Tuesday, February 21, 2012

New Books at the Law Library, Feb 1-15

The New Books List for February 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 some titles of interest:

 

Law, order and freedom: a historical introduction to legal philosophy / editors, Cees Maris, Frans Jacobs ; translated by Jacques de Ville. -- Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, c2011

K230 .L39 2011 and e-book -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

Law, Order and Freedom gives an account of the history of Western legal history and philosophy.  It focuses on law as a system of norms which aspires to provide a fair balance between order and freedom

 

Organising the firm: theories of commercial law, corporate governance and corporate law / Petri Mäntysaari. -- Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, 2012.

K1005 .M36 2012 and e-book -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

Commercial law, the law of corporate governance, and corporate law all share the same problem: they lack a proper theoretical basis.  The purpose of this book is to discuss the reasons for the absence of theories in present research, and to develop a theoretical framework for commercial law, the law of corporate governance, and corporate law.  They key to the proposed theoretical framework is the choice of the perspective of the firm in commercial law and corporate governance.

 

Human dignity in bioethics and law  / Charles Foster. -- Oxford : Hart, 2011.

K3249 .F67x 2011 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

Beginnings -- A short history of dignity -- Defining and dissecting dignity -- "Dignity is useless" -- What do non-philosophers and non-lawyers mean by dignity? -- Taking stock of the view from the academy and the ward -- Dignity in the courtroom : general overview -- Consent, confidentiality, privacy, medical research and resources -- Human enhancement and cloning technologies -- Reproductive choice and the unborn -- The end of life -- The use and abuse of body parts.

 

End of negotiable instruments: bringing payment systems law out of the past / James Steven Rogers. -- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

KF957 .R64 2012 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

The sorry state of modern payment systems law -- The puzzling persistence of the law of checks and notes -- Paperless paper -- Reports of the death of the holder in due course doctrine are greatly exaggerated -- A visit to the museum of negotiable instruments law -- The bank always loses -- Are checks ever transferred? -- What would a modern law of promissory notes look like? -- What would a modern law of checks look like? -- Overcoming the past.

 

Freedom of information reform in China: information flow analysis / Weibing Xiao. -- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2012.

KNQ2476 .X53 2012 -- Law Library (Myron Taylor Hall)

Freedom of Information (FOI) in China is often perceived as a recent and intriguing phenomenon. This book presents a more complex and detailed understanding of the evolution of FOI in China, using information flow analysis to explore the gradual development of government receptivity to FOI in an information environment through time.

 

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.  For e-book version, click on "e-book" for that title.

 

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

 

Pat Court

Associate Law Librarian

pgc1@cornell.edu   

Thursday, February 9, 2012

DLA Piper puts Bloomberg Law on attorneys' desktops

You have been hearing about Bloomberg Law and how they are creating serious competition for Westlaw and Lexis.  And now, a major U.S. law firm has signed on to Bloomberg Law in a big way.  Today, it was announced that DLA Piper, “the world’s largest global business law firm” will use Bloomberg Law “to provide high quality, cost-effective legal research for all its lawyers throughout the United States.”  Fourteen hundred lawyers practicing in 25 cities will have unlimited access to Bloomberg Law from their desktops.  We have yet to learn how this will impact their ongoing contracts with other major systems – and how many other law firms are ready to jump on board, as well.

All first year law students are being trained in Bloomberg Law this semester (having already had Lexis and Westlaw training), and 2Ls, 3Ls, and LLMs are signing on more and more so they can be part of this new movement.  If you want to get a Bloomberg Law password or training, contact our Bloomberg representative Pamela Haahr at oribe@bloomberg.net.

Pat Court

Associate Law Librarian

pgc1@cornell.edu

 

 

Monday, February 6, 2012

New Books at the Law Library

The New Books List for January 16-31 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 some titles of interest:

 

Privatising the public university: the case of law / Margaret Thornton. -- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, c2012.    K100 .T486 2012 -- Law Library

 

Constitution 3.0: freedom and technological change / Jeffrey Rosen, Benjamin Wittes, editors. -- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2011.    KF4550 .C656 2011 -- Law Library

 

Workplace harassment law / Barbara T. Lindemann, David D. Kadue. -- Arlington, Va. : BNA Books, c2012.    KF3467 .L56 2012 -- Law Library

 

Green card stories / introduction by Laura Danielson and Stephen Yale-Loehr ; stories by Saundra Amrhein . -- Brooklyn, N.Y. : Umbrage Editions Inc, c2011.    JV6455 .A84x 2011 -- Law Library

 

Courting publicity: Twitter and television cameras in court / Paul Lambert. -- Haywards Heath, West Sussex : Bloomsbury Professional, c2011.     K2110 .L36 2011 -- Law Library

 

Anglo-American corporate taxation: tracing the common roots of divergent approaches / Steven A. Bank. -- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2011.    K4544 .B36 2011 -- Law Library

 

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 others on the list checked out to you, please contact me or your librarian liaison.

 

Pat Court

pgc1@cornell.edu