On July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts fulfilled their nation’s mission to land and set foot on the moon. Today marks the 50th anniversary of that momentous achievement. For more information about the historic occasion, read The Eagle Has Landed: The Apollo 11 50th Anniversary, a Pieces of History blog post from the U.S. National Archives.
Mindfulness & Bar Exam Prep
Mindfulness and bar exam preparations don’t necessarily go together in the real world…
Or do they?
The Law Library has resources to help take your mind off of the stressful periods of studying and worrying about the impending bar exams. Check out the following titles we have on the topic of mindfulness and well-being. The Law Library also provides stress-relieving activities, such as coloring design pages, origami, games, and puzzles, and healthy snacks to help you balance your days with all of the studying. Enjoy, and good luck on exams!!
Flourish : A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being by Martin E. P. Seligman
Call Number: BF204.6.S45 2013
Thought-provoking in its implications for education, economics, therapy, medicine, and public policy – the very fabric of society – Flourish tells inspiring stories of Positive Psychology in action, including how the entire U.S. Army is now trained in emotional resilience; how innovative schools can educate for fulfillment in life and not just for workplace success; and how corporations can improve performance at the same time as they raise employee well-being. With interactive exercises to help readers explore their own attitudes and aims, Flourish is a watershed in the understanding of happiness as well as a tool for getting the most out of life.
Make Peace with Your Mind : How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You From Your Inner Critic by Mark Coleman
Call Number: BF637.P3C65 2016
The inner critic is the voice inside our heads reminding us that we are never “good enough.” It’s behind the insidious thoughts that can make us second-guess our every action and doubt our own value. The inner critic might feel overpowering, but it can be managed effectively. Meditation teacher and therapist Mark Coleman helps readers understand and free themselves from the inner critic using the tools of mindfulness and compassion. Each chapter offers constructive insights into what creates, drives, and disarms the critic; real people’s journeys to inspire and guide readers; and simple practices anyone can use to live a free, happy, and flourishing life.
Declutter Your Mind : Simple and Effective Strategies to Free Yourself from Anxiety and Worry
by John Williams
Call Number: BF637.S4W55 2018
In Declutter Your Mind, author John Williams discusses physical and psychological aspects of how we let clutter affect us, in the form of distraction, stress, anxiety, and depression. He describes effective strategies for decluttering our lives to become more efficient and healthier.
If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy? by Raj Raghunathan
Call Number: BF637.S8R25 2016
If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy? takes readers on a fun and meaningful tour of the best research available on how some of the very determinants of success may also come to deflate happiness. Raj Raghunathan explores the seven most common inclinations that successful people need to overcome, and the seven habits they should adopt instead. Among his surprising findings: The correlation between wealth and happiness is much smaller than you’d expect it to be; Generosity is not only a key to happiness, but a determining factor of long term success; Appreciating uncertainty, rather than seeking full control of outcomes, is necessary for happiness. This book will give you a powerful new perspective on your work, personal goals and relationships, whether you’re already successful or just starting out.
The Introvert’s Way : Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World by Sophia Dembling
Call Number: BF698.35.I59D46 2012
This clever and pithy book challenges introverts to take ownership of their personalities…with quiet strength. Sophia Dembling asserts that the introvert’s lifestyle is not “wrong” or lacking, as society or extroverts would have us believe. Through a combination of personal insights and psychology, The Introvert’s Way helps and encourages introverts to embrace their nature, to respect traits they may have been ashamed of and reframe them as assets. You’re not shy; rather, you appreciate the joys of quiet. You’re not antisocial; instead, you enjoy recharging through time alone. You’re not unfriendly, but you do find more meaning in one-on-one connections than large gatherings. By honoring what makes them unique, this astute and inspiring book challenges introverts to “own” their introversion, igniting a quiet revolution that will change how they see themselves and how they engage with the world.
Lawyer Wellness Is Not an Oxymoron by Andy Clark
Call Number: K120.C53 2013
Tomorrow’s top lawyers know that lawyer wellness is NOT an oxymoron. Now more than ever, lawyers who fail to invest consistently in their personal wellness are at a competitive disadvantage in their legal career – and in their lives as a whole. Lawyers who do not adopt a wellness lifestyle today will fall further behind in the coming years as the legal services business rapidly evolves. This book shows you why this is so – and gives you the essential wellness information and resources you need to thrive in tomorrow’s legal services landscape.
Beyond Smart : Lawyering With Emotional Intelligence by Ronda Muir
Call Number: K120.M83 2017
Beyond Smart : Lawyering With Emotional Intelligence is the first comprehensive guide to understanding, using and raising emotional intelligence in the unique context of law practice. This user-friendly, practical resource is designed for today’s legal professional who desires to improve their communication, client service and leadership skills and create a high performance, high functioning workplace.
