Recommended Titles and Treatises
To help provide access to the Texas State Law Library's legal resources, the reference librarians have selected the most noteworthy titles in our collection and arranged them here by subject. The titles listed for each subject feature a brief summary written by a reference librarian, and each subject's titles are divided into those that are specific to Texas law and those that aren't.
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Eminent Domain
Bulldozed: "Kelo", eminent domain, and the American lust for land
304 pages. No updates available.
Main, an editor for a national legal newspaper, describes "what happens when we take a group of people in a small town who have known each other for decades and endow them, if they serve on the city council or the local economic development corporation, with the power to take away each others' homes and businesses and destroy each others' lives.