Happy Library Shelfie Day!

Current Events, New Book Lauren Mattiuzzo

It’s the 8th annual #LibraryShelfieDay! Started by the New York Public Library, this social media trend gives book lovers the opportunity to share a picture of themselves in front of a library shelf or their own personal favorite book collection. To celebrate, we’re going to take a look back at all the books we released in the past 12 months. We want to see your pictures today, so be sure to tag @HeinOnline in your tweets!


1. Dignity Law: Global Recognition, Cases, and Perspectives

This unique casebook provides an introduction to this emergent and dynamic area of law, showing how the value of human dignity permeates all legal areas and how the right to have one’s dignity respected is shaping the development of law. Cases, constitutional provisions, and secondary materials illustrate the diversity and scope of this discipline, providing the first-ever practical yet theoretically grounded survey of this important legal innovation.

Dignity Law: Global Recognition, Cases and Perspectives
By: Erin Daly and James R. May
Item #: 1006411
ISBN: 978-0-8377-4135-2
Pages: xxxv, 521p. (558p. total)
Price:………$125.00 paper
Published: Getzville; William S. Hein & Co., Inc.; 2020


2. Academic Law Libraries Within the Changing Landscape of Legal Education: A Primer for Deans and Provosts*

In a world where technology advances appear daily, deans and provosts often have questions about law libraries, their purposes, and whether technological innovations should lead to changes in library spaces, collections, and/or services. This book seeks to answer those questions, which came straight from deans, examining the factors involved in an analysis of what a community needs from their library, and demonstrating why the answer to these questions might vary from library to library.

Academic Law Libraries Within the Changing Landscape of Legal Education: A Primer for Deans and Provosts
AALL Publications Series No. 84
Edited by: Michelle M. Wu, Scott B. Pagel, and Joan S. Howland
Item #: 1006357
ISBN: 978-0-8377-4126-0
Pages: xiii, 224p. (328p. total)
Paper………$99.00
Published: Getzville; William S. Hein & Co., Inc.; 2020

*Standing order customers automatically receive this title.


3. Hate Crimes: A Legal Research Guide

This book introduces primary sources of hate crime law in the United States and overseas, while also providing references to key commentary on hate crime laws appropriate for a variety of researchers. Some resources are primarily useful for academic or background research, but practical resources for lawyers, legislators, citizens, and others directly concerned with hate crime laws are also included.

Hate Crimes: A Legal Research Guide*
Legal Research Guides, Volume 81
By: Erin Gow
Item #: 1006741
ISBN: 978-0-8377-4125-3
Pages: xviii, 57p. (76p. total)
1 Volume, perfect bound…….$89.00
Published: Getzville; William S. Hein & Co., Inc.; 2020

*Standing order customers automatically receive this title


4. Campaign Finance Law: A Legal Research Guide

Campaign Finance Law is the first and only resource of its kind. Learn to decipher the difference between election law and campaign finance law. Dive into primary sources (including federal and state statutes and regulations), as well as secondary sources that investigate the nitty-gritty of campaign finance requirements, violations, and limitations. This timely and relevant guide provides an invaluable tool and resource for lawyers, campaign workers, election officials, and the general public interested in the topic.

Campaign Finance Law: A Legal Research Guide*
Legal Research Guides, Volume 82
By: Carol A. Fichtelman
Item #: 1006797
ISBN: 978-0-8377-4127-7
Pages: xix, 61p. (82p. total)
1 Volume, perfect bound…….$89.00
Published: Getzville; William S. Hein & Co., Inc.; 2020

*Standing order customers automatically receive this title


5. User’s Guide to the Bluebook, 21st Edition

For nearly 95 years, law students, lawyers, scholars, judges, and other legal professionals have relied on The Bluebook’s unique system of citation. The newest edition retains the same basic approach to legal citation established by its predecessors, though the layout has been updated to make the information easier to access. Some citation forms have been expanded, elaborated upon, or modified from previous editions to reflect the ever-expanding range of authorities used in legal writing and to respond to suggestions from the community.

User’s Guide to The Bluebook®*
Item #: 14199
ISBN: 978-0-8377-4140-6
Pages: iv, 48p. (52p. total)
1 Volume………………$18.95
Published: Getzville; William S. Hein & Co., Inc.; 2020

*Standing order customers automatically receive this title

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6. International Citator and Research Guide (Volumes 5 and 6)

The Inter­national Citator and Research Guide (The Greenbook) is a ground-breaking pro­ject tailored to the needs of an international readership by providing informa­tion useful for worldwide and highly diverse professionals. This set, conveniently organized into global regions, is a source of foundational and comprehensive citation standards for scholars working with all  types of international and foreign materials. It presents each citation standard in the context of that country or organization’s history and legal institutions. It is also a general resource of basic legal background on international organizations and countries that would otherwise be difficult to research. It can be used as a companion to The Bluebook, whose coverage of inter­national sources is extremely limited.

International Citator and Research Guide: The Greenbook
Volume 5: North Africa & Middle East; Australia & Oceania
Item #: 1006876 (Series Item # 9154)
Pages: ix, 353p.
ISBN: 978-0-8377-4094-0
1 Volume, perfect bound…….$149.99
Published: Getzville; William S. Hein & Co., Inc.; 2020

International Citator and Research Guide: The Greenbook
Volume 6: African (Sub-Saharan)
Item #: 1006877 (Series Item # 9154)
Pages: xi, 382p.
ISBN: 978-0-8377-4095-9
1 Volume, perfect bound…….$149.99
Published: Getzville; William S. Hein & Co., Inc.; 2020

A 10% discount is applied when the entire set is purchased.


