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This is a featured Texas title “Colored men” and “hombres aquí” : Hernandez v. Texas and the emergence of Mexican American lawyering
By Olivas, Michael A. Arte Público Press. 2014.
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, this title explores the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case Hernandez v. Texas — the first case to be tried before the Supreme Court by a Mexican-American legal team, and pivotal to extending 14th Amendment protections to Mexican-Americans and other ethnic groups beyond the simple two-class theory of the black-white racial divide. This collection of essays considers the historical roots and sociological conditions that surrounded Hernandez v. Texas, and the legacy of the case as it marked both the laws of the nation and Latino practitioners in the legal field.
Read online: https://lexisdl.com/library/txsll/title/1973849
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This is a featured Texas title The history of the Supreme court of the state of Texas : With biographies of the chief and associate justices
By Davenport, J. H. Southern law Book publishers. [c1917].
"This outline of the history of the Supreme Court of Texas is presented to the public in the belief that it will prove entertaining and instructive to the professional and general reader as well." - publisher's description.
URL: http://archive.org/details/cu31924024708350
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This is a featured Texas title The Texas Supreme Court : A narrative history, 1836 – 1986
By Haley, James L. 2013.
Award-winning author James L. Haley offers this lively narrative history of Texas's highest court and how it helped to shape the Lone Star State during its first 150 years.
Read online: https://lexisdl.com/library/txsll/title/1258246
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By Bonfield, Lloyd. Thomson/West. c2006.
"This book, suitable as a primer for foreign LLMs — or as an introductory survey for American students of both procedural and substantive law — is a comprehensive, though concise, survey of the American legal system — its structure and its methodology." - publisher's description
URL: https://ezproxy.sll.texas.gov:2443/login?url=https://subscription.westacademic.com/Book/Detail?id=20016
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By Houppert, Karen. 2013.
Originally published to mark the 50th anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright, this title explores the legacy of that landmark Supreme Court decision by sharing the stories of defendants around the county who have relied on public defenders for representation.
Read online: https://lexisdl.com/library/txsll/title/1267807
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By Kempin, Frederick G. West Pub. Co. Third edition. 1990, c2007.
"Presents the development of the basic institutions of the Anglo-American common-law system. Explores the sources of law from cases, legislation, and codification, to doctrinal writings. The text also discusses the development of legal concepts such as property in land, contracts, liability for injury, negotiability of commercial paper, and the business corporation." - publisher's description
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» Legal History
The ‘Gold star icon’ icon indicates a Texas title
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This is a featured Texas title “Colored men” and “hombres aquí” : Hernandez v. Texas and the emergence of Mexican American lawyering
By Olivas, Michael A. Arte Público Press. 2014.
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, this title explores the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case Hernandez v. Texas — the first case to be tried before the Supreme Court by a Mexican-American legal team, and pivotal to extending 14th Amendment protections to Mexican-Americans and other ethnic groups beyond the simple two-class theory of the black-white racial divide. This collection of essays considers the historical roots and sociological conditions that surrounded Hernandez v. Texas, and the legacy of the case as it marked both the laws of the nation and Latino practitioners in the legal field.
Read online: https://lexisdl.com/library/txsll/title/1973849
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This is a featured Texas title George W. Paschal, Texas unionist and scalawag jurisprudent
By Scarborough, Jane Lynn. c1972.
This dissertation is a biography of George W. Paschal, a Texas lawyer and prolific collector and organizer of Texas statutory law and case law during the Civil War era. Chapter 3 discusses Paschal's Digests in depth.
URL: https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/14894
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This is a featured Texas title Law and the Texas frontier
By Haley, James L. Texas Supreme Court Historical Society. First edition. 2017.
This second book in the Taming Texas series covers law and justice in Texas's frontier era (1680s-1880s) including the history of the court system.
URL: https://www.texascourthistory.org/Uploads/TT%20Frontier%20e-pdf.pdf
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This is a featured Texas title The laws of slavery in Texas : Historical documents and essays
By Campbell, Randolph B. University of Texas Press. 2010.
A remarkable collection of original decrees, court cases, and other documents charting the legal history of African Americans in Texas, from Mexican rule through Confederate law.
