New Books - Spring 2008, List 1

INTERNATIONAL AND FOREIGN LEGAL RESEARCH: A COURSEBOOK

by Marci Hoffman and Mary Rumsey
Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008.

K85.H64 2008 Basement
Shelved in New Books first, then at call number location.

From the publisher:
This book is designed for use as a coursebook for classes in foreign and international legal research. However, librarians, students, law professors and other researchers can also use it as a research guide outside of formal classes. The order of chapters is one possible way to structure a class in international and foreign legal research, but it is by no means the only one or the best one. This book can also be used as a tool for quick look-ups when a researcher needs some direction on a topic or information on a source.

Topics covered in the book range from a general chapter on basic concepts to five chapters on particular subjects of international law. Each major aspect of research, such as using periodical indexes, is treated once in depth. Elsewhere in the book, other sections refer readers to that in-depth treatment, while adding information specific to the topic being discussed. We hope that this compromise avoids extensive repetition.

Marci Hoffman is the Associate Director and International & Foreign Law Librarian at the UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law. Mary Rumsey is the Foreign, Comparative & International Law Librarian at the University of Minnesota Law School.

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CLOSING THE CIRCLE: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN INDIAN COUNTRY
by James M. Grijalva
Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2008.

KF8210.N37 G75 2008 First Floor
Shelved in New Books first, then at call number location

From Carolina Academic Press:

This book analyzes how an anomalous confluence of federal environmental, administrative and Indian law exacerbates environmental injustice in Indian country, but also offers its most promising solution. The modern environmental law paradigm of federal-state partnerships falters in Indian country where state regulatory jurisdiction is constrained by federal Indian law. A resulting void of effective environmental regulation threatens the cultural survival of American Indian tribes, who face air and water contamination from a legacy of federally encouraged natural resource development. A potential solution for closing the circle of national environmental protection accords sovereign tribal governments a state-like status. The book examines comprehensively the tribal treatment-as-a-state approach first developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and later codified by Congress in amendments to most of the major environmental laws, as well as federal cases brought by states and non-Indians challenging the EPA’s and tribes’ authority to make binding value judgments about Indian country environmental protection.

James M. Grijalva is Kenneth & Frances Swenson Professor of Law and Director of the Tribal Environmental Law Project at the University of North Dakota School of Law.

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