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Ducktown Smoke: The Fight Over One of the South's Greatest Environmental Disasters by Duncan Maysilles
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011
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It is hard to make a desert in a place that receives sixty inches of rain each year. But after decades of copper mining, all that remained of the old hardwood forests in the Ducktown Mining District of the southern Appalachian Mountains was a fifty-square mile barren expanse of heavily gullied red hills--a landscape created by sulfur dioxide smoke from copper smelting and destructive logging practices. In Ducktown Smoke, Duncan Maysilles examines this environmental disaster, one of the worst the South has experienced, and its impact on environmental law and Appalachian conservation. Beginning in 1896, the widening destruction wrought in Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina by Ducktown copper mining spawned hundreds of private lawsuits, culminating in Georgia v. Tennessee Copper Co., the U.S. Supreme Court's first air pollution case. In its 1907 decision, the Court recognized for the first time the sovereign right of individual states to protect their natural resources from transborder pollution, a foundational opinion in the formation of American environmental law. Maysilles reveals how the Supreme Court case brought together the disparate forces of agrarian populism, industrial logging, and the forest conservation movement to set a legal precedent that remains relevant in environmental law today.

Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America by Walter Olson
New York: Encounter Books, 2011
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A fellow with the Cato Institute argues that America has a ruling class of law school graduates who shape government policy, academic legal curricula, and public opinion. Olson alleges that human rights and other causes of this elite are actually bids for greater centralized power. Examples cited include liberal opposition to recent conservative Supreme Court nominees (themselves law school grads!), courts acting as reform legislators, and "the litigation explosion"--the title of one of his books.

The Eichmann Trial by Deborah E. Lipstadt
New York: Nextbook/Schocken, 2011
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The capture of SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann by Israeli agents in Argentina in May of 1960 and his subsequent trial in Jerusalem by an Israeli court electrified the world. The public debate it sparked on where, how, and by whom Nazi war criminals should be brought to justice, and the international media coverage of the trial itself, was a watershed moment in how the civilized world in general and Holocaust survivors in particular found the means to deal with the legacy of genocide on a scale that had never been seen before. Award-winning historian Deborah E. Lipstadt gives us an overview of the trial and analyzes the dramatic effect that the survivors’ courtroom testimony-which was itself not without controversy-had on a world that had until then regularly commemorated the Holocaust but never fully understood what the millions who died and the hundreds of thousands who managed to survive had actually experienced.

Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security by Daniel J. Solove
New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2011
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"If you've got nothing to hide," many people say, "you shouldn't worry about government surveillance." Others argue that we must sacrifice privacy for security. But as Daniel J. Solove argues in this important book, these arguments and many others are flawed. They are based on mistaken views about what it means to protect privacy and the costs and benefits of doing so. The debate between privacy and security has been framed incorrectly as a zero-sum game in which we are forced to choose between one value and the other. Why can't we have both? In this concise and accessible book, Solove exposes the fallacies of many pro-security arguments that have skewed law and policy to favor security at the expense of privacy.

Clarence Darrow: American Iconoclast by Andrew E. Kersten
New York: Hill and Wang, 2011
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Kersten presents a richly detailed but accessible account of Clarence Darrow's complicated life. Darrow worked as a lawyer but longed for literary success to allow him to leave the profession. He battled in Chicago and in national politics and supported later Scopes trial foe William Jennings Bryan's 1896 presidential bid. Though a believer in equal rights for African Americans and free love, he opposed expanding the voting franchise to women. He lost several fortunes and many friends throughout his life and had complicated relationships with many women. Kersten provides a considerably fuller account of this complex man.

