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Ross, Jeffrey Ian and Stephen C. Richards. Beyond Bars: Rejoining Society After Prison. Alpha Press (Penguin Group), 2009. $12.95 ISBN: 978-1-59257-851-1.

The United States has the largest criminal justice system in the world, with currently over 7 million adults and juveniles in jail, prison, or community custody. Because they spend enough time in prison to disrupt their connections to their families and their communities, they are not prepared for the difficult and often life-threatening process of reentry. As a result, the percentage of these people who return to a life of crime and additional prison time escalates each year. Beyond Bars is the most current, practical, and comprehensive guide for ex-convicts and their families about managing a successful reentry into the community and includes:

·Tips on how to prepare for release while still in Prison
·Ways to deal with family members, especially spouses and children
·Finding a job
·Money issues such as budgets, bank accounts, taxes, and debt
·Avoiding drugs and other illicit activities
·Free resources to rely on for support

Bianchi, Andrea. Non-State Actors and International Law. Ashgate Publishing, 2009. £155.00 ISBN: 978-0-7546-2833-0.

The expression 'non-state actors' has become part and parcel of the common parlance of international lawyers. Together with the traditional subjects of international law, such as states and international organizations, non-state actors play an important role in international law-making, law-adjudication and law-enforcement processes. Although the subjects/actors discourse takes place in a variety of contexts, most of the time the relevant narrative merely describes how different actors participate in the legal process in any given area. Little attention has been drawn to the theoretical discourse about non-state actors and its relation to the doctrine of the subjects of international law. Whether the solution lies in 'relativizing' the subjects or rather in 'subjectivizing' the actors remains open to doubt. The constant swing of the pendulum from the normative to the descriptive mesmerizes the observer but hardly hides the struggle for determining who may legitimately and authoritatively perform legally relevant acts on the international scene.

Hansen, Victor M. and Lawrence Friedman. The Case for Congress: Separation of Powers and the War on Terror. Ashgate Publishing, 2009. £55.00 ISBN: 978-0-7546-7560-0.

The Case for Congress: Separation of Powers and the War on Terror examines the constitutional relationship between Congress and the President in the post-September 11 world, arguing that Congress should exercise its legitimate authority in guiding United States policy. While many commentators have focused on the extent of the President's national security and foreign affairs authority, both domestically and abroad, this title focuses on the constitutional authority of Congress to serve as a check on executive power. As a national consensus has developed around the notion that the Bush administration made grave errors in its policy decisions, a reminder of the leading role that Congress can play in those decisions is particularly appropriate.

Unlike scholarly work devoted either to detailing or criticizing the Bush administration's policy decisions, this accessible and balanced book focuses on the policies themselves, and on the way in which Congress can influence those policies for the better. The authors further offer specific and useful recommendations for legislative measures that may correct existing policy deficiencies and promote sounder decision-making in the area of national security and foreign affairs.

Davidson, Nestor M. and Robin Paul Malloy. Affordable Housing and Public-Private Partnerships. Ashgate Publishing, 2009. $99.95 ISBN: 978-0-7546-7720-8.

With distressing statistics about rising cost burdens, increasing foreclosure rates, rising unemployment, falling wages, and widespread homelessness, building affordable housing is one of our most pressing social policy problems. Affordable Housing and Public-Private Partnerships focuses attention on this critical need, as leading experts on affordable housing law and policy come together to address key issues of concern and to suggest appropriate responses for future action. Focusing in particular on how best to understand and implement the joint work of public and private actors in housing, this book considers the real estate aspects of affordable housing law and policy, access to housing, housing finance and affordability, land use, housing regulation and housing issues in a post-Katrina context. Filling a critical gap in the scholarly literature available, this book will be of particular interest to policy-makers, academics, lawyers and students of housing, land use, real estate, property, community development and urban planning

Mack, Elke, Michael Schramm, Stephan Klasen, and Thomas Pogge. Absolute Poverty and Global Justice: Emperical Data- Moral Theories- Initiatives. Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2009. $114.95 ISBN: 978-0-7546-7849-6.

Absolute poverty causes about one third of all human deaths, some 18 million annually, and blights billions of lives with hunger and disease. Developing universalizable norms aimed at tackling absolute poverty and the complex and multilayered problems associated with it, this book considers the levels, trends and determinants of absolute poverty and global inequality. Examining whether much faster progress against absolute poverty is possible through reductions in national and global inequalities that produce economic growth for poor countries and households, this book suggests that diverse moral views imply that international agencies as well as the citizens, corporations and governments of affluent countries bear a moral responsibility to reduce absolute poverty. In considering strategies of eradication through specific policies and structural reforms it is argued that because of its moral importance and requirement for only modest efforts and resources, the goal of overcoming absolute poverty must be given much higher political priority by international agencies and governments of affluent countries. Suggesting that these agencies should be encouraged to facilitate and promote new initiatives, this book concludes with a discussion of how such initiatives might be realized.

Bugh, Gary. Electoral College Reform: Challenges and Possibilities. Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. $99.95 ISBN: 978-0-7546-7751-2.

The United States have not updated the Electoral College system since the Twelfth Amendment was ratified in 1804, despite the majority of public opinion polls showing Americans are in favour changing or outright abolishing it. So why hasn't the United States reformed this system? Electoral College Reform brings together new essays examining all aspects of this crucial debate, including the reasons for reform, the issues surrounding a constitutional amendment, the effect of the Electoral College on political campaigns and the possibilities for extra-constitutional avenues to change. The authors consider both the Federalists' vision of balanced representation and what some consider a more democratic and equality-based ideal. These competing frameworks, perhaps more than any other factor, account for centuries of American indecision on this key issue.

By offering an unprecedented and carefully researched analysis of an always controversial subject, this volume explores the potential for changing a system that many contend is long overdue.

Benson, Jocelyn F. State Secretaries of State: Guardians of the Democratic Process. Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. $55.00 ISBN: 978-0-7546-7745-1

Nearly a decade after the 2000 Presidential elections invited a firestorm of questions about the sanctity of our democratic process, there continues to be a heightened interest in the role of state-wide elections officials, typically the state's Secretary of State – this book looks into their pivotal role in the promotion of a healthy democracy.
Much past interest has resulted in overly critical coverage of election errors, ignoring the tireless efforts that ensure the American citizens benefit from a democratic, inclusive and accountable election process. Through a series of case studies, anecdotes, and interviews with current and recent secretaries, State Secretaries of State author Jocelyn Benson readdresses this balance by providing the first in-depth study of the Secretary's role in registering voters, enforcing voting laws and regulations, overseeing elections, and certifying results. As such, it represents a much-needed contribution to the study of US elections, both in practice and in law.

Brewer, Mark D. and Jeffrey M. Stonecash. Dynamics of American Political Parties. Cambridge University Press, 2009. $24.99 ISBN: 978-0-521-70887-6.

In The New Dynamics of American Political Parties, Mark D. Brewer and Jeffrey M. Stonecash examine the process of gradual change that inexorably shapes and reshapes American politics. Parties and the politicians that comprise them seek control of government in order to implement their visions of proper public policy. To gain control parties need to win elections, and winning elections requires assembling an electoral coalition that is larger than that crafted by the opposition. Parties are always looking for opportunities to build such winning coalitions, and opportunities are always there, but they are rarely, if ever, without risk. Uncertainty rules and intra-party conflict rages as different factions and groups within the parties debate the proper course(s) of action and battle it out for control of the party. Parties can never be sure how their strategic maneuvers will play out, and, even when it appears that a certain strategy has been successful, party leaders are unclear about how long apparent success will last. Change unfolds slowly, in fits and starts.

Charlesworth, Hilary and Jean-Marc Coicaud. Fault Lines of International Legitimacy. Cambridge University Press, 2009. $99.00 ISBN: 978-0-521-76446-9.

Fault Lines of International Legitimacy deals with the following questions: What are the features and functions of legitimacy in the international realm? How does international legitimacy, as exemplified in particular by multilateral norms, organizations, and policies, change over time? What role does the international distribution of power and its evolution have in the establishment and transformation of legitimacy paradigms? To what extent do democratic values account for the growing importance of legitimacy and the increasing difficulty of achieving it at the international and the national level? One of the central messages of the book is that, although the search for international legitimacy is an elusive endeavor, there is no alternative to it if we want to respond to the intertwined demands of justice and security and make them an integral and strategic part of international relations.

Turpin, Colin and Adam Tomkins. British Government and the Constitution: Text and Materials, Sixth Edition. Cambridge University Press, 2007. $69.00 ISBN: 978-0-521-69029-4.

The first five editions of this well established book were written by Colin Turpin. This new edition has been prepared jointly by Colin Turpin and Adam Tomkins. This edition sees a major restructuring of the material, as well as a complete updating. New developments such as the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 and recent case law concerning the sovereignty of Parliament, the Human Rights Act, counter-terrorism and protests against the Iraq War, among other matters, are extracted and analysed. While it includes extensive material and commentary on contemporary constitutional reform, Turpin and Tomkins is a book that covers the historical traditions and the continuity of the British constitution as well as the current tide of change. All the chapters contain detailed suggestions for further reading. Designed principally for law students the book includes substantial extracts from parliamentary and other political sources, as well as from legislation and case law. As such it is essential reading also for politics and government students. Much of the material has been reworked and with its fresh design the book provides a detailed yet accessible account of the British constitution at a fascinating moment in its ongoing development.

• Extensively restructured new edition covers all aspects of the undergraduate Public Law course • New text design presents the comprehensive text, case law, legislation and readings in a clear, accessible format • Two leading scholars in the field, taking a 'law in context' approach, explore challenging material in an engaging style, emphasising its relevance to the student

Grossberg, Michael and Christopher Tomlins. The Cambridge History of Law in America: Volume I, Early America (1580-1815). Cambridge University Press, 2008. $120.00 ISBN: 978-0-521-80305-2.

Volume I of the Cambridge History of Law in America begins the account of law in America with the very first moments of European colonization and settlement of the North American landmass. It follows those processes across two hundred years to the eventual creation and stabilization of the American republic. The book discusses the place of law in regard to colonization and empire, indigenous peoples, government and jurisdiction, population migrations, economic and commercial activity, religion, the creation of social institutions, and revolutionary politics.

The Cambridge History of Law in America has been made possible by the generous support of the American Bar Foundation.

Grossberg, Michael and Christopher Tomlins. The Cambridge History of Law in America: Volume II, The Long Nineteenth Century (1789-1920). Cambridge University Press, 2008. $120.00 ISBN: 978-0-521-80306-9.

Volume II of the Cambridge History of Law in America focuses on the long nineteenth century (1789-1920). It deals with the formation and development of the American state system, the establishment and growth of systematic legal education, the spread of the legal profession, the growing density of legal institutions and their interaction with political and social action, and the development of the modern criminal justice system. We also see how law intertwines with religion, how it becomes ingrained in popular culture, and how it intersects with the worlds of the American military and of international relations

The Cambridge History of Law in America has been made possible by the generous support of the American Bar Foundation.

Grossberg, Michael and Christopher Tomlins. The Cambridge History of Law in America: Volume III, The Twentieth Century and After (1920- ). Cambridge University Press, 2008. $120.00 ISBN: 978-0-521-80307-6.

Volume III of the Cambridge History of Law in America covers the period from 1920 to the present, ‘the American Century’. It charts a century of legal transformations - in the state, in legal thought and education, in professional organization and life, in American federalism and governance, in domestic affairs and international relations. It shows how, politically, socially and culturally, the twentieth century was when law became ubiquitous in American life. Among the themes discussed are innovation in the disciplinary and regulatory use of law, changes wrought by the intersection of law with explosive struggles around race, gender, class and sexuality, the emergence and development of the particularly American legal discourse of ‘rights’, and the expansion of this discourse to the international arena. The main focus of this last volume of the Cambridge History of Law in America is the accelerating pace of change, change which we can be confident will continue.

The Cambridge History of Law in America has been made possible by the generous support of the American Bar Foundation.

Brewer, Mark D. and Jeffrey M. Stonecash. Dynamics of American Political Parties. Cambridge University Press, 2009. $24.99 ISBN: 978-0-521-70887-6.

In Dynamics of American Political Parties, Mark D. Brewer and Jeffrey M. Stonecash examine the process of gradual change that inexorably shapes and reshapes American politics. Parties and the politicians that comprise them seek control of government in order to implement their visions of proper public policy. To gain control parties need to win elections, and winning elections requires assembling an electoral coalition that is larger than that crafted by the opposition. Parties are always looking for opportunities to build such winning coalitions, and opportunities are always there, but they are rarely, if ever, without risk. Uncertainty rules and intra-party conflict rages as different factions and groups within the parties debate the proper course(s) of action and battle it out for control of the party. Parties can never be sure how their strategic maneuvers will play out, and, even when it appears that a certain strategy has been successful, party leaders are unclear about how long apparent success will last. Change unfolds slowly, in fits and starts.

Majone, Giandomenico. Europe as the Would-be World Power: The EU at Fifty. Cambridge University Press, 2009. $37.99 ISBN: 978-0-521-75845-1.

For fifty years European integration has been pursued according to an operational code based on rules which have never been publicly discussed. This book demonstrates the far-reaching consequences of the prioritisation of integration over competing values, fait accompli and other implicit rules of action. The willingness to sacrifice democracy on the altar of integration is demonstrated by the monopoly of legislative initiative granted to the non-elected Commission. Monetary union preceding, rather than following, political integration is a striking example of fait accompli, and the reason behind many holes in the EU system of economic governance. Until now, academics have avoided radical criticism; Giandomenico Majone argues that only an open acknowledgement of the obsolescence of the traditional methods can stem the rising tide of Euro-scepticism.

Edited by Estevadeordal, Antoni, Kati Suominen and Robert Teh. Regional Rules in the Global Trading System. Cambridge University Press, 2009. $45.00 ISBN: 978-0-521-75934-2.

The proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs) over the past two decades has highlighted the need to look closely at the potential conflicts between regional and WTO rules or disciplines. A major obstacle to advancing understanding of RTAs is the absence of detailed information about their contents. This has limited the debate between those who view RTAs as discriminatory instruments hostage to protectionist interests and those who see them as conducive to multilateral trade opening. This book provides detailed analysis of RTA rules in six key areas - market access, technical barriers to trade, contingent protection, investment, services and competition policy - across dozens of the main RTAs in the world. The analysis helps to provide new insights into the interplay between regional and multilateral trade rules, advances understanding of the economic effects of RTAs and contributes to the discussion on how to deal with the burgeoning number of RTAs.

Zwaan, Jaap de, Edwin Bakker, and Sico van der Meer (Eds.). Challenges in a Changing World: Clingendael Views on Global and Regional Issues. T.M.C. Asser Press (Represented by Cambridge University Press), 2008. $90.00 ISBN: 978-90-6704-297-0.

The Netherlands Institute of International Affairs ‘Clingendael’ celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2008. In this volume of essays, research fellows from the Clingendael Institute shed light on the near future of international relations in the fields of diplomacy, European integration, security and energy. In the tradition of the Clingendael Institute, the contributions to this book are thought-provoking, policy-oriented and relevant to anyone interested in international relations.

Denov, Myriam. Child Soldiers: Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front. Cambridge University Press, 2010. $28.99 ISBN: 9780521693219.

Tragically, violence and armed conflict have become commonplace in the lives of many children around the world. Not only have millions of children been forced to witness war and its atrocities, but many are drawn into conflict as active participants. Nowhere has this been more evident than in Sierra Leone during its 11-year civil war. Drawing upon in-depth interviews and focus groups with former child soldiers of Sierra Leone’s rebel Revolutionary United Front, Myriam Denov compassionately examines how child soldiers are initiated into the complex world of violence and armed conflict. She also explores the ways in which the children leave this world of violence and the challenges they face when trying to renegotiate their lives and self-concepts in the aftermath of war. The narratives of the Sierra Leonean youth demonstrate that their life histories defy the narrow and limiting portrayals presented by the media and popular discourse.

Beckmann, Matthew N. Pushing the Agenda: Presidential Leadership in US Lawmaking 1953-2004. Cambridge University Press, 2010. $26.99 ISBN: 9780521162913

Today’s presidents enter office having campaigned on an ambitious policy agenda, eager to see it enacted, and willing to push so that it is. The central question of presidents’ legislative leadership, therefore, is not a question of resolve; it is a question of strategy: by what means can presidents build winning coalitions for their agenda? Pushing the Agenda uncovers the answer. It reveals the systematic strategies presidents employ to influence Congress and the conditions that determine when those strategies work – or don’t. Drawing on an eclectic array of original evidence – spanning presidents from Dwight Eisenhower to George W. Bush – Matthew N. Beckmann finds modern presidents’ influence in Congress is real, often substantial, and, to date, largely underestimated.

Rowbottom, Jacob. Democracy Distorted: Wealth, Influence and Democratic Politics. Cambridge University Press, 2010. $37.99 ISBN: 9780521700177

High-profile controversies surrounding the funding of political parties have shown how inequalities in wealth can enter the political process. The growth of the professional lobbying of MPs and the executive raises similar questions about money in politics. More broadly, inequalities emerge in terms of the opportunities the public have to participate in political debate. This analysis of the ways wealth can be used to influence politics in Britain explores the threat posed to the principle of political equality. As well as examining lobbying and party funding, the discussion also focuses on the ownership and control of the media, the chance to be heard on the internet and the impact of the privatisation of public spaces on rights to assemble and protest. Looking at this range of political activities, the author proposes various strategies designed to protect the integrity of British democracy and stop inequalities in wealth becoming inequalities in politics.

Birkinshaw, Patrick. Freedom of Information: The Law, the Practice and the Ideal. Cambridge University Press, 2010. $140.00 ISBN: 9780521888028

Enacted in 2000 and in operation in the UK since 2005, the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act has revealed information which has generated calls for constitutional reform. A massive 'information jurisprudence' has developed through the decisions of the Information Commissioner, the Information Tribunal and the courts. Governments' responses to the war on terror have involved increased resort to claims of national security and accompanying secrecy, but these developments have to exist alongside demands for FOI and transparency. FOI has to balance access to and protection of personal information, and major amendments have been made to the Data Protection Act in order to balance the competing demands of transparency and privacy. This detailed discussion of FOI laws and personal data laws examines the historical development of secrecy, national security and government, and their modern context.

Algero, Mary Garvey. Louisiana Legal Research. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $25.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-529-1.

Louisiana Legal Research assists attorneys, law students, paralegals, librarians, and others in researching legal materials effectively and efficiently. While focused on Louisiana law, the book provides the reader with information necessary to research federal law as well as the law of other jurisdictions. The book is user-friendly, providing information about legal research in a straightforward, practical format. The book is a must for anyone conducting legal research in Louisiana and is an excellent guide to legal research novices.

In addition to discussing research techniques, sources, and strategies, the book explains the primary legal traditions in the United States and the basic structure of court systems in the United States. Against this backdrop, the book highlights the unique characteristics of the Louisiana legal system, including the State’s reliance on the Civil Code and statutory law and the value of precedent in Louisiana.

The book also provides specific information on both print and electronic sources for locating law and gives guidance to the researcher on which sources are most efficiently used to research various types of information. The book touches on strategies for presenting legal arguments and provides information on citing legal sources in accordance with Louisiana custom as well as The Bluebook and the ALWD Citation Manual.

The book even provides its readers with a bit of lagniappe (lanyap), a word used in Louisiana to mean something extra or an unexpected gift. Louisiana lagniappe text boxes found throughout the book provide readers with interesting, historical facts relevant to the sources being discussed.

Simons, Spencer L. Texas Legal Research. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $25.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-649-6.

Texas Legal Research is a practical, process-oriented guide to the skills and resources necessary to research Texas law. The book is designed for teaching first-year students, either as a stand-alone text or in conjunction with a research text focusing on federal law. The book is also suitable for use in advanced legal research courses. Others who will find the book useful include practitioners, paralegals, college students, laypersons, and anyone needing a concise handbook on how to find and use Texas legal materials.

The book begins by explaining the nature and types of legal authority. The process of legal research and control of legal research projects are described in the first chapter, with an emphasis on the integral nature of legal research and legal analysis. These concepts are revisited and reinforced throughout the book. Since students often use online research tools from the beginning of their studies, the second chapter is devoted to online searching techniques and principles, including the tradeoffs and pitfalls of online searching and tips on how to choose between online and print resources. Research using print and online resources is explained for each type of legal resource throughout the book.

Chapters are devoted to the resources and techniques of constitutional research, case law research, and statutory research. Chapters on legislative history research and administrative agency research explore these more advanced topics in detail. The historical and governmental roots of Texas legal resources are traced for each type of primary law. Secondary sources are discussed following the chapters on primary law, although this chapter may readily be assigned early in a course. Updating techniques are explained in context for each type of legal material and a chapter is devoted to the use of online citators. An appendix explains the basics of legal citation, the use of the Greenbook and the Bluebook, special rules of Texas citation, and the ALWD Citation Manual.

Most chapters contain tables with step-by-step guides to research in particular types of legal resources, as well as summaries of other critical information. Screenshots and images of research materials are included where needed to illustrate the lessons of the text. For each type of resource, research in federal law is addressed following the discussion of research in Texas law.

May, Randolph J. New Directions in Communications Policy. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $23.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-673-1.

New Directions in Communications Policy is a collection of original essays by some of the nation's most prominent law and economics scholars. The essays address the most topical, controversial, and important communications law and policy topics. In the midst of remarkable technological, marketplace, and regulatory changes, the authors discuss Internet regulation and net neutrality, mass media and broadband policy, the First Amendment and the Fairness Doctrine, universal service subsidies, institutional reform of the FCC, and continuing problems with the implementation of the landmark Telecommunications Act of 1996. In addition to providing the context necessary to understand the topics discussed, every essay contains specific reform recommendations. These forward-looking recommendations comprise a practical guide for policymakers as they struggle to update communications policies to conform to the realities of the digital age. And the essays comprise a rich literature for students exploring the ins-and-outs of communications policy.

Schwartz, Michael Hunter, Sophie Sparrow and Gerald Hess. Teaching Law By Design. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $33.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-497-3.

Professors Michael Hunter Schwartz, Sophie Sparrow and Gerry Hess, three leaders in the teaching and learning movement in legal education, have collaborated to offer a new book designed to synthesize the latest research on teaching and learning for new and experienced law teachers. The book begins with basic principles of teaching and learning theory, provides insights into how law students experience traditional law teaching, and then guides law teachers through the entire process of teaching a course. The topics addressed include: how to plan a course; how to design a syllabus and select a text; how to plan individual class sessions; how to engage and motivate students, even those tough-to-crack second- and third-year students; how to use a wide variety of teaching techniques; how to evaluate student learning, both for the purposes of assigning grades and of improving student learning; and how to be a lifelong learner as a teacher.

Kuney, George W. and Donna C. Looper. Mastering Legal Analysis and Drafting. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $25.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-628-1.

Mastering Legal Analysis and Drafting seeks to emphasize the fundamental structure and methods of legal drafting, which, the authors contend, is grounded in a surprisingly few but elemental rules and techniques of legal analysis and deployment of legal authorities amid relevant facts. It is designed to help the novice legal drafter identify those elemental rules and techniques and show how they are used to prepare effective legal writing in different formats, most of which share common elements and structures. The book begins with a discussion of legal analysis, followed by a discussion of general drafting principles and rules, and then proceeds to apply these concepts in the following chapters to specific forms of legal writing including: client letters, demand letters, research memoranda, motions and supporting documents, appellate briefs, contracts and instruments, and legislation. It closes with a chapter on “writing to build a record” that reprises the other chapters and highlights the key concepts.

