New Titles in the Chastek Library

"The 8th edition illuminates how recent laws, political debates, and Supreme Court decisions are continually reshaping our understanding of the Constitution and its role in American life and society-including such issues as Donald Trump's immunity from prosecution for the January 6th riots, Mike Pence's role in certifying Electoral College votes, Ketanji Brown Jackson's appointment to the Supreme Court, and the Dobbs decision, among other controversial developments." -- Publisher site.

"Adoption Unfiltered models the importance of adults in adoption working together in the spirit of curiosity and empathy―to better support adoptees and their first and adoptive families." -- Publisher site.

"This intellectually sophisticated overview of constitutional law and Supreme Court practice additionally discusses anxieties about whether and how the Justices, who can overrule their own precedents, are meaningfully constrained by law." -- Publisher site.

"Closed Seasons highlights how hunting and fishing regulations were relatively rare in the nineteenth century, but the emerging conservation movement and the rise of a regional “sportsman” identity at the turn of the twentieth century eventually led to the adoption of state-level laws. Once passed, however, these laws, were plagued by obstacles, including insufficient funding and enforcement. Brock traces the dizzying array of factors—propaganda, racial tensions, organizational activism, and federal involvement—that led to effective game and fish laws in the South." -- Publisher site.

"Implicit in the Dartmouth case, though never clarified, was the question of whether higher education was a private or public good, and thus whether colleges are better off under private or public control. By choosing the private path, Dartmouth reinforced a gradual privatization of what might otherwise have been considered public goods. Americans today live with the consequences of this decision." -- Publisher site.

"Engaging and meticulous, David Davis, Abraham Lincoln's Favorite Judge tells the story of an essential figure in the career of America's greatest president." -- Publisher site.

"Deduct It! shows you how to maximize your business deductions--quickly, easily, and legally. Whether your business is just starting or well established, this book is indispensable to your financial success." -- Publisher site.

"Brandeis was a lifelong proponent of democracy and its promise of equal rights to all. Any person, or institution, that threatened a person's right to freedom and self-improvement was not just an affront to that person, but also to democracy itself. The articles in Democracy and Social Justice touch on several issues that Brandeis believed threatened democracy, such as monopolies, union busting, and racial discrimination. Of special note, there is also a brief memoir that Brandeis dictated that was recently unearthed." -- Publisher site.

"This book explores the evolving legal landscape where digital media and AI intersect, offering crucial insights into copyright, data privacy, ethics, and regulatory frameworks shaping the media industry's future." -- Publisher site.

"Because China is committed to becoming the world leader in AI and faces fewer legal and values-based constraints in its pursuit of military AI, democracies' commitment to using AI in lawful and ethical ways will be tested. The book defines and explores the double black box phenomenon and then identifies ways that policymakers, military and intelligence officials, and lawyers in democratic states such as the United States can reap the advantages of advanced technologies without surrendering their public law values." -- Publisher site.

"The new thirteenth edition includes numerous updates. It reviews the 2023 and 2024 amendments to the Federal Rules and discusses significant 2024 Supreme Court decisions such as Smith v. Arizona and Diaz v. United States. In addition, the thirteenth edition covers new topics such as the products of AI tools and satellite imagery technology." -- Publisher site.

"The Roberts Court played a decisive role in some of the most contentious issues in American law. Due to several justices’ application of originalist interpretations, its rulings have reconfigured key constitutional protections—often in ways that expand the authority of law enforcement while constraining legislative power over criminal statutes. The trajectory of the Court’s conservative supermajority raises pressing questions about the future of constitutional rights." -- Publisher site.

"While the story of colonial tax law is intrinsically linked to advancing slavery and racism, Infanti reveals how several colonies used the power of taxation as a means of curtailing the slave trade. Though often self-interested, these efforts show how taxation can be used not only in the service of evil but also to correct societal injustices. Providing a fascinating account of slavery’s economic entrenchment through the history of American tax law, The Human Toll urges us to consider the lessons that fiscal history holds for those working in the reparations movement today." -- Publisher site.

"This book builds on feminism, ecology, posthumanism and the current Blue Turn in the humanities and social sciences, and puts questions of justice at their core. What the book proposes, however, is not simply an ecological concept of justice. Rather, through examples taken from current affairs, science and the art world, it attempts a radical recalibration of what justice is. The book argues that hydrojustice is already here, part of our planetary condition, but it requires unearthing, in the double sense of revealing what is hidden and allowing earth to cede priority to the aquatic." -- Publisher site.

"This book goes beyond the experiment to provide ample background and context, in order to understand how the experiment was planned, financed, recorded, and divulged in the press and within the academic. It discusses also the role played by Philip Zimbardo in the trial of one of the guards of Abu Ghraib, as well as the impact of mass media on science, the debates between personal psychology and social psychology, and the specific nature of cold war social science." -- Back cover.

"Introduces legal and ethical issues impacting artists, art collectors, dealers, and museums in today's international art markets. Highlights key international treaties and statutes, judicial decisions, and excerpts from scholarly and other publications to make legal and ethical issues in the world of the visual arts accessible and understandable." -- Publisher site.