The Fear Within: Spies, Commies, and American Democracy on Trial by Scott Martelle
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2011
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Sixty years ago political divisions in the United States ran even deeper than today's name-calling showdowns between the left and right. Back then, to call someone a communist was to threaten that person's career, family, freedom, and, sometimes, life itself. Hysteria about the "red menace" mushroomed as the Soviet Union tightened its grip on Eastern Europe, Mao Zedong rose to power in China, and the atomic arms race accelerated. Spy scandals fanned the flames, and headlines warned of sleeper cells in the nation's midst--just as it does today with the "War on Terror." In his new book, The Fear Within, Scott Martelle takes dramatic aim at one pivotal moment of that era. On the afternoon of July 20, 1948, FBI agents began rounding up twelve men in New York City, Chicago, and Detroit whom the U.S. government believed posed a grave threat to the nation--the leadership of the Communist Party-USA. After a series of delays, eleven of the twelve "top Reds" went on trial in Manhattan's Foley Square in January 1949.

Reasoning From Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution by Serena Mayeri
Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2011
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Informed in 1944 that she was "not of the sex" entitled to be admitted to Harvard Law School, African American activist Pauli Murray confronted the injustice she called "Jane Crow." In the 1960s and 1970s, the analogies between sex and race discrimination pioneered by Murray became potent weapons in the battle for women’s rights, as feminists borrowed rhetoric and legal arguments from the civil rights movement. Serena Mayeri¿s Reasoning from Race is the first book to explore the development and consequences of this key feminist strategy. Mayeri uncovers the history of an often misunderstood connection at the heart of American antidiscrimination law. Her study details how a tumultuous political and legal climate transformed the links between race and sex equality, civil rights and feminism. Battles over employment discrimination, school segregation, reproductive freedom, affirmative action, and constitutional change reveal the promise and peril of reasoning from race--and offer a vivid picture of Pauli Murray, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and others who defined feminists’ agenda. Looking beneath the surface of Supreme Court opinions to the deliberations of feminist advocates, their opponents, and the legal decision makers who heard--or chose not to hear--their claims, Reasoning from Race showcases previously hidden struggles that continue to shape the scope and meaning of equality under the law.

Victims' Rights and Advocacy at the International Criminal Court by T. Markus Funk
Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2010
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Victims' Rights and Advocacy at the International Criminal Court is the first detailed analysis of the newly-recognized right of victims to participate in the trials of their accused abusers. Author T. Markus Funk draws on his extensive background in international criminal law and litigation to walk the reader through this unique - and, indeed, controversial - body of procedural and substantive rights for victims of atrocity crimes. To set the stage for his analysis, Mr. Funk provides a historical account of the ICC's creation and the origins of victims' rights. In addition, Mr. Funk gives the reader practical guidance on what it takes to litigate cases before the Court.

In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate by Nancy Gertner
Boston: Beacon Press, 2011
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In the boys’ club climate of 1975, Nancy Gertner launched her career fighting a murder charge against antiwar activist Susan Saxe, one of the few women to ever make the FBI’s Most Wanted List. What followed was a storied span of groundbreaking firsts, as Gertner threw herself into criminal and civil cases focused on women’s rights and civil liberties. She writes about representing Clare Dalton, the Harvard Law School professor who famously sued the school after being denied tenure, and of being one of the first lawyers to introduce evidence of battered women’s syndrome in a first-degree murder defense. Gertner writes about a client suing her psychiatrist after he had sexually preyed on her, and another who sued her employers at Merrill Lynch-she had endured strippers and penis-shaped cakes in the office, but the wildly skewed distribution of clients took professional injury too far. All of these were among the first cases of their kind.

United States Protocol: The Guide to Official Diplomatic Etiquette by Mary Mel French; foreword by William Jefferson Clinton
Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2010
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United States Protocol is a must-have reference for communicating with government and business officials, international organizations, and high-level military personnel, both in the United States and abroad. Everything you need is presented in a comprehensive, detailed, and well-organized book that makes it easy to navigate official protocol. Former President Bill Clinton says in his foreword that it is an authoritative user's manual for international relations, it promises to become an indispensable reference, not only for those in Washington, but for all Americans in contact with people in other nations. Ambassador Mary Mel French uses her personal experience as a former Chief of Protocol to give us the most up-to-date and user-friendly guide to diplomatic protocol at the international, national, and state level. She includes meticulous instructions, in-depth diagrams and tables, a comprehensive table of contents, and a plethora of examples that make United States Protocol the perfect guide to any official event.