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For 30 years, this casebook has been the staple of Complex Litigation courses. It covers a wide variety of cases - civil rights, mass torts, securities, consumer rights - and provides a strong foundation for classroom coverage regarding any type of complex litigation. The current edition retains the book's familiar broad coverage while adding coverage of important recent developments.

An innovative casebook on legal method and process that introduces students to the synthesis of judicial opinions, analysis of statutory issues, and the role of the lawyer, the courts, and the legislature in conflict resolution. The book challenges students with diverse topics in civil procedure, torts, and criminal law.

The book is designed to promote student appreciation of the interaction of legal doctrines as they are applied in the white collar crime field. The material exposes students to substantive criminal law, criminal procedure, administrative procedure, corporate law, evidence, civil procedure, sentencing law, and highly specialized regulatory law.

Provides a comprehensive examination of federal tax practice and procedure, and as a teaching tool, allows flexible design for JD and LLM courses and seminars on federal tax practice and procedure, tax litigation, criminal tax practice and procedure, and tax ethics.

This supplement brings the principal text current with recent developments in the law.

A practical, problem-oriented text designed for use in elective courses on Legal Malpractice, Professional Liability, or Advanced Legal Ethics. Each chapter includes explanatory text that relies on recent cases, code provisions, statutes, and commentary. A number of edited principal cases offer insight into the state of legal malpractice law.

Ranging from the legal and social construction of race, ethnicity, and gender, to language, education, immigration, stereotyping, workplace discrimination, and rebellious lawyering, this new edition highlights the Spanish colonization of Latin America to provide further context for the subsequent colonial treatment of its people and leaders.

The 2021 Supplement incorporates important developments that have arisen or deepened since the publication of the sixth edition of the casebook in 2020.

This supplement brings the principal text current with recent developments in the law.

Emphasizes the essential cases and materials at the heart of copyright law. Instead of attempting to exhaustively cover every doctrine in copyright, this casebook selectively focuses on the major cases, doctrines, ideas, and theories in this complex and fascinating area of the law. The result is streamlined and well-organised.

Intended for non-lawyers, graduate and undergraduate students as well as foreign-trained law professionals, this book provides a unique and comprehensive introduction to the entire corpus of United States' law, through succinct and cogent notes as well as excerpts from both famous cases and recent cases.

The Ninth Edition of this popular casebook retains the basic organisation and coverage of its predecessors, but comprehensively addresses the tremendous changes that have occurred in the past five years in real estate finance and in the real estate industry.

A casebook devoted to renewable energy law and policy - a captivating and rapidly-expanding area of legal practice. It provides detailed and accessible introductions to a diverse array of legal issues associated with renewable energy development, ranging from wind rights to solar access protection to geothermal resource rights.

Equips students and teachers with a framework for confronting systemic injustice by developing advocacy projects rooted in insights of the critical schools of legal knowledge and field-based advocacy approaches. The textbook describes both law's complicity in maintaining injustice and its importance as a tool in struggles to advance equal justice.

A thorough, up-to-date presentation of estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes, as well as income taxation of trusts and estates and income in respect of a decedent. The book also includes a thorough presentation of valuation issues.

Provides a comprehensive, accessible, and up-to-date analysis of family law from comparative and private international law perspectives. The book emphasizes the need to examine complex cross-border family situations by comparing legal systems and understanding the jurisdictional overlay, with a particular focus on the United States.

Every chapter in this book and the accompanying directed reading questions are carefully designed discovery sequence exercises that result in deep and efficient understanding of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the cases interpreting those rules in significantly fewer pages than is possible with traditional casebooks.

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.

Offers a broad survey of the federal transfer tax system. This volume thoroughly covers all of the fundamental rules of the gift, estate and generation skipping transfer taxes and provides numerous illustrative examples. It also offers a glimpse of some popular tax planning techniques, including FLPs, GRATS and IDGT'S, and the Special Valuation Rules of Chapter 14.

This statutory supplement is designed for use in law school courses covering agency, partnerships, corporations, and other limited liability entities. In particular, the supplement compiles the statutes, regulations, and uniform or model acts needed for the use of the casebook, The Law of Business Organizations: Cases, Materials, and Problems.

Introduces students to the highlights of the first-year curriculum at a US law school. The first chapter provides an overview of the US legal system. The seven chapters that follow focus on basic foundational subjects: constitutional law, civil procedure, contracts, torts, property, criminal procedure, and criminal law, each in a separate chapter. All of the chapters contain notes and questions.

This text may be used in a variety of ways: as an introduction to appellate advocacy for first-year students, as a self-contained upper-level course for second- and third-year students, for in-house associate training programs, or as a refresher for practitioners.

The core of this law school casebook is an extensive set of hypothetical problems designed to force students to come to grips with Article 9 provisions directly, assuming that the student has just been hired as a junior in-house counsel for a mythical bank holding company.

This statutory supplement is designed to accompany the main casebook.

Contains thorough coverage of administrative law issues in both federal and state contexts. Although it can be used for a course that focuses primarily on federal law, its dual coverage allows instructors to highlight the insights that can emerge from a comparison between federal and state approaches to the same issues.