New Books: Summer 2025 New Books

Creating a Seat at the Table is an edited collection that compiles the experiences of eighteen women as they navigate their way through the male-dominated spaces of law school and the legal profession. Hear from women from different generations and areas of the law—big and small law firms, legal aid, government and politics, the judiciary, in-house positions, administrative agencies. The authors discuss a multitude of issues they’ve faced in their careers, including the compound effects of discrimination based on race, sexual orientation, or disability as well as gender. The stories presented here are inspirational at times and discomforting at others. Creating a Seat at the Table shows that much has been done to advance women in law but also highlights that much remains to be done.

In Critical Wage Theory, the author argues forcefully that we must center the minimum wage as a tool for fighting structural racism. Employing the lessons of critical race theory to show how low minimum wages and underenforcement of workplace laws have always been features of our racially stratified society, the author explains why we must follow the leadership of social movements by treating increases in minimum wage levels and enforcement as matters of racial justice.

A wide-ranging intellectual history of the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) Movement, drawing from personal accounts, academic works, and the media, The Rise and Fall of Critical Legal Studies unpacks CLS to address what it was, how it came about, and what its legacy means for contemporary legal theories.

Can we regulate something that doesn't exist yet? Can Europe create its own Silicon Valley? Who gets to create technological value in today's world? Whatever happened to the once-flourishing idea of rags to riches? Will new and exciting innovations only ever come from big tech companies? Can the EU establish its own flexible framework for boosting innovation, e.g. by facilitating the transformative use of technologies and data? This book seeks to answer these questions by exploring the differences in copyright culture in Europe and the United States, with its flexible fair use framework. The findings are anything but obvious, and decades of case law on both sides of the Atlantic tell a story of judges going to great lengths to deal with new challenges while navigating the imperfections of statutory law -- both where it is too broadly formulated and where it is too prescriptive.

This book takes a comprehensive approach toward Chinese IP law research covering patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets. This represents a product of cumulative efforts of the last twenty years. Today China becomes a global IP powerhouse that boasts the largest number of patent grants and trademark registrations in the world. And Chinese intellectual property rights regimes are in line with the international standard of developed nations such as the United States and Europe. This research guide has been written in reflection of the breadth and depth of Chinese IP law at present.

"Americans face increasingly stark choices each presidential election and a growing sense that our government can't solve the nation's most urgent challenges. Our eighteenth-century system is ill suited to our twenty-first-century world. Information-age technology has undermined our capacity to face common problems together and turned our democracy upside down, with gerrymanders letting representatives choose voters rather than voters choosing them. In Parliamentary America, Maxwell L. Stearns argues that the solution to these complex problems is a parliamentary democracy."

In this book, the author explains how lawyers and judges invoke history selectively to construct authority for their claims and undermine the authority of opposing views. Lawyers and judges construct—and erase—memory to lend authority to their present-day views; they make the past speak their values so they can then claim to follow it. The seemingly opposed camps of originalism and living constitutionalism are actually mirror images of a single phenomenon: how lawyers use history to adapt an ancient constitution to a constantly changing world.

This fully updated edition of The National Security Constitution explores the growing imbalance of institutional powers in American foreign affairs and national security policy. Since the beginning of the American Republic, a package of norms has evolved in the U.S. Constitution to protect the operation of checks and balances in national security policy. Today it is under attack from a competing claim of executive unilateralism generated by recurrent patterns of presidential activism, congressional passivity, and judicial tolerance. In the first edition, the author traced the evolution of this constitutional struggle across America's history. This new book brings the story to the present, placing recent events into constitutional perspective. The author suggests both a workable strategy and crucial prescriptions to restore the balance of our constitutional order in addressing modern global crises.

This book offers a study of the evolution of footnotes in US Supreme Court opinions and how they add to our constitutional understanding. Through a comprehensive analysis, the author argues that as justices alter the course of history via their decisions, they import their own understandings of it through the footnotes. The book showcases how the role of the footnote within Supreme Court opinions has evolved, beginning with one of the first cases in the history of the court, Chisholm v. Georgia in 1792 (a case concerning federalism vs. states’ rights) and ending with the landmark Dobbs v. Jackson case in 2022. Along the way, the author demonstrates how the footnotes within these decisions reflect the changing role of the Supreme Court Justice, along with how interpretations of the constitution have transformed over time.

