The featured title for May is “Careers in Animal Law” by Yolanda Eisenstein.  According to its publisher, the book will help you:
•Forge a successful animal law career with firms of all types and sizes, government agencies, corporations, or nonprofits
•Strike out on your own as a solo practitioner
•Learn career tips from a series of animal-lawyer profiles
•Understand evolving trends in legislation, litigation, and academia
•Gain an overview of the field from a practicing animal lawyer and professor of animal law.

Chapter titles include “Our relationship with animals, Animal law today,  Getting started,  Becoming an animal lawyer — Nonlegal jobs, animals, and the law & Animal protection and pro bono.” Yolanda Eisenstein is a lawyer with an animal law practice, the Eisenstein Law Office, in Dallas, Texas. She is an adjunct professor in animal law at SMU Dedman School of Law.  To check the status of this and the other 69 new titles, just go to lawlib.nyls.edu/ftlist . All of the titles on this list are available for checkout.

April’s featured title is “Managing e-discovery and ESI : from pre-litigation through trial” by the American Bar Association. According to the publisher, “This book identifies the key issues related to ESI–pre-litigation management, preservation, collection, processing, review, production, and use in deposition and at trial–and provides clear, practical guidance to litigators. The book is divided into eight parts that follow the sequence from the pre-litigation stage through trial.” Chapters include “A history of electronic discovery” by John M. Facciola, “ Computer usage policies, records management, and corporate it infrastructure : a guide for attorneys before & during litigation,”  by William A. McComas and Michael D. Berman, and “ Designing a “reasonable” e-discovery search : a guide for the perplexed,” by Jason R. Baron and Michael D. Berman. Well over 800 pages long, this is a comprehensive look at a fast-moving aspect of the law. Other notable titles this month include “The cult of the amateur: how blogs, MySpace, YouTube and the rest of today’s user-generated media destroying our economy, our culture, and our values,” by Andrew Keen (The title pretty well tells the whole story), and “Job Quest for lawyers: the essential guide to finding and landing the job you want,” by Sheila Nielsen. To see a list of this months titles, just got to libftp.nyls.edu/mendnew/april2012.pdf .

The featured title for March is The Dictator’s Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith. It seems to be an update of Machiavelli, but the publisher describes this as “explaining the theory of political survival, particularly in cases of dictators and despotic governments, arguing that political leaders seek to stay in power using any means necessary, most commonly by attending to the interests of certain coalitions.” Chapter titles include “Coming to power,  Staying in power,  Steal from the poor  give to the rich,  Getting and spending, If corruption empowers then absolute corruption empowers absolutely.” Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a political scientist, professor at New York University, and senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute. He specializes in international relations, foreign policy and nation building. He is also the director of New York University’s Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy. Click HERE to see more information about this title, including a substantial preview. To see the other 76 titles click HERE. All of these titles are available for checkout.

The February featured titles is “When international law works : realistic idealism after 9/11 and the global recession,” by Tai-Heng Cheng.  According to the publisher, the book Ranges topically from the current global economic crisis to the West’s war on Islamist terrorism, these detailed and demonstrative case studies set this book apart from similar works of international legal scholarship. By combining theory with practice, When International Law Works gives lawyers, judges, policymakers, academics, and students ‘real world’ guidance on how to face new global problems. In doing so, this new book challenges readers to rethink the role of law in an increasingly crisis-driven world. Chapter subheadings include Abu Ghraib Prison,  Waterboarding and the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. Tai-Heng Cheng is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Institute for Global Law, Justice, & Policy at New York Law School, and has been a visiting professor at Vanderbilt Law School.  An author of over forty books, articles and essays, Professor Cheng’s research has been published in the University of Illinois Law Review, Temple Law Review, and the Michigan Journal of International Law. His scholarship has been cited and relied on as authoritative by U.S. federal circuit and district courts. To see the other 67 titles for this month, click HERE . All of these titles are available for checkout.