Beyond One L : Stories About Finding Meaning and Making a Difference in Law by Nancy Levit; Allen Rostron (Editors)
Call Number: KF287.B49 2019
Beyond One L: Stories About Finding Meaning and Making a Difference in Law is inspired by Scott Turow’s One L, the classic account of a first year law student’s experience at Harvard Law School. With an introduction by Turow, Beyond One L explores first, second, and third year experiences in the decades since One L was published. It then moves beyond law school to tell the stories of taking the bar, searching for judicial clerkships, practicing law, and leaving law practice to become a teacher or judge. Story authors include lawyer Gerry Spence; Above the Law editor David Lat; professors Ian Ayres, Stephen Carter, Deborah Waire Post, and Adrienne Wing; and judges Marilyn Skoglund, Donn Kessler, and Michael Zimmerman. The stories are about the moments in life that were game-changers; ones that changed the course of the authors’ careers or brought them extraordinary meaning.
Mindfulness and Professional Responsibility : A Guide Book for Integrating Mindfulness into the Law School Curriculum by Scott Rogers; Jan Jacobowitz
Call Number: KF287.R642 2012
In Mindfulness & Professional Responsibility: A Guidebook for Integrating Mindfulness into the Law School Curriculum, Scott Rogers and Jan Jacobowitz share with readers their methodology for weaving together mindfulness and professional responsibility in the classroom. Due to the breadth of the book’s mindfulness content, readers will find its to serve not only as a vehicle for enhancing the educational process, but also as a critical component in decision making and as an important life skill.
How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School by Kathryne M. Young
Call Number: KF287.Y68 2018
Bursting with warmth, realism, and a touch of firebrand wit, How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School equips law students with much-needed wisdom for thriving during those three crucial years. Combining her own observations and experiences with the results of her study and the latest sociological research on law schools, author Kathryne Young offers a very different take from previous books about law school survival. Instead of assuming her readers should all aspire to law-review-and-big-firm notions of success, Young teaches students how to approach law school on their own terms: how to tune out the drumbeat of oppressive expectations and conventional wisdom to create a new breed of law school experience altogether. Young provides readers with practical tools for finding focus, happiness, and a sense of purpose while facing the seemingly endless onslaught of problems law school presents daily. This book is an indispensable companion for today’s law students, prospective law students, and anyone who cares about making law students’ lives better.
The Best Lawyer You Can Be : A Guide to Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Wellness by Stewart Levine
Call Number: KF297.B47 2018
It’s no secret that individual lawyers are under siege in a profession with a high incidence of stress, divorce, substance abuse, and suicide. In this groundbreaking multi-dimensional collection, tools and information are provided to harness the transformative power of being more relational and less transactional. The earmark of happy lawyers is the development of emotional intelligence, resilience, and mindfulness practice, which is essential to thrive in the competitive environment of lawyering.
A Lawyer’s Guide to Healing : Solutions for Addiction and Depression by Don Carroll
Call Number: KF298.C37 2006
In this definitive self-help guide for lawyers in recovery from addiction and depression, author Don Carroll discusses how both conditions affect lawyers specifically, and how recovery can help lawyers reclaim their professional and personal lives.
Positive Professionals : Creating High-Performing Profitable Firms Through the Science of Engagement by Anne Brafford
Call Number: KF300.B73 2017
Positive Professionals is a practical handbook of science-backed strategies to foster full engagement by enhancing people’s experience of meaningful work, of feeling valued and valuable, and of growing and developing. The book’s well-researched business case convincingly shows that greater engagement boosts not only individual well-being but also profitability, productivity, performance, retention of talent, and client satisfaction.
Happy Lawyer : The Art of Having It All Without Losing Your Mind by Dirk Davidek; Beverly Davidek
Call Number: KF300.D38 2018
If you are struggling to find a way to provide for yourself and family without losing yourself, this book is for you. Part Ask and It Is Given and part What Color Is Your Parachute? (but written for lawyers), Happy Lawyer gives you the tools you need to get unstuck in your legal career and start living your dream.
The Upward Spiral : Getting Lawyers from Daily Misery to Lifetime Wellbeing by Harvey Hyman J.D.
Call Number: KF300.H96 2010
This book is a comprehensive self-help guide that can save the careers and lengthen the lives of lawyers under stress, and help them achieve the unthinkable – to feel happy, joyful, grateful to be alive.
Untangling Fear in Lawyering : A Four-Step Journey Toward Powerful Advocacy by Heidi K. Brown
Call Number: KF311.B76 2019
Untangling Fear in Lawyering discusses the reality, causes, manifestations, and consequences of fear in legal education and practice, from the standpoint of law students, junior attorneys, and clients. It analyzes fear from a cognitive, physical, and emotional perspective. The book draws guidance from how other industries address fear (and mistake-making) in education and training.
Defining Moments : Insights into the Lawyer’s Soul by Melanie Bragg
Call Number: KF353.D44 2019
This book serves as a roadmap for leadership and personal growth applicable to all audiences. Interviews by Melanie Bragg revealed that each lawyer has a “LEAD Line,” or success principle, that he or she has lived by on their road to success. This unique compilation is organized into Bragg’s own leadership model consisting of L-Legacy, E-Excellence, A-Authenticity, and D-Determination. Touching upon every aspect of our lives, the LEAD Lines are practical and inspiring principles that can take any aspiring person from where they are to where they want to be in life. The stories are told by a wide range of lawyers–past ABA presidents, judges, big firm lawyers, small firm lawyers, non-practicing lawyers–what they all have in common is their ultimate success was driven by their defining moments.