Mongue, Robert E. The Empowered Paralegal: Effective, Efficient and Professional. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $20.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-685-4.

Every day thousands of paralegals and legal assistants leave their office feeling frustrated, overworked and under utilized. As an attorney and professor, author Robert E. Mongue, J.D. hears from paralegals who, despite their education and professional training, feel poorly equipped to meet the real challenges of today’s law office. Too often paralegals are taught law and procedure but not how to effectively manage their time, workloads and clients. Too often they feel ineffective and powerless when dealing with attorneys, clients and court personnel, inside and outside the office.

Over thirty years as a litigator employing, training and teaching paralegals, Prof. Mongue gathered and developed clear, concise and easy-to-use techniques to teach paralegals how to become a critical component of an effective legal team. He used these techniques in his own law practice and in classrooms, seminars and workshops. These techniques are now together in a practical guide, entitled The Empowered Paralegal.

Employment for paralegals and legal assistants is projected to grow much faster than the average for all occupations through 2014. Those empowered with the skills and confidence required to be true professionals will dominate the field. The Empowered Paralegal provides step-by-step, easy-to-understand techniques, written in a friendly, accessible and sometimes humorous way, for managing time, docket calendars, files, clients and litigation. In addition to these management techniques, The Empowered Paralegal provides sound guidance on managing the work relationship with attorneys and on being a professional.

The Empowered Paralegprovides important practical office strategies while giving paralegals the empowerment, recognition and respect they and their profession deserve. A useful adjunct to any course, especially “Introduction to Paralegalism,” The Empowered Paralegal is designed for the student in an internship seminar, the established paralegal, or those entering this fast-growing field.

Bernhardt, Roger, Joyce Palomar and Patrick Randolph Jr. Property: Cases and Statutes, Second Edition. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $85.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-715-8.

This new first-year casebook is a unique blend of cases and real-world problems. The authors — nationally known for bridging the gap between theory and practice and collectively possessing more than 150 semesters of teaching first-year property — have created a book using thoughtful decisions by judges wrestling with contemporary problems.

This casebook concentrates on issues that are meaningful to students today as learners and will be vital to them later as attorneys. The authors have selected opinions that are intelligible as well as concise, so as to be quickly understood. Scarce class time is thereby made available to apply those rules to contemporary problems. Excerpts from opinions in related cases, statutes, and relevant articles follow each primary case to provide comprehensive overviews of every topic. The second edition includes a number of new decisions and features extensive prefacing to the cases, giving students greater guidance as to their significance.

Professors will find the extensive Teacher’s Manual a fitting companion. It contains over 5,000 questions to put to students: questions that require them to apply the rules, rather than to merely recite what the cases held. Its availability on-line offers professors the convenience of editing, printing and taking these materials as notes directly into the classroom.

King, Stephen M. and Bradley S. Chilton. Administration in the Public Interest: Principles, Policies, and Practices. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $42.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-667-0.

Administration in the Public Interest is a highly readable, informative, and up-to-date introductory textbook for undergraduate public administration and first-year graduate MPA students. In addition to covering the basic topics found in most introductory public administration texts, such as organizational theory and behavior, public personnel, public budgeting, federalism and intergovernmental relations, public management, and the like, this book devotes entire chapters to the history and philosophy of public administration, the role of the Constitution and administrative law and behavior, administration and management of state and local governments, and treatment of the use of nonprofit organizations and faith-based initiatives in public administration. Instead of civil service preparation for M.P.A. students Administration in the Public Interest presents a current-issues theme of conflicting ethical, constitutional, utility, and leadership values discovered and practiced in public administration.

The primary purpose of the text is not necessarily to teach the “practice” of public administration; instead, Administration in the Public Interest critically examines and evaluates the various ideas, people, histories, typologies, and issues that interrelate within the broad philosophical and pragmatic world of the “public interest.” Unlike almost all public administration texts, this book describes and examines the increasingly influential role of non-profit organizations, faith-based initiatives, and private agencies in the development of public administration.

Each chapter includes “Action Steps” for their local setting, boxed inserts and photos on key figures and events in public administration, study guides, including discussion and review questions, recommended readings, and web sites.

Mombrun, Reginald, Gail Levin Richmond and Felicia Branch. Mastering Corporate Tax. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $32.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-368-6.

Mastering Corporate Tax guides students through the complex tax rules affecting corporations and their shareholders. It describes, and provides comprehensive examples to illustrate, the tax consequences of corporate formations, distributions, stock redemptions, liquidations, and reorganizations. The primary focus is on corporations subject to subchapter C (so-called C corporations). The text also introduces the special stock ownership and income pass-through rules applied to corporations described in subchapter S (so-called C corporations). This text supplements casebook coverage of corporate taxation.

Jellum, Linda D. and David Charles Hricik. Modern Statutory Interpretation: Problems, Theories, and Lawyering Strategies, Second Edition. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $60.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-675-5.

This book is designed to teach statutory interpretation skills. It uses a combination of traditional cases along with problems to accomplish that objective. Broadly organized around the process of interpretation, it focuses first on the plain meaning of the text and then addresses the question of whether and, if so, when courts will examine sources other than the text. The book addresses the various approaches and theories to interpretation and examines how those approaches have been applied to particular interpretative problems, such as implied rights, administrative interpretations, and the interpretation of "uniform statutes."

Within each chapter, subjects are introduced with concise summaries of the core concepts. After the introduction, a well-edited case explores the uncertainties and boundaries of those core concepts. The notes and questions following each principal case are designed to help focus the students' thoughts and understanding of the case before they come to class. Finally, problems are included to ensure that the students use the statutory interpretation skills they have just learned. Each problem lends itself to at least two arguments (often more) and allows for further inquiry into the concepts in the chapter. The second edition has been revised and updated to include more problems and a few new cases. Additionally, the legislative and administrative chapters have been substantially revised.

O'Brien, Raymond C. and Michael T. Flannery. The Prudent Investing of Trusts: Cases and Materials. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $90.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-658-8.

This book seeks to provide historical grounding, analysis, and multiple examples of prudent investing of trusts. Specific topics covered in the materials include a description of the evolution of portfolio management, changes in the concept of loyalty, the utility of exculpatory clauses, the uniqueness of charitable trusts, ERISA standards, social investing, and the statutes promoting compliance with fiduciary responsibility.

The Prudent Investing of Trusts offers a timely response to the Wall Street Crisis of 2008, the enactment of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, and the federal legislation and the additional federal remedial measures that followed. This book, up to the date of publication, seeks to incorporate all of these challenges and government responses. But as the media preoccupies itself with falling stock prices and the dilemma of foreclosures, there are legal disputes being initiated or contemplated against trustees by private and charitable beneficiaries who have seen assets decrease significantly. This book describes the parameters of legal causes of action when settlors and beneficiaries currently contemplate legal action to rectify the harm that they are experiencing. It also describes and illustrates whether the trustee who manages these affected trusts prudently.

Bevans, Neal R. North Carolina Real Estate Law: Second Edition. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $42.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-755-4.

This book is designed as a text book covering the major issues of real estate law. Designed with both the student and practitioner in mind, the text strikes a balance between theory and practice. The author develops the foundation of North Carolina real property law and then puts theory into practice by describing numerous practical applications, from creating offer of purchase contracts to title searches.

Although there are real estate texts available that concentrate exclusively on North Carolina law, they fall into two camps: theory or practice. This text balances the competing needs of students and practitioners by addressing both concerns. The text explains the theoretical bases of real property law in North Carolina and then provides practical, hands-on examples of how to apply this theoretical knowledge.

Dyson, Maurice R. and Daniel B. Weddle. Our Promise: Achieving Educational Equality for America's Children. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $60.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-127-9.

With the reauthorization and possible impending repeal of the No Child Left Behind Act in the next presidential administration, and the Supreme Court’s recent education pronouncements involving race in K-12 education and higher education, along with the mounting concerns regarding school finance and testing, this compendium of works by nationally distinguished contributors, leading thinkers and policymakers who hail from a broad variety of disciplines represents the first effort to explore educational law through the interrelated fields of “critical race education,” sociology, civil rights, pedagogical theory and law.

   Contributors include William Kaplan, Maurice Dyson, Preston Green, Bruce Baker, Angela Onwuachi Willig, Verna Williams, Victoria Dodd, Molly O’Brien and several more, with a foreword by T.K. Daniels.

   This critical reader of scholarly articles, essays and critiques explores the intractable issues in the landscape of educational equality, including school finance, special education, affirmative action, desegregation, curricular reform and bilingual education, through the prism of race, ethnicity, language, disability, socioeconomic status, sex and gender.

   Written by and for educators and policymakers, Our Promise is an ideal seminar text or companion piece for education, civil rights, sociology, economics and race-oriented interdisciplinary courses. An indispensable classroom tool for comprehending policy discussions, Our Promise is also well-suited for adoption in undergraduate and graduate education schools and public policy administration programs across the nation.

Romantz, David S. and Kathleen Elliott Vinson. Legal Analysis: The Fundamental Skill, Second Edition. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $20.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-279-5.

The second edition of Legal Analysis, the Fundamental Skill, continues to teach students the critical skills of legal reasoning. This popular book is a practical and clear guide that explains the many ways lawyers analyze the law. The authors demystify legal analysis by examining the foundations and methodology of legal problem solving and by discussing the different levels of critical thinking necessary to develop effective legal arguments. The book emphasizes the importance of applying the law as opposed to relying excessively on formulaic methods of analysis. New to the second edition, the book examines rule-based reasoning and the implicit rule; deductive analysis and resolving statutory ambiguity; case-law reasoning and inductive analysis; the role of policy in legal argument; and the structure and variations of legal argument and CREAC. New examples and exercises are also included.

Johnson, Vincent R. and Alan Gunn. Studies in American Tort Law: Fourth Edition. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $95.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-699-1.

A careful mix of law, policy, ethics, and economics, Studies in American Tort Law is designed for first-year torts courses. Recognizing that torts is a prime battleground for social policy, this book seeks to reflect not only the current rules on injury compensation, but also the policy choices underlying those rules. Within a clear, doctrinal framework, a range of views is presented, reflecting dominant themes in tort law. Students are introduced to, but not overwhelmed with, law and economics. Economic analysis is employed when particularly useful (e.g., in connection with the negligence balancing test, strict liability, and calculation of damages). The law-and-economics notes can be used as a starting point for classroom discussion, or they can be allowed to stand on their own, without need for elaboration. The fourth edition includes:

· Comprehensive citations to the Restatement, Third, of Torts (including the new sections on intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress)

· The latest Supreme Court precedent on punitive damages (Philip Morris USA v. Williams, 549 U.S. 346, 353-55 (2007) and Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, 128 S. Ct. 2605 (U.S. 2008)) and preemption (Wyeth v. Levine, 129 S. Ct. 1187 (2009))

· Readable statutory excerpts reflecting new legislative developments (including state laws changing the duty to retreat and federal legislation greatly limiting the liability of handgun marketers and distributors)

· Careful attention to ethical issues in the practice of law (especially those that give rise to legal malpractice claims);

· Twenty-two new principal cases—roughly one for each chapter (including decisions relating to clergy sexual abuse, negligent enablement of identity theft, loss of a chance, claims against lead paint manufacturers, videotaping of marital relations, recreational drug use, and coerced placement of a child for adoption);

· Notes dealing with cutting edge issues (such the economic loss rule, liability of study abroad programs, and legal recognition of credit monitoring damages); and

Slightly smaller than the third edition, the fourth edition is completely up-to-date to 2009, including a rich selection of materials reflecting how tort law is practiced and how cases are decided in the Twenty-first Century.

Stinson, Judith M. The Tao of Legal Writing. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $15.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-633-5.

The Tao of Legal Writing is designed for upper-level law students, paralegals, and practitioners. The book’s goal is to help teach "the way" of legal writing in the Taoist style: legal writing becomes easier when you work with—rather than resist—what already exists in terms of expectations, structures, and resources. It is an advanced legal writing book, but one that focuses as much on concepts as on mechanics.

Existing advanced legal writing books provide more detail than basic legal writing texts and could not be described as a “quick read” for someone wanting a refresher after several years of practice or for someone anticipating a summer clerkship during law school. The Tao of Legal Writing is that quick read; it includes concrete examples and descriptions, but the goal is to get the reader to think differently about writing. Rather than provide greater detail to drill in the same skills that are covered in first-year legal writing programs, the book attempts to give a reader who already has a basic understanding a new framework for viewing legal writing.

Heintz- Cho, Julie, Tom Cobb, and Mary A. Hotchkiss. Washington Legal Research: Second Edition. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $25.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-718-9.

Washington Legal Research provides a comprehensive introduction to legal research sources and methods most frequently used by Washington legal professionals — and includes both state and federal materials. The book works well as an introduction to legal research for law students and students in related fields, and as an introduction to Washington sources and methods for legal professionals from other jurisdictions. It is also intended to serve as a quick-reference guide for experienced legal professionals who want to brush up on the most efficient research methods and the latest sources and search tools.

The second edition expands and updates the original volume’s coverage of online legal research, and includes information about the latest and most reliable free legal research tools. The second edition also includes an enhanced index, making it more practical for use as a reference guide.

Pillsbury, Samuel H. How Criminal Law Works: A Conceptual and Practical Guide. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $45.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-631-1.

How Criminal Law Works provides a conceptual guide to the law by introducing the reader to the special terminology, methods and traditions that inform the criminal law. It pays special attention to the language of criminal law and its challenges. Designed to be highly readable, the book plainly defines all critical terms and makes no assumptions about prior knowledge of terms or concepts. The text features multiple examples setting out realistic situations which illustrate legal analysis.

The book also serves as a practical guide to law by relating the law as written to the realities of law as it is often applied. Sidebars supply related discussions of particular problems or practical dilemmas. From start to finish the author integrates criminal law theory, doctrine, and practice.

The book is divided into five parts: Basic Structure and Principles, Act and Mens Rea, Crimes of Violence (homicide and rape), Inchoate Liability (attempt, accomplice and conspiracy), and Defenses (insanity, self-defense, intoxication).

“How Criminal Law Works represents a lively and richly informative roadmap canvassing the principles, rules, and practice of substantive criminal law. As a companion to casebooks it promises untold 'aha!' moments of insight into the meaning and implications of judicial decisions, be they turgid and obtuse or concise and elegant. As a standalone text it is a goldmine combining legal doctrine, illustrative examples, and real-world application. As accessible as it is enlightening, it will offer students of criminal justice and law, as well as established scholars and practitioners, new understanding about the fundamentals of crime and punishment and their workings. It is an extraordinarily useful and evocative work.” James R. Acker, Distinguished Teaching Professor, School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany

Knechtle, John C. and Christopher J. Roederer. Mastering Constitutional Law. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $ ISBN: 978-1-59460-479-9.

Mastering Constitutional Law offers students an opportunity to learn the essential elements of constitutional law in a condensed framework. This book’s concise, up-to-date, user-friendly approach is refreshing. Whether students are studying for con law exams or the bar exam, Mastering Constitutional Law offers an outline that is easy to use. Each chapter begins with a simple roadmap alerting the reader to the direction of the chapter. The chapter naturally unfolds according to that plan and then ends with a list of checkpoints that summarize the law in pithy phrases. There are no footnotes, “see also” notes, or bibliographies, because Mastering Constitutional Law is a condensed, yet complete, outline of constitutional law.

Johnson, Vincent R. Mastering Torts: Fourth Edition- A Student's Guide to the Law of Torts. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $37.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-700-4.

Mastering Torts presents in a clear, narrative form a doctrinal overview of the law of torts. Designed especially for law students, this hornbook-like treatment is a mixture of doctrinal condensation and factual exploration that can be used with the fourth edition of Studies in American Tort Law or with other torts casebooks.

Vargas, Jorge A. Mexican Law for the American Lawyer. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $70.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-634-2.

Three special features make this book unique in many respects. First, the book has been written by an eminent group of Mexican practitioners and academics recognized in Mexico for their legal expertise. These are attorneys working for prestigious law firms in Mexico who wrote their chapters keeping in mind the professional interest of American lawyers. Second, each of its seventeen chapters discusses a Mexican legal area commonly found in decisions rendered by state or federal courts in our country. These areas include personal injury, contracts, Fideicomisos, real estate, companies, Maquiladoras, promissory notes, family law, conflict of laws, letters rogatory, enforcement of judgments, etc. And third, most chapters include a legal glossary, a specialized bibliography and samples of practical Mexican legal documents. This up-to-date book, edited and co-authored by University of San Diego School of Law professor Jorge A. Vargas, a prolific author on Mexican law, will be invaluable for legal practitioners, judges and government officials who handle legal matters involving Mexican law, as well as for business and law students.

Beckerman- Rodau, Andrew. A Concise Guide to the Nuts and Bolts of Estates and Future Interests: Second Edition. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $32.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-710-3.

This book is a straightforward, student-oriented guide to understanding the basics of estates and future interests. It explains in simple and understandable terms the various types of present and future interests that exist. Additionally, it breaks down the rule against perpetuities into simple and easily understandable steps. The book provides clear definitions of the relevant terminology and the black letter rules of law which are critical to understanding this material.

This book clearly highlights important points with easy to read text boxes. Throughout the book, numerous explanatory examples illustrate the application of the rules so the reader can gain a quick and clear working knowledge of this area of law. Each chapter concludes with a summary of the main points in the chapter and a set of review questions with detailed answers. Additionally, most chapters include a chart laying out the relevant points.

The last chapter includes samples of typical exam questions with detailed explanations to allow readers to apply the understanding they have gained from the book.

A Concise Guide to the Nuts and Bolts of Estates and Future Interests is ideal for students in a first year property course. Additionally, it is useful for students in an upper level course covering wills, trusts and estates where knowledge of estates and future interests is necessary.

Wojcik, Mark E. Illinois Legal Research: Second Edition. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $25.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-674-8.

The second edition of Illinois Legal Research shows how to find and stay current with Illinois cases, statutes, regulations, and local court rules. Focusing on state materials, it can be used as a supplement to national research texts or on its own to learn legal research. This book also explains how to locate secondary materials specific to Illinois law. Although the text was designed primarily for law students, seasoned attorneys will also appreciate the many secrets of Illinois legal research disclosed in this text. Wojcik’s book includes materials on citing Illinois law sources under the Bluebook (for both law review formats and practice documents), the ALWD Manual, and local court rules. It is an essential book for any Illinois law library.

Rechtschaffen, Clifford, Eileen Gauna, and Catherine A. O'Neill. Environmental Justice: Law, Policy & Regulation- Second Edition. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $55.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-595-6.

Environmental justice is a significant and dynamic contemporary development in environmental law. Rechtschaffen, Gauna and new coauthor O’Neill provide an accessible compilation of interdisciplinary materials for studying environmental justice, interspersed with extensive notes, questions, and a teacher’s manual with practice exercises designed to facilitate classroom discussion. It integrates excerpts from empirical studies, cases, agency decisions, informal agency guidance, law reviews, and other academic literature, as well as community- generated documents.

This second edition includes new chapters addressing climate change, international environmental justice, and a capstone case study. It also adds expanded coverage of risk and the public health, empirical environmental justice research, and environmental justice for American Indian peoples.

Weaver, Russell L., Edward C. Martin, Andrew R. Klein, Paul J. Zwier, II, Ronald W. Eades, and John H. Bauman. Mastering Tort Law. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $35.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-569-7.

Mastering Tort Law is a succinct, practical guide to the intricacies of tort law. Functional in approach, it describes and illustrates basic tort doctrine, and provides students insights into more advanced tort theories. In an attempt to facilitate student learning, the book includes a Roadmap at the beginning of each chapter, and a Checklist at the end. The authors previously published a well-regarded casebook in the area, and have taught torts for many years.

Kaufman, Andrew L. and David B. Wilkins. Problems in Professional Responsibility for a Changing Profession, Fifth Edition. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $90.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-593-2.

Kaufman and Wilkins mark the 20th anniversary of Problems in Professional Responsibility for a Changing Profession with a new 5th edition. Their new edition covers judicial, legislative, and executive developments in the traditional fields of conflicting interests and confidentiality, specialty fields of corporate and government representation as well as representation of those with impaired capacity. It also deals with the problems created by the increasing nationalization and internationalization of law practice, including the basic problem of trying to determine whose professional responsibility law governs the activity of lawyers when they engage in activity beyond their home jurisdictions. Various efforts to reform the profession here and abroad to meet the legal needs of clients and would-be clients are also presented. The authors have added substantial new material dealing with the demographics and institutions of law practice and their effect on professional identity.

Schwartz, Michael Hunter and Denise Riebe. Contracts: A Context and Practice Casebook. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $85.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-640-3.

Every chapter in this innovative casebook places students in roles as practitioners handling simulated law practice problems; provides context in the form of an overview of the law, similar to that which an attorney would read before reading cases in a new subject area; includes questions designed to encourage students to find the applicable statutes and cases on point in the state where the student is planning to practice law; includes exercises, visual aids, and case reading scaffolds, designed to engage students with a wide range of learning styles; and ends with professionalism questions addressing ethical and professional identity questions suggested by the materials in the chapter.

Contracts also includes a rolling graphic organizer that unfolds as students work through the text, as well as exercises designed to build students self-directed learning strategies.

The Teacher’s Manual includes PowerPoint slides keyed to the text and dozens of multiple choice and essay questions (with answers and explanations).

This is the first book in the Context and Practice Series, edited by Michael Hunter Schwartz, Washburn University School of Law.

“The contextual approach keeps students engaged and excited. The book balances traditional cases with wonderfully designed problems and exercises that get students to think (and often act) like lawyers.” Stephen Friedman, Associate Professor of Law, Widener University School of Law

“[This] is the first law school textbook I’ve seen where it is obvious that the authors really want to help students understand what they are supposed to be learning in the course. Right up front, the authors tell students the learning objectives of the course.… Students will find the book as intellectually challenging as any textbook they will encounter, but students who diligently work their way through the book should emerge with a solid understanding of contract law, and much more…. I think it is a remarkably good textbook.” Roy Stuckey, author of Best Practices for Legal Education (2007), in The Law Teacher

Reppy Jr., William A. and Cynthia A. Samuel. Community Property in the United States: Seventh Edition. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $70.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-596-3.

This is the only casebook presenting the law — both statutes and cases — of all nine community property states. Pertinent parts of most key statutes are quoted in full. Students interested primarily in the law of one of the community property states will understand the law of that state better due to their exposure to the laws of other states that take different approaches to resolving various issues. This comparative approach leads readers to appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of the rules in their states. Each chapter of the casebook concludes with several fact-law problems to engage the reader, sometimes directed at specified jurisdictions, and usually containing citations to get the reader started on his or her analysis. In addition to basic community property law, the casebook thoroughly presents the several conflict of laws approaches to solving multi-state marital property problems as well as the law concerning putative marriage and property rights arising out of unmarried cohabitation. The book also highlights special rules of federal income tax law for community property.

Blair, D. Marianne, Merle H. Weiner, Barbara Stark, and Solangel Madonado. Family Law in the World Community: Cases, Materials, and Problems in Comparative and International Family Law: Second Edition. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $90.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-560-4.

The second edition of this casebook has been updated and trimmed, although it retains a wide range of topics and materials. It covers a variety of private international law issues, including child abduction, child custody, adoption, child support enforcement, and recognition of marriages and divorces. The book also explores the impact of public international law on both domestic and international regulation of the family, using topics such as family violence and the rights of the child. Finally, the book uses comparative law materials to examine traditional family law topics, such as the regulation of marriage, the rights of same-sex couples, adoption, reproductive freedom, and more.

Leonard, Arthur S. and Patricia A. Cain. Sexuality Law: Second Edition. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $95.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-600-7.

