Accounting for Lawyers
Primary Author(s): Barrett, Matthew J. & Herwitz, David Richard

This casebook identifies and emphasizes accounting topics and issues most likely to confront lawyers in the 21st century. It offers an effective teaching tool, using financial statements from Starbucks Coffee Company, Amazon.com, and Google Inc. to illustrate various concepts, and including comprehensive problems in every chapter. Although primarily designed for the law student with no accounting background, this edition includes sufficient material to enable students with previous accounting experience to appreciate how accounting issues interact with legal issues. Professors can also use these materials to teach a more sophisticated course.

casebook website
www.Accounting4Lawyers.com

American Criminal Law: Cases, Statutes, and Comments
Primary Author(s): Dubber, Markus D. & Kelman, Mark G.

This casebook presents up-to-date materials on modern American criminal law. It includes edited cases and statutes, substantial chapter introductions, and highlights on pedagogical approaches (e.g., rules versus standards). It also includes cross-references to highlight connections, a clear conceptual structure, and consideration of the Model Penal Code throughout. It contains cases on recent developments including sentencing guidelines, Internet crime, white-collar crime, drug offenses, possession offenses, hate crimes, victims' rights, state versus federal power, executive versus legislative criminal lawmaking, and the war on terror. It also includes materials on common crimes such as shoplifting, traffic offenses, and collateral effects of drug convictions.

casebook website
www.DubberKelman.com

Antitrust Law: Interpretation and Implementation
Primary Author(s): Goetz, Charles J. & McChesney, Fred S.

This casebook discusses how antitrust law affects both business decisions and law practice. It addresses the initial difficulty that most students experience in understanding how different statutes, doctrinal developments, and economic issues fit together to form a reasonable and coherent picture. It presents a set of overview materials that provide a clear road map and useful perspective and continues the technique of using lower court cases and real-world materials such as complaints, jury instructions, litigated contracts, and appellate briefs to illustrate how antitrust doctrines are interpreted and implemented. Important economics are also integrated throughout the text.

casebook website
www.GM-AntitrustLaw.com

Business Associations: Agency, Partnerships and Corporations
Primary Author(s): Bainbridge, Stephen M.

The Sixth Edition is a concise, up-to-date casebook that provides an overview of business associations, agencies, partnerships, and corporations. Adopted in more than 100 schools since its initial publication, this book continues to emphasize the importance of a clear understanding of agency and partnership principles in the study of corporate law. This new edition contains a number of important developments and interesting new cases since the prior edition.

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www.Business-Associations.com

Civil Procedure
Primary Author(s): Rowe, Jr., Thomas D.

This book eases the dilemma faced by professors choosing a civil procedure book by structuring the material so that it can be taught quickly but at a high level. The cases and notes are short but intellectually challenging. Most of the book can be covered in as few as four credit hours, but the materials are rich enough to expand discussion to six hours.

casebook website
www.RST-CivilProcedure.com

Constitutional Criminal Procedure
Primary Author(s): Taslitz, Andrew E. & Paris, Margaret

This edition contains substantial explanatory text, case excerpts, selected reprinting of substantial portions of seminal cases, and supplementary materials conducive to a range of teaching methods. It features articles, cases, and problems on the implications of the war on terrorism for constitutional doctrine. It provides insights on how the constitutional law of search and seizure, confessions, lineups, and the effective assistance of counsel can alter the risk of wrongful convictions. It also focuses on alternatives to the courts as institutions for regulating police behavior and on the role of changing technologies in the evolution of constitutional criminal procedure.

casebook website
www.ConstitutionalCriminalProcedure.com

Copyright, Patent, Trademark and Related State Doctrines
Primary Author(s): Goldstein, Paul

The Sixth Edition has been updated to address judicial, legislative, and scholarly developments in all areas of intellectual property law–trademark, copyright, and patent, as well as idea protection, trade secrets, right of publicity, and other areas. It provides cases and notes on emerging First Amendment limitations on federal and state intellectual property rights and addresses emerging trends in Lanham Act section 43(a) and newly revised provisions of federal antidilution law. Other topics include the Internet and domain names, secondary liability, safe harbors, and anti-circumvention provisions. Coverage of software protection and business method patents has been expanded. Features

casebook website
www.ProfessorPaulGoldstein.com

Economic Justice: Race, Gender, Identity and Economics
Primary Author(s): Jordan, Emma Coleman & Harris, Angela P.