7. Leaven of Sympathy: A Bio-Bibliography of Frederick C. Hicks

Filling a gap in the bibliographic and biographical literature of Frederick C. Hicks, The Leaven of Sympathy is an annotated bibliography of the works of the seminal law librarian. Drawing its title from Hicks’ beloved Men and Books Famous in the Law, this work provides the most thorough accounting of Hicks’ works to date, touching upon many aspects of the history of legal education, law (and general) library history, and American Association of Law Libraries history. It contains a full timeline of the life of Frederick C. Hicks, a robust biographical preface, which includes an excerpt from a little-known essay Hicks composed in his retirement, and nearly 160 entries organized chronologically and annotated with biographical references, footnotes, and cross-references.

The Leaven of Sympathy: A Bio-Bibliography of Frederick C. Hicks*
AALL Publications Series No. 83
By: Douglas Lind and Stacia Stein
Item #: 1006908
ISBN: 978-0-8377-4122-2
Pages: xix, 194p. (214p. total)
Paper………$99.00
Published: Getzville; William S. Hein & Co., Inc.; 2020

*Standing order customers automatically receive this title.


8. Cataloging Legal Literature, 5th Edition

Cataloging Legal Literature, Fifth Edition (CLL5) describes the authors’ understanding of the current descriptive and subject cataloging practices for legal materials. It addresses the needs of large and small law libraries alike, particularly those who wish to follow national cataloging standards, including the Library of Congress and the Program for Cooperative Cataloging. CLL5 addresses RDA instructions and terminology as found in both the current RDA Toolkit and its Beta Site.

Cataloging Legal Literature, 5th edition
By: Melody Busse Lembke and Melissa Beck
Item #: 1844
ISBN: 978-0-8377-4123-9
Published: Getzville; William S. Hein & Co., Inc.; 2020
Print and Online Access………… $395.00
Additional Print Copies…..$95.00


9. Judicial Ethics and Discipline: A Legal Research Guide

This comprehensive bibliography of judicial ethics and discipline covers federal and state topics. It brings together (1) basic primary sources (constitutions, statutes, regulations, and cases); (2) links to federal and state courts, commissions, and committees dealing with judicial conduct; and (3) major secondary sources like encyclopedias, periodicals, American Law Reports, practice books, treatises, and Internet resources such as websites and blogs.

Judicial Ethics and Discipline: A Legal Research Guide*
Legal Research Guides, Volume 80
By: Joel Fishman
Item #: 1006740
ISBN: 978-0-8377-4124-6
Pages: xviii, 106p. (124p. total)
1 Volume, perfect bound…….$89.00
Published: Getzville; William S. Hein & Co., Inc.; 2020

*Standing order customers automatically receive this title


10. Bibliography of American Law School Casebooks, Second Edition

Although much has been written on the analysis of the case method and the evolution of the content of casebooks, no attempt had been made to identify all U.S. law school casebooks until the publication of Douglas W. Lind’s Bibliography of American Law School Casebooks, 1870-2004. This new second edition of the work supplements the previous edition by extending coverage through 2018. The incorporation of 4,000 new entries since the first edition makes this resource the only comprehensive casebook index in both print and digital format.

Bibliography of American Law School Casebooks, Second Edition, 1870-2018
Edited by: Douglas Lind
Item #: 1000256
ISBN: 978-0-8377-4133-0
Pages: xii, 1034p. (1046p. total)
Published: William S. Hein & Co., Inc.; 2020
1 Print Copy & Online Access….. $295.00
Additional Print Copies……… $125.00


11. Grand Juries: A Legal Research Guide

This guide brings together a wide range of primary and secondary sources dealing with grand juries. Primary sources include constitutional, statutory, and rules references; listing of state constitutions, statutes, and court rules. Secondary sources include digests and citators, ALR  annotations, legal encyclopedias, treatises, and practice books, along with periodical articles, legal newspapers and websites.

Grand Juries: A Legal Research Guide*
Legal Research Guides, Volume 83
By: Joel Fishman
Item #: 1006927
ISBN: 978-0-8377-4138-3
Pages: xviii, 98p. (116p. total)
1 Volume, perfect bound…….$89.00
Published: Getzville; William S. Hein & Co., Inc.; 2020

*Standing order customers automatically receive this title


12. Texas Water Law: A Legal Research Guide

 Water law is very important in Texas because of the lack of water in the majority of the state and the prospect of greater shortages in an era of warming climate. It is certain that conflicts and litigation over the rights to and usage of water are going to increase in the coming years. This guide introduces researchers to the basic concepts and resources (both print and online) needed to research water law issues in Texas; explains the identity, function and publications of the various government bodies involved with water law issues in Texas; and provides researchers starting points when conducting historical research on Texas water law.

Texas Water Law: A Legal Research Guide*
Legal Research Guides, Volume 84
By: Tobe Liebert
Item #: 1006928
ISBN: 978-0-8377-4139-0
Pages: xvi, 47p. (64p. total)
1 Volume, perfect bound…….$89.00
Published: Getzville; William S. Hein & Co., Inc.; 2020

*Standing order customers automatically receive this title

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