During the past fifty years, legal issues arising from the sexual diversity of our society have moved front and center in many fields, including constitutional law, domestic relations, employment law, and civil rights law. This book provides the basis for a survey course about how lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgendered persons, and others whose sexual expression differs from the majoritarian norm confront the law, and how the law responds to them. Although the focus is on United States law, references are made at appropriate points to legal developments in other countries. The book also provides textual background for students who have not completed a basic course in constitutional law, making it usable for an elective course in any part of the law school curriculum.

The first edition of this casebook, published shortly after the Lawrence and Goodridge cases had begun a revolution in American law relating to sexual minorities, is now revised and expanded to incorporate the important developments flowing from those decisions and bring the story up to date for the second decade of the 21st century.

Epps, Valerie. International Law: Fourth Edition. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $50.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-551-2.

The fourth edition of this widely used text book combines narratives sections that explain the basic law with cases, questions, and problems that allow students to read actual legal materials and apply them to other similar or distinguishable situations.

These materials do not assume that undergraduates are less able than graduate students to grasp difficult issues, nor do they assume that undergraduates cannot deal with a variety of complex instruments that bear on a particular problem. Rather, Epps focuses on the central problems of international law, assuming no prior legal knowledge except that gained by living in a society organized under a legal system, and encourages students to work through a number of questions and and problems that are presented in a variety of international contexts. The book’s coverage is comprehensive including recent materials on sources, treaties, jurisdiction, extradition, the law of the sea, the environment, international entities, human rights, international courts, terrorism and war.

Bix, Brian. Jurisprudence: Theory and Context, Fifth Edition. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $35.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-698-4.

Jurisprudence is aimed at students new to the study of legal philosophy, also offering new ideas and perspectives that will be of interest to established scholars. Bix seeks to explain the often complex and difficult ideas in Jurisprudence clearly, but in a way that avoids distortion of the ideas through over-simplification. As well as introducing the reader to the fundamental themes in legal philosophy, it also describes and comments critically on the writing of the foremost legal theorists.

The fifth edition has been revised and updated, taking into account the most recent scholarly work and elaborating on many of the key ideas and arguments.

“For clarity, fair-mindedness, and engaging treatment of the diverse strands of contemporary legal theory, there is no better guide. . . . This book covers more ground with good sense than many other works do with many more pages.” Martha Minow, Harvard Law School, on a previous edition “For an overview of jurisprudence that is insightful as well as clear, critical but also generous in its assessments, one can’t do better than this book.” Robert W. Gordon, Yale Law School, on a previous edition

Calnan, Alan. Duty and Integrity in Tort Law. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $40.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-669-4.

Duty and Integrity in Tort Law is a comprehensive, versatile and revolutionary examination of the tort concept of duty. After tracing the historical evolution of tort law, Duty and Integrity analyzes the current approaches to tort duties, including the new approach offered by the authoritive Restatement (Third) of Torts. Unlike these approaches, which tend to focus exclusively on negligence duties, Duty and Integrity examines the role of duty in all three of tort law’s theories of liability—intentional torts, strict liability and negligence—exposing the similarities and differences of these duties and suggesting grounds for their integration.

Aside from its critical commentary, Duty and Integrity contains many important philosophical and pragmatic insights. It reveals the moral and political foundations of tort law and duty by offering accessible explorations of corrective justice, distributive justice, and liberalism. Because liberal justice requires coherence in law, Ronald Dworkin’s acclaimed theory of “law as integrity” both frames and instructs the discussion. After explaining, critiquing, and endorsing a modified version of Dworkin’s approach, the book presents a groundbreaking methodology called “duty as integrity” for resolving any tort duty question. To demonstrate the practicality of this approach, Duty and Integrity concludes by thoroughly applying the proposed methodology to a recent and controversial decision of an influential state supreme court.

Given its broad intellectual scope, Duty and Integrity in Tort Law should appeal to legal and nonlegal academics and their students, as well as members of the legal community at large. Its transparent style makes it suitable both for advanced undergraduate or graduate classes on law, philosophy or polilitical science and for law school courses on torts, advanced torts, tort theory, jurisprudence, law and politics, law and policy, legal history, and many more.

Seigel, Michael L. and James L. Kelley. Lawyers Crossing Lines: Ten Stories, Second Edition. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $27.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-684-7.

Lawyers Crossing Lines is a collection of true stories about lawyers from all segments of the legal profession who transgressed ethical boundaries. Most of them ended up being sanctioned by their state Bar, sued for malpractice, prosecuted, or some combination of all three. All of the cases are rich in detail, many are bizarre, and in a few the attorney’s conduct is so outrageous as to stretch the reader’s credulity. Each tale is followed by comments and questions designed to explore the issues in greater depth.

This diminutive but captivating volume is intended as a supplemental text for students in professional responsibility courses at American law schools. It can also be used as the foundation for an advanced seminar in ethics. It is based on the proposition that, although the rules of professional responsibility are, of course, of supreme importance, sometimes the study of them can be monotonous and dry. More important, students—none of whom have been in law practice and most of whom have never been out in the working world—often find it hard to believe that the rules can be so easily and egregiously broken. These real world scenarios bring the ethical quandaries faced in everyday legal practice to life.

The stories come from all segments of the legal profession and make fascinating and memorable reading. No other book on the market takes this narrative approach, making this an important and unique contribution to the field. A teacher’s manual is available.

“This book is a perfect supplement to the study of professional responsibility and should not be limited to use by students. Practitioners would be wise to read these stories and remind themselves of what could happen if they are not careful.” Legal Information ALERT, from the first edition

“I believe this book would appeal to a wide audience: students, with and without a law background, practicing attorneys and anyone with an interest in ethical-legal issues. Kelley does an excellent job . . . Each story is a thought provoking narrative, guaranteed to entertain and educate.” Bimonthly Review of Law Books, from the first edition

Bix, Brian. Jurisprudence: Theory and Context, Fifth Edition. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $35.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-698-4.

The fifth edition has been revised and updated, taking into account the most recent scholarly work and elaborating on many of the key ideas and arguments.

Versteeg, Russ. The Essentials of Greek and Roman Law. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $40.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-556-7.

Countless books detail the development of Roman law and explain the laws of the ancient Romans. Similarly, many scholars have traced the law of ancient Athens. Written for both students and educated lay readers, the chapters dealing with ancient Greece focus primarily on the law of ancient Athens in the 5^th and 4^th centuries B.C.E. But material relating to other Greek colonies and city states also plays a significant role in the development of ancient Greek law. The Roman law chapters explore both law and legal institutions and emphasize the growth and expansion of legal principles. Roman law still serves as the foundation for the civil laws of many nations today. And given the importance of globalization, Roman law is likely to continue to influence the modern word for the foreseeable future.

Each unit begins with a “Background & Beginnings” chapter that establishes the historical context in which law developed and introduces relevant principles of jurisprudence (i.e., legal philosophy). The second chapter in each unit covers procedural aspects of the law, such as court structure, judges, trial procedure, evidence, and legislation. The remaining chapters examine substantive legal topics such as property, contracts, family law, criminal law, and the like. The text also maintains a focus on the connections and influences of social, cultural, economic, philosophical, and political forces as they have affected law and its development.

In addition, several sections of the book add another dimension. These sections, entitled “Law in Literature,” use works of ancient literature to explore aspects of law as seen through the eyes of poets, dramatists, orators, and historians. In theory, modern readers can learn a great deal about law through literature because literature often lacks the “official filter” of many traditional legal sources. Of course each individual author brings his own biases about law and the legal system to his writing. But as long as we acknowledge the potential for such bias, these sections have the potential to offer completely different perspectives and insights.

Port, Kenneth L. Transcending Law: The Unintended Life of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $30.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-749-3.

Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution has engendered scholarship in Japanese and English as well as in other languages. It turns out that there are two versions of Article 9: the English version that purports to prevent Japan from rearming and insists on Japanese pacifism, and the Japanese version that is less absolute and imprecise. Japan has the fourth largest military in the world by dollars spent. This is called the “great contradiction.” For the first time, Professor Port resolves this recurrent debate by explaining that there are simply two versions of Article 9.

Many parties, entities, and even individuals have joined this debate to give their interpretation, and there are at least two diametrically opposed interpretations. On the one hand, the long-time ruling Liberal Democratic Party interprets Article 9 very narrowly to say that Japan can do anything it wants as long as it is for the defense of the Japanese people. On the other hand, the Communist Party of Japan and many private people argue that Article 9 mandates complete Japanese pacifism and Japan should not possess a military for any purpose whatsoever.

In Transcending Law, Professor Port points out that the only entity that has remained on the sidelines during this 60 year debate has been the Supreme Court of Japan, although it is the one body that has the authority to interpret the Constitution. Thoroughly and objectively, Port explains all viewpoints of this complicated topic. As Japan moves toward revising its Constitution, Port argues it is now time for the Supreme Court to be heard.

“Port argues that Japanese traditions and politics, have combined with foreign pressures to produce a war machine despite the constitutional commitment to 'forever renounce war.' It is compelling reading for a war plagued world.” Howard Anawalt, Professor Emeritus, Santa Clara University Law School

Hegland, Kenney F. and Robert B. Fleming. New Times, New Challenges: Law and Advice for Savvy Seniors and Their Families. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $27.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-737-0.

Students taking Elder Law or Health Law might find this book helpful to get a quick introduction to topics you don't cover in your course or as a second opinion for those you do. As a savvy law professor, even if you don't teach those courses, particularily if you don't teach those courses, you get tough questions from friends and relatives — “Should I have a living trust? What's a health care power of attorney? What's a disgruntled heir?” Here's help for dire times.

Written by a law professor with the practical insights of an elder law lawyer, it covers everything from retirement (finances, housing, Medicare) to advance directives, elder abuse to nursing homes, scams, bill collectors, age discrimination, to disability in the family and hospice. It even covers sex, driving, and what it feels like growing old, having everyone start calling you “dear” and giving you, without even asking, those dreaded discounts.

This book is a rewrite of Alive and Kicking: Legal Advice for Boomers by Kenney F. Hegland and Robert B. Fleming.

“...An engaging, even entertaining and uplifting, book about a subject most of us who are getting on in life often avoid: arranging our affairs for our latter years to avoid medical, financial, and legal troubles. I will use it myself and recommend it to patients, friends, and loved ones.” Andrew Weil, M.D., author of Healthy Aging

“An encyclopedic legal reference with the down-home philosophy and wit of a Will Rogers. Astoundingly exhaustive in its range of subjects, the book provides accurate, to-the-point legal advice wryly enriched by poetry, humor, and existential musings.” Charles Sabatino, principal author of American Bar Association’s Legal Guide for Older Americans “Kenney Hegland is simply one of the best writers on any law faculty.” Thomas E. Sullivan, Dean, College of Law, University of Minnesota “[This book] isn't afraid to crack a joke or bust our a poem now and again, giving a different and attractive flavor, making it highly recommended for anyone who is rapidly approaching retirement age and wants to be prepared for it in the modern world. Also recommended to community library law shelves.” Wisconsin Bookwatch

Weaver, Russell L., Edward C. Martin, Andrew R. Klein, Paul J. Swier, II, Ronald W. Eades, and John H. Bauman. Mastering Tort Law. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $35.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-569-7.

Noyes, Dianna L. and Terri L. Lindfors. Legal Research Scavenger Hunt Workbook: North Central Region. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $30.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-747-9.

This new regional workbook series provides practical assignments on both the federal and state levels to complement most research books on the market. Each workbook begins with a federal section with exercises that give students practice researching cases, statutes, regulations, and procedures. The second part of each workbook will feature state-specific exercises for that region. For example, the North Central Region includes state-specific exercises for Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. State exercises include those on statutes, codes, regulations, court rules, and case law for each state.

The regional divisions correspond with the states represented by AAfPE regions –– North Central, Pacific, South Central, Northeast and Southeast.

Before beginning the assignments, the students will need to review the research text they are currently using or have previously used in the basic research course.

Chapters One through Ten contain exercises from the many different types of legal resources with which students must be familiar to work in the legal environment. The chapters contain one or more assignments regarding various research topics and resources so that the instructor can tailor the course to the primary text, style, format, and/or the course syllabus. Most of these exercises require the student to utilize the library to locate the resources required to answer the questions in each section. This workbook is written so that the student will have more “hands-on” time with the written legal works. The instructor will provide the student with specifics as to which assignments may be completed using proprietary legal search engines and which must be done by visiting the law library.

Chapters Six and Ten provide the student with specific exercises for various types of on-line research, both free and proprietary.

Chapter Eleven contains legal memoranda assignments. The students will prepare one or more, at the direction of the instructor. These assignments require the use of the knowledge and skills students have acquired by completing the exercises in the previous chapters as well as the primary textbook used in the course. The scenarios provided in the chapter all based on different types of law. The student will need to research the numerous issues in each scenario and then must write a memorandum to the attorney (instructor). The Memorandum must contain citations for the case law, statutes, rules, and/or regulations that the student has located regarding the various legal issues and topics. The instructor should inform the students whether they are to use the IRAC or some other method of preparing the Memorandum.

The citations provided are consistent with the Bluebook style. The instructor will advise the student of which citation style manual should be used for this workbook so that it is consistent with the requirements of the school, local court rule, and/or the primary textbook used by the student.

The assignments and exercises in this workbook are meant to hone the students’ research skills and assist them in becoming more familiar with the numerous legal resources, and how to use them more efficiently and effectively.

Bussani, Mauro and Franz Werro. European Private Law: A Handbook, Volume I. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $90.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-555-0.

This handbook provides reliable information on private law in an increasingly integrated Europe. It contains a collection of specially commissioned essays, including contributions on: corporation law, trust, law of sales, competition law, products liability, personal injuries law, limitation periods, the harmonization of European private law, and more. The essays are designed not only to offer a comprehensive overview of the different topics, but also to display and provoke lively and controversial debate.

The handbook addresses some issues that appear to be both growing in momentum and largely overlooked by contemporary literature, namely a) the need to examine current and possible future developments in European private law institutions and issues affecting the legal lives of private, business, and public actors; b) the opportunity to fill a gap in the comparative literature through a concise reference book, which offers quick and easy access to the most relevant legal issues; and c) the cultural debate as to what European private law is and could be, rather than what it ought to be. It follows that the handbook is not meant to simply describe substantive law, but instead to "compare" private law institutions and cultures.

Epps, Valerie. International Law: Fourth Edition. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $50.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-551-2.

Tour-Sarkissian, Paul and Tania Tour-Sarkissian. The Essential Guide to California Restaurant Law. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $65.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-659-5.

A complex legal infrastructure underlies the huge volume of restaurant sales in California, estimated at $54.2 billion in 2007 alone. Successful operation of a California restaurant involves local, state and federal laws, including contract law, tort law, health and safety laws, labor laws and environmental laws, to name just a few.

This is the very first book to target California restaurant law exclusively, and is designed to provide a general understanding of the wide variety of pertinent laws to attorneys representing restaurant owners and operators. The Essential Guide to California Restaurant Law is a new and invaluable tool for attorneys representing the restaurant industry, providing guidance as to compliance with applicable laws, identification of legal issues, and limitation of liability.

Hynes, Jessica G. Connecticut Legal Research. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $25.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-400-3.

Connecticut Legal Research was written for legal researchers at various levels, including first-year law students, paralegals, and Connecticut practitioners. For those just learning the basics of legal research, the book explains basic research skills and strategies and introduces Connecticut sources both in print and online. It also explains how to research analogous federal materials and the law of other states, allowing a student to use the book as the sole text in a legal research course. More experienced researchers will also benefit from having a text that brings together all of the print and online sources in Connecticut, and provides a step-by-step manual for researching each Connecticut source both in print and online. Researchers can use the book to find specific websites that contain Connecticut legal materials and follow the steps outlined to access those materials.

This book begins with an introduction to the research process and a discussion of the relationship between legal research and legal analysis. Chapter one introduces the reader to the state and federal court systems, and outlines the basic process used for researching the law, and chapter two discusses research strategies and organization. The book then turns to secondary sources, recognizing that these sources are often the starting point for researching a new legal question, and provide a way for researchers to gain important background information on an unfamiliar legal topic as well as find references to key primary sources. Next, Connecticut Legal Research discusses primary authority, with chapters devoted to constitutions, statutes, case law, and administrative law. Also included in this portion of the book is a chapter devoted to researching the legislative history of a statute, and a chapter on updating case law using citators. An appendix discusses legal citation, with sections on both of the national citation manuals, the ALWD Citation Manual and the Bluebook. A second appendix provides a brief bibliography of sources for legal research and analysis.

Connecticut Legal Research integrates the discussions of print-based and online legal research, recognizing that effective legal research often requires a combination of both formats. The goal of the book is to provide researchers with the tools needed to access each authority both in print and online, and to provide researchers with the background information needed to develop a research plan that integrates effectively all of the research formats available. The book also includes short excerpts from print and online sources.

Leonard, Arthur S. and Patricia A. Cain. Sexuality Law: Second Edition. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $95.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-600-7.

Schwartz, Michael Hunter and Denise Riebe. Contracts: A Context and Practice Casebook. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $85.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-640-3.

Contracts also includes a rolling graphic organizer that unfolds as students work through the text, as well as exercises designed to build students self-directed learning strategies.

The Teacher’s Manual includes PowerPoint slides keyed to the text and dozens of multiple choice and essay questions (with answers and explanations).

“I had a chance to look at your Contracts casebook and I loved it! I will be using it next time I teach Contracts. Not only is it teaching/student oriented, I found it substantively to be very well thought out. KUDOS!” Roberto Corrada, University of Denver College of Law “I received this new casebook with great hope that it would be horrible so I wouldn't have to go through the ordeal of switching. Unfortunately, it is fantastic — everything I've been looking for. After having revolutionized how to most effectively teach law students, Schwartz has produced an amazing doctrinal resource that will change how Contracts is taught. I truly believe this casebook and the marvelous teaching materials that accompany it now set the standard by which new casebooks should be judged.” Bruce Price, University of San Francisco School of Law

Lipson, Ashley Saunders and Robert D. Brain. Computer and Video Game Law: Cases, Statutes, Forms, Problems & Materials. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $85.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-488-1.

Fun and games have become serious business as evidenced by the rapidly expanding, multi-billion dollar, global computer and video game industry. The relatively new entertainment medium has been growing exponentially and so, too, have its legal difficulties. This new casebook, with its problems and exercises, deals with all aspects of this fascinating phenomenon, including: Product History and Development, Intellectual Property, Commercial Exploitation, and Regulation. The cases guide the reader down a colorful path of disputes involving such familiar hardware names and game titles as: Magnavox, Gameboy, Nintendo, Playstation, Pong, Pacman, Space Invaders, Tetris, Tomb Raiders, Frogger, Galaxian, Asteroids, Donkey Kong, Pete Rose Baseball, and Doom. The casebook is suitable as a primary text for both classes and seminars.

“What this book is and what this book isn’t both matter. Computer and Video Game Law is not a collection of regurgitation in which authors explain the minutia of a few big cases to people with a cursory interest. It is a compendium of cases, and an excellent compendium at that. It has big cases with big names like Nintendo and Sony battling over trademarks and copyrights. It has small cases such as the one in which a martial artist sued over the use of his image in a bestselling game. I wish this book had existed when I wrote my book on the history of video games. I spent hundreds of dollars doing the research for my chapter on video game trials and acquired not even a third of the case material contained in this book.” Steven L. Kent, Game Historian, Author of The Ultimate History of Video Games

Blair, D. Marianne, Marle H. Weiner, Barbara Stark and Solangel Maldonado. Family Law in the World Community: Cases, Materials, and Problems in Comparative and International Family Law, Second Edition. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $90.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-560-4.

Kaufman, Andrew L, and David B. Wilkins. Problems in Professional Responsibility for a Changing Profession: Fifth Edition. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $90.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-593-2.

Burke, Barlow and Robert Beck. The Law and Regulation of Mining: Minerals to Energy. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $85.00 ISBN:978-1-59460670-0.

This casebook explores the law of hard minerals, as opposed to oil and gas law. It presents the law dealing with mineral estates, mining easements, mineral leases, and mining operations on private land, with particular reference to state and federal regulatory schemes inherent in the federal Surface Mining Control and Regulation Act of 1977 (SMCRA), as amended. From the mine, the book follows the stream of commerce for coal to the electric utility plant, exploring its transportation and the energy and environmental law regulatory schemes applicable at many points along the way, with particular reference to utility rate regulation and the Clean Air Act amendments from the 1970s forward.

Reppy Jr., William A. and Cynthia A. Samuel. Community Property in the United States: Seventh Edition. Carolina Academic Press, 2009. $70.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-596-3.

Dillion, Sara. International Children's Rights. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $100.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-115-6.

This book provides an exciting and comprehensive look at the main themes — legal and political — affecting international children’s rights today. Designed for use in undergraduate, graduate, and law school settings, it is divided into seven major topics: the role of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, child labor, children in the global sex industry, children without parental care, children and punishment, children and armed conflict, and, finally, children’s rights as interpreted and applied in regional human rights systems.

Sara Dillon has brought together a wide variety of writings so that students will understand the underlying controversies relating to each unit. These include academic articles, United Nations reports, evidence provided by non-governmental organizations, and material from many other sources. Introductory sections and notes and questions frame the readings, and facilitate use of the book as a teaching tool.

Clark, Jessica L. and Kristen E. Murray. Scholarly Writing. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $25.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-663-2.

Most law schools now require upper-level students to write a sophisticated legal research paper on a topic of their choice. Scholarly Writing: Ideas, Examples, and Execution guides students through the process of constructing their legal research papers, from topic selection to finishing the final product. The book walks students through a five-step process for researching and writing scholarly papers and follows three published student papers from idea to final execution as a method of illustrating the principles advocated in the text.

The book includes up-to-date information about legal research and organizational tools. It also includes “bright ideas” that supplement the text with ideas and examples for student writers.

The text may be used as either a required text for a course in Scholarly Legal Writing or a companion guide for students working on scholarly legal writing projects independently.

Anderson, William R. Mastering Administrative Law. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $28.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-582-6.

Mastering Administrative Law is designed as a supplement to law school courses in Administrative Law or as an introduction to the subject for lawyers trained in other legal systems. The book explicitly and in plain language identifies the functions of the various principles of administrative law. It covers all the basic administrative law topics, including how the administrative process fits into our governmental structure, typical agency procedures (e.g., rulemaking, adjudication, investigation, etc.), important statutes affecting agencies (e.g., the freedom of information act), constitutional limits on legislatures and agencies and the limited but critical role of the courts in helping monitor the process.

A number of classroom-tested graphics—charts, tables, diagrams—supplemented this text by identifying essential doctrinal components and illustrating important doctrinal relationships.

Kozak, Barry. Employee Benefit Plans. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $55.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-639-7.

Employee Benefit Plans helps students understand what tax-advantaged benefits can be promised and delivered to employees through an employer plan, the statutory and regulatory provisions that must be followed by the employer, the manner and extent to which the federal agencies regulate the delivery of employee benefits, how employees perceive and appreciate these voluntary benefits, and the various public policy issues that permeate every aspect of employee benefits.

Each chapter is divided into two segments: an overview and an analysis of the regulatory framework. Each overview is limited to a few pages, and should be read even if the rest of the chapter is omitted from the course syllabus. The heart of each chapter lies with the regulatory framework segment, but is written in plain English so that even non-attorneys can appreciate how the statutes, regulations, court decisions, and public policy considerations shape the employer’s ability to promise and deliver employee benefits through a plan.

