Legal Research

New Acquisitions in February 2009

Here is the list of new titles the Law Library acquired in February 2009. The list is on the library's home page.

February Acquisitions List

In addition, here are two highlighted titles of particular interest:

Tamara Relis. Perceptions in litigation and mediation : lawyers, defendants, plaintiffs, and gendered parties.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Call number: K2390 .R45 2009

Publisher?s Description:
Grounded in interpretive theory and offering interdisciplinary insights from sociological, psychological, and gender studies, this book addresses the question - How do professional, lay, and gendered actors understand and experience case processing in litigation and mediation? Drawing on data from 131 interviews, questionnaires, and observations of plaintiffs, defendants, lawyers, and mediators involved in 64 fatality and medical injury cases, the book challenges dominant understandings of how formal legal processes and dispute resolution work in practice. In juxtaposing actors? discourse on all sides of ongoing cases on issues such as expectations, needs, comprehensions of what plaintiffs seek from the legal system, objectives for mediation, and perceptions of what occurs during attempts at case resolution, the findings reveal inherent problems with the core workings of the legal system. By providing in-depth views on the micro-elements of case processing, the book uncovers important issues about formal and informal justice, the inextricability of disputants? legal and extra-legal needs, and current paradigms relating to professional, lay, and gendered identities.

Malcolm Langford, ed. Social rights jurisprudence : emerging trends in international and comparative law.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Call number: K370 .S648 2008

Publisher?s Description:
In the space of two decades, social rights have emerged from the shadows and margins of human rights jurisprudence. The authors in this book provide a critical analysis of almost two thousand judgments and decisions from twenty-nine national and international jurisdictions. The breadth of the decisions is vast, from the resettlement of evictees to the regulation of private medical plans to the development of state programs to address poverty and illiteracy. The jurisprudence not only implicates our understanding of economic, social, and cultural rights, but also challenges the philosophical debates that question whether these rights can and should be justiciable.

Full post as published by LexLibris on March 02, 2009 (boomark / email).