"Often overlooked in histories of the world's great code systems, the United States settled on a code of practice that elevated lawyers as the dominant force among America's legal institutions. This account ranges widely from the Jacksonian Era to the end of the Gilded Age, from industrializing Gotham to the periphery of the American West and Reconstruction South, from the parlours of Brooklyn pastors and merchants to the ornamented courthouses of Wall Street. Drawing on innovative methods in digital legal history, Law's Machinery offers a sweeping intellectual, cultural, and political history of the modernization of American legal practice." -- Publisher site.

"Liberty as Independence examines new dimensions of these rival views, considering the connections between debates on liberty and debates on slavery, and demonstrating how these ideas were harnessed in feminist discussions surrounding limitations on the liberty of women. The concept of liberty is inherently global, and Skinner argues strongly for the reinstatement of the understanding of liberty as independence." -- Publisher site.

"This book explores the historical roots of this Eurocentric conceptualization, which since its development has fed into contemporary twenty-first-century understandings of 'human trafficking, especially in women and children'. In unpacking these origins, the books explores how populist narratives became entangled with state and organizational practices of categorizing subalterns on the move. Contributing to the historiography, 'white slavery' is shown to have been not only a component of a shifting legal dogma on mobility control and international police cooperation but also a political concern of women’s rights and moral reformist movements. Contrary to the sensationalized claims of the times, 'white slavery' was not a phenomenon reflecting such exaggerations but rather was part of the historical development of state mechanisms to define the voluntary and coerced migration based on race and gender-based desirability." -- Publisher site.

"Whether you are an artist, lawyer, entertainment Web site administrator, record label executive, student, or other participant in the music industry, this book will help you understand how copyright law affects you, helping you use the law to your benefit." -- Publisher site.

"Neighbor Law is more than a legal guide-it's a practical book filled with tips on how to solve problems and restore good neighbor relations. Readers can learn how to deal with noisy neighbors, trees that hang over a property line, blocked views, unclear boundary lines, high, unsightly, or deteriorating fences, dangers to children ('attractive nuisances'), problems with neighboring businesses, drones trespassing onto your property, and other common issues, like secondhand smoke, blighted property, and animal issues." -- Publisher site.

"An expansive biography of Benjamin Ferencz, a Romanian-born Jewish American lawyer of humble beginnings who prosecuted the Einsatzgruppen-a group of Nazi SS detachments responsible for the murder of approximately 1.5 million civilians in Eastern Europe during World War II-at the American military tribunal in Nuremberg in 1947. This biography also details the remainder of Ferencz's career, during which he worked on reparations and toward the establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court." -- Publisher site.

"People v. The Court presents an indictment of the Supreme Court's constitutional doctrine. It also provides a set of proposals for revolutionary changes in the practice of judicial review that are designed to enable We the People to reclaim our rightful place as sovereigns in a democratic, constitutional order." -- Publisher site.

"Structured in dialogs and punctuated with informative text boxes, illustrations, and discussion questions, this accessible guide to an increasingly influential area of the law centers rich intersectional analysis of both movements and prompts readers to undertake further reflection and conversation. At a time of heightened public attention to the broader scholarly study of human social behavior and interaction, this book shows rather than tells how people with different perspectives can engage one another with open minds and a generosity of spirit." -- Publisher site.

"Drawing on the work of Aristotle, Cicero, Spinoza, Burke, Hume, Madison, Tocqueville, Lincoln, Arendt, Heidegger, and others, he argues that humanism is conservatism, today as in the past. He reminds us that our humbling parameters make possible every form of human greatness, every human glory, every human love worthy of the name." -- Publisher site.

"Through analyses of key lawsuits and an original dataset of federal Title IX complaints, she traces the evolution of sexual harassment policy in education--from the early applications at elite universities to the growing sexual harassment bureaucracies on campuses today--and how the work of these feminists has forever shaped the law, university governance, and gender relations on campus. Reynolds argues that our political and interpretive struggle over this application of Title IX is far from finished. Her account illuminates this ongoing effort, as well as the more general process by which citizens can transform not only the laws that govern us, but also the very meaning of equality under American law." -- Back cover.

"This book aims to draw careful distinctions between the various forms of housing insecurity and personal circumstances research participants experience. While the urgency of the housing crisis in the US has produced a lot of scholarly work on housing, it often fails to recount the real life struggles that the housing crisis is causing. This is where the book provides a distinct contribution to housing studies and urban geography. The author use of trust as an analytical lens, her qualitative approach, and her work with people on the ground aim to move away from a quantitative understanding of the crisis by giving it a human face. The author seeks to bring to light the human costs of the destruction of home as well as the political reactions and day-to-day strategies that residents apply to make ends meet in times of the US housing crisis." -- Publisher site.

"By conservative estimates, at least 20 percent of state prison inmates are former foster youth, and in some lockups more than half the inmates were raised by the state. Following six foster kids through the courtrooms, group homes, detention halls, and adoption hairs that framed their lives over four decades, Rowe illustrates exactly where, when, and how the system twists children into crime statistics. With perspectives from the psychologists, judges, advocates, and foster parents who witnessed their struggle for survival, Wards of the State pulls back the curtain on a child welfare system that has become an integral part of America's mass incarceration complex." -- Book flap.

"Rejecting platitudes about the First Amendment and its international equivalents, and leaving no ideological position undisturbed, What Is Free Speech? is the unsettling history of an ideal as cherished as it is misunderstood." -- Publisher site.