Legal Research

New Acquisitions in December 2009

Here is the list of new titles the Law Library acquired in December 2009:
Law Library Acquisitions List.pdf

The list is also available on the Library's home page.

In addition, here are a few highlighted titles of particular interest:

Ford, Lisa, 1974- Settler sovereignty : jurisdiction and indigenous people in America and Australia, 1788-1836 / Lisa Ford. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.
K3247 .F67 2010

Publisher's Description: In a brilliant comparative study of law and imperialism, Lisa Ford argues that modern settler sovereignty emerged when settlers in North America and Australia defined indigenous theft and violence as crime.

This occurred, not at the moment of settlement or federation, but in the second quarter of the nineteenth century when notions of statehood, sovereignty, empire, and civilization were in rapid, global flux. Ford traces the emergence of modern settler sovereignty in everyday contests between settlers and indigenous people in early national Georgia and the colony of New South Wales. In both places before 1820, most settlers and indigenous people understood their conflicts as war, resolved disputes with diplomacy, and relied on shared notions like reciprocity and retaliation to address frontier theft and violence. This legal pluralism, however, was under stress as new, global statecraft linked sovereignty to the exercise of perfect territorial jurisdiction. In Georgia, New South Wales, and elsewhere, settler sovereignty emerged when, at the same time in history, settlers rejected legal pluralism and moved to control or remove indigenous peoples.

The Guantanamo lawyers : inside a prison outside the law / edited by Mark P. Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz ; with Grace A. Brown ... [et al.]. New York : New York University Press, c2009.
KZ6495 .G83 2009

Publisher's Description: Following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the United States imprisoned more than seven hundred and fifty men at its naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. These men, ranging from teenage boys to men in their eighties from over forty different countries, were detained for years without charges, trial, and a fair hearing. Without any legal status or protection, they were truly outside the law: imprisoned in secret, denied communication with their families, and subjected to extreme isolation, physical and mental abuse, and, in some instances, torture.

These are the detainees' stories, told by their lawyers because the prisoners themselves were silenced. It took habeas counsel more than two years--and a ruling from the United States Supreme Court--to finally gain the right to visit and talk to their clients at Guantánamo. Even then, lawyers were forced to operate under severe restrictions designed to inhibit communication and envelop the prison in secrecy. In time, however, lawyers were able to meet with their clients and bring the truth about Guantánamo to the world.

The Guantánamo Lawyers contains over one hundred personal narratives from attorneys who have represented detainees held at Guantánamo as well as at other lawless detention centers such as Afghanistan's Bagram Air Base. Mark Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz--themselves lawyers for detainees--collected stories that cover virtually every facet of Guantánamo, and the litigation it sparked. Together, these moving, powerful voices create a historical record of Guantánamo's legal, human, and moral failings, and provide a window into America's catastrophic effortto create a prison beyond the law.

International trade regulation and the mitigation of climate change : World Trade Forum / edited by Thomas Cottier, Olga Nartova and Sadeq Z. Bigdeli. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
K3943.A6 I58 2009

Publisher's Description: What can trade regulation contribute towards ameliorating the GHG emissions and reducing their concentrations in the atmosphere? This collection of essays analyses options for climate-change mitigation through the lens of the trade lawyer. By examining international law, and in particular the relevant WTO agreements, the authors address the areas of potential conflict between international trade law and international law on climate mitigation and, where possible, suggest ways to strengthen mutual supportiveness between the two regimes. They do so taking into account the drivers of human-induced climate change in energy markets and of consumption.

Full post as published by LexLibris on January 07, 2010 (boomark / email).