Read online: https://lexisdl.com/library/txsll/title/1047922
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This is a featured Texas title Taming Texas : How law and order came to the lone star state
By Haley, James L. Texas Supreme Court Historical Society. 2016.
The first volume in the Taming Texas book series, this title shows how the state’s court system fits into the larger picture of Texas history: its roots, heroes, growing pains, and milestones, from the days of early Spanish colonization to the present.
URL: http://tamingtexas.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/TamingTexas.pdf
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This is a featured Texas title The Spanish element in Texas water law
By Dobkins, Betty Eakle. University of Texas Press. 1959.
A history of how Spanish law influenced the development of Texas water law.
Read online: https://lexisdl.com/library/txsll/title/1928941
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This is a featured Texas title The Texas Supreme Court : A narrative history, 1836 – 1986
By Haley, James L. 2013.
Award-winning author James L. Haley offers this lively narrative history of Texas's highest court and how it helped to shape the Lone Star State during its first 150 years.
Read online: https://lexisdl.com/library/txsll/title/1258246
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By Bonfield, Lloyd. Thomson/West. c2006.
"This book, suitable as a primer for foreign LLMs — or as an introductory survey for American students of both procedural and substantive law — is a comprehensive, though concise, survey of the American legal system — its structure and its methodology." - publisher's description
URL: https://ezproxy.sll.texas.gov:2443/login?url=https://subscription.westacademic.com/Book/Detail?id=20016
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By Houppert, Karen. 2013.
Originally published to mark the 50th anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright, this title explores the legacy of that landmark Supreme Court decision by sharing the stories of defendants around the county who have relied on public defenders for representation.
Read online: https://lexisdl.com/library/txsll/title/1267807
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By Kozolchyk, Boris. West Academic Publishing. Second edition. 2019.
"This work offers a contextual comparative analysis of commercial contracts from their origin until the present time. It studies their positive and living law in countries and regions representative of major legal systems and business cultures: Classical Rome, Medieval Europe and the Middle East, Codification Europe (especially France and Germany), Post-Colonial Latin America, the Soviet Union, the Peoples’ Republic of China, England (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), and Post-Colonial United States. It identifies contractual concepts, principles, rules, doctrines, methods of reasoning and commercial practices that have contributed most to mankind’s economic development. Finally, it explains how certain selfish and altruistic components of standard and fiduciary commercial and financial practices combine to cause the necessary trust and cooperation that makes possible both economic growth and legal institutional longevity." - publisher's description
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By Glendon, Mary Ann. West Academic Publishing. Fourth edition. 2016.
"This nutshell offers a general introduction to comparative law that includes both an overview of the methods of comparative law as well as of the two most widespread legal traditions in the world: civil (or Romano-Germanic) law and common law. For both legal traditions, this expert discussion covers their history; legal structures, including constitutional systems, courts, and judicial review; the roles of central legal actors, including lawyers, judges, and scholars; an overview of civil and criminal procedure; the principal sources of law and divisions of substantive law; and the judicial process. Throughout, the discussion also includes references to the place and the importance of supranational law and institutions and their impact on the civil law and common law traditions in Europe." - publisher's description
URL: https://ezproxy.sll.texas.gov:2443/login?url=https://subscription.westacademic.com/Book/Detail?id=24420
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By Ragsdale, Bruce A. Federal Judicial Center, Federal Judicial History Office. 2013.
This Federal Judicial Center publication was undertaken in furtherance of the Center’s statutory mission to “conduct, coordinate, and encourage programs relating to the history of the judicial branch of the United States government.”
URL: https://www.fjc.gov/history/debates-federal-judiciary-documentary-history
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By Kempin, Frederick G. West Pub. Co. Third edition. 1990, c2007.
"Presents the development of the basic institutions of the Anglo-American common-law system. Explores the sources of law from cases, legislation, and codification, to doctrinal writings. The text also discusses the development of legal concepts such as property in land, contracts, liability for injury, negotiability of commercial paper, and the business corporation." - publisher's description
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By Rotunda, Ronald D. West. Fifth edition. 2018.