Flag Day
Today is Flag Day, which is in honor of the American symbol of patriotism, independence, and freedom. Here are some facts about the national observance day and the flag itself:
- National Flag Day is designated as June 14th. This day commemorates the adoption of the United States flag on June 14, 1777, by the Second Continental Congress, which passed the Flag Act of 1777 to create an official flag for the new nation. The resolution stated that America’s flag “…be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.”
- In an earlier version of the flag, the thirteen stripes and stars each represented the original thirteen colonies. Those colonies, and the dates they ratified the Constitution and became a state, were:
- Delaware, December 7, 1787
- Pennsylvania, December 12,1787
- New Jersey, December 18, 1787
- Georgia, January 2, 1788
- Connecticut, January 9, 1788
- Massachusetts, February 6, 1788
- Maryland, April 28, 1788
- South Carolina, May 23, 1788
- New Hampshire, June 21, 1788
- Virginia, June 25, 1788
- New York, July 25, 1788
- North Carolina, November 21, 1789
- Rhode Island, May 29, 1790
- It was a 15-star, 15-stripe flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the poem that later became known as the Star-Spangled Banner, after seeing it fly over Ft. McHenry during the War of 1812. The lyrics are set to the tune of “To Anacreon in Heaven,” a popular British drinking song.
- According to the United States Congress’s publication, Our Flag, the colors that give meaning to the Great Seal of the country also represent the same in the American flag:
“The colors of the pales (the vertical stripes) are those used in the flag of the United States of America; White signifies purity and innocence, Red, hardiness & valour, and Blue, the color of the Chief (the broad band above the stripes) signifies vigilance, perseverance & justice.”
- In 1885, Bernard Cigrand, a small-town Wisconsin teacher, originated the idea for an annual flag day. The first national observance occurred June 14, 1877, the centennial of the original resolution.
- On May 30, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson officially established June 14 as Flag Day. In his proclamation, President Wilson stated, “It is the anniversary of the day upon which the flag of the United States was adopted by the Congress as the emblem of the Union.”
- In 1949, Congress resolved that “The 14th day of June of each year is hereby designated as Flag Day . . .” The resolution was signed into law by President Harry Truman. This permanently established it as a national holiday.
- Although Flag Day is not an official federal holiday, Pennsylvania became the first and only U.S. state to celebrate Flag Day as a state holiday. The Second Continental Congress originated in Philadelphia and had its initial meeting place at Independence Hall.
- Since 1777, the design of the flag has been officially modified 26 times. With the statehood of Hawaii, President Eisenhower ordered the 50-star flag on August 21, 1959.
- Most Americans believe that Betsy Ross made the first flag, and, although the evidence is compelling, it may not be historically accurate. Betsy Ross was an upholsterer by trade, and sewed many flags during the Revolutionary War, but there is no proof that she made the first Stars and Stripes.1
1 United States Congress. Our Flag. (Y 1.1/3:109-18)
Sources: https://www.history.com/news/95-years-of-flag-day, http://www.spangledwithstars.com/us-flag/national-flag-day.htm, https://nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/national-flag-day-june-14/, http://www.usflag.org, http://www.myphillyalive.com/blog/flag-day-events-in-philadelphia/
Recent Acquisitions by Subject
The Law Library acquires books for its collection on a variety of subjects to support scholarship and research in both general and specific legal concentrations for our students and faculty. The depth of coverage for particular subject areas varies depending upon the research interests of the faculty and the curricular needs of Dickinson Law. According to the Law Library’s Collection Development Policy, “Every effort is made to acquire all materials necessary to support faculty research interests and to support those seminar subjects in which the students do intensive research.”1
The Law Library regularly updates our Recent Acquisitions page by adding newly-purchased titles by subject to the list of legal topical areas. The Index of Subjects covers specific areas of strong collection development emphasis like Advocacy, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Human Rights, International Law, and Tax Law. Other intermediate areas of collection development include Children’s Advocacy, Elder Law, Family Law, Native American Law, and all materials that support Dickinson Law’s programs and clinics. Three recent areas of concentration are Cyber Law, Immigration Law, and Medical-Legal Jurisprudence.
Are you searching for recent print materials by subject? To search for recent titles on Gender Law, for example, click Gender Law & Sexuality on the Index of Subjects chart, and see titles listed in call number order. Each title entry link will open into The CAT for access to item location and availability.
Suggestions of new titles can be made by filling out the Recommend a Purchase form, contacting the Law Library Director, Gail Partin, or emailing the Acquisitions Department at DNLawLibAcq@psu.edu.
1 Collection Development Policy for Information Resources, Montague Law Library, https://dickinsonlaw.psu.edu/library/collection-development-policy.
Incoming Dean Danielle Conway’s Publications Displayed
The Law Library has on display some of the articles and books written by our incoming Dean, Danielle M. Conway.