This casebook provides a means to further the conversation between critical legal scholarship and law and economics. It addresses such issues as what economics can tell us about democracy and the law, what theories of justice can tell us about economic theory and the law, and why no legal language addressing class in the United States exists, and what such a language might look like. It uses the problem of racial and gender injustice as a basis to interrogate both critical theory and economic theory.

casebook website
www.JordanHarrisEconomicJustice.com

Enron: Corporate Fiascos and Their Implications
Primary Author(s): Rapoport, Nancy B. & Dharan, Bala G.

This law school text explores the Enron debacle from a variety of different aspects. Essays analyze the business-government interactions and decisions that laid the foundations for Enron's growth and subsequent demise. Other essays describe and detail the complex web of partnerships and accounting tricks used by Enron to hide bad news and project good news. While other essays focus on the ethical and legal dimensions of the Enron crisis, and their lessons for business and law students, as well as for society.

casebook website
www.TheCorporateScandalReader.com

Environmental Law and Policy
Primary Author(s): Revesz, Richard L.

This casebook emphasizes both the basic building blocks of environmental policy and the structure and details of the federal environmental statutes. It seeks to focus the attention of students on how the trade-offs between environmental goals and other social goals are resolved. It pays close attention to the political context in which regulation takes place, looking at the impact of our federal system of government, the role of administrative agencies in the regulatory process, and the impact of interest groups. It makes a concerted effort to introduce comparative perspectives, looking at state programs and regulatory regimes in the international community.

casebook website
www.ReveszEnvironmentalLaw.com

Estates and Trusts, Cases and Materials
Primary Author(s): Sterk, Stewart E. & Leslie, Melanie B.

This law school casebook provides comprehensive treatment of the subject of estates and trusts. The third edition provides increased focus on cutting-edge issues such as asset protection trusts, dynasty trusts, and tortious interference with inheritance. It simplifies treatment of estate tax issues and includes discussion of the estates of celebrities such as Anna Nicole Smith, James Brown, Doris Duke, and Andy Warhol in order to bring complex legal issues to life.

casebook website
www.SterkLeslieDobris.com

Evidence
Primary Author(s): Park, Roger C. & Waltz, Jon R.

The 11th edition of this intellectually challenging casebook provides a complete overview of evidence, including key U.S. Supreme Court and other court opinions, updated information on scientific evidence, new questions and hypotheticals, and common courtroom objections. This edition adds three important new Supreme Court cases on the right to confrontation and on the right to present evidence. Chapters on presumptions, judicial notice, and governmental privileges have been extensively updated. Recent cases have been added to other chapters in order to provide contemporaneous examples of long-standing principles. The authors have continued the practice of choosing cases on the basis of teachability.

casebook website
www.EvidenceCasebook.com

Federal Public Land And Resources Law
Primary Author(s): Fischman, Robert L.

This casebook provides an authoritative introduction to the study of public land and resources law. Case studies, case notes, and examples illustrate legal points, with special attention given to historical and social context. The Sixth Edition updates, consolidates, and streamlines chapters. It gives substantial attention to cultural resource preservation, hydropower licensing, and remedies for federal breaches of contracts. It retains its comprehensive coverage of public land history, constitutional issues, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), endangered species protection, approaches to interpreting prior legal authorities, planning, access, land management, and the resource subjects themselves: water, minerals, timber, wildlife, recreation, and preservation.

casebook website
www.FederalPublicLandAndResourcesLaw.com

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Selected Other Procedural Provisions
Primary Author(s): Clermont, Kevin M.

