The purpose of this book is to provide teachers of juvenile law and process with a comprehensive set of course materials to examine both the delinquency... and child welfare systems. Arranged in sixteen chapters, this book is roughly divided equally between delinquency and child welfare. There are separate chapters on children's rights in public schools, special advocacy for children, and mental health commitment of children. As noted by Professor Sanford N. Katz in the Foreword to the book: "This book is the first successful attempt to combine Juvenile Law and the legal and social problems associated with juvenile delinquency and the juvenile court with Child Welfare Law and the issues of child protection. By uniting both areas in a single volume, Professor Smithburn has provided law students, legislators, and judges with a holistic approach to the study of children in the judicial system."

This law school casebook supplement contains the statutes, rules, and documents referred to in Cases and Materials on Admiralty, 5th. Included are... provisions of the U.S. Code, international agreements, historical materials, and selected Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

This casebook provides detailed information on admiralty and retains the basic structure and organization of the prior editions. The book provides the... tools for fast, easy, on-point classroom discussion and study while including selected cases designed to illustrate the development of a body of law on a particular subject. Text and explanatory materials designed for law study accompany the cases. The structure and organization of the casebook provides flexibility so that the instructor can easily design an admiralty course that covers either the jurisdictional aspect of admiralty law, the substantive law of admiralty or both.

Through judicial opinions, statutes, conventions, documents, and textual notes, this Admiralty casebook shows how lawyers litigate, arbitrate, and... repress disputes in domestic and international maritime transportation by using the tools of private international law. Within the same length as the Fourth Edition, the Fifth Edition updates the treatment of the usual topics and slightly rearranges the structure. A new chapter presents background on undeveloped topics such as piracy, the Deepwater Horizon casualty, and the Rotterdam Rules. The editors have sought to keep the Fifth Edition comfortable for long-time users and to make it accessible to new users.

This advanced torts casebook covers all the major business and dignitary torts, including defamation, privacy invasions, disparagement, bad faith breach... of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, conversion of economic values, interference with contract and economic opportunity, unfair competition, and others. It examines essential policy issues involving free speech, free competition, and the question whether contract trumps tort in commercial transactions. It also includes material on developing law, such as internet issues, SLAPP statutes and analogous free speech issues, and the Economic Loss Rule (or Rules).

This casebook continues its traditional approach to the teaching of property law. The new edition features a number of new cases inserted into almost... every chapter of the book. The notes and comments have been appropriately updated. The opening chapter continues to include a section of cases designed to hone a student's skill in close case analysis. The book in its entirety introduces students to a broad spectrum of material traditionally covered in a first-year property course.

The sixth edition of this popular casebook has fully integrated the Supreme Court's latest decisions---Stolt-Nielsen, Rent-A-Center, AT&T Mobility,... and Granite Rock---into the coverage. The new organization is more cohesive and better defines the issues of central importance to the area than the previous edition. The book also includes a new epilogue that contains materials on drafting arbitration agreements that can serve as a basis for a class workshop on drafting these agreements. The book's organization and approach reflect a continued and intense process of assessment of the field. It is completely up to date and gauges the work of the Supreme Court in the area.

This book was written to fill the gap between the purely problem-driven and the wholly case-law approaches in the available teaching materials for... bankruptcy. Material deals with both consumer and business bankruptcies and avoids an unremitting political or theoretical perspective. Coverage includes creditors’ rights and remedies, the first consequences of bankruptcy, unsecured claims in bankruptcy, secured claims in bankruptcy, avoiding powers, executory contracts and unexpired leases, discharge, and reorganization.

This classic casebook on the California community property system contains carefully updated coverage of premarital agreements, transmutations, same-sex... marriage, equal management and control, interspousal rights and remedies, and creditors' rights. Core chapters discuss the complexity that flows from classifying property as community or separate. Statutory provisions have been updated in the text and in the appendix.

The Sixth Edition includes new landmark cases and reflects recent changes in procedural rules and practice. While essentially a traditional casebook... organized along the lines of the events in a lawsuit, this new edition of Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure retains the unique features that have made prior editions a success, including: •  ""Chapter Summary Problems"" - optional comprehensive problems requiring the student to ""put the chapter together"" and apply to the problems the material addressed in the chapter •  ""Improving the System"" sections challenging students to think more deeply about cutting-edge issues •  Litigation documents showing actual litigation sequences, including the motion for summary judgment in Jones v. Clinton and excerpts from the jury selection, the court's charge, and the final arguments in Pennzoil Co. v. Texaco, Inc. •   ""How to Read This Case"" notes precede particularly difficult cases •  Traditional federal materials are supplemented with an introduction to differing practices of three benchmark states: California and Texas •  A chapter devoted to Alternative Dispute Resolution methods Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure is supplemented annually. A comprehensive Teacher's Manual is available to professors.

