Books in the American Casebook Series series

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.