Updated to include the latest amendments and proposals, this statutory supplement provides a clear and useful collection of statutes and rules for courses in civil procedure. Annotations succinctly explain amendments and a separate presentation of the advisory committee notes grouped by year of amendment allows inclusion of redlined versions of the rules, making the notes easy to understand and enabling reconstruction of the versions formerly in effect. This presentation reflects the fact that advisory committee notes are as important to a theoretical study of civil procedure as to a doctrinal or practical approach.

casebook website
www.ClermontStatutorySupplements.com

Gellhorn and Byse's Administrative Law, Cases and Comments
Primary Author(s): Multiple Authors

This authoritative casebook presents a comprehensive treatment of the doctrinal basis of administrative law that students need to know to practice competently and also a substantial development of the scholarly literature that has, from many perspectives, critiqued the existing law. The 11th edition continues the tradition of offering instructors a rich theoretical, historical and political context for the cases. At the same time, recognizing changing pedagogical demand, the book offers a leaner presentation of many topics and more cues for helping students navigate the book.

casebook website
www.GellhornByseAdminLaw.com

International Criminal Law and Its Enforcement - Cases and Materials
Primary Author(s): Van Schaack, Beth & Slye, Ronald C.

This casebook draws from the jurisprudence of the various international and hybrid criminal tribunals (in The Hague, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, East Timor, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Baghdad, and Cambodia), United Nations bodies (such as the Human Rights Committee), regional human rights institutions, formal domestic courts, alternative or traditional courts (such as the gacaca proceedings in Rwanda), and transitional justice institutions (such as truth commissions). It also draws upon domestic and international jurisprudence involving civil, as opposed to criminal, liability to the extent that such cases are predicated upon tort analogs of international crimes and forms of responsibility such as complicity and command responsibility.

casebook website
www.VanSchaackSlye-ICL.com

Labor Law: Cases and Materials
Primary Author(s): Bok, Derek C. & Cox, Archibald

The Fourteenth Edition builds on the prior edition's expansion of materials in labor history and industrial relations, while outlining today's regulatory developments against the background of a changing economic situation. Particular attention is paid to the recent significant Court of Appeals decisions, as well as important developments and changing caselaw in the NLRB.

casebook website
www.Cox-Bok-LaborLaw.com

Law and Religion, Cases and Materials
Primary Author(s): Griffin, Leslie C.

This new casebook fills the need for an interdisciplinary approach to law and religion. It combines a thorough academic review of religion with broad legal coverage that extends beyond the Supreme Court's First Amendment cases to other federal and state cases about a range of religious topics.

casebook website
www.GriffinLawandReligion.com

Legal Methods: Understanding and Using Cases and Statutes
Primary Author(s): Strauss, Peter L.

This text focuses on the skills beginning law students need for using cases, statutes, and secondary materials in their education. It follows the development across time of American legal doctrines about product liability and workplace injury, case law and statutory, and of the institutions that created those doctrines, judicial and legislative. Along the way, students encounter not only the appellate opinions typical of law school teaching materials, but also lawyers' arguments and briefs, considerable stretches of legislative history materials, and a good deal of secondary literature bearing on the continuing controversies over statutory interpretation.

casebook website
www.Strauss-LegalMethods.com

Legal Research and Writing
Primary Author(s): Murray, Michael D. & DeSanctis, Christy H.

The book covers objective writing, legal research, and adversarial writing using a process-based approach. It provides multiple annotated writing samples, many of which are based on a common hypothetical.

casebook website
www.LRWSeries.com

Natural Resources Law and Policy
Primary Author(s): Rasband, James R. & Salzman, James

This law school casebook helps instruct students on natural resources law. It is also intended to show students the challenges of managing natural resources policy. Starting with the theories behind the law, the book examines all aspects of resource disputes, including economic, scientific, political, and ethical considerations. It explores the challenges presented by common pool resources, scientific uncertainty, mismatched scale, market failures, and institutional adequacy. It also considers resource law and management of both public lands and private property.

casebook website
www.RSS-NaturalResources.com

Property Cases and Materials
Primary Author(s): Cribbet, John E.

