Additions in Law, 2023

Updated October 8, 2024
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The Right to Repair: Reclaiming the Things We Own
Perzanowski, Aaron.
Paper Book
In recent decades, companies around the world have deployed an arsenal of tools - including IP law, hardware design, software restrictions, pricing strategies, and marketing messages - to prevent consumers from fixing the things they own. While this strategy has enriched companies almost beyond...
The Gun Dilemma How History is Against Expanded Gun Rights
Robert J. Spitzer
Paper Book
An informed and sophisticated look at the current debate between gun laws and gun rights in America. Contemporary gun controversies are deeply rooted in our history, yet much of that history is unknown, ignored, or distorted. This is all the more important because a new gun rights movement is...
The Constitution in Jeopardy : An Unprecedented Effort to Rewrite Our Fundamental Law and What We Can Do About It
Feingold, Russ/ Prindiville, Peter.
Paper Book
A former U.S. senator joins a legal scholar to examine a hushed effort to radically change our Constitution, offering a warning and a way forward. Over the last two decades, a fringe plan to call a convention under the Constitution's...
37 words : Title IX and fifty years of fighting sex discrimination
Boschert, Sherry
Paper Book
A sweeping history of the federal legislation that prohibits sex discrimination in education, published on the fiftieth anniversary of Title IX "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to...
Runaway technology : can law keep up?
Fairfield, Joshua A. T.
Paper Book
In an era of corporate surveillance, artificial intelligence, deep fakes, genetic modification, automation, and more, law often seems to take a back seat to rampant technological change. To listen to Silicon Valley barons, there's nothing any of us can do about it. In this riveting work, Joshua A. T...
Hate speech
Carlson, Caitlin Ring
Paper Book
An investigation of hate speech- legal approaches, current controversies, and suggestions for limiting its spread. Hate speech can happen anywhere--in Charlottesville, Virginia, where young men in khakis shouted, "Jews will not replace us"; in Myanmar, where the military used...
The second : race and guns in a fatally unequal America
Anderson, Carol
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment--and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans since its inception. In The Second, historian and award-winning,...
The engagement : America's quarter-century struggle over same-sex marriage
Issenberg, Sasha
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR . The riveting story of the conflict over same-sex marriage in the United States-the most significant civil rights breakthrough of the new millennium "Full of intimate details, battling personalities, heated court cases, public...
Presumed guilty : how the Supreme Court empowered the police and subverted civil rights
Chemerinsky, Erwin
Paper Book
Police are nine times more likely to kill African-American men than they are other Americans--in fact, nearly one in every thousand will die at the hands, or under the knee, of an officer. As eminent constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky powerfully argues, this is no accident, but the horrific...
The Law (in Plain English) for Restaurants: A Guide for the Food and Beverage Industry
DuBoff, Leonard D.
Paper Book
Learn the ins-and-outs of the law--for restaurant owners, catering services, pubs, bars, and more! The Law (In Plain English)® for Restaurants is a comprehensive guide to working in the food and beverage industry. It looks at the business of running a restaurant,...

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