New to the Collection: Family Law, Employment Law, Environmental Law Books and More
This is our fourth blog installment highlighting recent additions to our collection. Here we focus on books covering a variety of interesting topics. We are excited to bring you this and three additional posts about new materials in the library. In case you missed it, we recently highlighted new books for legal professionals, books about criminal justice reform, and books focusing on social justice topics.
Books mentioned in this post are available to check out at our temporary location in Tumwater. You can also request them through interlibrary loan at your home library. Contact the reference desk at Library.Requests@courts.wa.gov or 360–357–2136 with questions, or place a hold in our online catalog using your library account.
Let’s dive in!
We have a great selection of biographies, history books, and books on topics such as elder law, employment law, environmental law, family law, and local government law. We’ve also added a couple of updated titles specifically for self-represented parties. And if that’s not enough, our collection now includes miscellaneous books on cannabis law, food law, civil rights, criminal law, drone law, and computer law.
Biography/History
Ninth Circuit Judge M. Margaret McKeown profiles U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, raised in Washington State, in her book Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas — Public Advocate and Conservation Champion (2022). The author is interviewed in the ABA’s Gavel Talks podcast and presents a lecture about the book in this video.
Judge McKeown has also written a chapter for another of our new books, Her Honor: Stories of Challenge and Triumph from Women Judges (2023), where she discusses her three year wait to be confirmed as a federal judge. The editor of the book, Lauren Stiller Rikleen, joins a panel to discuss the book in this video.
Another notable Washington State resident is featured in the book The Port of Missing Men: Billy Gohl, Labor, and Brutal Times in the Pacific Northwest (2020). Author Aaron Goings, Associate Professor of History at Saint Martin’s University, dispels the myth of Gohl as a serial killer, and provides an immersive commentary on West Coast labor history. A City of Lacey History Talks! Lecture by the author can be viewed here.
Elder, Employment, Environmental, and Family Law
In her book Representing People with Dementia: A Practical Guide for Criminal Defense Lawyers (2022), author Elizabeth Kelley says that the justice system is facing a silver tsunami, where the aging population of incarcerated persons combined with increasing convictions of persons with dementia, creates a large burden on both attorneys and the individuals in contact with the justice system. The book defines medical and scientific aspects of dementia. It also includes a chapter on the impact of dementia on attorneys. The author, an attorney in Spokane, is interviewed here.
Author Steven Mitchell Sack has written a guide for employees who have been fired, whether it was because of age, gender, disability, racial discrimination, or as retaliation. The book, Fired!: Protect Your Rights & Fight Back if You’re Terminated, Laid Off, Downsized, Restructured, Forced to Resign or Quit (2022), includes forms, letters, and checklists as well as a chapter on working with an employment lawyer. In an interview on the Practical Employment Law podcast the author states that he wrote the book in part because laws have changed to favor employees.
Professor Michael Blumm has been writing about anadromous fish law for more than four decades. In our new book Pacific Salmon Law and the Environment: Treaties, Endangered Species, Dam Removal, Climate Change, and Beyond (2022), the author seeks to engage citizens with an accessible account of salmon law and policy. Chapters cover historic treaties, the hydroelectric system, harvest management, and climate change. The book has been excerpted in this Environmental Law Report article.
A new family law book in our collection is the second edition of The Special Needs Child and Divorce: A Practical Guide to Handling and Evaluating Cases (2022), written by family law attorney and professor Margaret Price. The book includes sample documents, checklists, practice tips, and both state and national resources.
Self-Represented Litigants
We’ve updated two books in our collection written to guide self-represented litigants, Everybody’s Guide to Small Claims Court (Table of Contents and Chapter One available here) and Represent Yourself in Court (Table of Contents and Chapter One available here), both published in 2022. The books were published by Nolo Press, a publisher writing self-help legal books for more than fifty years.
You can always browse our latest new books by checking out the New Books list featured on our library catalog. Just click lists in the top left of the page. We have some new eBooks available for remote access listed there as well.
