Books in the Higher Education Coursebook series

Provides business, paralegal, legal studies and law school students with a comprehensive understanding of the principal areas of intellectual property protection: trade secrets, patents, copyrights, trademarks, the right of publicity, plus treatment of legal protection for other valuable intangibles and international intellectual property issues.

For the first time there is a Criminal Law textbook specifically geared to Masters' level or undergraduate legal studies/law courses on the subject. Each chapter begins with an overview of the law on the subject covered for simple and easy access. The book includes thought provoking problems designed to stimulate classroom discussion.

Explores selected national security law issues, focusing on the choices between liberty and security and law's role as a tool or constraint on national security policy. The authors present fascinating problems and dilemmas, while clearly explaining complicated legal material.

Offers a complete survey of law, courts, and the judicial process in the United States and across the globe. The book's interdisciplinary approach emphasizes the dynamic role law, legal theory, and courts play in the adversarial system and constitutional framework.

This text is for an introduction to corrections class. The premise of the book is to expose students to the importance of empirical data concerning corrections policies, program, and protocol. It reviews the historical roots of corrections up to current issues. The importance of evidence-based policy and planning are highlighted.

This coursebook contains 32 case studies that expose students to the interchange between the courts and the elected branches. Each case study begins with a detailed introductory essay followed by edited primary source materials, including legislative debates, presidential signing statements, and correspondence between Justices.

Covering both the historical foundations that continue to inform the present as well as hot button issues facing Native America today, each of this volume's thirty chapters is a concise, readable synopsis of an aspect of this dynamic, ever evolving field of law.

Presents commentary and primary source material focused on "public law" as well as "private law" dealings, including aircraft transactions, labour and employment, airports, accident litigation, and international accident litigation.

Distils legal analysis and research to a series of concrete skills that can be acquired chapter-by-chapter. The text introduces skills and patterns of legal analysis in small pieces so students can master them bit by bit, with ample opportunity to practice using the creative end-of-chapter exercises.

A resource designed for students and teachers to prepare for and participate in undergraduate appellate court simulations. The authors combine their decades of experience teaching and coaching moot court to help students understand key skills needed in appellate advocacy.

A comprehensive, easy to understand guide to legal issues associated with the construction industry. Straightforward material on contract, common, and regulatory law associated with designing and managing construction projects with engaging graphics, exercises and real-world examples.

Offers updated research, legal cases, and new examples. Chapters contain an introduction to an important social problem, followed by discussion of the major legal issues and a review of relevant social science research, including experimental literature and ethical considerations.

Discusses the basic framework that governs electoral institutions in the United States. The book unpacks the right to vote, the candidates, districting and gerrymandering, parties and primaries, the Electoral College, campaign finance, and ballot counts and recounts.

Building on three previous editions, this book combines updated material on constitutional law, sex and gender discrimination, and women's reproductive rights, with new cases and readings on family law, criminal law, and LGBT rights. New material covers emerging policy concerns such as female genital mutilation.

Explores American environmental policy in the context of an interconnected world. The book seeks to give readers an understanding of environmental issues not only from a purely domestic setting but also from the larger perspective of global actors, institutions, and issues.

Provides the perfect balance between the challenges of the case method and the needs of undergraduate and graduate students who may, or may not, be headed to law school. The book makes use of US Supreme Court cases edited to reflect the needs of undergraduate students, with Notes and Questions that help illuminate the case.

Offers a fully up to date treatment of all the major labour and employment laws. Legal essays on each section's topics are crafted to clarify the complexities of our labour and employment laws. The self-outlining essays are student friendly, yet authoritative and neutral, with neither management nor employee bias.

Examines the fundamental principles and policies of the American constitutional order. The book emphasises the social, political, and moral theory that provides meaning to constitutional law and interpretation, and situates the American experience within a world context.

Examines the fundamental principles and policies of the American constitutional order. The book emphasises the social, political, and moral theory that provides meaning to constitutional law and interpretation, and situates the American experience within a world context.

Explores the disparate allocation of legal rights of persons from a comparative, global perspective. The chapters canvass some of the hot-topic issues relative to the legal rights of persons vis-a-vis the rights of citizens, migrants, refugees, and immigrants. The chapters explain how various migrant, refugee, and immigrant populations are disproportionately disadvantaged under national laws.

This text is organised to fully explicate the material in an understandable and comprehensive fashion. The tone is conversational, much like a series of lectures on the various topics covered. Much of material, although critical, is unique to this text. The book would be a helpful resource for upper level undergraduate students, graduate students, and police academy students.

A book for students of entrepreneurship who need to understand the legal issues affecting their ventures. It will appeal to faculty and students in any class teaching entrepreneurship law in business school, and can be used as a primary text or a supplement. It is a more accessible and more comprehensive text than other books covering the same material.

A revised version of the pioneering book on business ethics, this new edition contains the complete summary of the leading theories of business ethics today, and has been further changed and edited from the previous edition to make it more relevant and interesting to business ethics students.

Written by a team of C.J. educators, this accessible, readable and essential but comprehensive text makes real world experiences come to life for students and will appeal to all audiences. The book features examples taken from real life to provide a context for pressing issues in C.J. and will allow students to experience the "real world" of criminal justice issues.

International Law and International Relations is a helpful introduction to the ways in which international law affects world politics. Well-written and engaging, it is accessible to readers without a background in law. It includes up-to-date important topics, such as human rights, war and peace, counter-terrorism initiatives, the United Nations, and the law of the sea.