The book begins with a section on preliminary concerns, such as the benefits that can be promised to employees, a review of basic income tax concepts, and a review of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. The second section of the book explores all aspects of tax qualified retirement plans, such as the qualification rules, a differentiation of defined benefit and defined contribution plans, how the employer funds and invests plan assets, the vesting and accrual of plan benefits, the limitation on abuses in favor of higher paid employees, how participants and beneficiaries receive their promised benefits, and the regulatory role of the Internal Revenue Service. The third section outlines the labor aspects and employee protections for plans covered under ERISA, including which plans are actually covered by ERISA, the requirements for a written plan document, the fiduciary rules for the management and investment of plan assets, civil causes of action, reporting and disclosure requirements, plan terminations and the regulatory role of the Department of Labor. The fourth section of the book highlights the basics of executive compensation and health and welfare benefit plans, and also summarizes the Social Security system and Individual Retirement Accounts. The final section of the book addresses some of the ethical issues faced in employee benefits practice, includes several essays specifically written for this text book discussing careers and roles as an employee benefits professional, and concludes with a discussion of public policy issues facing an aging population.

Childs, Scott. North Carolina Legal Research. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $25.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-617-5.

North Carolina Legal Research is devoted to explaining the process of legal research for people searching for the law in North Carolina. The book uniquely incorporates North Carolina sources of law and related strategies into a logical legal research process. After initial discussions of legal research and analysis, and the research process, the book’s chapters generally follow a basic research process including North Carolina administrative law, case law, statutory law and secondary sources. Additionally, methods of finding North Carolina legislative history, court rules, and rules of ethics are included in the text. While the book is substantially focused on the process of legal research incorporating North Carolina legal information sources, some discussion of federal legal information sources is included for instances when federal information would be relevant for research in North Carolina.

North Carolina Legal Research is designed for teaching legal research to students in law school, either in the first year or in an upper level research course; however, practitioners, paralegals, librarians, college students and even laypeople might find it helpful. The book includes descriptions of a wide range of legal information sources including free, government internet websites, lower cost websites, as well as premium online services and books.

North Carolina Legal Research is part of the Carolina Academic Press Legal Research Series.

Henning, Peter J., Andrew Tasilitz, Margaret L. Paris, Cynthia E. Jones, and Ellen S. Podgor. Mastering Criminal Procedure: Volume 1, The Investigative Stage. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $32.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-350-1.

Mastering Criminal Procedure: The Investigative Stage provides a concise treatment of the relevant federal constitutional doctrines that guide and constrain interactions between the police and individuals in the investigation of criminal conduct. The book provides an overview of the criminal process and the constitutional sources of the criminal procedure rules, including different approaches to constitutional interpretation.

The focus is on the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments as they relate to the warrant requirement for searches, exceptions that allow warrantless searches, the seizure of evidence and individuals, and the interrogation of suspects. The book covers the primary topics that arise in the typical law school criminal procedure course, including when the warrant requirement applies, the process for obtaining a valid warrant, the operation of the exclusionary rule, the range of exceptions to the warrant requirement, and arrests and other seizures of individuals and resultant searches of the person.

Brashier, Ralph C. Mastering Elder Law. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $35.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-448-5.

Mastering Elder Law explains basic topics of concern in the burgeoning field of elder law. The book examines public benefits available to the elderly, retirement systems, age discrimination in employment, wealth transfers, medical decision making (including the “right to die”), guardianships and conservatorships, durable powers of attorney, long-term care insurance, housing for the elderly, nursing homes, and elder abuse. The book also explores overarching themes of elder law, such as the tension that results when the state is obligated to protect its vulnerable elderly citizens while simultaneously obligated to promote their autonomy to the maximum extent consistent with their abilities. The text is designed to facilitate the novice’s understanding of complex topics such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. It discusses relevant statutes and cases, includes many examples, and provides practical observations about the laws that address the problems of the elderly.

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Welkowitz, David S. and Tyler T. Ochoa. Celebrity Rights: Rights of Publicity and Related Rights in the United States and Abroad. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $70.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-657-1.

This casebook deals with a burgeoning field of intellectual property law: the rights of individuals to control the use of their names, likenesses, and personas. This book allows for an in-depth course in Rights of Publicity, with far more extensive coverage than can be achieved within the confines of traditional courses, such as Trademarks or Copyright. In addition, unique among materials in this area, this book includes comparative materials from around the globe, enabling students and teachers to compare the similarities and differences in approaches to this issue among a variety of jurisdictions and courts (including such institutions as the European Court of Human Rights). The book covers a wide range of topics relevant to the subject, including common-law rights, rights under state and federal statutes, inheritability, domain name disputes, choice of law, preemption, remedies, and, of course, extensive coverage of free speech and free expression issues, both in the United States and abroad. The book is also structured to allow great flexibility in coverage—each chapter covers a manageable topic in the subject, and the comparative materials are in stand-alone sections within each chapter. The authors of this casebook have set forth a lengthy rationale for a course in Rights of Publicity in an article—Teaching Rights of Publicity, 52 St. Louis Univ. L.J. 905 (2008).

Mooney, Mara A. Fundamentals of Georgia Real Estate Law. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $48.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-688-5.

Fundamentals of Georgia Real Estate Law presents real estate terms and concepts in a manner that keeps students engaged in studying the material. A thorough discussion of legal principles is bolstered by practical applications and references to cases and statutes. Since real estate is governed primarily by state and local law, many instructors are forced to supplement their generic real estate textbooks with Georgia law and Georgia-specific handouts. This textbook does the job for you.

Halpern, Sheldon W. Copyright Law: Protection of Original Expression, Second Edition. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $85.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-787-5.

Copyright Law is unique among copyright casebooks in that it is tightly and coherently structured, intelligently distilled, and clearly contextualized. Halpern’s casebook explores the complex and sometimes counterintuitive issues surrounding protection of intellectual creativity under US copyright law by ensuring that both student and professor always maintain an understanding of how doctrinal elements relate to the whole. Thus, the book is perfect for those students who have struggled with dense notes and opaque explanations, professors who have labored through cumbersome and poorly ordered text, and for new teachers who need a concise and clear pedagogic template complete with both substantive doctrine and highly instructive cases. Simply put, Copyright Law is a refreshing primer on the title topic, and a welcome alternative to less coherent texts.

The second edition expands upon the first and brings the material up-to-date while retaining its eminently teachable structure.

Finkmoore, Richard J. Environmental Law and the Values of Nature. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $100.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-259-6.

This casebook provides students in the introductory environmental law course with the broad understanding necessary to practice in the field and a firm foundation for subsequent course work in specialized environmental subjects. In addition to covering many standard topics such as NEPA and the Clean Water Act, this book emphasizes natural resources law, including water allocation, species conservation, and federal public land management. Unlike many casebooks, it also examines energy issues, climate change, sustainable development, and the environmental movement.

This distinctive book uses the historical development of environmental and natural resources law as a helpful context within which to understand the modern law in these fields. It also incorporates eight engaging case studies of the application of environmental law in the real world. The volume includes significant excerpts from the major environmental statutes so that it is not necessary to assign a statutory supplement. Thought-provoking readings from, for example, Lewis and Clark, Marsh, Muir, Udall, Wilkinson, Sax, Lazarus, Rodgers, Shabecoff, Hays, E.O. Wilson, Leopold, Reisner, and Speth, enhance student insight. One theme of the casebook — which promotes enthusiastic class discussion — is that the environment possesses a wide range of values, or characteristics of worth, and that an appreciation of these values illuminates the objectives, strengths, and limitations of contemporary law.

Joo, Thomas W. Corporate Governance: Law, Theory and Policy- Second Edition. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $65.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-739-4.

This anthology of recent scholarship on corporate governance has been extensively revised and updated. It explores the application of legal doctrine and theory to topical policy issues such as corporate social responsibility, executive compensation, corporate criminality, federalism, and ethical rules for corporate lawyers. It contains materials on recent developments, including the 2008 financial collapse. The book puts into current context long-running debates on fundamental corporate law issues, such as shareholders' ownership of the corporation, director independence, and management's focus on maximizing share price. The new edition contains a new chapter on creditors and bankruptcy.

The book is organized around policy issues rather than the doctrinal areas of the basic law school course. It presents diverse views on each issue through various approaches to analyzing corporate law and incorporating doctrine, law and economics, empirical work; history; and organizational behavior. The book is designed for use as the primary text in a course or seminar in corporate governance, but could also serve as supplemental reading in the basic law school corporations course. It includes questions for classroom discussion or self-directed study. The edited selections are generally longer than in a standard law anthology in order to provide a deeper treatment of the issues.

Palfrey, John, Danah Boyd, and Dena Sacco (eds.) Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies: Final Report of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force to the Multi- State Working Group on Social Netowrking of State Attorneys General of the United States. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $40.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-776-9.

Many youth in the United States have fully integrated the Internet into their daily lives. For them, the Internet is a positive and powerful space for socializing, learning, and engaging in public life. Along with the positive aspects of Internet use come risks to safety, including the dangers of sexual solicitation, online harassment, and bullying, and exposure to problematic and illegal content. The Attorneys General Multi-State Working Group on Social Networking asked this Task Force to determine the extent to which today’s technologies could help to address these online safety risks, with a primary focus on social network sites in the United States.

To answer this question, the Task Force brought together leaders from Internet service providers, social network sites, academia, education, child safety and public policy advocacy organizations, and technology development. The Task Force consulted extensively with leading researchers in the field of youth online safety and with technology experts, and sought input from the public. The Task Force has produced three primary documents: (1) a Literature Review of relevant research in the field of youth online safety in the United States, which documents what is known and what remains to be studied about the issue; (2) a report from its Technology Advisory Board, reviewing the 40 technologies submitted to the Task Force; and (3) this Final Report, which summarizes the Task Force’s work together, analyzes the previous documents as well as submissions by eight leading social network sites regarding their efforts to enhance safety for minors, and provides a series of recommendations for how to approach this issue going forward.

Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies contains the Task Force’s Final Report and appendices of the Literature Review and the Technology Advisory Board report.

Fines, Barbara Gesner. Ethical Issues in Family Representation. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $35.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-517-8.

Attorneys representing families and children face ethical dilemmas that are largely unaddressed by the rules of professional conduct. Where rules do address ethical issues in this context, they tend to appear as exceptions to the general rule. From the business aspects of crafting fee agreements for divorcing couples to the heart wrenching counseling dilemmas when an attorney faces family violence issues, the rules of conduct recognize that representing families and children is different than representation in many other areas. Family law attorneys serve in a variety of roles that have unique ethical demand: whether acting as a mediator, collaborator or guardian ad litem, attorneys must craft a set of standards for themselves out of a patchwork of ethics opinions, voluntary guidelines and occasional court decisions or rules.

In Ethical Issues in Family Representation, Professor Barbara Glesner Fines provides an important resource to fill the regulatory gaps and resolve the ethical dilemmas. Through a combination of problems, readings, and primary source materials, the text examines the most common dilemmas of family law practice. The text is divided into seven topic areas:

• Practicing Family Law — Good Ethics is Good Business (fees, unbundling & working with other paralegals)

• Clients and Conflicts (identifying the client, resolving common conflicts issues)

• Special Issues in the Representation of Children (Resolving ambiguities in models of representation)

• Dispute Resolution — Advocacy (litigation ethics, the special problem of the pro se litigant)

An appendix contains specialized standards of practice for the field. The text is an excellent resource for family law teachers to use in their courses and clinics and for the development of specialized courses in this field. For the family law attorney, the text will make an excellent deskbook resource for answering common dilemmas.

Kim, Jasper. Korean Business Law: The Legal Landscape and Beyond. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $48.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-621-2.

Drawing from experts in legal practice, academia, and the judiciary, Korean Business Law: The Legal Landscape and Beyond provides clear and concise explanations of what the law means relating to South Korea’s often complex and changing business law environment. This book is written for a diverse global audience, from lawyers to business leaders, from professors to students, both inside and outside of Korea.

Some of the many topics include: corporations, mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, the Korean judicial system, intellectual property, project finance, private equity funds, competition law, broadcasting/telecommunications, renewable energy law, corporate governance, legal risk management, labor law, real estate, trade law, and torts.

“Jasper Kim's new book is a welcome resource for practitioners, scholars, and anyone interested in Korean business law.” Susan Lawrence, Associate Director, Korea Institute, Harvard University

“The contributors to this book have done enormous service by laying out the differences and similarities for an international audience.” Evan Ramstad, Staff Reporter, Wall Street Journal

“Kudos to Jasper Kim for bringing such a diverse group of scholars and practitioners together in one convenient and very readable book.” Benjamin Hughes, Attorney, Shearman & Sterling, Singapore

“A welcomed publication that could not have come at a better moment during this time of change, challenges, and renewed growth for Korea.” Samuel S. Nam, Chief Administrative Officer, J.P. Morgan, Korea

Wagman, Bruce A., Sonia S. Waisman, and Pamela D. Frasch. Animal Law: Cases and Materials, Fourth Edition. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $80.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-627-4.

The fourth edition of the premier book on animal law covers a rapidly developing field that is exponentially increasing its presence in both the public eye and on the list of desired classes for law students. In the past fifteen years, the number of animal law classes in American law schools has gone from less than ten to more than one hundred, and this casebook has been used as a model for courses internationally.

Animal law is, in its simplest (and broadest) sense, a combination of statutory and decisional law in which the nature — legal, social, or biological — of non-human animals is an important factor. This new edition of Animal Law: Cases and Materials contains significant reorganization and updating while continuing to present a cohesive format that touches on many areas in which animals affect legal doctrines, caselaw, and legislative direction. Because animal law is not a traditional legal field, the book is largely framed according to traditional legal headings such as tort, contract, criminal, and constitutional law. Each chapter sets out cases and commentary where animal law is developing its own doctrine. In this fourth edition, the text has been updated and several chapters reorganized and revised to provide even greater clarity than in earlier editions. An important chapter on the commercial use of animals, introduced in the third edition, has been updated with more recent cases and statutory developments covering the significant areas of agriculture and biomedical research.

“As the field of animal law has grown by leaps and bounds, each edition of Animal Law has incorporated path breaking legal developments in all areas of animal law. Animal Law engages students and teachers alike through its thoughtful consideration of how the legal system operates with respect to many different kinds of animals, including companion animals and animals used in food production. The extensive teaching experience of the authors is evident in their selection of various types of legal materials, summaries of intellectual perspectives, and proposed discussion questions, which provide ample bases for interesting animal law classes in which different informed points of view can be considered.” — Taimie Bryant, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

Miller, John A. and Jeffrey A. Maine. The Fundamentals of Federal Taxation: Problems and Materials, Second Edition. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $75.00. ISBN: 978-1-59460-843-8.

The second edition of The Fundamentals of Federal Taxation is, like the first, a problem-based, transaction-oriented treatment of the basics of federal taxation. It features a balanced approach toward tax planning and tax policy and is structured for easy accessibility through the use of forty-one chapters, each of which can readily be covered in one, or occasionally two, class sessions.

The first half of the book provides students with an understanding of the overall structure of the federal income tax. This part culminates in two major review problems that assist students in integrating the knowledge gained. Thereafter, the book covers various major topics of taxation—including real estate taxation, intellectual property taxation, family taxation, tax consequences of litigation, and deferred compensation—with an emphasis on tax planning. It is designed to give students an appreciation for how the law of taxation connects with everyday events of American life. In this cogent, straightforward treatment of a complex subject, the topics, the selection of cases, and the design of the problems are all calculated to make tax fun and thought-provoking. A teacher’s manual with complete solutions to all the problems will be available.

Dunnewold, Mary L., Beth A. Honetschlager, and Brenda L. Tofte. Judicial Clerkships: A Practical Guide. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $33.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-641-0.

Judicial Clerkships: A Practical Guide is a comprehensive guide to working as a judicial clerk. The book explains (1) the role and duties of judicial clerks, (2) how to adapt the writing style used in law school classes and journals for use in the judicial clerkship setting, and (3) the form and content of specific documents written by judicial clerks. The book discusses how to write bench memoranda, opinion drafts, orders, findings of fact and conclusions of law, jury instructions, and letters and other professional correspondence. In addition to explaining how to write specific documents, the book reviews the fundamentals of good writing, research, and citation. It also features chapters on how to apply for clerkships, the different kinds of clerkships, and the ethical responsibilities of clerks. The document-specific chapters all include document review checklists and sample documents. The book is a great resource for law students taking a judicial internship or externship class, law school graduates considering judicial clerkships, and current judicial clerks.

Frost, Michael H. and Paul A. Bateman. Writing Deskbook for Administrative Judges: an Introduction. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $25.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-666-3

Writing Deskbook for Administrative Judges: An Introduction provides administrative judges (and their supervisors) with general guidelines for insuring that administrative decisions are of uniformly high quality and clarity. In explaining how to make decisions more readable, this book is unique in its focus on those parts of the decision that are most critical to the litigants and to reviewing courts.

Designed as a practical guide to the decision writing process, the deskbook provides advice, guidelines and checklists for busy administrative law judges. In a few short chapters, the book:

- Suggests organizational strategies for writing Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law

- Suggests techniques for improving the organization and clarity of the decision

Each chapter includes easy-to-follow illustrations and examples, most of which are taken from actual decisions.

Travis, Hannibal. Genocide in the Middle East: The Ottoman Empire, Iraq, and Sudan. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $70.00 ISBN:978-1-59460-436-2

Genocide in the Middle East describes the genocide of the Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; of the Kurds and other persons living under Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq in the late 1980s; and of the Dinka, Nuba, Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa peoples of Sudan from the 1970s to the present. It situates these crimes in their historical context, as outgrowths of intolerant religious traditions, imperialism and the rise of the nation-state, Cold War insurgencies and counterinsurgencies, and the global competition for resources and markets at the expense of indigenous peoples. This requires a more thorough investigation of the case law on genocide than has been attempted in the literature on genocide to date, including detailed accounts of the prosecutions of the leaders of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, of Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi officials after Operation Iraqi Freedom, and of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and other leaders of Sudan by the International Criminal Court. Finally, the book explores emerging problems of genocidal terrorism, cultural genocide, and structural genocide due to starvation, disease, and displacement.

The field of genocide studies has grown rapidly in recent years, fueled by interest in the Armenian genocide, the wars in the former Yugoslavia and Iraq, and the widespread massacres in southern Sudan and Darfur. While several comparative studies of the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and other genocides have been published, none of them focuses on genocide in the Middle East and North Africa since the nineteenth century. This book provides a comprehensive history of genocide in the broader Islamic world, with a particular focus on the twentieth century. It is of interest to general readers, undergraduates, graduate students, academics, journalists, and legal professionals, and will be useful as a text for courses on International Law, International Criminal Law, Law and Religion, Middle East Studies, International Relations, Public Policy, Criminal Justice, or World History.

Larson, Joni. Partnership Taxation: An Application Approach. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $60.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-511-6

Partnership Taxation: An Application Approach explains partnership taxation using an easy to follow, systematic approach replete with examples, definitions, formulas, and rules. In addition, it takes the students a step beyond a technical understanding of isolated rules by providing them the opportunity to understand how a group of concepts works when applied in a real-life setting; the students are challenged to connect technical understanding with providing advice to clients. Finally, it increases the students’ understanding of partnership tax by connecting partnership tax concepts to those the student should be familiar with from individual tax and partnership law. In doing so, it encourages the students to understand the role of partnership tax in this larger context.

Anderson, Jerry L. and Dennis D. Hirsch. Environmental Law Practice: Problems and Exercises for Skills Development. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $35.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-813-1

Adopted at dozens of law schools, this book is a valuable resource for imparting practical skills. Authors Anderson and Hirsch have drawn on their wide experience as environmental law professors and practitioners to develop realistic exercises that teach the craft of environmental lawyering. Readers will learn how to bring a federal enforcement action against a polluter; negotiate a Superfund settlement; prepare documents and strategy for a citizen’s suit; counsel a corporation on environmental compliance; navigate the issues that arise in government agency litigation (e.g. limits on discovery, standards of review); and comment on an EPA rule making, as well as many other relevant skills.

Updated and expanded, the third edition of Environmental Law Practice is comprehensive in scope. It contains problems and exercises under each of the major environmental statutes. In addition, it places readers in the three key roles played by environmental lawyers—government attorney, corporate counsel, and public interest advocate—and provides practice pointers for each of these types of work. The book makes extensive use of original documents such as statutes, the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), regulatory preambles, and agency guidance, exposing students to the materials that environmental lawyers use most.

This book covers the most significant areas of environmental practice: compliance, enforcement, litigation, and policy. It gives in-depth treatment of substantive environmental law areas such as the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, CERCLA, RCRA, EPCRA, and citizen suits. It incorporates current developments in environmental law, such as recent Supreme Court and circuit court cases. Of the many books on environmental law, Environmental Law Practice is one of the few to focus on environmental practice and not just the pure substantive doctrine.

Orland, Leonard. A Final Accounting: Holocaust Survivors and Swiss Banks. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $60.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-769-1

Between 1939 and 1945, the Nazis murdered six million Jews in the Holocaust and looted Jewish assets currently valued at between $230 billion and $320 billion. As Hitler’s power grew, many Jewish families and businesses took advantage of the promise of secrecy and protection and deposited their funds in Swiss banks. For over half of a century, these funds remained in Swiss banks, protected by a veil of Swiss banking secrecy, concealed by coordinated bank obfuscation. In 1996 and 1997, Holocaust survivors’ class actions lawsuits against leading Swiss banking institutions were assigned to Chief Judge Edward R. Korman, who has written an introduction to this volume.

In 2000, Judge Korman approved an historic settlement of $1.25 billion. Judge Korman’s opinions were affirmed on seven occasions by the Second Circuit. Judge Jose Cabranes, who has written a preface to the volume, was a member of each appellate panel. A Final Accounting introduces, organizes, explains, and evaluates this complex litigation, frames the case in a larger historical and jurisprudential context and examines the limits of court awards as an instrument to rectify horrific wrongs.

Thorpe, Suzanne. Minnesota Legal Research. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $25.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-585-7

This work is written to provide practical guidance to law students, legal assistants, librarians, attorneys, and others who are interested in researching Minnesota law. It describes important hard copy and online legal resources and explains when and how to use them. While Minnesota legal resources are the focus of the book, important federal legal resources and selected works that are useful for researching the law of any jurisdiction are also discussed.

After an introduction to the research process, the book continues with basic guidance for effectively finding and using hard copy and online resources. It then discusses secondary sources. The remaining chapters focus on specific primary legal sources for Minnesota. Each chapter starts by introducing the resources and then giving “how to” tips for finding specific legal information. Citation and updating methods are covered in each chapter. Appendix A provides a listing of the major Minnesota legal resources in use today. Appendix B offers a quick guide for finding Minnesota primary legal sources in hard copy and online resources.

This book is an excellent resource for established law practitioners, law librarians, and legal assistants who seek a quick refresher on specific research tools and techniques. It can also be used as a text for legal research instruction to law students, paralegal students, and library school students. The accompanying teacher’s manual provides suggestions for using the book in the classroom.

Blum, E. Joan. Massachusetts Legal Research. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $25.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-428-7

Massachusetts Legal Research is a concise guide to researching Massachusetts law and to the general process of legal research. Its intended audience includes law students as well as practitioners and paralegals. Extensive treatment of the research process—with Massachusetts and federal examples—makes this book suitable as a stand-alone text for an introductory legal research course. Chapters discussing how to locate and use specific Massachusetts sources make this book a useful quick reference guide for the Massachusetts lawyer or paralegal.

Massachusetts Legal Research begins with a detailed discussion of a research process that integrates online and print media. The book then addresses secondary sources, the entry point for most research projects. Subsequent chapters address researching primary authority—case law, statutes, administrative law, constitutions, and rules. The book includes a chapter on legislative process and history. Use of citators to update research is emphasized at appropriate points throughout the book. Chapters focusing on Massachusetts sources include brief discussions of cognate federal materials. Appendices address citation form and constructing searches in full-text databases.

