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Evidence Simulations: Bridge to Practice
Thomas Jay (J). Leach
his volume in the “Bridge to Practice” series is designed to help students hit the ground running when they graduate, focusing on the trial context – how to handle evidentiary issues in the heat of battle. In ten chapters, it takes the class through each of the major areas of evidence law, using simulated trial settings, pretrial arguments, and trial-planning evidentiary analysis. The exercises are based on two simple, easy-to-grasp cases scenarios (one civil, one criminal). In some exercises the students play all the roles; in others, they watch video trial segments “cold” and are required to react with objections and arguments in support of or in opposition to offered evidence. Each exercise is preceded by a set of “points to remember” to equip beginning students with the trial advocacy skills they need to handle a simulated trial setting. A final exercise combines all areas into one summary wrap-up useful for a session on overall course review.
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Understanding Torts
Lawrence C. Levine, John Diamond, and Anita Bernstein
This Understanding treatise is the perfect complement to first-year tort courses and is suitable for use with any tort casebook. Concise and authoritative, Understanding Torts features:
- Comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of intentional torts, privileges, negligence, cause-in-fact, proximate cause, defenses, joint and several liability, damages, strict liability, products liability, economic torts, malicious prosecution, abuse of process, defamation and invasion of privacy.
- Judicious use of footnotes to provide full, but not overwhelming, primary and secondary support for textual propositions.
- Clear organization and writing to enhance understanding of basic concepts and major cases covered in a torts course.
- In-depth analysis of topics that generate the greatest confusion and controversy.
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Global Lawyering Skills
Mary-Beth Moylan, Stephanie J. Thompson, Adrienne L. Brungess, Gretchen Franz, Hether Macfarlane, Jeffrey E. Proske, Edward Telfeyan, Maureen Watkins, Kathleen Friedrich, Jennifer A. Gibson, and Maureen Moran
Global Lawyering Skills is designed to teach fundamental lawyering skills by introducing students to a broader range of skills than a traditional research and writing textbook. While the book covers basic objective and persuasive legal writing skills, it also addresses other lawyering skills, such as oral argument, ARD, transactional drafting, and client interviewing and counseling. Additionally, students need an understanding of how cross-cultural and transnational considerations impact the practice of law.
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Experiencing Family Law
John E.B. Myers
This skills-infused coursebook introduces students to basic family law practice. Designed as a primary text for family law courses, it delves far beyond the foundational cases and doctrine, presenting drafting exercises, negotiation simulations, litigation simulations, and problems that situate students in practice and challenge them to do what lawyers really do. Unique for its teachability, this book facilitates efficient, skills-oriented instruction in large classes without requiring burdensome preparatory time. It is accompanied by a teacher’s manual.
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Persuasive Written and Oral Advocacy in Trial and Appellate Courts
Michael Vitiello and Michael R. Fontham
Applicable to all legal writing and speaking, and includes practical guidance for advocacy in federal courts, trial courts, and other situations. Students are given a clear and practical guide to legal writing and oral argument, from the selection of a main theme, to the employment of research, language, and speaking skills that achieve a clear, persuasive legal message. Step-by-step, they learn to organize, prepare, and present winning written and oral arguments. Detailed coverage of trial motion practice as well as appellate practice shows how important it is to consider the judge’s time and perspective when preparing an argument. Concrete examples based on a hypothetical case file are liberally spread throughout the text along with extensive advice for editing Sophisticated, realistic litigation problems in the accompanying Case Files help put principles in practice and allow instructors a great deal of flexibility. Each case file is accompanied by its own Teacher’s Manual. Technological developments are explored, including electronic filing, video conference oral arguments, and electronic research.
The revised Third Edition presents updated and expanded information on electronic filings as well as rule updates, especially local rule issues, and an updated, two-color design.
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Understanding Capital Punishment Law
Linda Carter, Ellen Kreitzberg, and Scott Howe
Understanding Capital Punishment Law provides an overview of the complex issues surrounding capital punishment. The primary emphasis is an explanation of the constitutional law under the 8th Amendment Cruel and Unusual Punishment clause that governs death penalty proceedings in the United States. Death penalty cases are examined from start to finish, including such topics as voir dire of the jury, aggravating and mitigating circumstances, methods of execution, habeas corpus, clemency, racial and gender issues, the federal death penalty, and international issues and concerns.