Transnational Intellectual Property Law by Xuan-Thao Nguyen; Danielle Conway; Lateef Mtima
Call Number: K1401.N497 2016
Transnational Intellectual Property Law provides students comparative knowledge of intellectual property for today’s world. The book provides students a strong understanding of intellectual property law in four important global stakeholders and regions: United States, European Union, Japan and China.
State and Local Government Procurement by Danielle M. Conway
Call Number: KF849.C6665 2012
This concise resource offers citations to state codes and cases, as well as providing a practical guide through analysis and reasoning of specific topics. In addition, it offers a firm analytic foundation for those who will need to perform more in-depth research on any of the given procurement topics for their specific jurisdiction.
Guide to State Procurement : A 50-State Primer on Purchasing Laws, Processes, and Procedures
Call Number: KF849.G847 2016
Article: Hawaii Procurement Rules and Regulations, pp.124-137.
Diversity in Intellectual Property : Identities, Interests, and Intersections by Irene Calboli; Srividhya Ragavan (Editors)
Call Number: K1401.D58 2015
Article: The Miracle at Marrakesh: Doing Justice for the Blind and Visually Impaired While Changing the Culture of Norm setting at WIPO, Chapter 2, pp.35-57.
Intellectual Property, Entrepreneurship and Social Justice : From Swords to Plowshares by Lateef Mtima (Editor)
Call Number: K1401.I55654 2015
Article: Public Procurement’s Role in Facilitating Social Justice, Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Global Knowledge Economy, pp.95-116.
Implicit Racial Bias Across the Law by Justin D. Levinson; Robert J. Smith (Editors)
Call Number: KF384.I48 2012
Article: Intellectual Property : Implicit Racial and Gender Bias in Right of Publicity Cases and Intellectual Property Law Generally, Chapter 10, pp.179-191.
Greening Local Government : Legal Strategies for Promoting Sustainability, Efficiency, and Fiscal Savings by Keith H. Hirokawa; Patricia E. Salkin
Call Number: KF5305.G74 2012
Article: Sustainable Procurement Policies and Practices at the State and Local Government Level, Chapter 3, pp.43-74.
Le Contrôle des Marchés Publics by Gerard Marcou, et al.
Call Number: K884.A6C66 2009
Article: Challenges for Oversight Over Multiple Award Task and Delivery Order Contracting: The New Frontier in Contracting Methods, pp.163-179.
From Oppression to Grace : Women of Color and Their Dilemmas within the Academy by Theodorea Regina Berry; Nathalie Mizelle (Editors)
Call Number: LC212.82.F76 2006
Article: Being All Things to All People: Expectations of and Demands on Women of Color in the Legal Academy, Chapter 10, pp.121-130.
New Acquisitions
Immigration and the Law : Race, Citizenship, and Social Control
Sofía Espinoza Álvarez; Martin Guevara Urbina (Editors)
Call Number: KF4819.I47135 2018
In the era of globalization, shifting political landscapes, and transnational criminal organizations, discourse around immigration is reaching unprecedented levels. Immigration and the Law is a timely and significant volume of essays that addresses the social, political, and economic contexts of migration in the United States. The contributors analyze the historical and contemporary landscapes of immigration laws, their enforcement, and the discourse surrounding these events, as well as the mechanisms, beliefs, and ideologies that govern them. Encompassing issues such as shifting demographics, a changing criminal justice system, and volatile political climate, the book is critically significant for academic, political, legal, and social arenas. The contributors offer sound evidence to expose the historical legacy of violence, brutality, manipulation, oppression, marginalization, prejudice, discrimination, power, and control. Demystifying the ways that current ideas of ethnicity, race, gender, and class govern immigration and uphold the functioning and legitimacy of the criminal justice system, Immigration and the Law presents a variety of studies and perspectives that offer a pathway toward addressing long-neglected but vital topics in the discourse on immigration and the law.
Cuban Civil, Commercial and Public Laws in English Translation, Volumes 1-3
Julio Romanach (Translated with commentary by)
Call Number: KGN43 2018 v.1-3
The Cuban Civil, Commercial and Public Laws in English Translation is, as its name suggests, a collection of basic laws of Cuba – of current and of significant prior laws that have been repealed in recent years. This publication, in three volumes, is designed to provide access to a wide variety of Cuban laws in English translation.
Sovereign Immunity Law
Marilyn E. Phelan; Kimberly Mayfield; Judge Jay M. Pat Phelan
Call Number: KF1321.P44 2019
This book represents a comprehensive coverage of the doctrine of sovereign immunity; one chapter provides a summary of the sovereign immunity laws in all US states. The book provides the reader with a knowledge and understanding of the sovereign immunity doctrine but also covers the important legal problems and road blocks that confront attorneys who represent victims of improvident government actions. One chapter discusses the immunity of foreign States regarding claims filed against foreign governments in United States courts and when and how a claim can be brought successfully against a foreign State in a court in the United States for violations, among others, of international law. The book is an invaluable reference work for attorneys who may represent victims of governmental misconduct; attorneys should read this book in advance to filing a lawsuit against the government in any context.
