The Speculation Econcomy
Posted by Janet Lindenmuth on Oct 27, 2009
Lawrence E. Mitchell. The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed over Industry. San Francisco, CA, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2008. HC103 .M684 2008
From the publisher: American businesses today are obsessed with the price of their stock, and no wonder. The consequences of even a modest decrease can be so dire that some executives would rather damage their corporation’s long-term health than allow quarterly returns to fall below projections. But how did this situation come about? When did the stock market become the driver of the American economy?
Lawrence E. Mitchell identifies the moment in American history when finance triumphed over industry. He shows how the birth of the giant modern corporation spurred the rise of the stock market and how, by the dawn of the 1920s, the stock market left behind its business origins to become the very reason for the creation of business itself.
The Common Law
Posted by Janet Lindenmuth on Oct 27, 2009
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. foreword by Stephen L. Carter. The Common Law. Chicago, Ill., ABA, c2009. KF394 .H65 1881r
From the publisher:
In the history of the law there have been many great treatises written by many great legal minds, but only a few have had the influence and staying power to truly be called the classics. The Common Law by famed Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. is certainly one of these books.
First published in 1881, The Common Law has retained its relevance through the elegant writing of Justice Holmes and the sound, thorough coverage of everything from criminal law to possession and ownership to torts. As Professor Stephen L. Carter says in his new foreword to the book, “Few books have had this lasting influence on a profession, and earned as profound a reputation within it.”
The Great Decision
Posted by Janet Lindenmuth on May 8, 2009
Cliff Sloan and David McKean. The Great Decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the Battle for the Supreme Court. New York: PublicAffairs, 2009. KF4575 .S56 2009
The Invisible Constitution
Posted by Janet Lindenmuth on Nov 17, 2008
Laurence H. Tribe. The Invisible Consitution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. KF4550 .T7865 2008
Liberty’s Blueprint
Posted by Janet Lindenmuth on Oct 27, 2008
Michael Meyerson. Liberty’s Blueprint: How Madison and Hamilton Wrote the Federalist Papers, Defined the Constitution, and Made Democracy Safe for the World. New York: Basic Books, 2008. KF4520 .M49 2008
Acing Your First Year of Law School
Posted by Janet Lindenmuth on Oct 1, 2008
Shana Connell Noyes & Henry S Noyes. Acing Your First Year of Law School: The Ten Steps to Success You Won’t Learn in Class. Buffalo, NY: William S. Hein & Co., 2008. KF283 .N69 2008
This is one of the new books in our study aids collection. All study aids are located in the room behind the reference desk on the Delaware campus in the lobby area of the Harrisburg library.
Free Speech and Human Dignity
Posted by Janet Lindenmuth on Aug 11, 2008
Steven J. Heyman. Free Speech and Human Dignity.
New Haven, Conn. , Yale University Press, 2008.
KF4772 .H49 2008
Law Lit
Posted by admin on Mar 11, 2008
Law Lit: From Atticus Finch to The Practice: a Collection of Great Writing About the Law. New York: New Press, 2007. PN6071.L33 L39 2007
From the publisher: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ayn Rand, Martin Luther King Jr., and Johnny Cash
have all written it. Joseph K., Hurricane Carter, Portia, and Bigger
Thomas have starred in the most timeless examples of the genre. And
now, law school professor and noted novelist Thane Rosenbaum has
collected the crusaders and casualties of the law, both real and
imagined, in one handsome volume of “law lit.”
Some of the
finest writers in the world have been tantalized by the law and the
nature of judgment, justice, and revenge. With dozens of selections,
including prose, poetry, essays, and even TV and film scripts, Law Lit
is a dazzling collection that transcends place and time, from ancient
Greece to foggy London to the narrow streets of Prague and the
spectacle of an Alabama courthouse, offering an enlightening look at
the legal system and its practitioners and at how lives can be laid
bare before the bench.
Chasing Justice
Posted by admin on Mar 11, 2008
Kerry Max Cook. Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn’t Commit. New York: William Morrow, 2007. KF224.C66 C66 2007.
From Publishers’ Weekly:
Despite some amateurish prose, this
depressing account of an unfair criminal justice system that almost
claimed the author’s life deserves a wide readership alongside John
Grisham’s The Innocent Man.
After being arrested in 1977 for a brutal mutilation murder in Tyler,
Tex., that he did not commit, Cook, then 21 years old, was repeatedly
railroaded by corrupt police officers, prosecutors and judges bent on
ignoring all the rules to get him convicted. After his first trial,
Cook ended up on death row and underwent a hellish ordeal behind bars;
two subsequent trials ended in a mistrial and another conviction and
death sentence. The subtitle notwithstanding, Cook’s eventual freedom
was largely due to a team of dedicated attorneys, working from the
Capital Punishment Project or pro bono, who fought tooth-and-nail to
obtain his freedom in the late 1990s. Readers familiar with similar
travesties, such as the Randall Dale Adams case chronicled in Errol
Morris’s documentary The Thin Blue Line, will be outraged anew,
especially at the authorities’ deliberate disregard of another suspect,
linked to the crime by an eyewitness and DNA evidence.
The Cigarette Century
Posted by admin on Oct 2, 2007
Allan M. Brandt. The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America. New York: Basic Books, 2007. HD9130.8.U5 B72 2007