"Many law professors aim to probe deep ethical issues in class. But they also need to cover the material that the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination requires. The Rotunda Nutshell fulfils that need as it digests the Model Rules in an engaging, analytical, and often critical way. In a surprisingly pithy manner, this book places the Rules in an historic context that lets the student understand problems with prior versions of the Rules and the Model Code. The Nutshell also analyzes the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers, Third. This approach frees up precious class time for important normative issues. And, this Nutshell helps your students come up with better answers to your Socratic questions than you anticipated. This book has proved so popular as an explanation of the basic principles of legal ethics that it has been translated into Japanese." -publisher's description
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By Ferguson, Andrew G. New York University Press. 2013.
Combining American history, constitutional law, and personal experience, this book engages citizens in the deeper meaning of jury service.
Read online: https://lexisdl.com/library/txsll/title/1190736
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By Tushnet, Mark V. 2014.
In this surprising and highly unconventional work, Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet poses a seemingly simple question that yields a thoroughly unexpected answer. The Constitution matters, he argues, not because it structures our government but because it structures our politics. He maintains that politicians and political parties—not Supreme Court decisions—are the true engines of constitutional change in our system. This message will empower all citizens who use direct political action to define and protect our rights and liberties as Americans.Unlike legal scholars who consider the Constitution only as a blueprint for American democracy, Tushnet focuses on the ways it serves as a framework for political debate. Each branch of government draws substantive inspiration and procedural structure from the Constitution but can effect change only when there is the political will to carry it out. Tushnet's political understanding of the Constitution therefore does not...
Read online: https://lexisdl.com/library/txsll/title/1912475
» Philosophy of Law
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By Bonfield, Lloyd. Thomson/West. c2006.
"This book, suitable as a primer for foreign LLMs — or as an introductory survey for American students of both procedural and substantive law — is a comprehensive, though concise, survey of the American legal system — its structure and its methodology." - publisher's description
URL: https://ezproxy.sll.texas.gov:2443/login?url=https://subscription.westacademic.com/Book/Detail?id=20016
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By Kozolchyk, Boris. West Academic Publishing. Second edition. 2019.
"This work offers a contextual comparative analysis of commercial contracts from their origin until the present time. It studies their positive and living law in countries and regions representative of major legal systems and business cultures: Classical Rome, Medieval Europe and the Middle East, Codification Europe (especially France and Germany), Post-Colonial Latin America, the Soviet Union, the Peoples’ Republic of China, England (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), and Post-Colonial United States. It identifies contractual concepts, principles, rules, doctrines, methods of reasoning and commercial practices that have contributed most to mankind’s economic development. Finally, it explains how certain selfish and altruistic components of standard and fiduciary commercial and financial practices combine to cause the necessary trust and cooperation that makes possible both economic growth and legal institutional longevity." - publisher's description
URL: https://ezproxy.sll.texas.gov:2443/login?url=https://subscription.westacademic.com/Book/Detail?id=26184
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By Glendon, Mary Ann. West Academic Publishing. Fourth edition. 2016.
"This nutshell offers a general introduction to comparative law that includes both an overview of the methods of comparative law as well as of the two most widespread legal traditions in the world: civil (or Romano-Germanic) law and common law. For both legal traditions, this expert discussion covers their history; legal structures, including constitutional systems, courts, and judicial review; the roles of central legal actors, including lawyers, judges, and scholars; an overview of civil and criminal procedure; the principal sources of law and divisions of substantive law; and the judicial process. Throughout, the discussion also includes references to the place and the importance of supranational law and institutions and their impact on the civil law and common law traditions in Europe." - publisher's description
URL: https://ezproxy.sll.texas.gov:2443/login?url=https://subscription.westacademic.com/Book/Detail?id=24420
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By Kempin, Frederick G. West Pub. Co. Third edition. 1990, c2007.
"Presents the development of the basic institutions of the Anglo-American common-law system. Explores the sources of law from cases, legislation, and codification, to doctrinal writings. The text also discusses the development of legal concepts such as property in land, contracts, liability for injury, negotiability of commercial paper, and the business corporation." - publisher's description
URL: https://ezproxy.sll.texas.gov:2443/login?url=https://subscription.westacademic.com/Book/Detail?id=20077
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By Hegland, Kenney F. West Academic Publishing. Eighth edition. 2020.
