Harold L. Drimmer Library Research Guides: Paralegal: Circulating Books

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The Constitution Today : Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era / Akhil Reed Amar
Call Number: Circulating Collection KF4550 .A728 2016
ISBN: 9780465096336
Publication Date: 2016
"A leading legal scholar addresses the most important constitutional controversies of the past two decades and illuminates the Constitution's spirit and ongoing relevance."
The Framers’ coup : the making of the United States Constitution / Michael J. Klarman
Call Number: Circulating Collection KF4541 .K53 2016
ISBN: 9780199942039
Publication Date: 2016
Based on prodigious research and told largely through the voices of the participants, Michael Klarman's The Framers' Coup narrates how the Framers' clashing interests shaped the Constitution.
Implicit Racial Bias Across the Law / Justin D. Levinson (Editor); Robert J. Smith (Editor)
Call Number: Circulating Collection KF384 .I48 2012
ISBN: 9781107010956
Publication Date: 2012
The book examines the continued subordination of historically disadvantaged groups and the legal system's complicity in the subordination.
Failure to Flourish : How Law Undermines Family Relationships / Clare Huntington
Call Number: Circulating Collection KF505 .H86 2014
ISBN: 9780195385762
Publication Date: 2014
This book examines ways in which the legal regulation of families is fundamentally flawed, and offers a more emotionally intelligent system for resolving conflict and encouraging healthy family relationships.
An Introduction to Animals and the Law / Joan Schaffner
Call Number: Circulating Collection K3620 .S333 2011
ISBN: 9780230235632
Publication Date: 2010
Explores the emerging, diverse, and controversial area of animal law, and presents a basic survey of the laws designed to protect animals.
Crimes That Changed Our World : Tragedy, Outrage, and Reform by Robinson Robinson; Paul H. Robinson; Sarah M. Robinson
Call Number: Circulating Collection K5032 .R63 2018
ISBN: 9781538102015
Publication Date: 2018
Discusses how crime can sometimes "trigger" improvement in our lives, and explores some of the most important trigger cases of the past century, revealing much about how change comes to our modern world.
Against the Death Penalty / Stephen G. Breyer; John Bessler (Editor) by Stephen Breyer; John Bessler (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780815728900
Publication Date: 2016
Justice Stephen G. Breyer argues that the death penalty violates the Constitution; it is carried out unfairly and inconsistently and violates the ban on "cruel and unusual punishments" specified by the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution.

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Moral Contagion : black Atlantic Sailors, Citizenship, and Diplomacy in Antebellum America / Michael A. Schoeppner
Call Number: New Book Collection, 1st Floor KF4757 .S36 2019
ISBN: 9781108469999
Publication Date: 2019
Between 1822 and 1857, eight Southern states barred the ingress of all free black maritime workers. Ultimately, the Fourteenth Amendment recognized citizenship of Antebellum free people of color.
Schooling Jim Crow : The Fight for Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School and the Roots of Black Protest Politics / Jay Winston Driskell; Jay Winston Driskell
Call Number: New Book Collection, 1st Floor LC2803.A85 D75 2014
ISBN: 9780813936147
Publication Date: 2014
Explores the changes in black political consciousness that made the NAACP's grassroots campaign bloc powerful enough to compel the city of Atlanta to budget $1.5 million for the construction of schools for black students.
Haben / Haben Girma
Call Number: New Book Collection, 1st Floor KF373.G567 A3 2019
ISBN: 9781538728727
Publication Date: 2019
The incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first Deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, who now uses her talents to advocate for people with disabilities.
In the Weeds : Demonization, Legalization, and the Evolution of U.S. Marijuana Policy / Clayton J. Mosher; Scott Atkins
Call Number: New Book Collection, 1st Floor KF3891.M2 M68 2019
ISBN: 9781439913307
Publication Date: 2019
Sociologists Clayton Mosher and Scott Akins take a deep dive into marijuana policy reform, looking at the incremental developments and the historical, legal, social, and political implications of these changes.
The Chief : The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts / Joan Biskupic
Call Number: New Book Collection, 1st Floor KF8745.R6 A3 2019
ISBN: 9780465093274
Publication Date: 2019
An incisive biography of the Supreme Court's Chief Justice, and the momentous legal decisions of his tenure. Award-winning journalist Joan Biskupic contends that Roberts is torn between carrying out a conservative agenda and protecting the Court's image and his place in history. Biskupic shows how Roberts's dual commitments have fostered distrust among his colleagues, with major consequences for the law.
The Second Founding : How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution / Eric Foner
Call Number: New Book Collection, 1st Floor KF4541 .F66 2019
ISBN: 9780393652574
Publication Date: 2019
Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Eric Foner comes traces a history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time.

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