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Contains detailed and authoritative commentary, extensive discussion of practical problems, highlighted treatment of selected recent lower-court cases, full consideration of Supreme Court cases, and questions that challenge the conceptions and analytical powers of law students. The authors have made a concerted attempt to make the book as lean and as user-friendly as possible.

Includes lifetime digital access to an eBook, with the ability to highlight and take notes, and 12-month access to a digital Learning Library that includes self-assessment quizzes tied to this book, leading study aids, an outline starter, and Gilbert Law Dictionary.

Offers a careful selection of principal cases, keeping the best of the classic/vintage opinions familiar to professors and adding contemporary disputes that students readily grasp, involving such figures as 50 Cent, Lady Gaga, and Dan Rather. The opinions are sculpted to ensure robust discussion.

Unlike most professional responsibility books on the market, this book integrates ethical and legal perspectives with the best available empirical literature on the legal profession. It covers all of the basic ethics topics covered in the standard professional responsibility course, but it blends the coverage of doctrine with an in-depth survey of the legal profession.

Contains a complete, unchanged reprint of Chapters 1-10 and Chapter 14 of Dressler, Thomas, and Medwed's Criminal Procedure: Principles, Policies, and Perspectives, Seventh Edition.

Deals with both the basics of secured transactions under Article Nine of the UCC and some of the most complex modern transactions such as ""repos"" and ""securitizations"". To offset the complexities of the subject matter, the authors have made this text extremely user-friendly.

Students today expect learning to be both efficient and interesting. They use online materials and study aids to supplement class-assigned materials and to ""hack"" the law. This textbook cuts out the middle person by integrating challenging principal cases that are aggressively edited into an engaging overview of the black letter law.

Provides the most current and comprehensive treatment of the modern law of sales and leases in national and international transactions. The new edition includes important new cases to elaborate the continuing development of critical provisions of that law, and to elucidate new caselaw trends.

This casebook has two main distinguishing attributes. Because students benefit from engagement with Supreme Court opinions, pivotal cases are edited less substantially than in other books. And, because Constitutional Law is an argumentative practice, this edition follows its predecessors in exposing students to diverse perspectives.

Emphasizes current doctrine and its historical evolution in exploring the four basic foundations of federal administrative law: separation of powers, statutorily and constitutionally required procedures for agency adjudication and rulemaking, scope of judicial review of agency action, and the availability and timing of judicial review.

This popular casebook, through the selection of classic and modern cases, provides an excellent tool for teaching students the common law foundations of the criminal law and modern statutory reform, including the Model Penal Code.

Makes the Business Associations or Corporations course accessible to students whether or not they already know anything about business. In a conversational tone, the original text and problems emphasize the legal issues that 99% of lawyers will encounter in their professional career. The book is organized around the life-cycle of a business.

This tenth edition continues the approach of earlier editions in emphasizing rich, full-bodied versions of the principal cases, a functionalist approach to the problems of contract law, and analytical notes on such issues as the differences between classical and modern contract law and the role of the limits of cognition in contract law.

Since it first appeared, this casebook has sought to capture the challenges of civil procedure in a way that engages students and fosters critical judgment on the underlying policy issues. The authors have closely monitored the evolution of procedure over this time, and adapted the basic structure of the book to take account of those changes.

Emphasizes rich, full-bodied versions of the principal cases, a functionalist approach to the problems of contract law, and analytical notes on such issues as the differences between classical and modern contract law and the role of the limits of cognition in contract law. The new edition includes a great number of new principal cases and case notes.

This compact casebook is designed for one-semester contracts classes. It helps students synthesize groups of related cases by focusing attention on the principles, policies, and rules of contract law. It employs many transitions and notes written for students. Questions are limited to central issues to avoid overwhelming and losing students.