Rethinking US Election Law : Unskewing the System
Steven Mulroy
Call Number: KF4886.M85 2018
Recent U.S. elections have defied nationwide majority preference at the White House, Senate, and House levels. This work of interdisciplinary scholarship explains how “winner-take-all” and single-member district elections make this happen, and what can be done to repair the system. Proposed reforms include the National Popular Vote interstate compact (presidential elections); eliminating the Senate filibuster; and proportional representation using Ranked Choice Voting for House, state, and local elections. This timely analysis of election law and politics outlining key structural election reforms combines distinct analysis of presidential, Senate, and U.S. House elections reforms, while also addressing reforms at the state and local government level. The author argues for fundamental structural changes to U.S. elections like Proportional Representation and Ranked Choice Voting, without requiring any constitutional amendments. Analysis of recent political developments such as progress on the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, the adoption of Ranked Choice Voting state-wide in Maine, and the 2018 Supreme Court gerrymandering cases add real-world relevance and applicability.
Rethinking Intellectual Property : Balancing Conflicts of Interest in the Constitutional Paradigm
Gustavo Ghidini
Call Number: K1401.G45 2018
Intellectual property law is built on constitutional foundations and is underpinned by the twin freedoms of freedom of expression and freedom of economic enterprise. In this thoughtful evaluation, Gustavo Ghidini offers up a reconstruction of the core features of each intellectual property paradigm, including patents, copyright, and trademarks, suggesting measures for reform to allow intellectual property to become socially beneficial for all. Rethinking Intellectual Property is a deeply reflective conceptualization of the modern principles of intellectual property law at both a national and an international level. This book will be invaluable reading for anyone interested in the conceptual foundations of intellectual property law, and challenges the reader to re-examine their understanding of the field.
Rethinking the Jurisprudence of Cyberspace
Chris Reed; Andrew Murray
Call Number: K564.C6R44 2018
Cyberspace is a difficult area for lawyers and lawmakers. With no physical constraining borders, the question of who is the legitimate lawmaker for cyberspace is complex. Rethinking the Jurisprudence of Cyberspace examines how laws can gain legitimacy in cyberspace and identifies the limits of the law’s authority in this space. Two key questions are central to the book: Who has authority to make laws within cyberspace and how do laws in cyberspace achieve legitimacy? Chris Reed and Andrew Murray answer these questions by examining the jurisprudential principles that explain law in the physical world and rethinking them for the cyberworld. In doing so they establish that cyberlaw is more similar to traditional law than previously thought, but that establishing legitimate authority is quite different. This book provides the first thorough examination of the jurisprudence of cyberspace law, asking why any law should be obeyed and how the rule of law is to be maintained there.
Rethinking Cyberlaw : A New Vision for Internet Law
Jacqueline Lipton
Call Number: KF390.5.C6L565 2015
The rapid increase in Internet usage over the past several decades has led to the development of new and essential areas of legislation and legal study. Jacqueline Lipton takes on the thorny question of how to define the field that has come to be known variously as cyberlaw, cyberspace law or internet law. Unlike much of the existing literature, this book tackles the question with the benefit of hindsight and draws on several decades of legal developments in the United States and abroad that help illustrate the scope of the field. The author argues that cyberlaw might best be considered a law of the ‘online intermediary,’ and that by focusing on the regulation of online conduct by search engines, online retail outlets, Internet service providers and online social networks, a more cohesive and comprehensive concept of cyberlaw may be developed. Topics covered include current comparative and global strategies, suggestions for future approaches to cyberspace regulation, and the creation of a cohesive and comprehensive framework for the cyberlaw field.
The Most Dangerous Branch : Inside the Supreme Court’s Assault on the Constitution
David A. Kaplan
Call Number: KF8748.K37 2018
The Most Dangerous Branch takes us inside the secret world of the Supreme Court. David A. Kaplan, the former legal affairs editor of Newsweek, shows how the justices subvert the role of the other branches of government–and how we’ve come to accept it at our peril. It is the nine justices who too often now decide the controversial issues of our time–from abortion and same-sex marriage, to gun control, campaign finance and voting rights. Based on exclusive interviews with the justices and dozens of their law clerks, Kaplan provides fresh details about life behind the scenes at the Court – Clarence Thomas’s simmering rage, Antonin Scalia’s death, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s celebrity, Breyer Bingo, the petty feuding between Gorsuch and the chief justice, and what John Roberts thinks of his critics. Kaplan presents a sweeping narrative of the justices’ aggrandizement of power over the decades – from Roe v. Wade to Bush v. Gore to Citizens United, to rulings during the 2017-18 term. But the arrogance of the Court isn’t partisan: conservative and liberal justices alike are guilty of overreach. Challenging conventional wisdom about the Court’s transcendent power, The Most Dangerous Branch is sure to rile both sides of the political aisle.