"'There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is style. The other is content.' Professor Fred Rodell, Yale, 1936. We can’t do much about content. You’ll have to know how the common law system works, how to read and brief cases, how to study and take exams, how to write and argue law and how lawsuits are tried. We can do something about style. There’s advice and illustrations. You’ll throw pots, working your first case, making your first argument, briefing cases, taking exams, and writing memos. This is not for the faint hearted nor is law school. Think like a lawyer. I won’t be a bore. I’ll tell jokes, some of which are actually funny. I’ll challenge you intellectually. Where does law come from? Should judges follow precedent? What if your client wants to pave Paradise and put in a parking lot? If you love ideas you’ll love this book and you’ll love law school. (If you love people you’ll love practice.)" - publisher's description
URL: https://ezproxy.sll.texas.gov:2443/login?url=https://subscription.westacademic.com/Book/Detail?id=26888
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By Sinha, S. Prakash. West Pub. Co. 1993, c2006.
"Examines the central questions about the nature of law. What is law? How is it defined? What are the essential aspects? Divided into three sections, this authoritative text investigates the various theories of law-metaphysical-rational epistemology, idealistic epistemology, and empiricist epistemology." - publisher's description
URL: https://ezproxy.sll.texas.gov:2443/login?url=https://subscription.westacademic.com/Book/Detail?id=20110
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By Burkhart, Ann M. West Academic Publishing. Third edition. [2017].
"It answers questions students have as they begin their studies. What is a tort? Hornbook? Should I join a study group? It also explains and gives examples of the best methods for studying and for taking exams. It provides questions and model answers from actual law school exams. The Nutshell also provides information about the types of legal practice that are available to you when you graduate. And it describes the opportunities that will be available to you during your second and third years of law school, such as law journals, law clinics, internships, joint degree programs, and study abroad." - publisher's description
URL: https://ezproxy.sll.texas.gov:2443/login?url=https://subscription.westacademic.com/Book/Detail?id=25347
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By Farnsworth, Ward. 2007.
There are two kinds of knowledge law school teaches: legal rules on the one hand, and tools for thinking about legal problems on the other. Although the tools are far more interesting and useful than the rules, they tend to be neglected in favor of other aspects of the curriculum. In The Legal Analyst, Ward Farnsworth brings together in one place all of the most powerful of those tools for thinking about law.From classic ideas in game theory such as the "Prisoner’s Dilemma" and the "Stag Hunt" to psychological principles such as hindsight bias and framing effects, from ideas in jurisprudence such as the slippery slope to more than two dozen other such principles, Farnsworth’s guide leads readers through the fascinating world of legal thought. Each chapter introduces a single tool and shows how it can be used to solve different types of problems. The explanations are written in clear, lively language and illustrated with a wide range of examples.The Legal Analyst is an...
Read online: https://lexisdl.com/library/txsll/title/208825
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By Rotunda, Ronald D. West. Fifth edition. 2018.
"Many law professors aim to probe deep ethical issues in class. But they also need to cover the material that the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination requires. The Rotunda Nutshell fulfils that need as it digests the Model Rules in an engaging, analytical, and often critical way. In a surprisingly pithy manner, this book places the Rules in an historic context that lets the student understand problems with prior versions of the Rules and the Model Code. The Nutshell also analyzes the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers, Third. This approach frees up precious class time for important normative issues. And, this Nutshell helps your students come up with better answers to your Socratic questions than you anticipated. This book has proved so popular as an explanation of the basic principles of legal ethics that it has been translated into Japanese." -publisher's description
URL: https://ezproxy.sll.texas.gov:2443/login?url=https://subscription.westacademic.com/Book/Detail?id=25756
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By Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Kaplan Pub. 2009.
"The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race." No jurist has left his mark on American law like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. A steadfast defender of free speech, Supreme Court Justice Holmes also championed judicial restraint, advocating that a judge's opinions shouldn't prevent him or her from upholding the will of the elected legislative majority. Holmes did more than hand down rulings in his finely crafted decisions--he inspired the people to follow the law. In The Path of the Law, Holmes discusses his personal philosophy on legal practice. The Common Law is a series of lectures that established Holmes's reputation as a witty and articulate writer. J. Craig Williams is the founding member of WLF The Williams Lindberg Law Firm, PC. He is the author of How To Get Sued, Bad Decisions, and the creator of the award-winning blog "May It Please...