Noreuil, Chad. The Arizona Bar Exam: Pass It Now. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $18.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-822-3

This book breaks down every aspect of the Arizona bar exam, including study strategies, approaches to writing effective essays, approaches to scoring well on the MBE, and more. Unlike other current books about passing the bar exam, this one is specific to the Arizona bar exam. Moreover, this book particularly addresses writing strategies and learning theory, both vital requirements for passing the bar exam. If you want to pass the Arizona Bar Examination, you should read this book.

Lederer, Frederic Ira and James E. Moliterno. An Introduction to Law, Law Study, and the Role of Lawyers. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $25.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-792-9

This newly updated volume takes a fresh, innovative look at the subject of law and what law study and the practice of law entail. Moliterno and Lederer's book, which combines a traditional academic viewpoint with elements of law practice and ethics, continues to be widely used in orientation and introductory courses.

The American legal system can be hard to understand. Going to law school is both difficult and anxiety-producing. Introduction to Law is designed to help in both areas. Written by two highly-experienced legal educators, Introduction to Law provides the reader with a written equivalent of William & Mary Law School's famous introductory law school week. Often light-hearted, this useful and pragmatic book combines an innovative introduction to the American legal system with material on how to read and understand court cases and, critically, the lawyer's interaction with the client.

All too often, legal texts ignore people, especially the client whose need for legal advice first engages the legal system. The text shows the reader how a lawyer must ascertain facts and goals from a client and then apply what the new lawyer (or law student) has learned about law and its interpretation to solve the client's problem. Revised in 2010 to be fresher, more readable, and more timely in its current events references, Introduction to Law is an ideal book for a soon-to-be law student or for anyone who wants a better understanding of how our legal system and lawyers function.

Jesson, Lucinda E. and Stacey A. Tovino. Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Law. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $40.00 ISBN: 1-59460-767-7

This textbook introduces students to the myriad of laws that govern the practice of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and, by doing so, provides a general health law survey as well. After broadly describing CAM and the ongoing tension between CAM and conventional medicine, the book covers traditional health law basics through the lens of CAM regulation and practice. Medical licensure and scope of practice, malpractice, informed consent, Food and Drug Administration regulation of dietary supplements, and antitrust are each addressed. The authors close by examining new innovations in CAM regulation.

News articles, government reports, excerpts from literature, and real life problems (as well as critical cases and statutes) are used throughout the text to examine the intersection between CAM and the law. Through use of this approach, the text is accessible not only to law students but to graduate students in public health and other professionals who seek to learn more about this burgeoning field.

Ramy, Herbert N. Succeeding in Law School. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $28.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-740-0

As the Director of Suffolk University Law School’s Academic Support Program, Professor Ramy begins receiving phone calls from new 1Ls as early as May. Their common question: “What do I need to do to succeed in law school?” Professor Ramy has written the second edition of Succeeding in Law School to help answer this question.

This edition of the book has several new chapters that are geared toward success both in law school and in the job market. A new chapter on legal analysis addresses one of the most common problems professors see on law school exams — the absence of the counterargument. New materials on interviewing techniques, creating a writing sample, and writing a résumé are designed to help students market themselves to prospective employers. Whether students are seeking advice in the summer months or are looking for help once the school year has begun, this book is an important tool for helping them get the most out of their abilities.

Casebeer, Kenneth M. and Gary Minda. Work Law in American Society. Carolina Academic Press, 2010. $110.00 ISBN: 978-1-59460-598-7

Written in the traditions of legal realism, law and society, and materials analysis, this casebook offers law students a paradigm-shifting introduction to the field of labor and employment law. This book is different from others of the genre in that it focuses on both individual and collective law and legal power in our society. Organized around the legal contests facing people who work within a democratically established market economy, this book deals with contemporary conflicts within finance-driven and internationalized divisions of social labor in increasingly multi-cultural workforces. It is meant to facilitate student speculation on the many relationships of legal practices within, and to, democracy.

The second edition includes the recent developments in work law in the light of the economic and political changes that have and continue to impact on the world of work. New cases and legislation as well as textual material provide the reader with a unified and cohesive approach to the modern law of work in American society.

Samples, John. The Struggle to Limit Government. Cato Institute, 2010. $24.95 ISBN: 978-1-935308-28-7

Assesses the highs and lows of the nearly 30-year struggle to limit government, including Reagan’s successes and failures, the drift away from Reagan’s legacy, and George W. Bush’s rejection of limited government. The author shows that the elections of 2006 and 2008 were a repudiation of the failed Bush presidency, not limited government, and cautions both parties to ignore this idea at their peril.

Olson, Laura Katz. The Politics of Medicaid. Columbia University Press, 2010. $32.50 ISBN: 978-0-231-15060-6

In 1965, the United States government enacted legislation to provide low-income individuals with quality health care and related services. Initially viewed as the friendless stepchild of Medicare, Medicaid has grown exponentially since its inception, becoming a formidable force of its own. Funded jointly by the national government and each of the fifty states, the program is now the fourth most expensive item in the federal budget and the second largest category of spending for almost every state. Now, under the new, historic health care reform legislation, Medicaid is scheduled to include sixteen million more people.

Laura Katz Olson, an expert on health, aging, and long-term care policy, unravels the multifaceted and perplexing puzzle of Medicaid with respect to those who invest in and benefit from the program. Assessing the social, political, and economic dynamics that have shaped Medicaid for almost half a century, she helps readers of all backgrounds understand the entrenched and powerful interests woven into the system that have been instrumental in swelling costs and holding elected officials hostage. Addressing such fundamental questions as whether patients receive good care and whether Medicaid meets the needs of the low-income population it is supposed to serve, Olson evaluates the extent to which the program is an appropriate foundation for health care reform.

Westphal, Kenneth David. Adam and Eve Gave Birth to an Eviction Lawyer. First Part Press, 2009. $14.95 ISBN: 978-0981992402.

From the author who showed how blinking weird law school can be (LAW SCHOOL RED INK WHITE COLLAR BLUES) comes the bizarre week in the life of DJ, a 39-year-old eviction lawyer who thinks if he can get through life without hurting anyone too badly he might have a chance at eternal happiness. But when legal missteps threaten to indebt him to the worst of his landlord clients, DJ must grapple with the meaning of sin and salvation in a world where the risk of being forever banished from Paradise seems suddenly very real.

Kenneth David Westphal has crafted a courtroom drama with a conscience -- a stunning portrait of the U.S. legal system as if affects the least among us. Part legal thriller (The Rainmaker), part social study (NIckel and Dimed), and part religious self-examination (Confessions), ADAM AND EVE GAVE BIRTH TO AN EVICTION LAWYER will change the way you think about the laws that govern all our lives.

Westphal, Kenneth David. Adam and Eve Gave Birth to an Eviction Lawyer, a novel. First Part Press, Ltd., 2009. $14.95 ISBN: 978-0981992402.

From the author who showed how blinking weird law school can be (LAW SCHOOL RED INK WHITE COLLAR BLUES) comes the bizarre week in the life of DJ, a 39-year-old eviction lawyer who thinks if he can get through life without hurting anyone too badly he might have a chance at eternal happiness. But when legal missteps threaten to indebt him to the worst of his landlord clients, DJ must grapple with the meaning of sin and salvation in a world where the risk of being forever banished from Paradise seems suddenly very real. Kenneth David Westphal has crafted a courtroom drama with a conscience -- a stunning portrait of the U.S. legal system as it affects the least among us. Part legal thriller (THE RAINMAKER), part social study (NICKEL AND DIMED), and part religious self-examination (CONFESSIONS), ADAM AND EVE GAVE BIRTH TO AN EVICTION LAWYER will change the way you think about the laws that govern all our lives.

Baldino, Thomas J. and Kyle L. Kreider. Of the People, By the People, For the People: A Documentary Record of Voting Rights and Electoral Reform, Volume I: Foundations of the Modern Franchise, 1660-1959. Greenwood Press, 2010. $180.00 ISBN: 978-0-313-38550-6.

The hotly disputed election of 2000 roused a generally complacent electorate to recognize the erosion of a basic rite of citizenship many had long taken for granted: the exercise of their right to vote. Since then, controversial technology for casting and counting ballots, as well as numerous initiatives intended to increase voter participation (or, in the case of voter identification laws, arguably to restrict it), have ensured that possible flaws in our electoral system are never far from public consciousness. We perceive these troubling developments as new, yet from the colonial period onward, our history has been marked by fierce political battles over who is entitled to vote and how. With over 100 documents, this book presents and analyzes the documentary record of this ongoing struggle.

Organized chronologically, this volume traces the legislative evolution of the franchise in America, as well as the significant federal and state court decisions that interpret the law to either extend or contract access to the vote. In each chapter a distinctive section offers examples of disputed elections (presidential and congressional) and the reform proposals that resulted, such as proposed constitutional amendments to eliminate the Electoral College.

Baldino, Thomas J. and Kyle L. Kreider. Of the People, By the People, For the People: A Documentary Record of Voting Rights and Electoral Reform, Volume II: The Development of the Modern Franchise, 1960-2009. Greenwood Press, 2010. $180.00 ISBN: 978-0-313-38550-6.

Martin, Zachary J. The Mindless Menace of Violence: Robert F. Kennedy's Vision and the Fierce Urgency of Now. Hamilton Books, 2009. $25.00 ISBN: 978-0-7618-4449-5.

"From the foreword: The Mindless Menace of Violence: Robert F. Kennedy's Vision and the Fierce Urgency of Now is a stellar contribution to both fields [History and Sociology] and will speak to the young American as well as wake up older citizens to what has become of this country in terms of violence."—Corinne M. Richard, Adjunct Professor of World History at Salem State College

On April 5, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy stepped to the podium at the City Club of Cleveland in Cleveland, Ohio and gave an address titled the "Mindless Menace of Violence." It had been one day since an assassin's bullet killed civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. For a country seeking to understand the senseless bloodshed and the future of the United States in peril from acts of indifference, Kennedy attempted to paint a picture of society in which citizens had become out of touch with one another.

This book is an examination of Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 speech. Using a line-by-line breakdown, the author analyzes the history behind Kennedy's words and discerns a warning for the future of American society. In history as in society, words can change the course of human events. As American society has become increasingly violent, Kennedy's words are just as important today.

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Snyder, Francis. The European Union and China, 1949- 2008: Basic Documents and Commentary. Hart Publishing, 2009. $130.00 ISBN: 978-1-84113-724-7.

This book is a comprehensive reference book and commentary on basic documents about relations between the EU and the People's Republic of China from 1949 to the present. It contains all significant official and unofficial documents in English and Chinese about EU-China relations since the founding of the PRC in 1949. Since the opening-up of China in 1979, and especially after the establishment of the EU in 1992, relations between the EU and China have developed apace. Today the EU and China are 'strategic partners', with a very broad-based relationship, extending far beyond trade to encompass a growing number of important economic, political, social and cultural domains. The relationship is certain to gain in importance with increasing globalisation, EU expansion, Chinese membership of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the renewal and development of China, and changes in the international trading system and international politics. This book provides an indispensable foundation for teaching, research, policy-making and advising on EU-China relations. It includes both documents originally published in English and English translations of documents previously available only in Chinese, French or Portuguese. Essential to every library, it will also be required reading for students, teachers, researchers, policy-makers, legal practitioners and government officials in the EU, China, the United States and elsewhere.

Ssenyonjo, Manisuli. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in International Law. Hart Publishing, 2009. $90.00 ISBN: 978-1-84113-915-9.

The effective promotion, protection and fulfilment of economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights is an important but under-explored component of international human rights law, of which ESC rights form an essential part. They are fundamental to the dignity of every person. At the international level ESC rights are protected in several international instruments, the most comprehensive being the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (the Covenant) ratified by a majority of States. However, claims of violations of ESC rights are treated less seriously. This book subjects ESC rights protected in the Covenant to a deeper analysis in light of the practice of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights while taking into account other relevant sources of ESC rights at national, regional and international levels. It also analyses key issues relevant to ESC rights, with particular emphasis on various themes including State obligations; non-State actor's obligations; women's ESC rights; domestic protection of ESC rights; and State reservations to ESC rights. The book further makes a thorough examination of the rights to work, health, and education. By so doing, it demonstrates that ESC rights are justiciable and must not be marginalised. The book also brings together a collection of essential materials on ESC rights needed to understand and analyse the subject. Written by an international human rights scholar, this timely work will be of value to all those interested in human rights and international law.

Bogg, Alan. The Democratic Aspects of Trade Union Recognition. Hart Publishing, 2009. $90.00 ISBN: 978-1-84113-790-2.

The long ascendancy of pluralism and 'collective laissez-faire' as a guiding ideology of British labour law was emphatically shattered by the New Right ideology of Thatcher and Major. When New Labour was finally returned to power in 1997, it did not, however, attempt to resurrect the pre-Thatcher preference for pluralist non-intervention in collective industrial relations. Instead, it purported to follow a 'Third Way'. A centrepiece of this new approach was the statutory recognition provision, introduced in Schedule A1 TULRCA 1992. By breaking with the tradition of voluntarism in respect of recognition of trade unions, New Labour sought to provide a model of collective labour law which combined legal support with control through juridification. A closer study of both the history of approaches to recognition and the current provisions opens up fundamental questions as to the nature of this new model and the ones it aimed to replace. This book uses political philosophy to elucidate the character of those historical approaches and the nature of the 'Third Way' itself in relation to statutory union recognition. In particular, it traces the progressive eclipse of civic republican values in labour law, in preference for a liberal political philosophy. The book articulates and defends a civic republican philosophy in terms of freedom as non-domination, the intrinsic value of democratic participation through deliberative democracy, and community. This can be contrasted with the rights-based individualism and State neutrality characteristic of the liberal approach. Despite the promise of civic community in the 'Third Way' rhetoric, this book demonstrates that the reality of New Labour's experiment in union recognition was an emphatic reassertion of liberalism in the sphere of workers' collective rights. This is the first monograph to offer a sustained critical analysis of legal approaches to trade union recognition. It will be of particular interest to labour lawyers, but also a wider audience of scholars in political philosophy and industrial relations.

McFarlane, Ben. The Structure of Property Law. Hart Publishing, 2008. $56.00 ISBN: 978-1-84113-559-5.

In its essence, property law has to provide answers to two very difficult questions: who is entitled to use property, and how are they entitled to use it? Property law is therefore inherently difficult, but not impossibly so. It consists of an ordered and logical system, which aims to take the sting out of fierce disputes.

This book provides a new perspective on property law. By setting out an underlying structure, it allows the reader to understand the fundamental principles of this difficult subject. By providing detailed coverage of individual topics, it shows how those principles apply in practice and provides a comprehensive resource for anyone studying, teaching, researching or practising in property law.

The book is written in an accessible style, with frequent summaries and, in both its pages and companion web-site it makes use of helpful visual aids. It is ideal reading for law students seeking a rock-solid understanding of how property law and land law work, and contains sufficient detail for use as a course book in:
" Property Law
" Land Law
" Personal Property Law

The book also provides detailed analysis of core topics in:
" Equity & Trusts
" Commercial Law
" Unjust Enrichment & Restitution

Adler, Michael. Administrative Justice in Context. Hart Publishing, 2010. $82.00 ISBN: 9781841139289.

This book comprises a definitive collection of papers on administrative justice, written by a set of very distinguished contributors. It is divided into five parts, each of which contains articles on a particular aspect of administrative justice. The first part deals with the impact of ‘contextual changes’ on administrative justice and considers the implications of changes in governance and public administration, management and service delivery, information technology, audit and accounting, and human rights for administrative justice. The second part deals with conceptual issues and describes a number of competing approaches to the administrative justice. The third part deals with the application of administrative justice principles to private law disputes while the fourth part deals with the distinctive characteristics of administrative justice in three other jurisdictions. The final part deals with current developments in administrative justice and the book concludes with a discussion of legislative and policy developments in the UK.
The general approach of the book is socio-legal and interdisciplinary. The chapters adopt a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including those derived from political science, public policy, social policy, accounting and information technology as well as from law. Although most of the contributors are academics, some are practitioners. For these reasons, the book should be of interest to lawyers, particularly those with interests in administrative law, and to social scientists, particularly those with interests in public administration, public policy and public management.
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Meyersfeld, Bonita. Domestic Violence and International Law. Hart Publishing, 2010. $72.00 ISBN: 9781841139111.

Domestic Violence and International Law argues that certain forms of domestic violence are a violation of international human rights law. The argument is based on the international law principle that, where a state fails to protect a vulnerable group of people from harm, whether perpetrated by the state or private actors, it has breached its obligations to protect against human rights violation.

This book provides a comprehensive legal analysis for why a state should be accountable in international law for allowing women to suffer extreme forms of domestic violence and how this can help individual victims. It is irrelevant that the violence is perpetrated by individuals and not state actors such as soldiers or the police. The state's breach of its responsibility is in its failure to act effectively in domestic violence cases; and in its silent endorsement of the violence, it becomes complicit.

The book seeks to reformulate academic and political debate on domestic violence and the responsibility of states under international law. It is based on empirical data combined with an honest assessment of whether or not domestic violence is recognised by the international community as a human rights violation.

McLeod, Ian. Principles of Legislative and Regulatory Drafting. Hart Publishing, 2010. $38.00 ISBN: 9781841137728

Principles of Legislative and Regulatory Drafting provides a succinct guide to an area of law and practice which has previously been poorly served by English textbooks. It explains how drafters can convert legislative and regulatory policy into a form which has the desired effect in the most direct and accessible way.

On the basis that those who seek to communicate must be conscious of how their words will be read, it includes a chapter on interpretation. Other chapters include the nature of drafting instructions (including ethical considerations), the general principles of drafting, the protection of human rights, the creation of statutory corporations and schemes of licensing, subordinate legislation, and the creation of criminal offences.

The principles and skills of drafting are very largely common to both the legislative and regulatory fields, but the book draws attention to areas in which significant differences arise.

Extracts from the Interpretation Act 1978 and the European Convention on Human Rights are included as Appendices.

The book provides an invaluable introduction for those engaged in legislative and regulatory drafting, while also being useful to anyone who is interested in the creation and interpretation of legislative and regulatory texts.

Gordon, Richard. Repairing British Politics: A Blueprint for Constitutional Change. Hart Publishing, 2010. $27.50. ISBN: 9781849460491

The constitutional crisis of 2009, sparked by the 'expenses scandal', led rapidly to the questioning of our entire political order. This book presents a major new constitutional analysis of the way we are governed. At the heart of the crisis lay an absence of accountability at the core of government. Repairing British Politics presents some key arguments for constitutional reform focused around a draft written Constitution underpinned by a new principle of constitutional supremacy. This would replace parliamentary sovereignty, which makes accountability more difficult.

A written Constitution is not merely desirable; it is a constitutional necessity if Britain is to have true representative democracy. It would change our lives for the better by defining the over-arching values which we consider inviolable. The result would be a more rational, humane and inclusive society based on greater citizen involvement. Without a clear focus, constitutional reform will not happen. The approach taken here is therefore essentially practical and designed to provide a focal point around which a wider debate might be centred.

Written in an easily accessible style and including a Glossary of Essential Terms Repairing British Politics is intended as much for the intelligent general reader as for those professionally interested in law and politics. Part 1 sets out a number of arguments in favour of a written Constitution, as well as the most common objections. Part 2 presents a working draft in the form of one possible model for a Constitution. Observations and explanatory notes are attached to each section of this draft Constitution. This model Constitution is intended as the first stage in a public debate, designed to provoke further discussion about the content and method of legislating into law a written Constitution. Part 3 contains the draft of the Act of Parliament that would be needed to introduce any form of constitutional change.

We are currently facing a crisis of trust in British politics. Whichever party forms the government the questions raised in Repairing British Politics will not go away.

Kjaer, Poul F. Between Governing and Governance: On the Emergence, Function and Form of Europe's Post-National Constellation. Hart Publishing, 2010. $76.80. ISBN: 9781849460262

This book explains the emergence and functioning of three forms of governance structures within the context of the European integration and constitutionalisation process: comitology, (regulatory) agencies and the Open Method of Co-ordination. The point of departure is the insight that the intergovernmental/supranational distinction, which most theories of European integration and constitutionalisation rely on, has lost its strength. A new paradigm of EU research is therefore needed.

Against this background it is suggested that the distinction between governing and governance provides a more appropriate basis for analysing the phenomenon of integration and constitutionalisation in Europe. The distinction between governing and governance allows for an understanding of the EU as a hybrid consisting of a governing dimension, characterised by legal and organisational hierarchy, and a governance dimension which operates within a network form characterised by legal and organisational heterarchy. The function of governance structures is to ensure the embeddedness of the governing dimension in the wider society. Instead of representing contradictory developments, the two dimensions are therefore mutually constitutive in the sense that more governing implies more governance and vice versa. These theoretical insights are illustrated through two detailed case studies which respectively reconstruct the operational mode of the Open Method of Coordination within EU Research & Development Policy and the regulatory system for the EU chemicals market (REACH).

The book is inter-disciplinary in nature and incorporates insights from law, political science and sociology.

Schutter, Olivier De and Jacques Lenoble. Reflexive Governance: Redefining the Public Interest in a Pluralistic World. Hart Publishing, 2010. $75.00 ISBN:9781849460682

Reflexive governance offers a theoretical framework for understanding modern patterns of governance in the European Union (EU) institutions and elsewhere. It offers a learning-based approach to governance, but one which can better respond to concerns about the democratic deficit and to the fulfillment of the public interest than the currently dominant neo-institutionalist approaches. The book is composed of one general introduction and eight chapters. Chapter one introduces the concept of reflexive governance and describes the overall framework. The following chapters of the book then summarise the implications of reflexive governance in major areas of domestic, EU and global policy-making. They address in turn: Services of General Interest, Corporate Governance, Institutional Frames for Markets, Regulatory Governance, Fundamental Social Rights, Healthcare Services, Global Public Services and Common Goods. While the themes are diverse, the chapters are unified by their attempt to get to the heart of which concepts of governance are dominant in each field, and what their successes and failures have been: reflexive governance then emerges as one possible response to the failures of other governance models currently being relied upon by policy-makers.

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Ekirch, Jr., Arthur A. The Decline of American Liberalism. The Independent Institute, 2009. $22.95 ISBN: 978-1-59813-027-0.

In The Decline of American Liberalism, renowned historian Arthur Ekirch chronicles the powerful and moving story of individual liberty across three centuries of American history. Contrary to the conventional view that this decline in liberty, de-humanization, and immense expansion and centralization of government power are temporary or manifest some sort of “progress,” Ekirch believes that this change “though hardly perceptible, often uneven, and occasionally reversed, is nevertheless a real descent.”

All readers across the political spectrum will be fascinated by this widely celebrated and beautifully written book, as Ekirch traces how both the ideal of individual liberty, free markets and self-government have weathered through the Revolutionary War, Civil War, two World Wars, Great Depression, and civil rights battles. The book’s far-reaching discussion of the growth of government and its negative effects on autonomy, the economy, peace, and the rule of law is highly illuminating for modern readers facing unprecedented current expansions of the size and reach of State power.

Holcombe, Randall G. and Benjamin Powell. Housing America: Building Out of a Crisis. Independent Institute, 2009. $24.45 ISBN: 978-1-4128-1046-3.

Nowhere in the American economy is the demand for government intervention stronger than in housing markets and land use. Housing policies and land-use planning are supposed to enhance human welfare, but how well do they live up to this promise? How exactly have they affected the quantity, quality, and affordability of housing? And what can be done to make housing markets work better?

