Monday, December 5, 2011

New Law Books at Cornell, Nov 16-30

The New Books List for November 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 few titles of interest:

Courtwatchers : eyewitness accounts in Supreme Court history / Clare Cushman. -- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2011.

KF8742 .C875x 2011 -- Law Library

Sink or swim: the first decade -- John Marshall takes charge: establishing power -- Justice by Shay, stagecoach, steamboat, train: riding circuit -- Wives, children . . . husbands: supporting roles -- Yes, Mr. president: appointment and confirmation -- Learning the ropes: a rookie arrives -- Inside the courtroom: views of the bench -- Silver tongues and quill pens: oral argument -- Nine justices, one bench: building consensus -- (Not so) good behavior: discord and feuds -- A peek inside chambers: clerk stories -- "Welcome to the chain gang": managing the workload -- Timing it right: stepping down.

 

Making of international criminal justice: a view from the bench: selected speeches / Theodor Meron. -- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.

KZ7235 .M47 2011 -- Law Library

Humanitarian law and human rights law : evolving bodies of law -- The rise of international criminal tribunals -- International crimes and jurisprudence of international courts -- Responsibility and the role of the judge

 

Compliance and compromise : the jurisprudence of gender pay equity / by Cher Weixia Chen. -- Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2011.

K1772 .C48x 2011 -- Law Library

Gender pay equity and the international instruments -- Legislative compliance -- the process of "internalization" -- Judicial compliance -- the process of "interpretation" -- The process of "interaction”

 

You can click on the underlined title to go to the online catalog entry for that book.  And then click on “Long View” near the top of that screen for more information, usually chapter titles and authors, and subject headings.

 

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

 

Pat Court

Associate Law Librarian

pat.court@cornell.edu