"Because sports betting is developing differently state-by-state and within tribal gaming systems, this guide includes material covering a wide variety of sports betting models. Users will see both primary and secondary sources referencing sports wagering, sports pools, fantasy sports, sports lotteries, pari-mutuel sports betting, tribal gaming, casino gaming, sportsbooks, internet betting, mobile sports betting, sports gambling, and gaming generally. These terms are not intended to be used interchangeably. Instead, the researcher should carefully explore the language used in each jurisdiction, paying particular attention to statutory and regulatory definitions. This guide includes materials from states in which sports betting is legal at the time of publication. The 12 states that do not permit sports betting have been omitted. It also excludes law related exclusively to traditional casino gaming, horse racing, and other types of gambling not directly connected to the performance of specific athletes or the outcome of athletic events

Brooke Wunnicke was the first woman to be a trial and appellate attorney in Wyoming, and later the Chief Deputy of Appeals for the Denver District Attorney's Office. This book is a lively, personal, and humorous autobiography including reflections on the legal system and what it means in the United States"

This book is designed to assist law students and practitioners learn the basics of business. Specifically, in addition to narrative explanations of business concepts, unlike many other books on this subject, this book also will provide case studies and problem sets to enable law students to experientially learn how to identify legal risk and potential legal issues from analyzing a company's business issues and corporate financial statements.

At this time of tumultuous change and threats to the rule of law in the United States, this book explores the critical role that American lawyers have played since the nation's founding, and the role they must play today and in the future, in defending and advancing justice and inclusion in our multi-racial democracy.

This book has two parts. The first part begins by addressing why leadership development and training are essential in preparing lawyers for the roles and responsibilities they will have in their careers. The five chapters in the second part address the context in which lawyers exercise leadership. In the Afterword, the focus is on developing and adopting a leadership development mindset necessary for leading in challenging times, along with offering perspectives on how to be a lawyer leader who positively impacts the legal profession and the world.

This book is the first analysis to map leading inter-disciplinary research against the international children’s rights framework in relation to children and the justice system. In this way, it provides a unique evidence base for the implementation of children’s rights in youth justice and will support all those seeking to study, advocate or implement progressive approaches to children in conflict with the law.

The courthouse is an important part of every story of mass incarceration in America and, too often, it is a place of powerlessness for those facing criminal charges, their families, and their communities. But the courthouse can also be an important site of resistance, a place where Americans affected by incarceration can become agents of change—even though they are not lawyers or judges. Writing for those new to activism and seasoned organizers alike, the author provides a comprehensive introduction to participatory defense, the incredibly effective community organizing model that leads to better outcomes for criminal cases, shifting power in courtrooms along the way.

This book is the first comparative law study of collateral consequences of criminal conviction in all federally recognized Indian tribes in the lower 48 U.S. states, and the mechanisms for restoring civil rights in tribal law. Surveying the constitutions, codes, and ordinances of tribal jurisdictions reveals a broad range of consequences - the impact of which has not been comprehensively, and critically, examined. This book catalogues restoration of rights procedures in tribal law, to include pardons, expungements, and record sealing.

In response to the ever-evolving state of vaccine law and its legal complexities, the authors have put together critical references in one resource, including federal and state statutes and regulations, encyclopedias, legal and scientific articles, and practice books. With an audience of professionals in the legal system and public health in mind, it is the sincere hope of the authors that the references presented in this bibliography are used to promote understanding of vaccine law

It is extraordinarily difficult for historians to reconstruct the lives of individual enslaved people. Records--where they exist--are often fragmentary, biased, or untrue. In Enslaved Archives, Maria R. Montalvo investigates the legal records, including contracts and court records, that American antebellum enslavers produced and preserved to illuminate enslavers' capitalistic motivations for shaping the histories of enslaved people. In so doing, she makes a significant intervention in the history of enslaved people, legal history, and the history of slavery and capitalism by adding a qualitative dimension to the analysis of how enslavers created and maintained power.

This volume collects the four unprecedented indictments against Donald Trump and features extensive commentary by NYU law professors and MSNBC contributors Melissa Murray and Andrew Weissmann.

This book is co-authored by actual online law students who lived the experience as non-traditional online law students at an accredited program and is structured to partner with beginning online law students throughout their journey of their first year. The best part? The lessons learned just keep on giving as the advice in this book is relevant throughout the entirety of the online law school journey. Learn from parents, spouses, full-time working professionals, interns, CALI winners and subject strugglers.