Housing America: Building Out of a Crisis, edited by Randall G. Holcombe and Benjamin Powell, addresses these questions by examining specific policies that affect housing markets—including local zoning, building codes, comprehensive land-use planning, affordable-housing mandates, housing assistance, rent control, eminent domain, impact fees, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and even Federal Reserve monetary policy.

“The chapters in this volume critically analyze government housing policies in the United States,” write Holcombe and Powell in their introduction to the book. “They show that many of the problems in housing markets are the result of government policies, and that many housing policies actually make the problems they are nominally intended to address worse.”

Housing America not only critiques government policies that affect housing—including those behind the collapse of housing prices and the ensuing financial market turmoil that came to a head in 2008–2009—but it also shows how market mechanisms can address the problems that various government policies were created to correct.

Bean, Jonathan. Race & Liberty in America. The Independent Institute, 2009. $21.20 ISBN: 978-0-8131-9231-4.

· In the fight for freedom and justice, consistent moral arguments are crucial for long-term success. Although Thomas Jefferson was a slaveholder, that fact did not undermine the natural rights theory set forth in the Declaration of Independence. In fact, James Forten, a free black who fought in the Revolutionary War, borrowed Jefferson’s phrases when he petitioned against a state bill that would have deprived blacks of rights in Pennsylvania. Frederick Douglass, who was born a slave, criticized Americans for failing to live up to the ideals of the Declaration and the Constitution.

· The Left and Right were “wrong on race.” Classical liberals were the only consistent opponents of state-sponsored racial discrimination in the United States. Conservatives advocated the “state right” to discriminate in favor of native-born whites. On the left, the progressive credo might read: government was sometimes the problem but always the solution. Both groups favored the collective over the individual.

· Classical liberals saw government as the problem, not the solution to racial discrimination. Government laws not only upheld slavery and segregation, of course, but they also restricted the right of businesses to hire racial minorities and immigrants. Left and Right opposed “open borders,” whereas classical liberals staunchly defended immigration: whether Chinese or Czech, immigrants had a “natural right” to migrate, they argued. Fearing further state-sponsored racism, classical liberals from Louis Marshall (1910s) to the NAACP (1960s) and Ward Connerly (2000s) sought to rid race entirely from government classiﬁcation.

· Religion was a dominant motive for many leaders of the antislavery movement. Frederick Douglass, an ordained minister, used references to God in rebuking—and inspiring—his fellow Christians. Lewis Tappan used his church ties to create a network of antislavery activists. Senator Joseph Hawley opposed the Chinese Exclusion Act partly because of his missionary work. Louis Marshall’s devout Judaism impelled him to ﬁght for free immigration and against Jim Crow laws. Branch Rickey explained his recruitment of baseball legend Jackie Robinson as “a call from God.”

· The Constitution was central to the classical liberal struggle for individual freedom. When government denied people their civil rights, classical liberals took to the courts, using arguments based on the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Justice John Marshall Harlan captured the classical liberal view of the law when, as the lone dissenter in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), he wrote, “Our Constitution is color-blind.” President Calvin Coolidge publicly rebuked a white racist who objected to a black Republican running for Congress: “Our Constitution guarantees equal rights to all our citizens, without discrimination on account of race or color.”

· Capitalism punishes racial discrimination in the marketplace. Left-wing radicals argue that capitalism is inherently racist. Classical liberals turn this view upside down: capitalism undermines racism by penalizing those who act on their “taste for discrimination.” Firms willing to recruit workers and market their goods and services without regard to color or national origin have a competitive advantage. Streetcar companies, to take but one example, fought segregated seating because it added to their cost of doing business.

Antizzo, Glenn J. US Military Intervention in the Post-Cold War Era: How to Win America's Wars in the Twenty-First Century. Louisiana State University Press, 2010. $42.50 ISBN: 978-0-8071-3642-3

During the post–World War II era, American foreign policy prominently featured direct U.S. military intervention in the Third World. Yet the cold war placed restraints on where and how Washington could intervene until the collapse of the former Soviet Union removed many of the barriers to—and ideological justifications for—American intervention. Since the end of the cold war, the United States has completed several military interventions that may be guided by motives very different from those invoked before the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Likewise, such operations, now free from the threat of counterintervention by any other superpower, seem governed by a new set of rules.

In this readily accessible study, political scientist Glenn J. Antizzo identifies fifteen factors critical to the success of contemporary U.S. military intervention and evaluates the likely efficacy of direct U.S. military involvement today—when it will work, when it will not, and how to undertake such action in a manner that will bring rapid victory at an acceptable political cost. He lays out the preconditions that portend success, among them a clear and attainable goal; a mission that is neither for “peacekeeping” nor for “humanitarian aid within a war zone”; a strong probability the American public will support or at least be indifferent to the effort; a willingness to utilize ground forces if necessary; an operation limited in geographic scope; and a theater commander permitted discretion in the course of the operation.

Antizzo then tests his abstract criteria by using real-world case studies of the most recent fully completed U.S. military interventions—in Panama in 1989, Iraq in 1991, Somalia in 1992–94, and Kosovo in 1999—with Panama, Iraq, and Kosovo representing generally successful interventions and Somalia an unsuccessful one. Finally, he considers how the development of a “Somalia Syndrome” affected U.S. foreign policy and how the politics and practice of military intervention have continued to evolve since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, giving specific attention to the current war in Afghanistan and the larger War on Terror.

U.S. Military Intervention in the Post–Cold War Era exemplifies political science at its best: the positing of a hypothetical model followed by a close examination of relevant cases in an effort to provide meaningful insights for future American international policy.

Murphy, Walter F., C. Herman Pritchett, Lee Epstein, and Jack Knight. Courts, Judges, & Politics. McGraw Hill Publishing, 2005. $88.44 ISBN: 0-07-297705-1.

This classic reader has been a best selling component of the Judicial Process/Judicial Politics/American Legal System course for years. The sixth edition has been thoroughly updated while retaining the features that made it attractive for so long: its effective structure, thorough coverage, narrative voice, choice of excerpts, and teaching flexibility.

Rogovin, Vadim Z. Stalin's Terror of 1937-1938: Political Genocide in the USSR. Mehring Press, 2009. $25.00 ISBN: 978-1-893638-04-4.

This volume examines the bloodiest period of the Stalinist repression of political opposition in the Soviet Union, debunking the myth that the Great Purges were merely the product of Stalin's paranoia and had no overriding political logic. Through a meticulous examination of original sources, including archival documents only made available for research in the 1990s, Professor Vadim Rogovin argues that the ferocity of the mass repression was directly proportional to the intensity of resistance to Stalin within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), particularly the opposition inspired by and associated with the exiled Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky.

"Stalin's Terror of 1937-1938: Political Genocide in the USSR" is the fifth volume of Rogovin's monumental six-volume history of the political conflicts within the CPSU and the Communist International between 1922 and 1940. It is the second volume to be published in English, with a translation by Frederick S. Choate.

Rogovin bases his analysis on scrupulous research, quoting from newly translated or unpublished documents, including memoirs, meeting minutes, newspaper articles and trial transcripts. He documents the reaction of different social layers to the purges, including workers, peasants, non-party intellectuals and the CPSU rank-and-file. This book includes rarely published photographs of the prison camps, documenting the lives of those labeled by Stalin "enemies of the people."

The volume analyzes such critical events as the Bukharin-Rykov trial, last of the infamous show trials; the massacre of Trotskyists in the Vorkuta slave-labor camp; and the assassination by Stalinist agents of Leon Sedov, Trotsky's son, and other oppositionists outside the Soviet Union. It concludes with an examination of how the purges transformed the CPSU and Soviet society as a whole.

Denardis, Laura. Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance. MIT Press, 2009. $35.00 ISBN: 978-0-262-04257-4.

The Internet has reached a critical point. The world is running out of Internet addresses. There is a finite supply of approximately 4.3 billion Internet Protocol (IP) addresses—the unique binary numbers required for every exchange of information over the Internet—within the Internet's prevailing technical architecture (IPv4). In the 1990s the Internet standards community identified the potential depletion of these addresses as a crucial design concern and selected a new protocol (IPv6) that would expand the number of Internet addresses exponentially—to 340 undecillion addresses. Despite a decade of predictions about imminent global conversion, IPv6 adoption has barely begun. IPv6 is not backward compatible with IPv4, and the ultimate success of IPv6 depends on a critical mass of IPv6 deployment, even among users who don't need it, or on technical workarounds that could in turn create a new set of concerns.

Protocol Politics examines what's at stake politically, economically, and technically in the selection and adoption of a new Internet protocol. Laura DeNardis's key insight is that protocols are political. IPv6 serves as a case study for how protocols more generally are intertwined with socioeconomic and political order. IPv6 intersects with provocative topics including Internet civil liberties, U.S. military objectives, globalization, institutional power struggles, and the promise of global democratic freedoms. DeNardis offers recommendations for Internet standards governance, based not only on technical concerns but on principles of openness and transparency, and examines the global implications of looming Internet address scarcity versus the slow deployment of the new protocol designed to solve this problem.

Brown, Michelle. The Culture of Punishment: Prison, Society, and Spectacle. New York University Press, 2009. $24.00 ISBN: 978-0-8147-9100-4.

America is the most punitive nation in the world, incarcerating more than 2.3 million people—or one in 136 of its residents. Against the backdrop of this unprecedented mass imprisonment, punishment permeates everyday life, carrying with it complex cultural meanings. In The Culture of Punishment, Michelle Brown goes beyond prison gates and into the routine and popular engagements of everyday life, showing that those of us most distanced from the practice of punishment tend to be particularly harsh in our judgments.

The Culture of Punishment takes readers on a tour of the sites where culture and punishment meet—television shows, movies, prison tourism, and post 9/11 new war prisons—demonstrating that because incarceration affects people along distinct race and class lines, it is only a privileged group of citizens who are removed from the experience of incarceration. These penal spectators, who often sanction the infliction of pain from a distance, risk overlooking the reasons for democratic oversight of the project of punishment and, more broadly, justifications for the prohibition of pain.

Stewart, Richard B., Benedict Kingsbury, and Bryce Rudyk. Climate Finance: Regulatory and Funding Strategies for Climate Change and Global Development. New York University Press, 2009. $25.00 ISBN: 978-0-8147-4138-2.

Preventing risks of severe damage from climate change not only requires deep cuts in developed country greenhouse gas emissions, but enormous amounts of public and private investment to limit emissions while promoting green growth in developing countries. While attention has focused on emissions limitations commitments and architectures, the crucial issue of what must be done to mobilize and govern the necessary financial resources has received too little consideration. In Climate Finance, a leading group of policy experts and scholars shows how effective mitigation of climate change will depend on a complex mix of public funds, private investment through carbon markets, and structured incentives that leave room for developing country innovations. This requires sophisticated national and global regulation of cap-and-trade and offset markets, forest and energy policy, international development funding, international trade law, and coordinated tax policy.

Thirty-six targeted policy essays present a succinct overview of the emerging field of climate finance, defining the issues, setting the stakes, and making new and comprehensive proposals for financial, regulatory, and governance mechanisms that will enrich political and policy debate for many years to come. The complex challenges of climate finance will continue to demand fresh insights and creative approaches. The ideas in this volume mark out starting points for essential institutional and policy innovations.

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Wilkins, David E. Documents of Native American Political Development: 1500s to 1933. Oxford University Press, 2008. $99.00 ISBN: 978-0-19-532739-7.

The arrival of European and Euro-American colonizers in the Americas brought not only physical attacks against Native American tribes, but also further attacks against the sovereignty of these Indian nations. Though the violent tales of the Trail of Tears, Black Hawk's War, and the Battle of Little Big Horn are taught far and wide, the political structure and development of Native American tribes, and the effect of American domination on Native American sovereignty, have been greatly neglected.

This book contains a variety of primary source and other documents--traditional accounts, tribal constitutions, legal codes, business councils, rules and regulations, BIA agents reports, congressional discourse, intertribal compacts--written both by Natives from many different nations and some non-Natives, that reflect how indigenous peoples continued to exercise a significant measure of self-determination long after it was presumed to have been lost, surrendered, or vanquished. The documents are arranged chronologically, and Wilkins provides brief, introductory essays to each document, placing them within the proper context. Each introduction is followed by a brief list of suggestions for further reading.

Covering a fascinating and relatively unknown period in Native American history, from the earliest examples of indigenous political writings to the formal constitutions crafted just before the American intervention of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, this anthology will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of the political development of indigenous peoples the world over.

Hall, Kermit L. and James W. Ely Jr. The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions: Second Edition. Oxford University Press, 2009. $35.00 ISBN: 978-0-19-537939-6.

The Supreme Court has been the site of some of the great debates of American history, from child labor and prayer in the schools, to busing and abortion. The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions offers lively and insightful accounts of the most important cases ever argued before the Court, from Marbury v. Madison and Scott v. Sandford (the Dred Scott decision) to Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade.

This new edition of the Guide contains more than 450 entries on major Supreme Court cases, including 53 new entries on the latest landmark rulings. Among the new entries are Bush v. Gore, Nixon v. United States, Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights. Four decisionsHamdi v. Bush, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Rasu v. Bush, and Rumsfeld v. Padilla are considered in a single essay entitled Enemy Combatant Cases. Arranged alphabetically and written by eminent legal scholars, each entry provides the United States Reports citation, the date the case was argued and decided, the vote of the Justices, who wrote the opinion for the Court, who concurred, and who dissented. More important, the entries feature an informative account of the particulars of the case, the legal and social background, the reasoning behind the Courts decision, and the cases impact on American society. For this edition, Ely has added an extensive Further Reading section and revised the Case Index and Topical Index.

For anyone interested in the great controversies of our time, this invaluable book is a must reada primer on the epic constitutional battles that have informed American life.

Goldberg, David, Gavin Sutter, and Ian Walden. Media Law and Practice. Oxford University Press, 2009. $150.00 ISBN: 978-0-19-955936-7.

This book is a reference guide for practitioners to the major legal and regulatory issues in the field, but could also be used as a media law textbook for a course of academic study. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field. Throughout the book, the authors cover the relevant aspects of law governing the media in its many forms, with an emphasis on the practical operation of the law in this sector. It not only discusses the theoretical basis of legal concepts such as defamation, but also analyzes the application of the law in the high paced environment of daily newspapers, the changing reality of what constitutes "broadcasting", including the regulation of distribution channels, and the regulation of material distributed via those channels, and examines the implications for defamation law of the online, borderless world. Amongst other things, the book also covers intellectual property issues in the media, with a specific emphasis on copyright works, trade marks and the exploitation of intellectual property via licensing. The work primarily discusses the identified themes in the context of UK and EU laws.

Roberts, Alasdair. The Logic of Discipline: Global Capitalism and the Architecture of Government. Oxford University Press, 2010. $35.00 ISBN: 9780195374988

The era of economic liberalization, spanning 1978 to 2008, is often regarded as a period in which government was simply dismantled. In fact, government was reconstructed to meet the needs of a globalized economy. Central banking, fiscal control, tax collection, regulation, port and airport management, infrastructure development-in all of these areas, radical reforms were made to the architecture of government.

A common philosophy shaped all of these reforms: the logic of discipline. It was premised on deep skepticism about the ability of democratic processes to make sensible policy choices. It sought to impose constraints on elected officials and citizens, often by shifting power to technocrat-guardians who were shielded from political influence. It placed great faith in the power of legal changes--new laws, treaties, and contracts--to produce significant alterations in the performance of governmental systems Even before the global economic crisis of 2007-2009, the logic of discipline was under assault. Faced with many failed reform projects, advocates of discipline realized that they had underestimated the complexity of governmental change. Opponents of discipline emphasized the damage to democratic values that followed from the empowerment of new groups of technocrat-guardians.

The financial crisis did further damage to the logic of discipline, as governments modified their attitudes about central bank independence and fiscal control, and global financial and trade flows declined. It was the market that now appeared to behave myopically and erratically--and which now insisted that governments should abandon precepts about the role of government that it had once insisted were inviolable.

A sweeping account of neoliberal governmental restructuring across the world, The Logic of Discipline offers a powerful analysis of how this undemocratic model is unraveling in the face of a monumental--and ongoing--failure of the market.

Dean, John W. and Barry M. Goldwater Jr. Pure Goldwater. Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. $27.95 ISBN: 978-1-4039-7741-0.

The legacy of Barry Goldwater, firebrand politician, optimistic conservative, and defining figure in American public life, is more important than ever in an era in which American conservatism has lost its way. This illuminating look at his life assembles the unscripted text of his letters and the private journal he kept for over 50 years, recording his reflections on a rich political and personal life. Bestselling author John Dean here combines his analysis with Goldwater's own words. With unprecedented access to his correspondence, interviews, and behind-the-scenes conversations, Dean sheds new light on the late Senator's thoughts, from Richard Nixon to his growing discomfort with the rise of the extreme right.Pure Goldwater isn't simply a look back at the exceptional life of an icon; it is a guidepost for us to re-evaluate today's politicians and America's future.

Carter, Leif H. and Thomas F. Burke. Reason in Law: Eighth Edition. Pearson Publishers (Longman Classics in Political Science), 2009. $49.20. ISBN: 978-0-205-74539-5.

Arguing that good legal reasoning remains the best device by which we can ensure that judicial impartiality, the rule of law, and social trust and peace are preserved, Thomas F. Burke and Lief H. Carter present an accessible and lively text that analyzes the politics of the judicial process. Looking at the larger social and institutional contexts that affect the rule of law — including religious beliefs and media coverage of the courts — Reason in Law uses cases ripped from the headlines to illustrate its theory in real-world practice.

Mason, Alpheus Thomas and Donald Grier Stephenson, Jr. American Constitutional Law: Introductory Essays and Selected Cases, Fifteenth Edition. Pearson (Prentice Hall), 2008. $140.80 ISBN: 978-0-13-602991-5.

For one/two-semester, sophomore/graduate-level courses in American Constitutional Law, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, American Constitutional History. This classic collection of carefully selected and edited Supreme Court case excerpts and comprehensive background essays explores constitutional law and the role of the Supreme Court in its development and interpretation. Well-grounded in both theory and politics, it endeavors to heighten students’ understanding of and interest in these critical areas of our governmental system.

Schier, Steven E. Ambition and Division: Legacies of the George W. Bush Presidency. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. $27.95 ISBN: 978-0-8229-6049-2.

A comprehensive overview of the Bush presidency, including his final year in office, measuring the trajectory of his aspirations, accomplishments, and failures. Reviews the historical position of the Bush administration, and defines and analyzes its long-term political goals. Places specific administration actions—from tax cuts to the Iraq War in strategic and historical context.

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Iqbal, Khurshid. The Right to Development in International Law: The Case of Pakistan. Routledge, 2009. $130.00 ISBN: 978-0-415-47941-7.

The Right to Development in International Law rigorously explores the right to development (RTD) from the perspectives of international law as well as the constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights and the Islamic concept of social justice in Pakistan. The volume draws on a wide range of relevant sources to analyse the legal status of international cooperation in contemporary international law, before exploring the domestic application of the right to development looking at the example of Pakistan, a country that is undergoing radical transformation in terms of its internal governance structures and the challenges it faces for enforcing the rule of law. Of particular importance is the examination of the RTD and Shari‘ah law in Pakistan which adds a new perspective to the RTD debate and enriches the discussion about human rights and Shari‘ah across the world.

Through focusing on Pakistan the book links international perspectives and the international human rights framework with the domestic constitutional apparatus for enforcing the RTD within that jurisdiction. In doing so, Khurshid Iqbal argues that the RTD may be promoted through existing constitutional mechanisms if fundamental rights are widely interpreted by the superior courts, effectively implemented by the lower courts and if Shari‘ah law is progressively interpreted in public interest.

Iqbal’s work will appeal to researchers, professionals and students in the fields of law, human rights, development, international law, South Asian Studies, Islamic law and international development studies.

Kommers, Donald P., John E. Finn, and Gary J. Jacobson. American Constitutional Law: Governmental Powers and Democracy, Third Edition, Volume 1. Rowman & Little Field Publishers, 2009. $79.95 ISBN: 978-0-7425-6367-4.

American Constitutional Law: Essays, Cases, and Comparative Notes is a unique casebook that encourages citizens and students of the Constitution to think critically about the fundamental principles and policies of the American constitutional order. In addition to its distinguished authorship, the book has two prominent features that set it apart from other books in the field: an emphasis on the social, political, and moral theory that provides meaning to constitutional law and interpretation, and a comparative perspective that situates the American experience within a world context that serves as an invaluable prism through which to illuminate the special features of our own constitutional order. While the focus of the book is entirely on American constitutional law, the book asks students to consider what, if anything, is unique in American constitutional life and what we share with other constitutional democracies. Each chapter is preceded by an introductory essay that highlights these major themes and also situates the cases in their proper historical and political contexts. This new edition offers updated and expanded treatment of a number of important and timely topics, including gerrymandering and campaign finance. Volume 1 of this text focuses on governmental structures and relationships and includes a chapter on elections and political representation.

Kommers, Donald P., John E. Finn, and Gary J. Jacobson. American Constitutional Law: Liberty, Community, and the Bill of Rights, Third Edition, Volume 2. Rowman & Little Field Publishers, 2009. $89.95 ISBN: 978-0-7425-6367-4.

American Constitutional Law: Essays, Cases, and Comparative Notes is a unique casebook that encourages citizens and students of the Constitution to think critically about the fundamental principles and policies of the American constitutional order. In addition to its distinguished authorship, the book has two prominent features that set it apart from other books in the field: an emphasis on the social, political, and moral theory that provides meaning to constitutional law and interpretation, and a comparative perspective that situates the American experience within a world context that serves as an invaluable prism through which to illuminate the special features of our own constitutional order. While the focus of the book is entirely on American constitutional law, the book asks students to consider what, if anything, is unique in American constitutional life and what we share with other constitutional democracies. Each chapter is preceded by an introductory essay that highlights these major themes and also situates the cases in their proper historical and political contexts. This new edition offers updated and expanded treatment of a number of important and timely topics including, the death penalty, privacy, affirmative action, and school segregation. Volume 2 of this text focuses on civil rights and basic freedoms and includes separate chapters on race and gender.

McCabe, Kimberly A. and Sabita Manian. Sex Trafficking: A Global Perspective. Rowman and Little Field Publishers, 2010. $27.95 ISBN: 978-0-7391-2934-0

Global estimates of human trafficking range from 600,000 to four million victims each year with the majority being victims of sex trafficking. This strikingly large range belies the difficulty in gathering, defining, and accountability of sex-trafficking data. Victims of sex trafficking may be forced into pornography, prostitution for the military or militia, spousal prostitution, and prostitution for the sex-tourism industry. In response to the problem of sex trafficking, many nations have either misunderstood the definition or failed to comprehend the magnitude that have occurs within their borders. The United Nations has defined "human trafficking" as "the recruitment, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons by threat or use of force." Similarly, the U.S. State Department's Trafficking Victims Protection Act 2000 describes severe forms of trafficking as: (a) sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age; or (b) the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.

In Sex Trafficking: A Global Perspective, sex trafficking is discussed in terms of its multiple purposes and its victims. The essays provide information to build upon the limited knowledge-base on the subject of sex trafficking and the legislative responses to human trafficking by the various highlighted countries. This collection is unique because it serves the needs of those studying human trafficking from a global perspective by targeting the issue within every geographic region, it provides a general profile of geographic regions in terms of demographic characteristics and political conditions that may support the growth of sex trafficking, and it is written on a basic information-supply-level to provide readers with a foundation on human trafficking throughout the world.

