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Duncan and Turner's
Torts: A Contemporary Approach
By Meredith Duncan and Ronald Turner
ISBN 978-0-31419-114-4
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ABOUT THE BOOK
This casebook is a user-friendly text organized to facilitate the study of law in the first year of law school. The text begins with an overview of the subject, being sure to point out distinctions between tort law and other types of law. It then covers intentional torts, negligence actions, and strict liability. The book concludes with materials on Products Liability, Defamation, and Privacy actions. The book includes classic cases as well as cases that are modern, interesting, and relevant to today’s students. Examples from the Restatement are interspersed throughout. The text is rich in the competing policy issues that drive and shape current tort law. The book also contains many problems and hypotheticals. As part of the Interactive Casebook Series, the text is available to students in both a hardbound and an electronic format. The electronic version is full of “hot links” that will take students wanting more to items of interest.
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Kunz and Chomsky's
Contracts: A Contemporary Approach
By Christina L. Kunz and Carol L. Chomsky
ISBN 978-0-31418-996-7
Preview the table of contents.
Preview chapter one.
Preview chapter two.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This casebook allows students to learn more effectively by providing critical reading and thinking questions and well-situated text boxes with supplemental information to explain and expand understanding. With better advance preparation, class can begin at a more sophisticated level and proceed to deeper issues. The material is presented in a visually engaging manner, and the accompanying electronic version provides live links to cited sources and useful websites. Provisions from the Restatement, UCC, CISG, and UNIDROIT appear in text, alleviating the need for a statutory supplement. The book is organized chronologically in the traditional order for contract analysis. It includes classic cases foundational in the historical development of many concepts and newer cases chosen for their teachability and lessons about modern business practices and current issues. “Practice Pointers” provide a transactional focus by explaining the function of common contract clauses. The book includes both essay and multiple choice problems that encourage periodic review.
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Popper, McKee, Varona, and Harter's
Administrative Law: A Contemporary Approach, 2d
By Andrew Popper, Gwendolyn McKee, Anthony Varona and Philip Harter
ISBN 978-0-31425-557-0
ABOUT THE BOOK
For experienced law faculty and those new to teaching administrative law, this text offers a complete array of the traditional and familiar cases as well as recent decisions in the field, commentary, original case documents, and updates. Cases and supporting materials were edited and organized in a manner compatible with many pedagogical approaches to the teaching of administrative law, and with an eye towards facilitating self-contained, efficient and engaging reading assignments for individual class sessions. The new edition takes full advantage of the interactive casebook format, giving students access to the full text of most principal and note cases, legal scholarship, and select heretofore unavailable underlying agency documentation. There are dozens of new text boxes, new and challenging practice hypotheticals, and a number of important documents reflecting the recent presidential transition. The text includes more materials on adjudication than many administrative law books, including materials on agency intervention and discovery.
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Beckman, Crump, and Galves'
Evidence: A Contemporary Approach
By Sydney A. Beckman, Susan W. Crump, and Fred A. Galves
ISBN: 978-0-31419-105-2
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Click here to preview chapter two and three.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Written by experienced trial lawyers turned law professors, this book provides a comprehensive, engaging and effective treatment of evidence presented in a clear and concise format that is accessible and engaging to students. The casebook features a novel visual display and layout that uses text boxes, diagrams, and color/border segregated feature sections for hypotheticals, references to scholarly debates, useful information for students, and questions to provoke thought. A major distinguishing feature of the book is its inclusion of an accompanying electronic version with extensive hyper linking to Westlaw® versions of legal materials, Black’s Law Dictionary® definitions, supplementary online resources, and more.
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Maggs and Smith's
Constitutional Law: A Contemporary Approach
By Gregory E. Maggs and Peter J. Smith
ISBN: 978-0-31418-995-0
This new casebook offers both print and electronic versions and strives to make constitutional law easily teachable.
Click here to preview the second chapter.2010 Supplement Coming Soon
ABOUT THE BOOK
This new casebook, suitable for a one- or two-semester course, strives to make constitutional law easily teachable. The authors have carefully selected and edited the opinions so that they are short enough to read but are more than summaries. Text boxes call the students' attention to important aspects of each opinion, and the book contains many points for discussion and executive summaries. The authors present a diversity of views on every subject, including originalist and non-originalist perspectives. Reflecting some of their own differences, the authors have written point-counterpoint discussions of many disputed questions.
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Palmiter and Partnoy's
Corporations: A Contemporary Approach
By Alan R. Palmiter and Frank Partnoy
ISBN: 978-0-31418-997-4
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Click here to preview the fourth chapter.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This new Interactive Casebook brings corporate law to life for students by focusing on the role of corporations in contemporary society. The book features important and modern policy discussions and includes chapters on corporate social responsibility, externalities, and criminality. At the same time, the authors have made it easy for professors to teach from this book. It covers all of the major relevant cases, includes statutory materials in the text, and synthesizes useful note cases as illustrative examples. The book also covers basic financial concepts, including accounting, options, and executive compensation.
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Spencer's
Civil Procedure: A Contemporary Approach, 2d
By A. Benjamin Spencer
ISBN: 978-0-31418-785-7
This casebook provides a comprehensive treatment of civil procedure topics in a concise format that is accessible to students.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The second edition incorporates the restyled Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Supreme Court's modification of civil pleading standards in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly. The casebook features a novel visual display and layout that uses text boxes, diagrams, and segregated feature sections for hypotheticals, references to scholarly debates, useful information for students, and thought-provoking questions. A distinguishing feature of the book is its inclusion of an accompanying electronic version with extensive hyperlinks to Westlaw® versions of legal materials, Black's Law Dictionary® definitions, supplementary online resources, and more.
Click here to learn more about this book and the author.
View a demo of Chapter Four.
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Sprankling and Coletta's
Property: A Contemporary Approach
By John G. Sprankling and Raymond R. Coletta
ISBN: 978-0-31419-104-5
Click here to preview the first chapter.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This new casebook is designed to introduce property law to 21st-century law students. It covers the standard property topics with a blend of familiar and modern cases selected to appeal to contemporary students; it also includes sections on intellectual property and environmental law. Like other books in the Interactive Casebook Series, the accompanying electronic version allows students immediate access to the full text of cited cases, statutes, articles, and other materials on Westlaw®. In addition, the electronic version includes extensive photographs, maps, diagrams, and audio clips that help students understand the case materials.
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