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New Titles in West Academic Digital Library
The West Academic Digital Library provides remote access to their collection of Nutshells, Hornbooks, and Concise Hornbooks. Nutshells and Hornbooks make great reference guides, citing landmark cases, statutes, and articles. Members can read materials right in their browser, without the need to check out or download. Find some of the most recent publications below.
Health Care Law and Ethics in a Nutshell (2025)
"Profound medical advances also generate many ethical dilemmas. This authoritative discussion considers how law and ethics respond to these driving social, economic, and political forces of innovation, crisis and reform. Topics include health insurance reform, health care finance and delivery structures, treatment relationships, facility and insurance regulation, corporate and tax law, refusal of life support, organ donation, and reproductive technologies."
Foreign Investment Law including Investor-State Arbitrations in a Nutshell (2025)
"This title summarizes the law, practice, regulation and dispute settlement of foreign investment. Following the Nutshell tradition, citations are minimized creating a book that reads easily. Students, academics, lawyers, government officials and people in business will find it a useful introduction."
International and Foreign Legal Research in a Nutshell (2025)
"This Nutshell provides a basic introduction to international and foreign legal research for the non-specialist. It offers guidance through the unfamiliar pathways of research using international and non-US legal materials and demystifies the world of treaties and international case law."
American Indian Law in a Nutshell (2025)
"This guide provides a reliable resource on the federal law of American Indians. Its authoritative text is drawn from primary sources of judicial decisions, statutes, and regulations that comprise the essentials of this complex body of law."