Read online: https://lexisdl.com/library/txsll/title/311503
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By Ferguson, Andrew G. New York University Press. 2013.
Combining American history, constitutional law, and personal experience, this book engages citizens in the deeper meaning of jury service.
Read online: https://lexisdl.com/library/txsll/title/1190736
» CLEs
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State Bar of Texas. 2017.
Read online: https://lexisdl.com/library/txsll/title/5112448
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State Bar of Texas. 2019.
Read online: https://lexisdl.com/library/txsll/title/4749604
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State Bar of Texas. 2021.
Read online: https://lexisdl.com/library/txsll/title/7705679
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This is a featured Texas title “Colored men” and “hombres aquí” : Hernandez v. Texas and the emergence of Mexican American lawyering
By Olivas, Michael A. Arte Público Press. 2014.
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, this title explores the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case Hernandez v. Texas — the first case to be tried before the Supreme Court by a Mexican-American legal team, and pivotal to extending 14th Amendment protections to Mexican-Americans and other ethnic groups beyond the simple two-class theory of the black-white racial divide. This collection of essays considers the historical roots and sociological conditions that surrounded Hernandez v. Texas, and the legacy of the case as it marked both the laws of the nation and Latino practitioners in the legal field.
Read online: https://lexisdl.com/library/txsll/title/1973849
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This is a featured Texas title George W. Paschal, Texas unionist and scalawag jurisprudent
By Scarborough, Jane Lynn. c1972.
This dissertation is a biography of George W. Paschal, a Texas lawyer and prolific collector and organizer of Texas statutory law and case law during the Civil War era. Chapter 3 discusses Paschal's Digests in depth.
URL: https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/14894
-
This is a featured Texas title Law and the Texas frontier
By Haley, James L. Texas Supreme Court Historical Society. First edition. 2017.
This second book in the Taming Texas series covers law and justice in Texas's frontier era (1680s-1880s) including the history of the court system.
URL: https://www.texascourthistory.org/Uploads/TT%20Frontier%20e-pdf.pdf
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This is a featured Texas title Taming Texas : How law and order came to the lone star state
By Haley, James L. Texas Supreme Court Historical Society. 2016.
The first volume in the Taming Texas book series, this title shows how the state’s court system fits into the larger picture of Texas history: its roots, heroes, growing pains, and milestones, from the days of early Spanish colonization to the present.
URL: http://tamingtexas.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/TamingTexas.pdf
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This is a featured Texas title The history of the Supreme court of the state of Texas : With biographies of the chief and associate justices
By Davenport, J. H. Southern law Book publishers. [c1917].
"This outline of the history of the Supreme Court of Texas is presented to the public in the belief that it will prove entertaining and instructive to the professional and general reader as well." - publisher's description.
URL: http://archive.org/details/cu31924024708350
-
This is a featured Texas title The laws of slavery in Texas : Historical documents and essays
By Campbell, Randolph B. University of Texas Press. 2010.
A remarkable collection of original decrees, court cases, and other documents charting the legal history of African Americans in Texas, from Mexican rule through Confederate law.
Read online: https://lexisdl.com/library/txsll/title/1047922
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This is a featured Texas title The Spanish element in Texas water law
By Dobkins, Betty Eakle. University of Texas Press. 1959.
A history of how Spanish law influenced the development of Texas water law.
Read online: https://lexisdl.com/library/txsll/title/1928941
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This is a featured Texas title The Texas Supreme Court : A narrative history, 1836 – 1986
By Haley, James L. 2013.
Award-winning author James L. Haley offers this lively narrative history of Texas's highest court and how it helped to shape the Lone Star State during its first 150 years.
Read online: https://lexisdl.com/library/txsll/title/1258246
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By Bonfield, Lloyd. Thomson/West. c2006.
"This book, suitable as a primer for foreign LLMs — or as an introductory survey for American students of both procedural and substantive law — is a comprehensive, though concise, survey of the American legal system — its structure and its methodology." - publisher's description
URL: https://ezproxy.sll.texas.gov:2443/login?url=https://subscription.westacademic.com/Book/Detail?id=20016
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By Houppert, Karen. 2013.