A Court of Refuge : Stories From the Bench of America’s First Mental Health Court
Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren; Rebecca A. Eckland
Call Number: KF3828.5.L47 2018
In A Court of Refuge, Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren tells the story of how the first dedicated mental health court in the United States grew from an offshoot of her criminal division, held during lunch hour without the aid of any federal funding, to a revolutionary institution. Of the two hundred thousand people behind bars at the court’s inception in 1997, more than one in ten were known to have schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression. To date, the court has successfully diverted more than twenty thousand people suffering from various psychiatric conditions from jail and into treatment facilities and other community resources. Working under the theoretical framework of therapeutic jurisprudence, Judge Lerner-Wren and her growing network of fierce, determined advocates, families, and supporters sparked a national movement to conceptualize courts as a place of healing. Today, there are hundreds of such courts in the United States. Poignant and compassionately written, A Court of Refuge demonstrates both the potential relief mental health courts can provide to underserved communities and their limitations in a system in dire need of vast overhauls of the policies that got us here. Lerner-Wren presents a refreshing possibility for a future in which criminal justice and mental health care can work in tandem to address this vexing human rights issue — and to change our attitudes about mental illness as a whole.
Bytes, Bombs, and Spies : The Strategic Dimensions of Offensive Cyber Operations
Herbert Lin; Amy Zegart (Editors)
Call Number: QA76.9.A25B98 2018
A new era of war fighting is emerging for the U.S. military. Hi-tech weapons have given way to hi tech in a number of instances recently. A computer virus is unleashed that destroys centrifuges in Iran, slowing that country’s attempt to build a nuclear weapon. ISIS, which has made the internet the backbone of its terror operations, finds its network-based command and control systems overwhelmed in a cyber attack. A number of North Korean ballistic missiles fail on launch, reportedly because their systems were compromised by a cyber campaign. Offensive cyber operations like these have become important components of U.S. defense strategy and their role will grow larger. But just what offensive cyber weapons are and how they could be used remains clouded by secrecy. This new volume by Amy Zegart and Herb Lin is a groundbreaking discussion and exploration of cyber weapons with a focus on their strategic dimensions. It brings together many of the leading specialists in the field to provide new and incisive analysis of what former CIA director Michael Hayden has called “digital combat power” and how the United States should incorporate that power into its national security strategy.
February Acquisitions
The Assault on Intelligence : American National Security in an Age of Lies by Michael V. Hayden
Call Number: JK468.I6H388 2018
American Intelligence – the ultimate truth teller – has a responsibility in a post-truth world beyond merely warning of external dangers, and in The Assault on Intelligence, General Michael Hayden takes up that urgent work with profound passion, insight and authority. It is a sobering vision. The American intelligence community is more at risk than is commonly understood, for every good reason. Civil war or societal collapse is not necessarily imminent or inevitable, but our democracy’s core structures, processes, and attitudes are under great stress. Many of the premises on which we have based our understanding of governance are now challenged, eroded, or simply gone. Because when we lose our intelligence, literally and figuratively, democracy dies.
Handcuffs and Chain Link : Criminalizing the Undocumented in America by Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien
Call Number: JV6483.O47 2018
Handcuffs and Chain Link enters the immigration debate by addressing one of its most controversial aspects: the criminalization both of extralegal immigration to the United States and of immigrants themselves in popular and political discourse. Looking at the factors that led up to criminalization, Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien points to the alternative approach of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 and how its ultimate demise served to negatively reinforce the fictitious association of extralegal immigrants with criminality.
Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court by Richard H. Fallon
Call Number: KF8748.F284 2018
In Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court, Richard H. Fallon reframes and ultimately transcends familiar debates about constitutional law, constitutional theory, and judicial legitimacy. Drawing from ideas in legal scholarship, philosophy, and political science, Fallon presents a theory of judicial legitimacy based on an ideal of good faith in constitutional argumentation. Good faith demands that the Justices base their decisions only on legal arguments that they genuinely believe to be valid and are prepared to apply to similar future cases. Originalists are correct about this much. But good faith does not forbid the Justices to refine and adjust their interpretive theories in response to the novel challenges that new cases present. Fallon argues that theories of constitutional interpretation should be works in progress, not rigid formulas laid down in advance of the unforeseeable challenges that life and experience generate. This book offers theories of constitutional law and judicial legitimacy that accept many tenets of legal realism but reject its corrosive cynicism. Fallon’s account both illuminates current practice and prescribes urgently needed responses to a legitimacy crisis in which the Supreme Court is increasingly enmeshed.
Legally Straight : Sexuality, Childhood, and the Cultural Value of Marriage by Joe Rollins
Call Number: KF539.R65 2018
Legally Straight offers a critical reading of the legal debates over lesbian and gay marriage in the United States. The book draws on key judicial opinions to trace how our understanding of heterosexuality and marriage has changed. Upon closer inspection, it seemed that the cultural value of marriage was becoming tarnished and the trouble appeared to center on one very specific issue: reproduction. As opponents of lesbian and gay marriage emphasized the link between marriage and accidental pregnancy, the evidence mounted, the arguments proliferated, and resistance began to turn against itself. Heterosexuality, it seemed for a moment, was little more than a set of palliative prescriptions for the worst of human behavior, and children became the victims. It thus became the province of the courts to reinforce the cultural value of marriage by resisting what came to be known as the “procreation argument,” the assertion that marriage exists primarily to regulate the unruly aspects of heterosexual reproduction. Cultural conceptions of children and childhood were being put at risk as gays and lesbians were denied marriage, so that writing lesbian and gay families into the marriage law became the better option.
