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Makes complex criminal law issues more accessible to students by examining the facts of real-life case studies. This new edition continues the practice of adding additional cases, along with all accompanying material. This approach encourages analysis about what the law is and should be, and the aftermath of each case encourages discussion about what actually happened to the defendant and why.

In addition to well selected cases, this title contains substantial scholarly textual material introducing each topic or case. The student is given insights into both historical development and applicable theory. Each case is followed by extensive notes and questions designed to extend student thinking and reasoning.

Focuses on everyday planning for "middle-rich" clients, such as: traditional planning for couples, family trust planning, portability, life insurance, retirement benefits, charitable giving, and some information on postmortem planning. It explains essential tax fundamentals that inform traditional techniques, without over emphasis on a tax oriented practice.

This text was designed to be a realistic introduction to American law for students from civil-law backgrounds. It shows that American law is neither a pliable common law that allows judges to make law at will, nor a static system. Rather, it presents American law as a complicated mix of statutory and common law that often interact.

This new edition adds significant new cases and controversies from the US, EU., and other countries. The book is concise and retains the features of the first that made it popular: clear expositions of the law and many short, practical, and straightforward problems that liven class discussions and draw home the lessons to students.

This supplement accompanies Chow and Lee's International Intellectual Property: Problems, Cases, and Materials. The new edition includes recent amendments and lists of members to the major international intellectual property agreements, European Patent Convention, and directives of the European Union.

The first of its kind, this textbook makes it easy - and fun - to teach an exciting new course on the 'jurisprudence of sport'. Unlike sports law, which treats sports as objects of regulation by ordinary legal systems, this course treats sports and games as legal systems to be studied in their own right.

A survey casebook enabling teachers and students to explore federal patent, copyright, and trademark law, as well as related state laws in either a traditional or integrated fashion. It includes all statutory material related to the topics presented.

This book is intended for courses on the individual rights of workers in the employment relationship, independent of courses on the law governing collective bargaining or employment discrimination.

Teaches students about secured transactions and the law that governs them, while simultaneously training students in the use and interpretation of statutes. Because of the focus on statutory interpretation, the book contains few judicial opinions. Instead, it contains 180 carefully sequenced problems for students to solve.

Hardbound - New, hardbound print book.

The seventh edition of this pioneering casebook continues its tradition of comprehensive coverage, with problems and exercises that allow students to hone skills as counselors, as litigators, and as policy advisors.

Offers a comprehensive introduction to the challenges of cybersecurity from legal, business, economic, and technical perspectives. This textbook provides an interdisciplinary introduction to each of these fields that is at once accessible to students and teachers from each but sophisticated enough to be useful to those from any of them.

Contains the basic international agreements on trade in goods and services and the principal US statutes regulating international trade, as well as excerpts from the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

Covers financial calculations which lawyers commonly use: present and future values, annuities, and sinking funds. The book, extensive glossary, calculators and available slides are designed for students new to finance, though more experienced students will also find them useful.

Covers disability discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act and special education under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. This casebook includes statutory text and court decisions in the areas of employment, government services, public accommodations, and education.

The fourth edition of this popular casebook reflects many new developments in the rapidly changing entertainment industry, both from a legal and practical perspective.

This twelfth edition incorporates many changes in Constitutional law, including limiting federal courts' power to review partisan state gerrymanders, limits on government-compelled speech, refusing to give the President immunity from subpoenas by prosecutors and Congress for the President's private papers, and more.

Introduces the history of music as property in commerce; technological and business milestones affecting all aspects of the creative process; legal protections for those who create music, those who own it, and those who use it; and policy debates from the past century that have influenced the way creative participants interact with one another.

Drawing on their diverse experience, the authors of this volume have prepared original text, problems, and edited cases to introduce students to one new bankruptcy concept at a time, show students the connection among the various concepts, and give students a sense of how these bankruptcy concepts are utilized.

The eighth edition of this popular and manageably sized casebook retains the general structure of the prior edition, with its emphasis on practical skills and comparative material. New cases, statutes and notes have been added where appropriate to provide current information. One of the main changes is the addition of the 2015 Obergefell opinion by the U. S. Supreme Court regarding gay marriage.

This supplement accompanies the course books International Business Transactions: A Problem-Oriented Coursebook, Twelfth Edition and International Transactions: Trade and Economic Relations, Twelfth Edition .