Brazil is the second most significant nation in the Western Hemisphere. It has a population of over 200,000,000, making it the fifth most populous nation in the world. It is also the fifth largest country in the world in terms of…
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Supreme Court Decides the Kiobel Case
The Alien Tort Statute (ATS), 28 U.S.C. § 1350, has in recent years been used to sue multinational corporations in U.S. federal court for their alleged complicity in serious human rights abuses taking place abroad. Now, in Kiobel v. Royal…
Assault & Flattery and the Peregrinus: UT Law traditions
You may already know that UT Law’s student musical and theater troupe Assault & Flattery is performing its spring show “Harry Potter and the Order of the Peregrinus” February 28th through March 3rd. But do you know the history of…
Joe Biden v. the NRA and The Future of the Second Amendment
If you have been reading the news in the past few months, you are already aware that issues related to gun control and how the Second Amendment fits/should fit in modern America have been extremely active and volatile this year. Vice President Joe Biden has taken up the task of developing new laws to regulate fire arms within the limits of the second amendment and the recent Supreme Court case, DC v. Heller. Unsurprisingly, he has come under significant opposition to his plan.
The Canon Law of Papal Resignation and Tarlton’s Rare Books Collection
Have you heard that Pope Benedict XVI has decided to step down from his papal seat?
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Posted in Collection Highlights, for Faculty, for Students, Legal Research
Posted in Collection Highlights, for Faculty, for Students, Legal Research
New Title at Tarlton by Jeffory A. Clymer
Jeffory A. Clymer. Family Money: Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. From the publisher’s description: Family Money explores the histories of formerly enslaved women who tried to claim inheritances left to them by deceased…