Speak Freely : Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech by Keith E. Whittington
Call Number: LC72.2.W46 2018
Free speech is under attack at colleges and universities today, with critics on and off campus challenging the value of open inquiry and freewheeling intellectual debate. Too often speakers are shouted down, professors are threatened, and classes are disrupted. In Speak Freely, Keith Whittington argues that universities must protect and encourage free speech because vigorous free speech is the lifeblood of the university. Examining such hot-button issues as trigger warnings, safe spaces, hate speech, disruptive protests, speaker disinvitations, the use of social media by faculty, and academic politics, this book describes the dangers of empowering campus censors to limit speech and enforce orthodoxy. Timely and vitally important, Speak Freely demonstrates why universities can succeed only by fostering more free speech, more free thought–and a greater tolerance for both.
Exploding Data : Reclaiming Our Cyber Security in the Digital Age by Michael Chertoff
Call Number: KF1263.C65C44 2018
In this bracing book, Michael Chertoff makes clear that our laws and policies surrounding the protection of personal information, written for an earlier time, need to be completely overhauled in the Internet era. On the one hand, the collection of data–more widespread by business than by government, and impossible to stop–should be facilitated as an ultimate protection for society. On the other, standards under which information can be inspected, analyzed, or used must be significantly tightened. In offering his compelling call for action, Chertoff argues that what is at stake is not so much the simple loss of privacy, which is almost impossible to protect, but of individual autonomy–the ability to make personal choices free of manipulation or coercion. Offering colorful stories over many decades that illuminate the three periods of data gathering we have experienced, Chertoff explains the complex legalities surrounding issues of data collection and dissemination today, and charts a path that balances the needs of government, business, and individuals alike.
Strategic Networking for Introverts, Extroverts, and Everyone in Between by Carol S. Greenwald
Call Number: HM741.G75 2019
Strategic Networking for Introverts, Extroverts, and Everyone in Between provides a nuts-and-bolts guide for turning socializing into business development opportunities. By detailing first-hand accounts alongside visuals, charts and checklists, the author introduces a high-level approach to making connections, and offers helpful tips and tricks that any lawyer can use to grow their client base.
Putting Children’s Interests First in U.S. Family Law and Policy : With Power Comes Responsibility by Helen M. Alvaré
Call Number: KF505.5.A949 2018
The well-being of children should be a social priority, and should consider the family circumstances into which children are born. Putting Children’s Interests First in U.S. Family Law and Policy details the rise of a federal policy of ‘sexual expressionism’, which prioritizes adults’ interests over children’s welfare. It describes the costs to children in the areas of family structure and stability, and the federal programs attempting to ameliorate the situation of non-marital children. Offering a detailed empirical and ethical critique both of ‘sexual expressionism’ and of the related federal programs, this study will be of interest to scholars and activists supporting children, women and the poor.
Estate Planning for the Muslim Client by Yaser Ali; Ahmed Shaikh
Call Number: KF750.A76 2019
Islamic law provides a non-discretionary system of rules that governs the distribution of a Muslim’s estate. Designing an estate plan based upon these rules presents unique challenges and opportunities. As the demand for faith-based planning increases, there is a growing need for culturally competent advisors who understand how these complex rules interplay with state and federal law. This first-of-its-kind practice guide serves as an authoritative resource for practitioners on how to ethically and effectively draft and administer estate plans for Muslim clients seeking to comply with their faith.
American Dialogue : The Founders and Us by Joseph J. Ellis
Call Number: E183.E436 2018
The award-winning author, Joseph J. Ellis, gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today. The story of history is a ceaseless conversation between past and present, and in American Dialogue, Joseph J. Ellis focuses the conversation on the often-asked question “What would the Founding Fathers think?” He examines four of our most seminal historical figures through the prism of particular topics, using the perspective of the present to shed light on their views and, in turn, to make clear how their now centuries-old ideas illuminate the disturbing impasse of today’s political conflicts. He discusses Jefferson and the issue of racism, Adams and the specter of economic inequality, Washington and American imperialism, Madison and the doctrine of original intent. Through these juxtapositions, Ellis illuminates the obstacles and pitfalls paralyzing contemporary discussions of these fundamentally important issues.
February is American Heart Month
When we think of the month of February, we normally envision hearts – romantic, platonic, familial – of the Cupid variety that surround Saint Valentine’s Day. Another focal point this February (and every year) is American Heart Month, which spotlights the major impact that cardiovascular health has on Americans’ lives. American Heart Month is designated to raise awareness about heart conditions and urge Americans to lower their risk for developing heart disease.
The statistics1 are staggering:
- Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women in the United States. Every year, 1 in 4 deaths are caused by heart disease;
- Heart attacks are a major category of heart disease – someone in the United States has a heart attack every 40 seconds;
- Nearly 1 in 3 adults in the United States has high blood cholesterol, a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke;
- High rates of obesity and high blood pressure among younger people (ages 35-64) are putting them at risk for heart disease earlier in life; and,
- Half of all Americans have at least one of the top three risk factors for heart disease (high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and smoking).