Originally published to mark the 50th anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright, this title explores the legacy of that landmark Supreme Court decision by sharing the stories of defendants around the county who have relied on public defenders for representation.
Read online: https://lexisdl.com/library/txsll/title/1267807
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By Kozolchyk, Boris. West Academic Publishing. Second edition. 2019.
"This work offers a contextual comparative analysis of commercial contracts from their origin until the present time. It studies their positive and living law in countries and regions representative of major legal systems and business cultures: Classical Rome, Medieval Europe and the Middle East, Codification Europe (especially France and Germany), Post-Colonial Latin America, the Soviet Union, the Peoples’ Republic of China, England (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), and Post-Colonial United States. It identifies contractual concepts, principles, rules, doctrines, methods of reasoning and commercial practices that have contributed most to mankind’s economic development. Finally, it explains how certain selfish and altruistic components of standard and fiduciary commercial and financial practices combine to cause the necessary trust and cooperation that makes possible both economic growth and legal institutional longevity." - publisher's description
URL: https://ezproxy.sll.texas.gov:2443/login?url=https://subscription.westacademic.com/Book/Detail?id=26184
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By Glendon, Mary Ann. West Academic Publishing. Fourth edition. 2016.
"This nutshell offers a general introduction to comparative law that includes both an overview of the methods of comparative law as well as of the two most widespread legal traditions in the world: civil (or Romano-Germanic) law and common law. For both legal traditions, this expert discussion covers their history; legal structures, including constitutional systems, courts, and judicial review; the roles of central legal actors, including lawyers, judges, and scholars; an overview of civil and criminal procedure; the principal sources of law and divisions of substantive law; and the judicial process. Throughout, the discussion also includes references to the place and the importance of supranational law and institutions and their impact on the civil law and common law traditions in Europe." - publisher's description
URL: https://ezproxy.sll.texas.gov:2443/login?url=https://subscription.westacademic.com/Book/Detail?id=24420
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By Ragsdale, Bruce A. Federal Judicial Center, Federal Judicial History Office. 2013.
This Federal Judicial Center publication was undertaken in furtherance of the Center’s statutory mission to “conduct, coordinate, and encourage programs relating to the history of the judicial branch of the United States government.”
URL: https://www.fjc.gov/history/debates-federal-judiciary-documentary-history
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By Kempin, Frederick G. West Pub. Co. Third edition. 1990, c2007.
"Presents the development of the basic institutions of the Anglo-American common-law system. Explores the sources of law from cases, legislation, and codification, to doctrinal writings. The text also discusses the development of legal concepts such as property in land, contracts, liability for injury, negotiability of commercial paper, and the business corporation." - publisher's description
URL: https://ezproxy.sll.texas.gov:2443/login?url=https://subscription.westacademic.com/Book/Detail?id=20077
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By Hegland, Kenney F. West Academic Publishing. Eighth edition. 2020.
"'There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is style. The other is content.' Professor Fred Rodell, Yale, 1936. We can’t do much about content. You’ll have to know how the common law system works, how to read and brief cases, how to study and take exams, how to write and argue law and how lawsuits are tried. We can do something about style. There’s advice and illustrations. You’ll throw pots, working your first case, making your first argument, briefing cases, taking exams, and writing memos. This is not for the faint hearted nor is law school. Think like a lawyer. I won’t be a bore. I’ll tell jokes, some of which are actually funny. I’ll challenge you intellectually. Where does law come from? Should judges follow precedent? What if your client wants to pave Paradise and put in a parking lot? If you love ideas you’ll love this book and you’ll love law school. (If you love people you’ll love practice.)" - publisher's description
URL: https://ezproxy.sll.texas.gov:2443/login?url=https://subscription.westacademic.com/Book/Detail?id=26888
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By Sinha, S. Prakash. West Pub. Co. 1993, c2006.
"Examines the central questions about the nature of law. What is law? How is it defined? What are the essential aspects? Divided into three sections, this authoritative text investigates the various theories of law-metaphysical-rational epistemology, idealistic epistemology, and empiricist epistemology." - publisher's description
URL: https://ezproxy.sll.texas.gov:2443/login?url=https://subscription.westacademic.com/Book/Detail?id=20110
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By Burkhart, Ann M. West Academic Publishing. Third edition. [2017].
