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Designed for use with any casebook, the Fifth Edition has been expanded and updated, including such new topics as social media and the Affordable Care Act, along with expert coverage of anti-discrimination laws, wage and hour law, ERISA, privacy in employment, OSHA, workers' compensation, restrictive covenants, wrongful discharge, unemployment compensation, and pensions.

Teaches the "fundamentals" of a highly complex subject through the use of clear and lively explanatory text, skilfully drafted problems, and a selective mix of original source materials to accompany the Code and regulations. This edition prunes some dated material and technical minutia, and provides more tightly edited cases, notes and problems.

Introduces a dynamic and rapidly growing field of law that is also fun to teach. Beyond traditional topics like torts or the Fourth Amendment, its coverage extends to statutory and regulatory regimes such as FTC enforcement, medical privacy, and the Patriot Act. It devotes significant attention to global privacy law and to data security.

Offers an accessible, comprehensive introduction to executive compensation law, an important legal practice field that also attracts significant political, economic, and social attention. Starting with an in-depth overview of the current economic and political debate over the pay levels of American executives, the text systematically considers the elements of executive compensation regulation.

This casebook uniquely compares the law of Latin America to that of Europe, as well as the United States while introducing students to the richness and diversity of the Latin American legal tradition through cases, legal documents, and commentaries.

This document appendix and case supplement is designed for use with Calabresi, Silverman, and Braver's The U.S. Constitution and Comparative Constitutional Law: Texts, Cases, and Materials.

White Supremacy pervades American history. Moreover, notwithstanding landmark civil rights gains and egalitarian aspirations, America remains segregated and unequal. This book examines the role of law in reinforcing and ameliorating racial injustice. Although surveying key historical precedents, its primary focus is the present.

This law school casebook instructs students on natural resources law and policy. The book covers a wide range of natural resources -- from forests and wildlife to oceans and rivers -- with problems exercises and case studies for students to sharpen their understanding of the issues.

This undergaduate text uses original essays, cases, and materials to study the very enterprise by which a constitution is interpreted and a constitutional government created. It explores the American polity as both a constitutional and democratic entity. This edition has been updated to include important new cases decided through the 2012-13 Supreme Court term.

This casebook for a basic bankruptcy course takes a deal-oriented finance approach to bankruptcy, with a focus on business bankruptcy. The student will not only learn the major elements of bankruptcy and corporate reorganisation in chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, but also the major facets of bankruptcy that influence financing transactions.

Provides students and novice antitrust teachers the tools to deal with modern antitrust law and policy, including basic economic terms and concepts. The casebook draws upon a rich set of cases, guidelines, scholarly commentary, briefs, and newspaper articles to motivate discussion of how policy goals are implemented by judges, practicing lawyers, and government policy makers.

This law school casebook maps the legal doctrine of sex equality, using materials drawn from theory, social science, history, and comparative law. Cases on racism, work, education, athletics, and pregnancy are examined in detail. It also explores issues that have received less attention, including the law of the family, rape, abortion, prostitution, and pornography.

This publication has been the leading casebook in the field for 20 years. It is the most authoritative work available on this topic, extensively cited by the Supreme Court and other courts, and in the scholarly literature.

Features rigorous analysis of legal doctrine positioned against a backdrop of cultural and political debate. Its core is the act and mental state requirements of both the common law and the Model Penal Code. Topics of current interest include sexual assault, stand-your-ground laws, battered woman's syndrome, the insanity defense, and capital punishment.

This casebook provides an overview of the wide range of legal and ethical issues facing lawyers in practice. As did prior editions, the Fifth Edition integrates discussion of the ABA's Model Rules, the ALI's Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers, as well as case law, statutory law, and regulatory law governing lawyers.

This supplement brings the main casebook up to date with recent changes in the law.

Provides detailed information on First Amendment law. This new edition integrates all of the supplemental material, including legislative and judicial, and more recent developments through the end of the Supreme Court's term in June, 2013. The book is divided into two principal parts: Part I on the speech and press clauses and Part II on those concerned with religion and the state.

This title covers all of the major statutes petaining to disability rights law and is designed to accompany Bagenstos' Disability Rights law casebook.

This supplement is designed primarily for use with Michael M. Greenfield's casebook, Consumer Transactions, Sixth Edition, and includes the statutory and regulatory materials referenced in that work.

A cutting edge casebook that tackles major issues from the rise of social media and the computer industry to the changing nature of unfair competition law. It features cases involving the giants of our age such as Apple, Amazon.com, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and YouTube. It also covers the major changes in the patent law with the American Invents Act.

Delivers an up-to-date overview of US Family Law that weaves together black-letter rules, policy, narrative, history, transnational sources, and theory, into an accessible and teachable whole. The book is written with an eye toward helping teachers prepare their students to appreciate and engage Family Law's dynamic present, and to begin imagining how to actively shape its future.