To find out more, below is a sampling of health resources available through the Law Library and online:
DATABASES:
CCH Cheetah
CCH Cheetah includes full-text primary sources of law with commentary, a variety of CCH and Aspen legal publications, smart charts, practical tools, news, webinars, white papers, and blogs. Practice areas covered include corporate & securities, labor & employment, intellectual property, healthcare, human resources, intellectual property and tax. CCH Health and Human Resources Research Network was replaced by CCH Cheetah at the end of 2018 (all content in this database is in CCH Cheetah).
Bloomberg Law
Bloomberg Law’s extensive network of health care information includes real-time coverage of federal and state legislative and regulatory developments, as well as key court decisions and enforcement actions, and industry trends. Bloomberg Law’s Health Law & Business News is relied on by legal, compliance, and industry professionals alike, alerting them of developments in courts, Congress, agencies, industry, and related organizations.
ONLINE:
Heart Health : Conversation Starters
February : American Heart Month
Health Topics
Consumer Healthcare
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Heart Disease
American Heart Month 2019 : Let’s Talk About Cholesterol
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
#OurHearts are Healthier Together
Heart-Healthy Lifestyle Changes
1 Sources: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health; Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Recent Acquisitions
Computer Games and Immersive Entertainment: Next Frontiers in Intellectual Property Law, 2d ed.
Chrissie Scelsi; Ross A. Dannenberg (Editors)
Call Number: KF3024.C6C625 2019
Computer Games and Immersive Entertainment explores and discusses how to obtain traditional intellectual property rights in the non-traditional settings of video game and immersive environments, and serves as a primer for practitioners researching these emerging legal issues. Each chapter covers important IP issues involved with computer games and immersive entertainment, including end-user license agreements, copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, rights of publicity, and international considerations.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg : A Life
Jane Sherron de Hart
Call Number: KF8795.G56D44 2018
In this large, comprehensive, revelatory biography, Jane De Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passion for justice, her advocacy for gender equality, her meticulous jurisprudence: her desire to make We the People more united and our union more perfect. De Hart captures, in all its richness and complexity, the pioneering life and legal career whose profound mark on American jurisprudence, on American society, on our American character and spirit, will reverberate deep into the twenty-first century and beyond.
Workplace Harassment Law, 2d ed.
Diane M. Soubly; Gilbert F. Casellas (Editors)
Call Number: KF3467.L56 2018
This treatise provides attorneys with comprehensive guidance for bringing or defending a harassment suit. Select hot-button topics covered in Workplace Harassment Law, Second Edition include: the impact of the #MeToo Movement, new EEOC enforcement guidance, and new Supreme Court cases; the OCR process as revised and liability under Title IX; gender non-conformity/stereotype/identity/orientation; multiple status/intersectionality; workplace bullying, and more.
Re-Engineering Humanity
Brett Frischmann; Evan Selinger
Call Number: T14.5.F75 2018
Every day, new warnings emerge about artificial intelligence rebelling against us. All the while, a more immediate dilemma flies under the radar. In this wide-reaching, interdisciplinary book, Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger examine what’s happening to our lives as society embraces big data, predictive analytics, and smart environments. They explain how the goal of designing programmable worlds goes hand in hand with engineering predictable and programmable people. Detailing new frameworks, provocative case studies, and mind-blowing thought experiments, Frischmann and Selinger reveal hidden connections between fitness trackers, electronic contracts, social media platforms, robotic companions, fake news, autonomous cars, and more. This powerful analysis should be read by anyone interested in understanding exactly how technology threatens the future of our society, and what we can do now to build something better.
Financing Renewable Energy Projects : A Global Analysis and Review of Related Power Purchase Agreements
Kaamil Ansar (Editor)
Call Number: K3981.F55 2019 v.1-3
This 3-volume, 3,000-page set provides a platform for investment in renewable energy in 59 jurisdictions worldwide. It provides an analysis of the regulatory framework in particular jurisdictions and analysis of related power purchase agreements which can be tailored to the participating jurisdiction. For interested stakeholders, this book facilitates investment by providing basic information, including an analysis of snap shot financial and background information on each jurisdiction that provides immediate context and a fuller understanding of each. Included are sample Power Purchase Agreements, which are the critical document required to finance renewable energy projects.
Pennsylvania Judicial Discipline Handbook
Sarah A. Steers; Joel Fishman
Call Number: KFP525.5.D5S74 2018
Dr. Joel Fishman and Sarah Steers have created the first compendium of Pennsylvania law and jurisprudence in the field of judicial discipline. The 1993 amendment to the PA state charter created a new two-tiered system of judicial discipline, replacing the Judicial Inquiry and Review Board with two independent entities: the Judicial Conduct Board and the Court of Judicial Discipline. The opinions of the Court of Judicial Discipline and the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania that are referenced in this volume serve multiple purposes. Not only do they dispose of cases, they also provide guidance to our judges on the contours of Pennsylvania’s Code of Judicial Conduct and Rules Governing Standards of Conduct of Magisterial District Judges. The authors have also included chapters on recusal and ex parte communications, topics that have not seen significant recent attention in the context of judicial discipline.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2019
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