"It answers questions students have as they begin their studies. What is a tort? Hornbook? Should I join a study group? It also explains and gives examples of the best methods for studying and for taking exams. It provides questions and model answers from actual law school exams. The Nutshell also provides information about the types of legal practice that are available to you when you graduate. And it describes the opportunities that will be available to you during your second and third years of law school, such as law journals, law clinics, internships, joint degree programs, and study abroad." - publisher's description
URL: https://ezproxy.sll.texas.gov:2443/login?url=https://subscription.westacademic.com/Book/Detail?id=25347
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By Rotunda, Ronald D. West. Fifth edition. 2018.
"Many law professors aim to probe deep ethical issues in class. But they also need to cover the material that the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination requires. The Rotunda Nutshell fulfils that need as it digests the Model Rules in an engaging, analytical, and often critical way. In a surprisingly pithy manner, this book places the Rules in an historic context that lets the student understand problems with prior versions of the Rules and the Model Code. The Nutshell also analyzes the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers, Third. This approach frees up precious class time for important normative issues. And, this Nutshell helps your students come up with better answers to your Socratic questions than you anticipated. This book has proved so popular as an explanation of the basic principles of legal ethics that it has been translated into Japanese." -publisher's description
URL: https://ezproxy.sll.texas.gov:2443/login?url=https://subscription.westacademic.com/Book/Detail?id=25756
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State Bar of Texas. 2021.
Read online: https://lexisdl.com/library/txsll/title/7705679
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State Bar of Texas. 2019.
Read online: https://lexisdl.com/library/txsll/title/4749604
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State Bar of Texas. 2017.
Read online: https://lexisdl.com/library/txsll/title/5112448
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By Farnsworth, Ward. 2007.
There are two kinds of knowledge law school teaches: legal rules on the one hand, and tools for thinking about legal problems on the other. Although the tools are far more interesting and useful than the rules, they tend to be neglected in favor of other aspects of the curriculum. In The Legal Analyst, Ward Farnsworth brings together in one place all of the most powerful of those tools for thinking about law.From classic ideas in game theory such as the "Prisoner’s Dilemma" and the "Stag Hunt" to psychological principles such as hindsight bias and framing effects, from ideas in jurisprudence such as the slippery slope to more than two dozen other such principles, Farnsworth’s guide leads readers through the fascinating world of legal thought. Each chapter introduces a single tool and shows how it can be used to solve different types of problems. The explanations are written in clear, lively language and illustrated with a wide range of examples.The Legal Analyst is an...
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By Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Kaplan Pub. 2009.
"The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race." No jurist has left his mark on American law like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. A steadfast defender of free speech, Supreme Court Justice Holmes also championed judicial restraint, advocating that a judge's opinions shouldn't prevent him or her from upholding the will of the elected legislative majority. Holmes did more than hand down rulings in his finely crafted decisions--he inspired the people to follow the law. In The Path of the Law, Holmes discusses his personal philosophy on legal practice. The Common Law is a series of lectures that established Holmes's reputation as a witty and articulate writer. J. Craig Williams is the founding member of WLF The Williams Lindberg Law Firm, PC. He is the author of How To Get Sued, Bad Decisions, and the creator of the award-winning blog "May It Please...
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By Ferguson, Andrew G. New York University Press. 2013.
Combining American history, constitutional law, and personal experience, this book engages citizens in the deeper meaning of jury service.
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By Tushnet, Mark V. 2014.
In this surprising and highly unconventional work, Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet poses a seemingly simple question that yields a thoroughly unexpected answer. The Constitution matters, he argues, not because it structures our government but because it structures our politics. He maintains that politicians and political parties—not Supreme Court decisions—are the true engines of constitutional change in our system. This message will empower all citizens who use direct political action to define and protect our rights and liberties as Americans.Unlike legal scholars who consider the Constitution only as a blueprint for American democracy, Tushnet focuses on the ways it serves as a framework for political debate. Each branch of government draws substantive inspiration and procedural structure from the Constitution but can effect change only when there is the political will to carry it out. Tushnet's political understanding of the Constitution therefore does not...
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