UNC Law’s own Maxine Eichner has recently published The Free Market Family: How the Market Crushed the American Dream (and How It Can Be Restored). Eichner is the Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Law and teaches in the areas of family law, gender, critical legal theory, and torts. Eichner explores the cost that free market …
The UNC Law Library recently added the newly published book, “Lethal State: A History of the Death Penalty in North Carolina” by Seth Kotch to our collection. Seth Kotch is an assistant professor of American Studies here at the University of North Carolina. This book takes a hard look at the racial side of the …
UNC Law Library Electronic Resources Librarian Donna Nixon recently published her article, “The Integration of UNC-Chapel Hill – Law School First,” 97 N.C. L. Rev. 1741 (2019), with the North Carolina Law Review. Professor Nixon led the law library’s effort to create a digital collection of photographs, legal documents, oral history transcripts, and contemporary …
The UNC Law Library’s own Julie L. Kimbrough is a co-author of the newly published third edition of North Carolina Legal Research with Brenda D. Gibson, Laura P. Graham, and Nichelle J. Perry. This text provides legal research instruction for an audience ranging from law students to laypersons to practitioners. After beginning with legal research …
Just in time for the fall semester we have many of the major legal treatises and desk books you need all in one place, your mobile device! That’s right, you can download high-demand legal texts to your device and (coming soon) highlight and add your own notes. Need to spend quality screen time curled up …
UNC School of Law’s Professor Maria Savasta-Kennedy has published a new book: North Carolina Environmental Law (2018). Check it out in print at the Law Library or view it online via LexisAdvance. Professor Savasta-Kennedy’s book starts with a chapter containing an overview of the structure of NC environmental laws and the regulatory process, providing readers …
UNC law professor Michael J. Gerhardt published a new book in 2018: Impeachment: What Everyone Needs to Know. Given the current attention paid to the subject of impeachment, Prof. Gerhardt’s book must count among the most well-timed volumes in Oxford University Press’ “What Everyone Needs to Know” series. Like all books in that Oxford series, …
The Law Library is pleased to announce that a new book, The Faces of Poverty in North Carolina: Stories from our Invisible Citizens, has been added to the collection. Written by UNC Law’s very own Gene Nichol, this book expands on the work that Nichol has been committed to throughout the entirety of his professional …
Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers: Lives in the Law by Jill Norgen is a new book that the Law Library has recently added to the collection. Norgen used the oral history project from the ABA’s Commission on Women in the Profession and the Senior Lawyers Division, titled Women Trailblazers in the Law Project (WTP), to write …
The UNC Law Library has several books and resources on the death penalty. You can explore the subject in a new collection on HeinOnline or through print books housed in the Law Library stacks. HeinOnline now features the History of Capital Punishment online collection. This resource includes the Eugene G. Wanger and Marilyn M. Wanger …