In this book, law students will learn a wide collection of easy-to-apply, science-based tools for drastically improving their emotional well-being, mental strength, and academic success. Law school can be overwhelming and demoralizing at times, but now law students can feel equipped and empowered to overcome the inevitable challenges of this intense environment. This book provides a roadmap for thriving mentally, emotionally, and cognitively in law school, in the practice of law, and in life.
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"Every law school course discusses foundational legal rules, but learning the rules is generally left up to the students. Students must determine their own approaches to encoding, storing, and retrieving these rules for real-time analysis and application. Legal Rules for Law Students provides guidance for students in honing this essential skill. The book focuses on organizing rules into components, synthesizing information, and quickly applying it. The tools are designed to help students master their process and use it on the bar exam or law school tests

Drawing on the combined expertise of the Legal Writing Institute's Moot Court Committee, the handbook has chapters on administering a moot court program, running an internal moot court competition, coaching teams at external moot court competitions, and establishing your own external moot court competition.

This book examines the evolution of international criminal procedure from the 1945-1946 Nuremberg and Tokyo trials to the present period. The work shows the possibility of classifying "International Criminal Procedure" as an autonomous concept and field of study, which is constantly evolving due to the interaction of different legal cultures that characterize this subject matter and is derived from the varied procedures as established in both statutory law and jurisprudence. Far from being an autonomous entity, international criminal procedure now represents a great compromise between the legal traditions of different ICC member States. What emerges is the historical evolution of an international criminal procedure with a unique identity, a very real "third way" between the traditional dichotomy of Common Law and Civil Law, between the Anglo-Saxon and the European Roman-Law-oriented legal tradition.

Based on extensive practical experience, this book analyzes international contract practice and its interaction with various applicable sources. It considers vital questions concerning the role played by contractual regulation, by national law and by transnational sources. This revised second edition has been fully updated to reflect developments in the field and includes useful tools like tables of cases and sources, and a list of electronic resources and databases.

The monetary and financial dimensions of economic sanctions have become critical components of sanctions strategies. A wider range of monetary and financial assets, entities (including central banks), and services are now targeted. Financial institutions, infrastructures, regulators and central banks play an increasingly influential role in shaping sanctions channels. Furthermore, sanctions may have significant impacts on financial obligations. This book, prepared under the auspices of the International Monetary Law Committee of the International Law Association (Mocomila), is the first to focus on the unexplored financial and monetary law aspects of economic sanctions and examine their impact on central banks and payment systems.

A challenging critique of the prevailing notion that upholding fair competition is one of the foundations of a market economy. Drawing on concepts from economics, philosophy and law, the author argues that the pre-eminent status accorded to the regulation of competition should be reconsidered by any government that claims to support property rights

The prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment or punishment has a special status. It is the foremost international human rights norm protecting persons from attacks on their dignity and integrity. Consequently, it has been at the forefront of a series of developments in international human rights law and international law more broadly. This book analyses the nature and significance of this transformation and looks into the scope of the prohibition's further evolution. Applying the prohibition to key twenty-first century challenges, particularly in respect of health, poverty, and climate change, the book argues that the prohibition plays a critical role in highlighting and addressing widespread, intolerable structural pain and suffering through an integrated human rights approach with a distinctive transformative focus and dimension.
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The ABCs of the UCC is a series of primers, which cut out the convoluted discussion that often accompany legal literature to provide the basic concepts and operations of the Code articles' in a simple, straightforward style. In this fourth edition of ABCs of the UCC Article 4A: Funds Transfers, leading experts provide basic concepts and operation of Article 4A in a simple, straightforward style.

This book sheds critical light on the important but too often dysfunctional relationship among technology, regulation, and money, and lays the foundations for a safer, more nimble, and more inclusive system of money and payments.

For forty years we've repeatedly reformed the way we run corporations. Yet research suggests these reforms have not only failed but have made many things worse. This book examines how and why modern governance practices fail, especially when they are advanced as solutions to serious political and social problems.

This commentary covers the two leading multilateral treaties on movable cultural heritage in one volume: the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property adopted by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) in 1970 and the Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects adopted by UNIDROIT (International Institute for the Unification of Private Law) in 1995.

This Liber Amicorum celebrates the remarkable career and lasting influence of Harry First--a scholar, mentor, and leader in competition law. In 21 insightful essays, distinguished academics and practitioners reflect on Harry's contributions and the pressing challenges in antitrust law and policy today. The volume begins with personal tributes, revealing Harry's role as a mensch, mentor, and visionary in the field. It then explores foundational questions in antitrust, from the impact of megamergers to the evolving intersection of law, policy, and politics. Together, these chapters provide a rich mosaic of Harry's many accomplishments and interests and the qualities that make him a very special person, teacher, scholar, enforcer, lawyer, and friend. Spanning history, policy, and enforcement, this collection is both a tribute to Harry First's extraordinary legacy and a thought-provoking exploration of the future of antitrust law.