This casebook offers an overview of the history and principles influencing the Anglo-American institution of the law of land and provides the core materials for a property course. Its format allows it to be used with a variety of teaching methods and it applies easily to courses ranging from three to six hours. This edition retains the organization and basic content of prior editions; however, it includes more introductory text to give students the necessary background before examining the difficult problems encountered in the law of property. Many sections have been reorganized to facilitate more efficient coverage of the material.

casebook website
www.CribbetPropertyBook.com

Property: Principles and Policies
Primary Author(s): Merrill, Thomas W. & Smith, Henry

This casebook is designed for a "building block" property course, which serves as a foundation for a student's remaining years in law school and beyond. It presents the subject through vivid cases, including most of those beloved by generations of property teachers. The book organizes the material in an integrated way, starting with the idea of property as the right to exclude and systematically developing elaborations, exceptions, and counterfoils to this idea. Issues of contemporary relevance, such as intellectual property and regulatory takings, are given relatively pervasive and expansive treatment. The emphasis throughout is on fundamental principles and policy questions.

casebook website
www.MerrillandSmithProperty.com

Race Law Stories
Primary Author(s): Moran, Rachel F. & Carbado, Devon Wayne

This publication brings to life well-known and not-so-well known legal opinions that address slavery, Native American conquest, Chinese exclusion, Jim Crow, Japanese American internment, immigration, affirmative action, voting rights, and employment discrimination. Each story goes beyond legal opinions to explore the historical context of the cases and the worlds of the ordinary people and larger-than-life personalities who drove the litigation process. The book's multiracial and interdisciplinary approach makes it useful for courses on race and the law and Critical Race Theory both inside and outside the law school. Each story illuminates the role the law has played in both creating and combating racial inequality.

casebook website
www.RaceLawStories.com

Securities Regulation: Cases and Analysis
Primary Author(s): Choi, Steven J. & Pritchard, A.C.

This new casebook, Securities Regulation: Cases and Analysis, aims to make both securities markets and securities regulation accessible and manageable, helping students to master the basic principles and structure of securities regulation and enabling them to begin their careers as corporate lawyers with confidence. Click to View a Movie From the Authors Securities regulation is one of the most bewildering courses in the law school curriculum, because the statutory and regulatory source materials used in it are obscurely written and interact in complicated ways. The students' difficulty is exacerbated by the fact that many of them lack a business background and so lack an understanding of the motivations behind the transactions and the rules regulating them. The book embodies several distinctive features, including its manner of presentation and its brevity. It also includes a teacher's manual that provides useful materials for the professor as well as in-class and at home exercises for students.

casebook website
www.ChoiPritchard.com

Social Science in Law
Primary Author(s): Monahan, John & Walker, W. Laurens

The book incorporates Dauber v. Merrill Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the United States Supreme Court’s landmark decision on scientific evidence and new Daubert-based cases are cited throughout the book. Includes selections from two handbooks: the Federal Judicial Center Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence and West's® Modern Scientific Evidence. In-depth discussion of the growing use of survey methods to establish damages in mass tort cases. Integrates the latest Web site addresses to aid in further social science and legal research.

casebook website
www.SocialScienceInLaw.com

The Practice and Policy of Environmental Law
Primary Author(s): Ruhl, J. B. & Salzman, James

This casebook on environmental law conveys the substantive material in the context of real-world practice. Topics include permitting, rulemaking, enforcement, business counseling, and litigation. It also includes a series of short policy case studies and a discussion of emerging issues.

casebook website
www.PracticeAndPolicyOfEnvironmentalLaw.com