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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Civil Procedure
Federal jurisdiction
1084 pages. Updated by new edition.
Part of the Aspen Introduction to Law series. Provides footnotes citing to case law and statutory authorities. these volumes are ideal for in-depth research on particular issues and points of law. Chemerinsky is the current and founding dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Law.