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Montgomery Library's Guide to Resources for Legal Studies

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Additional e-books not available through CU Search can be found at EBSCOhost's ebook collection, which contains over 180,000 books.

Recent Titles in Print

Find these books and many others in the reference collection on Montgomery Library's first floor.

HISTORY      
F 73.44 .J66 2023   No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era (Pulitzer Prize Winner - History)  
       
SOCIAL SCIENCES    
BF 76.5 .B47 2018   Managing Your Research Data and Documentation  
BJ 1031 .F88 2021     Future Morality  
E 185 .H565 2021     The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans  
E 185.615 .Y35 2023   Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future  
GE 235 .C25 K56 2021   Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA  
HA 29 .M135 2018   Thinking Through Statistics  
HD 45 .S925 2024     Burn book: A tech love story  
HD 9019 .M382 U625 2022   Can Legal Weed Win?: The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics  
HD 9710 .J32 G74 2021   Collision Course: Carlos Ghosn and the Culture Wars that Upended an Auto Empire  
HE 8700.76 .U6 A647    American Television During a Television Presidency  
HF 5387 .B86765 2021    Business Ethics and Catholic Social Thought  
HF 5415.32 .Z83 2019   The Age of Surveillance Capitalism  
HM 821 .M534 2020   Inequality, Social Protection and Social Justice  
HM 821 .P547 2022     A Brief History of Equality  
HN 80 .M6 F67       A Voice but No Power: Organizing for Social Justice in Minneapolis  
HT 1523 .D55 2021   Antiracist discourse: Theory and history of a macromovement  
HV 699 .C775 2023   Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America  
HV 6250.4 .W65 B869 2022    Gender Violence: Resistance, Resilience, and Autonomy  
HV 6250.4 .W65 D475 2022   Every 90 Seconds: Our Common Cause Ending Violence Against Women  
HV 6515 .H868 2023     Crimes of the Centuries: The Cases that Changed Us  
HV 6626.2 .B56 2023   Violence Never Heals: The Lifelong Effects of Intimate Partner Violence for Immigrant Women  
HV 8746 .U6 W35 2022     Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail  
       
POLITICAL SCIENCE      
JC 423 .L4855 2019   How Democracies Die  
JC 571 .M8635 2018   Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World  
JC 578 .B74 2019   When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice  
JC 578 .N66 2020   Beyond Justice As Fairness: Rethinking Rawls From a Cross-Cultural Perspective  
JC 585 .A7513 2023     Liberty and Equality  
JC 591 .G54 2024   Free Speech and Turbulent Freedom: The Dangerous Allure of Censorship in the Digital Era  
JC 591 .M33 2022   Free Speech: A history from Socrates to Social Media  
JF 1525 .W45 A86 2020   Whistleblowers, Leakers, and Their Networks: From Snowden to Samizdat  
JK 1726 .T54 2024     The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American Public  
JK 1846 .W35 2022   The Fight to Vote  
JK 1994 .A37 2020   Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America  
JZ 1324 .R68 2018   Routledge Handbook of Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding  
JZ 5578 .O94 2019   The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace, and Security  
       
LAW      
K 1005 .D83 2020   Natural Monopolies in Digital Platform Markets  
KD 371 .W56 C35 2022     The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition  
KD 379 .W47 M87 2023   Falling Rocket: James Whistler, John Ruskin, and the Battle for Modern Art  
KF 228 .R59 P73 2021   The Family Roe: An American Story  
KF 285 .Z9 L73 2018   The LSAT Unlocked 2018-2019  
KF 358 .R45 2019   Religion, Law, USA  
KF 510 .S96 2021   Wives Not Slaves: Patriarch and Modernity in the Age of Revolutions  
KF 1262 .H37 2018   Privacy's Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies  
KF 1386 .C58 W56 2018   We, the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights  
KF 3941 .C425 2018   Armed in America: A History of Gun Rights from Colonial Militias to Concealed Carry  
KF 4210 .D54 2020   Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education: The Story Behind Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School  
KF 4288 .W45 2021   Creative Expression and the Law  
KF 4510 .L45 2019   The Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Reference Guide  
KF 4558 .W87 2020   The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment  
KF 4772 .G77 2022   When Freedom Speaks: The Boundaries and Boundlessness of our First Amendment Right  
KF 5402 .E87 2018   The Essential Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches and Writings  
KF 5411 .K47 2019   Rulemaking: How Government Agencies Write Law and Make Policy  
KF 8407 .M37 2020   Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom Beyond the First Amendment  
KF 8742 .M363 2024     A Supreme Court Unlike Any Other: The Deepening Divide Between the Justices and the People  
KF 8745 .G56 H455 2021   Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life in American History  
       
MEDICINE      
RA 563 .M56 M28 2022   Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America  

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Browse the Collections

Use these call numbers to browse the reference and circulating collections on Montgomery Library's first floor.

 

J      General legislative and executive papers
JF   Political institutions and public administration
JJ         North America
JK         United States
JL         Canada, West Indies, Mexico, Central America, South America
JN         Europe
JQ         Asia, Africa, Middle East, Oceania, Australia, New Zealand
JS   Local government. Municipal government.
K   Law
KZ   International Law

 


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