The Fifth Edition includes new landmark cases and reflects recent changes in procedural rules and practice. While essentially a traditional casebook... organized along the lines of the events in a lawsuit, this new edition of Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure retains the unique features that have made prior editions a success, including: "Chapter Summary Problems" - optional comprehensive problems requiring the student to "put the chapter together" and apply to the problems the material addressed in the chapter "Improving the System" sections challenging students to think more deeply about cutting-edge issues Litigation documents showing actual litigation sequences, including the motion for summary judgment in Jones v. Clinton and excerpts from the jury selection, the court's charge, and the final arguments in Pennzoil Co. v. Texaco, Inc. "How to Read This Case" notes precede particularly difficult cases Traditional federal materials are supplemented with an introduction to differing practices of three benchmark states: California, New York, and Texas A chapter devoted to Alternative Dispute Resolution methodsNew or revised materials include: A new section on personal jurisdiction by electronic contacts covering the Internet and e-commerce Revised disclosure and discovery coverage to reflect up-to-date rules New service of process materials that reflect the decisional effects of rules changes Reorganized coverage of Rule 11 and sanctions to facilitate comparison of previous practice to the effects of current rules Updated coverage of pretrial conferences and case management issues The Supreme Court's decision in Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Co., clarifying the standard for granting judgment as a matter of law

The Sixth Edition includes new landmark cases and reflects recent changes in procedural rules and practice. While essentially a traditional casebook... organized along the lines of the events in a lawsuit, this new edition of Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure retains the unique features that have made prior editions a success, including: •  ""Chapter Summary Problems"" - optional comprehensive problems requiring the student to ""put the chapter together"" and apply to the problems the material addressed in the chapter •  ""Improving the System"" sections challenging students to think more deeply about cutting-edge issues •  Litigation documents showing actual litigation sequences, including the motion for summary judgment in Jones v. Clinton and excerpts from the jury selection, the court's charge, and the final arguments in Pennzoil Co. v. Texaco, Inc. •   ""How to Read This Case"" notes precede particularly difficult cases •  Traditional federal materials are supplemented with an introduction to differing practices of three benchmark states: California and Texas •  A chapter devoted to Alternative Dispute Resolution methods Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure is supplemented annually. A comprehensive Teacher's Manual is available to professors.

The new 5th edition retains the statute-based focus of the original, guiding students through the rules, doctrines, and theories that apply to major... litigation under the three generations of primary civil rights statutes (the original statutes, sections 1983, 1981, 1982, and 1985(3), with their emphasis on constitutional litigation; the revolutionary statutes of the 1960's and early 1970's, Title VII, Title VI, the Voting Rights Act, and section 504), and the evolutionary enactments after 1990 (the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Civil Rights Amendments of 1991, and the judicially-limited Violence Against Women Act). The 5th edition continues an emphasis begun in the 4th edition on legal realism and how the statutes respond to or fail to ameliorate real-life problems. The combination of statutory coverage and legal realism allows each professor to choose the topical areas and political viewpoints that he or she wishes to emphasize. In addition to widespread general updating, the new 5th edition significantly expands on prior editions with a new focus on Fourth Amendment litigation post-Scott, several new approaches both substantive and procedural -- to official immunity defenses, and new cases relating to the increasingly fractured sovereign immunity defense. In addition, a significant new sub-section explores the Supreme Court's attempt in the Ricci case to adjust the relation between disparate impact and disparate treatment analyses, highlighting its substantial impact on affirmative action concepts as well. Finally, the new 5th edition also covers the 2008 Amendments to the Americans With Disabilities Act and their significant alteration of the Court's previous attempts to restrict disability litigation. The new edition will also include any new decisions anticipated through the end of the Supreme Court's 2010-11 Term.

This casebook is mostly traditional in approach. It begins with judicial review, deals next with legislative and executive powers, and contains coverage... of individual rights in the latter half. The landmark cases, from Marbury v. Madison to Brown v. Board of Education to Bush v. Gore and beyond, are present. Though traditional in approach, Cases and Materials on Constitutional Law includes many unique features to create an accessible yet stimulating learning experience for the student of Constitutional Law. Distinct features of this casebook include: Inclusion of actual litigation documents from constitutional cases; Full text of the Constitution placed at the beginning of the book to encourage students to read it; Prefatory chapter presenting a short history of the Constitution; Numerous problems based on cutting-edge issues; A brief chapter on state constitutional law; and A concise chapter on the Second Amendment that provides an excellent opportunity for student interpretation in light of the relative scarcity of court opinions in this nevertheless socially significant area. The authors aim to make the fundamentals easy for students to grasp so that professors can devote more class time to more interesting issues. Complex chapters are introduced by text that gives students a "road map" of the issues. Cases are edited with student comprehension in mind, with explanations of difficult principles inserted in brackets.