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Exhibit A: Law Library Blog

New Acquisitions

by Lillian Velez on January 16th, 2025 in New Books | 0 Comments

Happy New Year from your Dee J. Kelly Law Library. We hope this semester is everything you want it to be. Following are some new titles for your enjoyment and enrichment.

 

Cover ArtLegal Writing Made Simple by Melissa Shultz & Christine Tamer

ISBN: 9781531028817
Publication Date: 2024-08-01
Call Number: KF250 .S584 2024 
 
This approach demystifies the writing process by providing concrete formulas for mastering both objective and persuasive legal writing.
 
 
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Constitutional Symmetry by Zachary S. Price
ISBN: 9781009391832
Publication Date: 2024-11-21
Call Number: KF4550 .P75 2024
 
Constitutional Symmetry offers a fresh perspective by urging judges to make decisions that work 'symmetrically' across major partisan and ideological divides instead of favoring one partisan coalition over the other.
 
 
Cover ArtWritten and Unwritten by Jon O. Newman & Marin K. Levy
ISBN: 9781009426190
Publication Date: 2024-11-21
Call Number: KF9053 .N49 2024 
 
The book collects the differing local rules and internal procedures of each Court of Appeals. In-depth interviews of the Chief Judges of all thirteen circuits and surveys of all Clerks of Court reveal previously undisclosed practices and customs.
 
 
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The Game That Never Ends by Julien Mailland
ISBN: 9780262549394
Publication Date: 2024-08-27
Call Number: K3705 .V53 M34 2024 
 

The Game That Never Ends is an inside look at the legal history that undergirds our favorite videogames. Drawing on a series of case studies as vignettes of the human comedy, Mailland sheds light on why and how the role of lawyers is key for understanding the videogame industry.

 

Cover ArtMy Brother's Keeper by Nicholas Rosenlicht
Call Number: RA790.5 .R68 2024 - LAW
ISBN: 9781639367306
Publication Date: 2024-10-01
 
A leading psychiatrist seeks to transform our understanding of mental health care and how it fits into larger social and economic forces--and proposes an effective and compassionate new framework for healing.
 
 
Cover ArtSocial Movements and the Law by Lolita Buckner Inniss (Editor) & Bridget J. Crawford (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520385177
Publication Date: 2024-11-12
Call Number: KF4757 .S62 2025 
 

Black Lives Matter and #MeToo are two of the most prominent twenty-first-century social movements in the United States. This book brings together the voices of twelve scholars and public intellectuals to explore how Black Lives Matter and #MeToo unfolded--separately and together--and how they enrich, inform, and complicate each other.

 

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Research Handbook on Plea Bargaining and Criminal Justice by Máximo Langer (Editor), Mike McConville (Editor), & Luke Marsh (Editor)
ISBN: 9781802206661
Publication Date: 2024-04-23

Call Number: K5458 .R48 2024 - LAW

Bringing together established and emerging scholars from around the world, the Research Handbook on Plea Bargaining and Criminal Justice examines the history, practice, underlying issues and future evolution of plea bargaining, through which guilty pleas are secured and trials are avoided.
 
 
Cover ArtAcing Civil Procedure by A. Spencer
Call Number: KF8841 .S64 2024
ISBN: 9798887861272
Publication Date: 2024-01-11
 
Moving beyond the outline format used by most students, this book uses a checklist format to lead students through the questions they need to ask and answer to fully analyze the legal questions they are trying to resolve.
 
 
Cover ArtContextualising Legal Research by Sanne Taekema & Wibren van der Burg
Call Number: K85 .T33 2024 - LAW
ISBN: 9781035338528
Publication Date: 2024-06-14
 
Providing a clear and concise guide to the practicalities of legal research, this informative book presents a methodological framework for law-in-context research design.
 
 
 
Cover ArtThe Privateers by Josh Cowen
Call Number: K85 .T33 2024 - LAW
ISBN: 9781682539101
Publication Date: 2024-09-10
 
Josh Cowen lays bare the surprising history of tax-funded school choice programs in the United States and warns of the dangers of education privatization.

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