New Law Books at Cornell

The New Books List for October 1-15 is now available on the Law Library web site.  Click here to view the entire list.  It includes all new books at the Law Library as well as law-related books all across campus.  Here are a couple titles of interest:

 

From crisis to crisis : the global financial system and regulatory failure / Ross P. Buckley, Douglas W. Arner. -- Alphen aan den Rijn : Kluwer Law International ; Frederick,  c2011.

K1066 .B83 2011 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

 

Regulating the international movement of women : from protection to control / edited by Sharron A. FitzGerald. -- Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

K3275 .R438x 2011 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

 

If you would like to have either of these or any other books on the list checked out to you, please contact me or your librarian liaison.

 

Pat Court

Associate Law Librarian

 

 

Federal Court Opinions in FDsys

Access to federal court opinions, free on the web from the federal government, is on its way.  Through FDsys, the Federal Digital System, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC) have put up the first opinions as a test.  Initial testing is with three courts:

 

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit;

United States District Court District of Rhode Island; and

United States Bankruptcy Court Southern District of Florida.

 

The secure transfer of files to GPO from the AOUSC’s Case Management/Electronic Case Filing system (CM/ECF, which feeds PACER) maintains the chain of custody,  This allows GPO to authenticate the files with digital signatures. 

Read more about it at http://www.fdlp.gov/component/content/article/341-featuredarticles/1078-oyez-oyez-federal-court-opinions-in-fdsys

 

Pat Court

Associate Law Librarian

 

New Books, September 16-30

The New Books List for September 16-30 is now available on the Law Library web site.  Click here to view the entire list.  It includes all new books at the Law Library as well as law-related books all across campus.

 

Here are a couple of titles of interest:

 

1.       Why the law is so perverse / Leo Katz. -- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, c2011. -- xi, 239 p. ; 24 cm.

K290 .K38x 2011 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

Why does the law spurn win-win transactions? -- Things we can’t consent to, though no one knows why -- A parable -- Lessons -- The social choice connection -- Why is the law so full of loopholes? -- The irresistible wrong answer -- What is wrong with the irresistible answer? -- The voting analogy -- Turning the analogy into an identity -- Intentional fouls -- Why is the law so either/or? -- The proverbial rigidity of the law -- Line drawing as a matter of life and death -- Why don’t we punish all we condemn? -- The undercriminalization problem -- Multicriterial ranking and the undercriminalization problem.

 

2.       Property and the law in energy and natural resources / edited by Aileen McHarg ... [et al.]. -- Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2010. -- xviii, 478 p. ; 24 cm.

K3478 .P76x 2010 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

Contents include:  Property and the law in energy and natural resources / Aileen McHarg ... [et al.] -- Different views of the cathedral : the literature on property law theory / Jonnette Watson Hamilton and Nigel Bankes -- Public and private rights to natural resources and differences in their protection / Anita Rønne -- Restrictions on foreign investment in the energy sector for national security reasons : the case of Japan / Kazuhiro Nakatani -- The significance of property rights in biotic sequestration of carbon / Al Lucas -- Community based property rights regimes and resource conservation in India’s forests / Lavanya Rajamani.

 

If you would like to have either of these or any other books on the list checked out to you, please contact me or your librarian liaison.  And if you have suggestions for new books, do let us know!

 

Pat Court

Associate Law Librarian

pat.court@cornell.edu