New Books on Miscellaneous Topics
ABA Standards for Criminal Justice: Monitors and Monitoring (2020)
ABA Standards for Criminal Justice: Prosecutorial Investigations, 3rd Edition (2014)
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival (2014) by Peter Stark
Cannabis Law Deskbook (2021)
Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas — Public Advocate and Conservation Champion (2022) by M. Margaret McKeown
Clean Water Act Essentials (2022) by Allison Rumsey, Joel M. Gross, Ethan Shenkman, and Edward McTiernan
Compact Copyright: Quick Answers to Common Questions (2021) by Sara R. Benson
Cost-effective Child Custody Litigation (2022) by Samuel E. Thomas and Kumudha N. Kumarachandran
Cybersecurity Law (2023) by Jeff Kosseff
Dictionary of Environmental Health (2022) by Frank R. Spellman
Digital Media Law: A Practical Guide for the Media and Entertainment Industries (2023) by Christopher S. Reed
Drone Law (2022) by Zaida McGhee and Tyler Hazen
Effectively Representing Clients in Family Mediation (2023) by Forrest S. Mosten, Hon. Elizabeth Potter Scully, and Lara Traum
Employment Discrimination: A Practitioner’s Deskbook (2023) by Keisha-Ann G. Gray
Everybody’s Guide to Small Claims Court (2022) by Cara O’Neill
Fired!: Protect Your Rights & Fight Back if You’re Terminated, Laid Off, Downsized, Restructured, Forced to Resign or Quit (2022) by Steven Mitchell Sack
Food Regulation: Law, Science, Policy, and Practice, 3rd Edition (2022) by Neal D. Fortin
Her Honor: Stories of Challenge and Triumph from Women Judges (2023) edited by Lauren Stiller Rikleen
Hidden Laws: How State Constitutions Stabilize American Politics (2021) by Robinson Woodward-Burns
Labor Management Law Answer Book (2021)
Pacific Salmon Law and the Environment: Treaties, Endangered Species, Dam Removal, Climate Change, and Beyond (2022) by Michael C. Blumm
Represent Yourself in Court (2022) by Paul Bergman & Sara J. Berman
Representing People with Dementia: A Practical Guide for Criminal Defense Lawyers (2022) edited by Elizabeth Kelley
Roe: The History of a National Obsession (2023) by Mary Ziegler
Scalia: Rise to Greatness, 1936 to 1986 (2023) by James Rosen
Separating Church and State: A History (2022) by Steven Green
State & Local Government Debt Financing (2023) by James A. Coniglio
State & Local Government Employment Liability (2023) by John E. Sanchez and Robert D. Klausner
State & Local Government Land Use Liability (2023) by Michael A. Zizka
Summary Execution: The Seattle Assassinations of Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes (2018) by Michael Withey
The ABCs of Environmental Regulation (2021) by Albert Telsey
The ABCs of the UCC: Article 3: Negotiable Instruments and Article 4: Bank Deposits and Collections and Other Modern Payment Systems, Third Edition (2015) by Stephen C. Veltri
The Appraisal of Real Estate (2020) by the Appraisal Institute
The Port of Missing Men: Billy Gohl, Labor, and Brutal Times in the Pacific Northwest (2020) by Aaron Goings
The Proof: Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything Else (2022) by Frederick Schauer
The Special Needs Child and Divorce: A Practical Guide to Handling and Evaluating Cases (2022) by Margaret “Pegi” S. Price
The Threats of Algorithms and AI to Civil Rights, Legal Remedies, and American Jurisprudence: One Nation Under Algorithms (2020) by Alfred R. Cowger, Jr.
Third-Party and Self-Created Trusts : A Modern Look (2022) by Rebecca C. Morgan
Understanding Domestic Violence: Theories, Challenges, and Remedies (2018) edited by Rafael Art. Javier and William G. Herron
Union by Law: Filipino American Labor Activists, Rights Radicalism, and Racial Capitalism (2020) by Michael McCann
Washington Environmental Law Handbook (2020) by Theda Braddock
Washington State Capitol Campus (2021) by Jennifer Crooks
Washington’s New Protection Order Law: Understanding RCW 7.105 (2022) by the Washington State Bar Association
What is a Copyright? (2022) By Stephen E. Gillen, David L. Rein, Jr., and Eric M. Stahl (WB)
