With its distinctively contemporary focus, this book uses cutting-edge issues in constitutional law to introduce students to the ongoing debates about... the Supreme Court and its proper role in American society. This edition includes the latest decisions on the War on Terror, gay marriage, federalism, property rights, free speech, and discrimination law. It also includes enriched historical materials and complete coverage of all the major doctrinal areas.

Since the first edition, students have been reading Making and Doing Deals because they see the cases, problems, and text as helping them learn what... they need to know as first year law students, but also because they find the book to be accessible and enjoyable to read.

Tracing the development of contract law in the English and American common law traditions, Contracts features authoritative discussions and notes and... focuses on significant cases. The casebook also provides opportunities for teachers to put before students the ethical responsibilities of attorneys and the consequences of neglecting such responsibilities. Highlights of the seventh edition include: Revised selections with more Restatement and a special section providing leading cases Modest updating with new cases to refresh the book in response to adopters' expressed preferences More sophisticated but still accessible textual material on the economics of contract law. Revised introduction to provide for smoother transition into materials on damages.

This uniquely comprehensive casebook, first published in 1971, covers areas of law fundamental to the practice of copyright and entertainment... litigation, including the right of privacy, defamation, right of publicity, and unfair competition. Cases and Materials on Copyright and Other Aspects of Entertainment Litigation offers a classic blend of a conventional casebook style, minimal editing of cases, questions, problems and concise text reflecting the authors' expertise in the subject of copyright and entertainment law. Unlike most law school casebooks, Cases and Materials on Copyright and Other Aspects of Entertainment Litigation includes numerous illustrations and reproductions of photographs and paintings from the cases included in the book. These photographs and paintings help bring the concepts addressed alive for students and add interest-value to the legislative materials presented to them. This new Eighth Edition is completely updated to include cases and discussion of the most current issues and questions in copyright and entertainment law today, including: •   Fair use •   Preemption questions •   ""Hot news"" misappropriation claims •   Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress •   False light privacy •   Fantasy baseball issues

If you want to emphasize federal securities law in your next course on mergers and acquisitions, this new casebook will meet your needs. Relying heavily... on primary materials, CASES AND MATERIALS ON CORPORATE MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS is a conceptually organized casebook that conveys a solid understanding of this important area of law. When you review this new casebook, be sure to notice that it offers: more comprehensive and focused coverage of the corporate and securities laws aspects of M & A transactions than other books complete materials on federal securities regulation integrated with related state law provisions, rather than relegated to discrete chapters, to make the connections more apparent to students edited versions of state and federal statutes, rules, regulations, and forms reproduced in the corresponding section of the casebook instead of in separate unedited supplements heavy use of edited filings under the federal securities laws to give students greater familiarity with the business transactions and to provide examples of the documents students will prepare in practice extensive state and federal case selections edited to retain transactional detail To augment the primary materials and put them in context, the casebook also includes explanatory materials: excerpts from law review articles original text, notes, and questions Accompanied by a thorough Teacher's Manual that helps instructors take maximum advantage of the book, CASES AND MATERIALS ON CORPORATE MERGERS & ACQUSITIONS is a coherent and current guide to the doctrine, process, and transactions that will be an essential part of the work of future corporate lawyers.

A practical approach to Corporations featuring carefully edited cases, intriguing notes and questions, and exercises drawn from actual cases to create a... practical and skills-driven approach to the study of the legal principles of business. Featuring: Each chapter includes all the landmark cases that students should be introduced to in a Corporations or Business Entities course Strong skills-driven exercises and questions (both litigation-based and transaction-based) the practical exercises give students a chance to simulate what lawyers do the exercises are drawn from actual disputes, particularly from material in the case's procedural history, publicly-available information about the dispute, and other information provided from the actual lawyers on the case Brief notes and questions after cases, including some with practice-orientation Diagrams, or Roadmaps are included to give students an illustrative snapshot of some of the toughest cases. This text obviates the need for law professors interested in skills training to rely on supplemental texts or creating their own materials Companion website that includes supplemental introductory cases (with notes and questions) to enable use of the casebook by MBA and undergraduate students