Brint, Steven and Jean Reith Schroedel. Evangelicals and Democracy in America, Volume I: Religion and Society. Russell Sage Foundation, 2009. $49.95 ISBN: 978-0-87154-6.

By the end of the nineteenth century, the vast majority of U.S. churches were evangelical in outlook and practice. America’s turn toward modernism and embrace of science in the early twentieth century threatened evangelicalism’s cultural prominence. But as confidence in modern secularism wavered in the 1960s and 1970s, evangelicalism had another great awakening. The two volumes of Evangelicals and Democracy in America trace the development and current role of evangelicalism in American social and political life. Volume I focuses on who evangelicals are today, how they relate to other groups, and what role they play in U.S. social institutions.

Part I of Religion and Society examines evangelicals’ identity and activism. Contributor Robert Wuthnow explores the identity built around the centrality of Jesus, church and community service, and the born-again experience. Philip Gorski explores the features of American evangelicalism and society that explain the recurring mobilization of conservative Protestants in American history. Part II looks at how evangelicals relate to other key groups in American society. Individual chapters delve into evangelicals’ relationship to other conservative religious groups, women and gays, African Americans, and mainline Protestants. These chapters show sources of both solidarity and dissension within the “traditionalist alliance” and the hidden strengths of mainline Protestants’ moral discourse. Part III examines religious conservatives’ influence on American social institutions outside of politics. W. Bradford Wilcox, David Sikkink, Gabriel Rossman, and Rogers Smith investigate evangelicals’ influence on families, schools, popular culture, and the courts, respectively. What emerges is a picture of American society as a consumer marketplace with a secular legal structure and an arena of pluralistic competition interpreting what constitutes the public good. These chapters show that religious conservatives have been shaped by these realities more than they have been able to shape them.

Evangelicals and Democracy in America, Volume I is one of the most comprehensive examinations ever of this important current in American life and serves as a corrective to erroneous popular representations. These meticulously balanced studies not only clarify the religious and social origins of evangelical mobilization, but also detail both the scope and limits of evangelicals’ influence in our society. This volume is the perfect complement to its companion in this landmark series, Evangelicals and Democracy in America, Volume II: Religion and Politics.

STEVEN BRINT is professor of sociology at the University of California, Riverside, director of the Colleges & Universities 2000 study, and associate dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. JEAN REITH SCHROEDEL is dean of the School of Politics and Policy at Claremont Graduate University.

Brint, Steven and Jean Reith Schroedel. Evangelicals and Democracy in America, Volume II: Religion and Politics. Russell Sage Foundation, 2009. $49.95 ISBN: 978-0-87154-068-3.

Separation of church and state is a bedrock principal of American democracy, and so, too, is active citizen engagement. Since evangelicals comprise one of the largest and most vocal voting blocs in the United States, tensions and questions naturally arise. In the two-volume Evangelicals and Democracy in America, editors Steven Brint and Jean Reith Schroedel have assembled an authoritative collection of studies of the evangelical movement in America. Religion and Politics, the second volume of the set, focuses on the role of religious conservatives in party politics, the rhetoric evangelicals use to mobilize politically, and what the history of the evangelical movement reveals about where it may be going.

Part I of Religion and Politics explores the role of evangelicals in electoral politics. Contributor Pippa Norris looks at evangelicals around the globe and finds that religiosity is a strong predictor of ideological leanings in industrialized countries. But the United States remains one of only a handful of post-industrial societies where religion plays a significant role in partisan politics. Other chapters look at voting trends, especially the growing number of higher-income evangelicals among Republican ranks, how voting is influenced both by “values” and race, and the management of the symbols and networks behind the electoral system of moral-values politics. Part II of the volume focuses on the mobilizing rhetoric of the Christian Right. Nathaniel Klemp and Stephen Macedo show how the rhetorical strategies of the Christian Right create powerful mobilizing narratives, but frequently fail to build broad enough coalitions to prevail in the pluralistic marketplace of ideas. Part III analyzes the cycles and evolution of the Christian Right. Kimberly Conger looks at the specific circumstances that have allowed evangelicals to become dominant in some Republican state party committees but not in others. D. Michael Lindsay examines the “elastic orthodoxy” that has allowed evangelicals to evolve into a formidable social and political force. The final chapter by Clyde Wilcox presents a new framework for understanding the relationship between the Christian Right and the GOP based on the ecological metaphor of co-evolution.

With its companion volume on religion and society, this second volume of Evangelicals and Democracy in America offers the most complete examination yet of the social circumstances and political influence of the millions of Americans who are white evangelical Protestants. Understanding their history and prospects for the future is essential to forming a comprehensive picture of America today.

STEVEN BRINT is professor of sociology at the University of California, Riverside, director of the Colleges & Universities 2000 study, and associate dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. JEAN REITH SCHROEDEL is dean of the School of Politics and Policy at Claremont Graduate University.

Crenshaw, Martha. The Consequences of Counterterrorism. Russell-Sage Foundation, 2010. $49.95 ISBN: 978-0-87154-073-7 .

The 9/11 terrorist attacks opened America’s eyes to a frightening world of enemies surrounding us. But have our eyes opened wide enough to see how our experiences compare with other nations’ efforts to confront and prevent terrorism? Other democracies have long histories of confronting both international and domestic terrorism. Some have undertaken progressively more stringent counterterrorist measures in the name of national security and the safety of citizens. The Consequences of Counterterrorism examines the political costs and challenges democratic governments face in confronting terrorism.

Using historical and comparative perspectives, The Consequences of Counterterrorism presents thematic analyses as well as case studies of Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Japan, and Israel. Contributor John Finn compares post-9/11 antiterrorism legislation in the United States, Europe, Canada, and India to demonstrate the effects of hastily drawn policies on civil liberties and constitutional norms. Chantal de Jonge Oudraat and Jean-Luc Marret assert that terrorist designation lists are more widespread internationally than ever before. The authors examine why governments and international organizations use such lists, how they work, and why they are ineffective tools. Gallya Lahav shows how immigration policy has become inextricably linked to security in the EU and compares the European fear of internal threats to the American fear of external ones.

A chapter by Dirk Haubrich explains variation in the British government’s willingness to compromise democratic principles according to different threats. In his look at Spain and Northern Ireland, Rogelio Alonso asserts that restricting the rights of those who perpetrate ethnonationalist violence may be acceptable in order to protect the rights of citizens who are victims of such violence. Jeremy Shapiro considers how the French response to terrorist threats has become more coercive during the last fifty years. Israel’s “war model” of counterterrorism has failed, Ami Pedahzur and Arie Perliger argue, and is largely the result of the military elite’s influence on state institutions. Giovanni Cappocia explains how Germany has protected basic norms and institutions. In contrast, David Leheny stresses the significance of change in Japan’s policies.

Preventing and countering terrorism is now a key policy priority for many liberal democratic states. As The Consequences of Counterterrorism makes clear, counterterrorist policies have the potential to undermine the democratic principles, institutions, and processes they seek to preserve.

Faucher-King, Florence and Patrick Le Gales. The New Labour Experiment: Change and Reform Under Blair and Brown. Stanford University Press, 2010. $21.95 ISBN: 978-0-8047-6235-9.

The book provides a clear assessment of the New Labour public policies and their outcomes in Britain under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 1997–2009. Authors Florence Faucher-King and Patrick Le Galès argue that New Labour, in contrast to its European counterparts, developed a right-wing economic policy program based upon light financial regulation and strict macroeconomic management. Blair and Brown developed a large controlling bureaucracy, making Britain's government one of the most centralized in the world.

While some progressive policies were implemented, Faucher-King and Le Galès point to an overarching program of authoritative controls, massive surveillance, and illiberal social policies. Profound reforms were therefore linked to a new bureaucratic revolution that has subsequently been rejected by the British people. According to the authors, the financial crisis and the collapse of part of the banking system have signaled the end of the New Labour project.

Abrajano, Marisa A. Campaigning to the New American Electorate: Advertising to Latino Voters. Stanford University Press, 2010. $21.95 ISBN: 9780804768962.

Presuming that a strong relationship exists between one's identity and political behavior, American politicians have long targeted immigrant and ethnic communities based on their shared ethnic or racial identity. But to what extent do political campaign messages impact voters' actual decisions and behaviors?

This new book is one of the first to examine and compare the campaign efforts used to target Latinos with those directed at the rest of the electorate. Specifically, it focuses on televised Spanish and English-language advertising developed for the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, as well as for dozens of congressional and statewide contests from 2000–2004. Author Marisa Abrajano's research reveals exposure to these televised political ads indeed impacts whether Latinos turn out to vote and, if so, for whom they vote. But the effect of these advertising messages is not uniform across the Latino electorate. Abrajano explores the particular factors that affect Latinos' receptivity to political ads and offers key findings for those interested in understanding how to mobilize this critical swing group in American politics.

Barlow, Hugh D. and Scott H. Decker. Criminology and Public Policy: Putting Theory to Work. Temple University Press, 2009. $29.95 ISBN: 978-1-4399-0007-9.

Crime policy ought to be guided by science rather than ideology, argue Hugh Barlow and Scott Decker in this incisive and original collection of essays. Establishing the value and importance of linking theory and practice, the contributors to Criminology and Public Policy provide a comprehensive treatment of the major theories in criminology and their implications for criminal justice, crime control, and the larger realm of justice.

In applying theories to real world issues—such as reducing crime and violence, prisoner reentry policies, gang behavior, and treatment courts—the contributors take both a macro and micro level approach. They find, too, that it is often difficult to turn theory into practice. Still, the very attempt pushes the criminal justice system toward workable solutions rather than ideological approaches, an orientation the editors believe will lead to greater progress in combating one of our society’s greatest difficulties.

Contributors include: Robert Agnew, Ronald L. Akers, Gordon Bazemore, Ronald V. Clarke, J. Heith Copes, Frank Cullen, Marcus Felson, Marie Griffin, Scott Jacques, David Kauzlarich, Jean McGloin, Steven Messner, Alex Piquero, Nicole Leeper Piquero, Nancy Rodriguez, Richard B. Rosenfeld, Dawn Rothe, Andrea Schoepfer, Neal Shover, Cassia Spohn, Katherine Tellis, Charles Tittle, Richard Wright, and the editors.

Neubauer, David W. and Stephen S. Meinhold. Judicial Process: Law, Courts, and Politics in the United States, Fourth Edition. Thomson Wadsworth Publishers, 2007. $100.99 ISBN: 978-0-495-00994-8.

"The text and its flexibility allows many different approaches to teach Judicial Policymaking or related courses. The informational base of the text allows students to draw connections across ideas... The greatest strength of this book is analysis of interactions between politics, law, and social problems. There is broad coverage of issues with careful use of devices that encourage students to engage the subject matter and key issues. Students find the book informative and interesting, and substantive arguments are well developed."

"The greatest strengths are the "readability" of the chapters - the level of language, the manner in which the material is presented, the logical manner in which subject headings within chapters are organized. The students will read this text and will retain the information they read - this is what every instructor prays for when choosing a class text... In my opinion, it is the best book on this topic on the market right now."

"This book strikes a nice balance between formal structures and practical circumstances; I especially like the integration of stories and studies set in concrete places and times with descriptions of the way trial courts or judicial selection (to name two examples) "work" in general."

Davis, Ronald B. Democratizing Pension Funds: Corporate Governance and Accountability. UBC Press, 2009. $34.95 ISBN: 978-0-7748-1398-3.

Ronald Davis has a rare combination of expertise – labor law, corporate law, trust law, securities law, and pension law … His book provides a clear explanation of many important legal concepts from vastly different fields and brings them together in a way that is compelling … It will be read and discussed by many scholars, policymakers, and practitioners not only in Canada and the United States but around the world.
- Marleen O’Connor, Stetson University College of Law

Pension funds own significant shares of the world’s largest corporations. However, the beneficiaries of pensions often have little or no say in corporate governance issues – in spite of their status as owners and even though the environmental, social, and economic performance of these corporations will impact not only their retirement accounts but also the very world into which they will retire.

Democratizing Pension Funds analyzes the reasons for this passivity, pointing to conflicts of interest with respect to corporate governance activity in pension plans and also to limitations in corporate, securities, and pension law. The author moves the debate further by arguing that these conflicts of interest can be addressed by giving plan members a voice in pension plan governance as well as making the pension plan accountable to them. He also outlines the legal reforms necessary to implement accountability.

This book will spark a debate concerning the need for democracy and accountability in the governance of trillions of dollars of plan members' pension plan assets and the legitimacy of the present, mostly unaccountable, corporate governance decisions made by these plans.

Mosher, Janet and Joan Brockman. Constructing Crime: Contemporary Processes of Criminalization. UBC Press, 2010. $85.00 ISBN: 9780774818193

Constructing Crime examines the central question: Why do we define and enforce particular behaviours as crimes and target particular individuals as criminals?

To answer this question, contributors interrogate notions of crime, processes of criminalization, and the deployment of the concept of crime in five radically different sites. Two studies of fraud against welfare recipients and physicians illustrate that uneven enforcement of the law can leave the privileged with a sense of entitlement and the marginalized with an imposed criminal self-concept. An examination of the enforcement of laws against Aboriginal harvesting practices offers yet another example of how the threat of prosecution can be used to criminalize cultural practices, while a study of public housing reveals that its form can influence how residents respond to disorder. Lastly, a case study on gambling reveals just how malleable the criminal law and definitions of crime can be.

By demonstrating that how crime is defined and enforced is connected to social location and status, these interdisciplinary cases and an afterword by Marie-Andrée Bertrand challenge us to consider just who is rendered criminal and why. This timely volume will appeal to policy makers and students and practitioners of law, criminology, and sociology.

Stuart, Gary L. Miranda: The Story of America's Right to Remain Silent. The University of Arizona Press, 2008. $17.95 ISBN: 978-0-8165-2763-2.

One of the most significant Supreme Court cases in U.S. history has its roots in Arizona and is closely tied to the state’s leading legal figures. Miranda has become a household word; now Gary

Stuart tells the inside story of this famous case, and with it the legal history of the accused’s right to counsel and silence. Ernesto Miranda was an uneducated Hispanic man arrested in 1963 in connection with a series of sexual assaults, to which he confessed within hours. He was convicted not on the strength of eyewitness testimony or physical evidence but almost entirely because he had incriminated himself without knowing it—and without knowing that he didn’t have to. Miranda’s lawyers, John P. Frank and John F. Flynn, were among the most prominent in the state, and their work soon focused the entire country on the issue of their client’s rights. A 1966 Supreme Court decision held that Miranda’s rights had been violated and resulted in the now-famous "Miranda warnings." Stuart personally knows many of the figures involved in Miranda, and here he unravels its complex history, revealing how the defense attorneys created the argument brought before the Court and analyzing the competing societal interests involved in the case. He considers Miranda's aftermath—not only the test cases and ongoing political and legal debate but also what happened to Ernesto Miranda. He then updates the story to the Supreme Court’s 2000 Dickerson decision upholding Miranda and considers its implications for cases in the wake of 9/11 and the rights of suspected terrorists. Interviews with 24 individuals directly concerned with the decision—lawyers, judges, and police officers, as well as suspects, scholars, and ordinary citizens—offer observations on the case’s impact on law enforcement and on the rights of the accused. Ten years after the decision in the case that bears his name, Ernesto Miranda was murdered in a knife fight at a Phoenix bar, and his suspected killer was "Mirandized" before confessing to the crime. Miranda: The Story of America’s Right to Remain Silent considers the legacy of that case and its fate in the twenty-first century as we face new challenges in the criminal justice system.

Fox, Daniel M. The Convergence of Science and Governance: Research, Health Policy, and American States. University of California Press, 2010. $29.95 ISBN:9780520262386

Daniel M. Fox gives an incisive assessment of the critical collaboration between researchers and public officials that has recently emerged to evaluate the effectiveness and comparative effectiveness of health services. Drawing on research as well as his first-hand experience in policymaking, Fox's broad-ranging analysis describes how politics, public finance and management, and advances in research methods made this convergence of science and governance possible. The book then widens into a sweeping history of central issues in research on health services and health governance during the past century. Returning to the past decade, Fox looks closely at how policy informed by research has been made and implemented in public programs that cover pharmaceutical drugs in most American states. This case study illuminates how politics has informed the questions, methods, and reception of research on health services, and also sheds new light on how research has informed politics and public management. Looking toward the future, Fox describes the promise, as well as the fragility, of the convergence of science and governance, making his book essential reading for those struggling to revise health care in the United States over the next several years.

Goston, Lawrence O. Public Health Law and Ethics. University of California Press, 2010. $35.00 ISBN: 9780520261921

Now revised and expanded to cover today’s most pressing health threats, Public Health Law and Ethics probes the legal and ethical issues at the heart of public health through an incisive selection of government reports, scholarly articles, and relevant court cases. Companion to the internationally acclaimed text Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint, this reader can also be used as a stand-alone resource for students, practitioners, scholars,and teachers. It encompasses global issues that have changed the shape of public health in recent years including anthrax, SARS, pandemic flu, biosecurity, emergency preparedness, and the transition from infectious to chronic diseases caused by lifestyle changes in eating and physical activity. In addition to covering these new arenas, it includes discussion of classic legal and ethical tensions inherent to public health practice, such as how best to balance the police power of the state with individual autonomy.

Monmonier, Mark. How Maps Restrict and Control: Dig, Fly, Go. University of Chicago Press, 2010. $18.00 ISBN: 9780226534688

Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to fishing, prohibiting students from one part of town from being schooled on the other, and banishing certain individuals and industries to the periphery. This restrictive cartography has boomed in recent decades as governments seek regulate activities as diverse as hiking, building a residence, opening a store, locating a chemical plant, or painting your house anything but regulation colors. It is this aspect of mapping—its power to prohibit—that celebrated geographer Mark Monmonier tackles in No Dig, No Fly, No Go.
Rooted in ancient Egypt’s need to reestablish property boundaries following the annual retreat of the Nile’s floodwaters, restrictive mapping has been indispensable in settling the American West, claiming slices of Antarctica, protecting fragile ocean fisheries, and keeping sex offenders away from playgrounds. But it has also been used for opprobrium: during one of the darkest moments in American history, cartographic exclusion orders helped send thousands of Japanese Americans to remote detention camps. Tracing the power of prohibitive mapping at multiple levels—from regional to international—and multiple dimensions—from property to cyberspace—Monmonier demonstrates how much boundaries influence our experience—from homeownership and voting to taxation and airline travel. A worthy successor to his critically acclaimed How to Lie with Maps, the book is replete with all of the hallmarks of a Monmonier classic, including the wry observations and witty humor.In the end, Monmonier looks far beyond the lines on the page to observe that mapped boundaries, however persuasive their appearance, are not always as permanent and impermeable as their cartographic lines might suggest. Written for anyone who votes, owns a home, or aspires to be an informed citizen, No Dig, No Fly. No Go will change the way we look at maps forever.

McCloskey, Robert G. The American Supreme Court. University of Chicago Press, 2010. $19.00 ISBN: 9780226556871

Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, Robert McCloskey’s classic work on the Supreme Court’s role in constructing the U.S. Constitution has introduced generations of students to the workings of our nation’s highest court. For this new fifth edition, Sanford Levinson extends McCloskey’s magisterial treatment to address the Court’s most recent decisions.

As in prior editions, McCloskey’s original text remains unchanged. In his historical interpretation, he argues that the strength of the Court has always been its sensitivity to the changing political scene, as well as its reluctance to stray too far from the main currents of public sentiments. In two revised chapters, Levinson shows how McCloskey’s approach continues to illuminate developments since 2005, including the Court’s decisions in cases arising out of the War on Terror, which range from issues of civil liberty to tests of executive power. He also discusses the Court’s skepticism regarding campaign finance regulation; its affirmation of the right to bear arms; and the increasingly important nomination and confirmation process of Supreme Court justices, including that of the first Hispanic justice, Sonia Sotomayor.

The best and most concise account of the Supreme Court and its place in American politics, McCloskey's wonderfully readable book is an essential guide to the past, present, and future prospects of this institution.

Orfield, Myron and Thomas F. Luce, Jr. Region: Planning the Future of Twin Cities. University of Minnesota Press, 2010. $39.95 ISBN: 978-0-8166-6556-3.

How can the Twin Cities become a model for responsible, just, and environmentally sound urban and suburban planning?

The Twin Cities region contains 11 counties, 300 cities and townships, and 1,700 unique combinations of tax rates and public services. Historically, this fragmentation has made it extremely difficult to address the social, economic, and environmental problems that affect all parts of the region, yet the Minneapolis and St. Paul area has generally been held in high esteem as a model of regional cooperation. How do policy planners make it work—and is it working well enough?

In Region Myron Orfield and Thomas Luce examine both the successes and shortcomings of the Twin Cities Metropolitan Council’s regional planning and policy. Detailing the rapid demographic, commuting, and land use changes that are currently at work in the region, Orfield and Luce identify the new challenges faced by the cities and the suburbs and their overlooked interdependence. They thoroughly investigate the economic and political trends impacting Twin Cities residents’ quality of life—sprawl, population growth, economic and racial injustice, a lack of affordable housing, traffic congestion—and in particular how education demographic trends are solidifying segregation. Extensive maps, graphs, and charts accompany the authors’ argument for careful, coordinated regional development in the Twin Cities and explanations about how such an approach should be a model for other regions around the United States.

Confronting unsettling—sometimes shocking—realities of life in the Twin Cities, Orfield and Luce highlight the urgent need to create thriving integrated neighborhoods and job growth throughout the region, as well as the near impossibility of desegregating our neighborhoods and schools. Throughout this detailed and deeply researched work, they analyze the wide impact of planning failures and the promise of successful growth, and ultimately put forth trenchant policy recommendations for a better future—one where we live up to our social, environmental, and political ideals.

Myron Orfield is executive director of the Institute on Race and Poverty and associate professor of law at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Metropolitics and American Metropolitics.

Thomas Luce is director of research at the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota.

Walker, Clarance E. and Gregory D. Smithers. The Preacher and the Politician: Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and Race in America. University of Virginia Press, 2009. $22.95 ISBN: 978-0-8139-2886-9.

Barack Obama’s inauguration as the first African American president of the United States has caused many commentators to conclude that America has entered a postracial age. The Preacher and the Politician argues otherwise, reminding us that, far from inevitable, Obama’s nomination was nearly derailed by his relationship with Jeremiah Wright, the outspoken former pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ on the South Side of Chicago. The media storm surrounding Wright’s sermons, the historians Clarence E. Walker and Gregory D. Smithers suggest, reveals that America’s fraught racial past is very much with us, only slightly less obvious.

With meticulous research and insightful analysis, Walker and Smithers take us back to the Democratic primary season of 2008, viewing the controversy surrounding Wright in the context of key religious, political, and racial dynamics in American history. In the process they expose how the persistence of institutional racism, and racial stereotypes, became a significant hurdle for Obama in his quest for the presidency.

The authors situate Wright's preaching in African American religious traditions dating back to the eighteenth century, but they also place his sermons in a broader prophetic strain of Protestantism that transcends racial categories. This latter connection was consistently missed or ignored by pundits on the right and the left who sought to paint the story in simplistic, and racially defined, terms. Obama’s connection with Wright gave rise to criticism that, according to Walker and Smithers, sits squarely in the American political tradition, where certain words are meant to incite racial fear, in the case of Obama with charges that the candidate was unpatriotic, a Marxist, a Black Nationalist, or a Muslim.

Once Obama became the Democratic nominee, the day of his election still saw ballot measures rejecting affirmative action and undermining the civil rights of other groups. The Preacher and the Politician is a concise and timely study that reminds us of the need to continue to confront the legacy of racism even as we celebrate advances in racial equality and opportunity.

