Law

Kozyris, Regulating Internet Abuses: Invasion of Privacy (2007).
K4315 R44 2007

Tambini, Leonardi & Marsden, Codifying Cyberspace: Communications Self-regulation in the Age of Internet Convergence (2008).
K564 C6 T35 2008

Torts and Remedies

Cassels, Remedies: The Law of Damages (2007).
KE8532 C32 2007

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