Cases and Materials on Corporations has long been the choice of instructors who want a rich and challenging casebook with in-depth coverage of both... public and closely held corporations. Now in its seventh edition, this traditionally organized casebook continues to prove itself to be an invaluable teaching tool. Time and classroom tested and authored by leading thinkers in corporate law, Cases and Materials on Corporations offers: Traditional casebook pedagogy text notes, statutory material, excerpted commentary, problems, questions, and edited cases all meticulously chosen and edited by this outstanding author team.Richness and depth a range of thoroughly developed topics allows instructors to delve into topics with as much depth as they wish.A strong introductory chapter that develops the underpinnings for the course the authors expertly delineate the significant characteristics of a corporation: limited liability, perpetual existence, free transferability, and centralized management.A framework that examines corporate responsibility the authors scrutinize corporate law in the context of the corporation's responsibilities to its own constituents and investors, as well as to society.New to the Seventh Edition:A number of new main cases that have been recently decided, includingIn re Walt Disney Co. Derivative Litigation Stone v. Ritter.Effectively used to teach generations of law students, Cases and Materials on Corporations, Seventh Edition, remains the choice for instructors who want a sophisticated, in-depth presentation of corporate law.

This title covers the law of business associations for introductory courses. It discusses all forms of business organizations, including agency, general... partnerships, closely held corporations, publicly held corporations, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, and limited liability companies. The material on the unincorporated business forms has been completely revised and updated to reflect the centrality of these forms of business organization in modern law practice and in the economy generally. Among other state and model statutes, the Revised Uniform LLC Act (2006), the Revised Uniform Partnership Act (1997), the Uniform Limited Partnership Act (2001), and the Third Restatement of Agency (2006) are thoroughly discussed and cited. The casebook also covers fiduciary duties; corporate and other organizational governance; transactions by partners, directors, managers, and others; indemnification and insurance; and federal securities law, including insider trading and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. It also covers topics such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act, and new regulations about full disclosure by registered publicly held companies.

This is the 2011 Supplement to Miller, Dawson, Dix and Parnas'Cases and Materials on Criminal Justice Administration, 5th law school casebook. The... supplement contains cases decided since the release of the casebook and expertly drafted notes and questions for classroom discussion.

This popular casebook, through the selection of classic and modern cases, provides an excellent tool for teaching students the common law foundations of... the criminal law and modern statutory reform, including the Model Penal Code. Along the way, the casebook considers modern controversies (e.g., shaming punishment, rape law, self-defense by battered women, euthanasia, the role of culture in determining culpability), and creatively uses literature (e.g., examining insanity through Edgar Allen Poe's The-Tell Tale Heart) and even brain teasers to confront (as the Preface states) ;the Big Questions . . . that philosophers, theologians, scientists, and poets, as well as lawyers, have grappled with for centuries.

This popular casebook, through the selection of classic and modern cases, provides an excellent tool for teaching students the common law foundations of... the criminal law and modern statutory reform, including the Model Penal Code. Along the way, the casebook considers modern controversies (e.g., "shaming" punishment, rape law, self-defense by battered women, euthanasia, the role of culture in determining culpability), and creatively uses literature (e.g., examining insanity through Edgar Allen Poe's The-Tell Tale Heart) and even "brain teasers" to confront (as the Preface states) "the Big Questions . . . that philosophers, theologians, scientists, and poets, as well as lawyers, have grappled with for centuries

Tracking the field as it is practiced by employment lawyers on both the plaintiff and defense sides, this casebook provides a one-semester treatment of... the full range of employment discrimination laws as well as the core subjects of an employment law offering. Coverage includes the following: laws designed to protect individuals from discriminatory employment decisions; the extent to which the law prevents employers from retaliating against employees for filing claims, reporting misdeeds or other activity that our society highly values or seeks to protect; the common law of the employment relationship; the enactment of wage-hour, pension and other "minimum terms" laws to establish regulatory floors for private negotiation of employment contracts; and the procedural design of regulatory systems, including in-depth consideration of class actions, preemption and arbitration issues. It has been updated with all recent leading cases, newly enacted statutes, including the ADAAA, and integration of recently completed and membership-approved chapters of the Restatement of Employment Law on employment contract, employment torts and employee duties.

Tracking the field as it is practiced by employment lawyers on both plaintiff and defense side, this book enables a one-semester treatment of the full... range of employment discrimination laws as well as the core subjects of an employment law offering. It provides complete analysis of laws designed to protect individuals from employment decisions that affect them unfairly because of their race, color, sex, age, disability or other protected characteristic . Also considers the extent to which the law prevents employers from retaliating against employees for filing claims, reporting misdeeds or other activity that our society highly values or seeks to protect. Treats the common law of the employment relationship. Considers also the enactment of wage-hour, pension and other minimum terms laws to establish regulatory floors for private negotiation of employment contracts. Takes up the procedural design of regulatory systems for employment relationships and questions of coordination of multiple systems, including in-depth consideration of class actions, collateral estoppel and arbitration issues.