MacKay, Buddy and Rick Edmonds. How Florida Happened: The Political Education of Buddy MacKay. University Press of Florida, 2010. $32.00 ISBN: 9780813034843

"In this exceptionally well-told memoir, distinguished by clarity, poignancy, and humor, Buddy MacKay illuminates much that was known and not known about three decades of the history to which he contributed hugely as a Florida legislator, member of Congress, and lieutenant governor to the late Lawton Chiles."--Martin A. Dyckman, author of Floridian of His Century: The Courage of Governor LeRoy Collins

When Florida governor Lawton Chiles died unexpectedly on December 12, 1998, less than one month before Jeb Bush was to assume the office, it was left to Chiles's lieutenant governor, Buddy MacKay, to step in for twenty-three days and run the state. "I take no great pleasure in this," MacKay stated at his initial news conference, with good reason. Roughly one month prior, he had lost a brutal gubernatorial campaign as the Democratic nominee to Bush, meaning he now had to officiate over the investiture of a political opponent.

This is Kenneth "Buddy" MacKay's memoir of three decades of public life in Florida. It recaptures, in riveting detail, a time which saw Florida grow from a semi-rural to a mega-state, where political dominance shifted from the left to the right.

How Florida Happened, MacKay's first book, details his experiences in and influences upon Florida and national politics. As an officeholder in the Florida Legislature, the United States Congress, and at the highest levels of the executive branch of state government, he was a much sought-after source, frequently quoted by members of the press because of his ability to explain issues and enlighten the public in short, easily-understandable terms. His particularly keen eye and ear for the ironies and absurdities in government and politics as well as his brutal honesty come through in this welcome and wonderful memoir.

Buddy MacKay was born in 1933 in Ocala. He was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 1968, where he served for nearly a decade and won a number of awards as most effective legislator. From 1983 to1989, he served three terms in the United States House of Representatives.

MacKay received the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate in 1988, only to lose to his Republication opponent by less than one percentage point. He was hardly finished with politics, however, as he convinced his political ally and friend Lawton Chiles to run for governor in 1990. For eight years he served as lieutenant governor with Chiles, only to personally learn in 1998, after his unsuccessful run for Florida governor, that the era of the Yellow Dog Democrat in Florida was officially over.

Karl, Frederick B. The 57 Club: My Four Decades in Florida Politics. University Press of Florida, 2010. $40.00 ISBN: 978-0-8130-3463-8

"Karl's descriptions of various aspects of the legislative process are superb. . . . His candid discussions of what it feels like to be on the losing side of a legislative vote or an election (in his case for governor) and how to move on afterward should be read and taken to heart by those contemplating political careers."--from the foreword by David Colburn and Susan McManus

"Lays bare the turbulent era of Florida politics in the '50s and '60s by telling the unvarnished story of how a few courageous men fought against segregationists and self-serving interests and laid the foundation for government in the sunshine. Through anecdotes--both humorous and serious--first-person accounts, and delightful descriptions of the people and places throughout the state, Mr. Karl's book opens a wondrous window on this crucial time in Florida's political history."--Michael Foerster, former Hillsborough County director of communications

Frederick Karl's story portrays a group of Florida legislators and their political friends and enemies in a time of intense turmoil that marked the late 1950s and '60s in Florida.

The 57 Club was the self-assigned name of the thirty-nine legislators first elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 1956. Karl's fascinating autobiography not only recalls those years, when Florida was in the midst of a transformation away from its rural, racially segregated, Deep South roots, but also offers intimate details into a half century of public service.

By sharing his own experiences and reactions, describing what he witnessed or heard along the way, and telling stories about friends and colleagues, Karl gives readers a front row seat to some of the most captivating and turbulent moments in twentieth-century Florida politics. His insights into how the legislature functions--from the politics of committee assignments to the usefulness of lobbyists, from the savvy use of rules on the floor to debating skills, from polite ways of punishing unethical colleagues to the use of humor to calm angry exchanges, and much more--all make for an absorbing tale.

Frederick B. Karl was born in 1924 in Daytona Beach. At the age of 18 he was commissioned a second lieutenant and saw action as a tank platoon leader in Europe. Wounded during the Battle of the Bulge, he was awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and the Purple Heart. He later served eight years as a state representative and four years as a state senator.

Karl became Florida's first public counsel in 1974 and was the last elected Justice of the Florida Supreme Court two years later. After resigning in 1978, he returned to government service--first as county attorney, then as county administrator of Hillsborough County. He was asked to take over the helm of Tampa General Hospital in 1994. After leaving this post, he was appointed city attorney by newly elected Tampa mayor, Pam Iorio. In 2004, at the age of 80, he officially retired for the fourth and final time.

Read, James H. Majority Rule versus Consensus: The Political Thought of John C. Calhoun. University Press of Kansas, 2010. $34.95 ISBN: 978-0-7006-1635-0

John C. Calhoun may be best known for his stature in the U.S. Senate and his controversial defense of slavery, but he is also a key figure in American political thought. The staunchest advocate of the consensus model of government as an alternative to majority rule, he proposed government not by one, by few, or by many, but by all: each key group enjoying veto rights over collective decisions.

Some consider consensus preferable to majority rule in deeply divided societies, and consensus theory has been advocated in such contemporary works as Lani Guinier’s The Tyranny of the Majority. James Read’s book, the first historically informed, theoretically sophisticated critique of Calhoun’s political thought, goes beyond other studies to ask key questions about the feasibility of consensus. Read critically examines Calhoun’s arguments, considering both their antebellum context—including Calhoun’s spirited defense of slavery—and modern-day attempts to apply consensus models in Northern Ireland, the former Yugoslavia, and South Africa.

Read sheds new light on the crisis leading up to the Civil War by exploring Calhoun’s conviction that his uncompromising defense of slavery would help preserve the Union. He also juxtaposes Calhoun’s thought with that of Jefferson and Madison, whose legacies Calhoun invoked to support his claim that states had the right to nullify federal law, and he contrasts Madison’s ultimate faith in majority rule with Calhoun’s ultimate rejection of it.

Read argues that, although Calhoun’s critique of majority rule deserves careful attention, his remedy is unworkable and in the end unjust. Read demonstrates that governments ruled by consensus tend to be ineffective, that they are better at preventing common action than achieving common goods, and that they privilege strategically placed minorities rather than producing genuine consensus.

Majority Rule versus Consensus is a provocative work that sheds new light on the promise and limitations of democracy, showing that, despite the failure of Calhoun’s remedy, his diagnosis of the potential injustice of majority rule must be taken seriously. It discourages uncritical celebrations of democracy in favor of reflection on how committed democrats can better address the problems that Calhoun attempted to solve.

Berman, Greg and Aubrey Fox. Trial and Error in Criminal Justice Reform: Learning from Failure. Urban Institute Press, 2010. $26.50 ISBN: 9780877667674.

Trial and Error in Criminal Justice Reform: Learning from Failure examines well-intended programs that fell short of their objectives (D.A.R.E. and Operation Ceasefire being prime examples). "While our research has not unearthed a foolproof path to successful reform, we do know how to guarantee failure, and that is to continue with business as usual," write Burman and Fox. Trial and Error in Criminal Justice Reform honors innovative policymakers and practitioners—judges, cops, attorneys, parole officers, researchers, educators, and politicians—by advocating that they be given the time, space, and encouragement to learn from their predecessors and analyze their own foibles.

Berman, Greg and Aubrey Fox. Trial and Error in Criminal Justice Reform: Learning from Failure. Urban Institute Press, 2010. $26.50 ISBN: 9780877667674

Gibson, Bryan. The Magistrates' Court: AN Introduction, Fifth Edition. Waterside Press, 2009. $39.95 ISBN: 978-1-904380-52-8.

The Magistrates' Court: An Introduction is a simple speedy summary. This fully revised Fifth Edition* takes account of the wide scale changes which have affected the work of Justices of the Peace and their courts in recent years.

A most useful introduction that can be used alongside other training materials or as an ideal self-study guide.

Also includes a Timeline and an extensive Glossary of Words, Phrases, Acronyms and Abbreviations - the language of the system - which will be of particular use to people wishing to quickly get to grips with the terminology of the magistrates’ courts.

Stearns, Maxwell L. and Todd J. Zywicki. Public Choice Concepts and Applications in Law. West Publishing, 2009. $70.00 ISBN: 978-0-314-17722-3.

This is the only course book specifically designed to instruct law students in the discipline of public choice. The book provides a comprehensive, but nontechnical, overview of interest group theory, social choice theory, and game theory (along with elementary price theory), and ties these concepts to a wide range of topics in both public and private law. The book contains chapters devoted to each set of methodological tools and to specific institutional settings: legislatures, courts, executive branch (and bureaus), and constitutions.

Rossum, Ralph A. and G. Alan Tarr. American Constitutional Law: The Bill of Rights and Subsequent Amendments, Eighth Edition, Volume II. Westview Press, 2009. $95.00 ISBN: 978-0-8133-4478-2.

American Constitutional Law provides a comprehensive account of the nation’s defining document. Based on the premise that the study of the Constitution and constitutional law is of fundamental importance to understanding the principles, prospects, and problems of America, this text puts current events in terms of what those who initially drafted and ratified the Constitution sought to accomplish. The authors examine the constitutional thought of the founders, as well as interpretations of the Constitution by the Supreme Court, Congress, the President, lower federal courts, and state judiciaries. Now fully updated, the eighth edition of this classic volume focuses on individuals’ rights and responsibilities and incorporates nine new cases, including District of Columbia v. Heller, In re Marriage Cases, Kennedy v. Louisiana, and Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1. Also available in its eighth edition from authors Ralph A. Rossum and G. Alan Tarr: American Constitutional Law, Volume I: The Structure of Government (Westview Press, ISBN 978-0-8133-4477-5).

Rossum, Ralph A. and G. Alan Tarr. American Constitutional Law: The Structure of Government, Eighth Edition, Volume I. Westview Press, 2009. $85.00 ISBN: 978-0-8133-4477-5.

American Constitutional Law provides a comprehensive account of the nation’s defining document. Based on the premise that the study of the Constitution and constitutional law is of fundamental importance to understanding the principles, prospects, and problems of America, this text puts current events in terms of what those who initially drafted and ratified the Constitution sought to accomplish. The authors examine the constitutional thought of the founders, as well as interpretations of the Constitution by the Supreme Court, Congress, the President, lower federal courts, and state judiciaries. Now fully updated, the eighth edition of this classic volume focuses on federal rights and powers and incorporates six new cases, including Boumediene v. Bush, Medellin v. Texas, Hein v. Freedom from Religion Foundation, and Plains Commerce Bank v. Long Family Land and Cattle Company. Also available in its eighth edition from authors Ralph A. Rossum and G. Alan Tarr: American Constitutional Law, Volume II: The Bill of Rights and Subsequent Amendments (Westview Press, ISBN 978-0-8133-4478-2).

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Soothill, Keith, Claire Fitzpatrick, and Brian Francis. Understanding Criminal Careers. Willan Publishing, 2009. $37.50 ISBN: 978-1-84392-502-6.

The study of criminal careers is of increasing interest in criminology. It is now generally recognised that it is important to try to understand criminal behaviour across the life-course rather than focusing on fragmented incidents which provide only a partial picture. This is an accessible text which clarifies the crucial theoretical and methodological debates surrounding the study of criminal careers.

It focuses on some major longitudinal studies discussing the onset, persistence, desistance and the duration of a criminal career. The important topics of prediction, risk and specialisation are addressed. The challenging question of 'When do ex-offenders become like non-offenders?' points a way forward. The book concludes by proposing an even more ambitious approach to the topic of criminal careers.

Waddington, David, Fabien Jobard and Mike King. Rioting in the UK and France: A Comparitive Analysis. Willan Publishing, 2009. $85.00 ISBN: 978-1-84392-504-0.

The broad aim of this book is to provide a general basis for comparatively analysing and understanding the French riots of October/November 2005 and the corresponding Bristish disorders which occurred in the spring/summer of 2001.

The first of the French riots broke out on 27 October in the north Parisian banlieue (suburb) of Clichy-sous-Bois when two teenage youths of Muslim heritage were electrocuted in a substation while fleeing from the police. The two youths had apparently become unwittingly involved, together with their friends, in a police investigation of a break-in. It is not clear whether they had actually been chased by police officers. Nevertheless, a rumor to this effect quickly circulated the locality, provoking violent confrontation between youths and police. Three more weeks of rioting then ensued in neighbouring Parisian suburbs and other major French cities with similar concentrations of ethnic minorities. The riots invariably involved thousands of youths from poorer areas who confronted the police, set fire to local buildings and ignited hundreds of motor vehicles. Further rioting - though not on the same scale as in 2005 - occurred subsequently in 2006 and 2007.

England and Wales have had their own counterparts to the French riots. In the early and mid 1980s, there were a number of clashes between police and African-Caribbean youths in inner-city areas. Further, in 2001 rioting broke out in the northern mill towns and cities of Bradford, Burnley, Leeds and Oldham. All of these later instances involved youths from Pakistani or Bangladeshi descent. In contrast to the riots that occurred in France though, a contributing factor to 2001 riots was the activities of white neo-Fascists.

Many official reports and academic studies followed each wave of disorder, each questioning the effectiveness of Britain's 'multicultural' society, in addition to other possible factors such as the marginalisation and 'criminalisation' of minority ethnic youth, and their relations with the police. Such issues were again on the agenda after more rioting occurred in the Lozells area of Birmingham in 2005. Unlike the previous disorders, this entailed conflict between South Asian and African-Caribbean youths, following a rumor that a young African girl had been gang-raped by South Asians.

British attempts to analyse and remedy the underlying causes of the riots constitute a potentially valuable resource to French academics, practitioners and policy makers. In turn, the French experience provides a fertile basis for re-applying, testing and enhancing existing British theory and policy.

The book consists of a highly coherent, theoretically rich and thematically comprehensive collection of papers which provide an unparalleled description and comparative analysis of the French and British riots, along with social policy recommendations to help to address the underlying issues.

Fafinski, Stefan. Computer Misuse: Response, Regulation and the Law. Willan Publishing, 2009. $47.50 ISBN: 978-1-84392-379-4.

This book is concerned with the nature of computer misuse and the legal and extra-legal responses to it. It explores what is meant by the term 'computer misuse' and charts its emergence as a problem as well as its expansion in parallel with the continued progression in computing power, networking, reach and accessibility. In doing so, it surveys the attempts of the domestic criminal law to deal with some early manifestations of computer misuse and the consequent legislative passage of the Computer Misuse Act 1990.

Having outlined the new criminal offences introduced by the 1990 Act, the book examines the extent to which the 1990 Act has been effective before considering the amendments made to it by the Police and Justice Act 2006 and their potential ramifications now they are in force. Having considered the position at domestic criminal law, the book turns to assess whether the solution to the effective regulation of computer misuse requires more than just the domestic criminal law, exploring the characteristics and purpose of the criminal law in the context of computer misuse.

The book then introduces theories of risk from realist, cultural and symbolic, 'risk society' and governmentality perspectives before considering the idea of a governance network as a means of responding to risk. It examines computer misuse and the role of the domestic criminal law in the light of these theories. It further examines potential new nodes of governance within this framework from the European Union, Council of Europe, Commonwealth, United Nations and Group of Eight. It considers whether there might be advantages in moving beyond the domestic criminal law in the response to computer misuse. The book then broadens the discussion of potential means of governance beyond the law to encompass extra-legal initiatives. It establishes a typology of these extra-legal initiatives and examines the contribution made by each to the governance of computer misuse.

Finally, this book concludes with an examination of the complex governance network and considers whether the regulation of computer misuse is only viable in a global networked society by a networked response combining nodes of both legal and extra-legal governance.

This book will be of interest to students of IT law as well as to sociologists and criminologists, and those who have a professional concern with preventing computer misuse and fraud.

Wood, Jane and Theresa Gannon. Public Opinion and Criminal Justice. Willan Publishing, 2009. $45.00 ISBN: 978-1-84392-400-5.

Public opinion is vital to the functioning of the criminal justice system but it is not at all clear how best to establish what this is, and what views people have on different aspects of criminal justice and the criminal justice system. Politicians and the media often assume that the public wants harsher, tougher and longer sentences, and policies may be shaped accordingly. Detailed research and more specific polling often tells a different story.

This book is concerned to shed further light on the nature of public views on criminal justice, paying particular attention to public opinion towards specific types of offenders, such as sex offenders and mentally disordered offenders. In doing so it challenges many enduring assumptions regarding people's views on justice, and confronts the myths that infect our understanding of what people think about the criminal justice system.

Punch, Maurice. Police Corruption: Deviance, Accountability, and Reform in Policing. Willan Publishing, 2009. $34.95 ISBN: 978-1-84392-410-4.

Policing and corruption are inseparable. This book argues that corruption is not one thing but covers many deviant and criminal practices in policing which also shift over time. It rejects the 'bad apple' metaphor and focuses on 'bad orchards', meaning not individual but institutional failure. For in policing the organisation, work and culture foster can encourage corruption. This raises issues as to why do police break the law and, crucially, 'who controls the controllers'?

Corruption is defined in a broad, multi-facetted way. It concerns abuse of authority and trust; and it takes serious form in conspiracies to break the law and to evade exposure when cops can become criminals. Attention is paid to typologies of corruption (with grass-eaters, meat-eaters, noble-cause); the forms corruption takes in diverse environments; the pathways officers take into corruption and their rationalisations; and to collusion in corruption from within and without the organization. Comparative analyses are made of corruption, scandal and reform principally in the USA, UK and the Netherlands. The work examines issues of control, accountability and the new institutions of oversight.

It provides a fresh, accessible overview of this under-researched topic for students, academics, police and criminal justice officials and members of oversight agencies.

Segrave, Sanja Milivojevic and Sharon Pickering. Sex Trafficking: International Context and Response. Willan Publishing, 2009. $39.50 ISBN: 978-1-84392-510-1.

Trafficking in persons, particularly the trafficking of women into sexual servitude (sex trafficking) has generated much attention over the past decade. This book provides a critical examination of the international and national frameworks developed to respond to this issue - focused both on the design of policy responses and their implementation. Uniquely it brings together, and brings to life, the voices of policymakers, non-government agencies and trafficked women. The analysis is grounded in rich empirical work and research in Europe, Asia, Australia and North America

This book examines how sex trafficking has been mobilized within anti-trafficking policies across the globe and offers a close examination of the dominant international framework, drawing upon a rich and diverse set of case studies: Australia, Serbia and Thailand. This analysis draws upon over100 interviews with trafficking 'experts' across the three nations-including policymakers, police, immigration authorities, socialworkers, lawyers, UN agencies, local and international NGOs, activists. Critically, it also draws upon the voices of women who have been trafficked.

Three key concerns lie at the heart of this volume.

· the dominance of gendered and racialised assumptions within the ‘law and order’ framework of anti-trafficking efforts

· the absence and silencing of trafficked women’s diverse voice and experiences in discussions of the implementation and impact of anti-trafficking policies

· the continued privileging of criminal justice efforts and outcomes as evidence of a commitment to fight trafficking, at the cost of recognizing how the treatment of non-citizens and the enforcement of strict migration regimes contribute to the vulnerability of men, women and children to exploitative practices including human trafficking.

Overall, this volume shifts the terrain for the analysis of responses to trafficking in persons, offering a unique and important critique of the dominant framework.

Edited by Jewkes, Yvonne and Majid Yar. Handbook of Internet Crime. Willan Publishing, 2009. $59.95 ISBN: 978-1-84392-524-8.

An essential reference for scholars and others whose work brings them into contact with managing, policing and regulating online behaviour, the Handbook of Internet Crime emerges at a time of rapid social and technological change. Amidst much debate about the dangers presented by the Internet and intensive negotiation over its legitimate uses and regulation, this is the most comprehensive and ambitious book on cybercrime to date.

The Handbook of Internet Crime gathers together the leading scholars in the field to explore issues and debates surrounding internet-related crime, deviance, policing, law and regulation in the 21st century.

The Handbook reflects the range and depth of cybercrime research and scholarship, combining contributions from many of those who have established and developed cyber research over the past 25 years and who continue to shape it in its current phase, with more recent entrants to the field who are building on this tradition and breaking new ground. Contributions reflect both the global nature of cybercrime problems, and the international span of scholarship addressing its challenges.

Lemieux, Frederic. International Police Cooperation: Emerging Issues, Theory and Practice. Willan Publishing, 2010. $45.00 ISBN: 978-1-84392-760-0

The globalization of threats and the complexity of international security issues represent more than ever a challenge for international policing (re)shaping the configuration of inter-agency interaction.

Police cooperation refers to the interaction in which two or more police entities (including private and public agencies) act together intentionally or non intentionally. Usually police cooperation gives the opportunity to pool financial, human, and material resources to reach goals that cannot be reached unilaterally. In essence, effective police cooperation addresses inter-agency competition and investigation overlap; in reality, collaboration between law enforcement agencies is plagued by competing agendas, limited resources, and nationalistic/discretionary intelligence sharing.

While most studies focus on the reasons for the desirability of police cooperation as an approach to transnational crime, on the interactions between national police services, or on the challenges of the democratization of the collaboration process and respect of human rights, International Police Cooperation pays special attention to the factors that have contributed to the effective working of police cooperation in practice and the problems that are encountered.

This book brings together original research that examines opportunities and initiatives undertaken by agencies (practices and processes introduced) as well as the impact of external legal, political, and economical pressures.

Contributors explore emerging initiatives and new challenges in several contexts at both national and international levels. They adopt a diversity of approaches and theoretical frameworks to reach a broader understanding of current and future issues in police cooperation. Forms of police cooperation and trends in crime control are examined, drawing upon the following disciplines: criminology, ethics, organizational science, political science, and sociology.

Maier-Katkin, Daniel. Stranger From Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2010. $26.95 ISBN: 978-0-393-06833-7.

Two titans of twentieth-century thought: their lives, loves, ideas, and politics.

Shaking up the content and method by which generations of students had studied Western philosophy, Martin Heidegger sought to enoble Man’s existence in relation to Death. Yet in a time of crisis, he sought personal advancement, becoming the most prominent German intellectual to join the Nazis.

Hannah Arendt, his brilliant, beautiful student and young lover, sought to enable a decent society of human beings in relation to one other. She was courageous in the time of crisis. Years later, she was even able to forgive Heidegger and to find in his behavior an insight into Nazism that would influence her reflections on “the banality of evil”—a concept that remains bitterly controversial and profoundly influential to this day.

Eloquent and moving, Stranger from Abroad dramatizes some of the greatest questions of the twentieth century—revealing bonds connecting the personal, philosophical, and political, highlighting the responsibility of intellectuals in dark times.

Pippin, Robert B. Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy. Yale University Press, 2010. $35.00 ISBN: 9780300145779

In this pathbreaking book one of America’s most distinguished philosophers brilliantly explores the status and authority of law and the nature of political allegiance through close readings of three classic Hollywood Westerns: Howard Hawks’ Red River and John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Searchers.

Robert Pippin treats these films as sophisticated mythic accounts of a key moment in American history: its “second founding,” or the western expansion. His central question concerns how these films explore classical problems in political psychology, especially how the virtues of a commercial republic gained some hold on individuals at a time when the heroic and martial virtues were so important. Westerns, Pippin shows, raise central questions about the difference between private violence and revenge and the state’s claim to a legitimate monopoly on violence, and they show how these claims come to be experienced and accepted or rejected.

Pippin’s account of the best Hollywood Westerns brings this genre into the center of the tradition of political thought, and his readings raise questions about political psychology and the political passions that have been neglected in contemporary political thought in favor of a limited concern with the question of legitimacy.