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Understanding Property Law
John G. Sprankling
This comprehensive and authoritative Understanding treatise is suitable for use in conjunction with any Property casebook. Features include:
• Complete coverage of all standard property topics, including landlord-tenant law, adverse possession, rights in personal property, estates and future interests, marital property, land sale transactions, servitudes, nuisance, zoning, takings, and other land use issues;
• Analysis of cutting-edge topics, such as property rights in human bodies, current takings issues, the new Restatement (Third) of Property (Servitudes), rights and duties of homeowners' associations, and property rights in personal names and likenesses;
• Discussion of the policy and historical underpinnings of property law doctrines; and
• Clear writing and detailed organization to facilitate student understanding of both basic concepts and controversial topics. -
Criminal Procedure Simulations: Bridge to Practice
Michael Vitiello
Legal educators recognize the need for students to hit the ground running when they graduate. This book is designed to help students do just that. It consists of nine simulations, covering a wide array of issues arising under the 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments, giving students the opportunity to learn essential lawyering skills. For example, it puts students in roles of counselor, trial and oral advocate, and legal writer, and requires students to present testimony before the trial court hearing the defendant's motion to suppress evidence. Written by an experienced educator and expert in criminal procedure, the teacher's manual describes how these exercises can be successfully integrated into a traditional "podium" course.
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Global Issues in Criminal Procedure
Linda Carter, Christopher L. Blakesley, and Peter J. Henning
This book provides an overview of constitutional issues that arise when searches, seizures, and interrogations occur outside the United States. Global Issues examines prosecutions in U.S. courts that involve evidence obtained abroad and the reach of the Fourth Amendment when the searches and seizures involve U.S. citizens abroad compared with non-U.S. citizens. Cases such as Verdugo-Urquidez and Alvarez-Machain are included, along with sections on electronic surveillance and the reach of the Fifth Amendment and Due Process Clause abroad, plus materials on torture and extraordinary renditions. There is also a short discussion of indefinite detention in places like Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, and in other sites.
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Corporation Law
Franklin A. Gevurtz
This book clarifies rather than simply recites corporations law, while paying attention to correcting common misconceptions held among students about the subject. This book is also appropriate for courts and commentators seeking the appropriate resolution of issues of corporations law. Citations in this book are kept to a minimum and written in a user-friendly style. The second edition incorporates the major developments in corporate law in the decade since the first edition was published.
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Global Issues in Intellectual Property Law
Amy Landers, Michael S. Mireles, John Cross, and Peter K. Yu
This book is designed to facilitate the introduction of international, transnational, and comparative law issues into a domestic Intellectual Property course. The book is very accessible for law students and their professors. The book can be assigned or recommended as optional reading to supplement a domestic-only course to advance the students' understanding of their own system.
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Transnational Litigation in Comparative Perspective: Theory and Application
Stephen C. McCaffrey and Thomas O. Main
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Public International Law: Cases, Problems and Text
Stephen C. McCaffrey, Dinah Shelton, and John Cerone
This book introduces the international legal system in a way that is lively, thought-provoking, and practical. The work is designed to be teachable and comprehensive. Each chapter is introduced by a problem or case-study drawn from actual situations, events or cases. The book includes such cutting-edge issues as: the use of force against non-state actors on the territory of third states, climate change, peacekeeper accountability, ozone depletion, and failed states. It challenges students to thoughtfully examine current events, including the legality of Iran's nuclear program, Kosovo's declaration of independence, the international prosecution of Charles Taylor, the arctic "underwater land rush", and combating piracy off the coast of Somalia.
Students are asked to utilize the materials in the chapter in determining the legal regime that governs the problem and seeking solutions through critical analysis. Relevant documents are included in the chapters themselves to encourage students to read and apply them. The most basic documents in the field are contained in annexes.
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Global Issues in Commercial Law
Claude D. Rohwer and Kristen David Adams
This book seeks to provide an international perspective and also sufficient domestic context to facilitate a comparative-law discussion. The book includes staples of international commercial law, such as the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and international insolvency, but also items of particular contemporary concern, including clawbacks, microfinance, and religious objections to the payment of interest in commercial contracts.
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Global Issues in Freedom of Speech and Religion: Cases and Materials
Leslie Gielow Jacobs and Alan Brownstein
Brownstein and Jacobs's Global Issues in Freedom of Speech and Religion: Cases and Materials is a companion volume to existing materials. Designed to assist professors in introducing issues of international and comparative law, this title is ideal for use in educational courses that address:
- The First Amendment
- Law and religion
- Individual rights
- Other topics dealing with free speech and religious liberty
In order to make companion materials understandable and accessible to students as well as to professors who have not taught the materials before, this title:- Includes case excerpts, helpful background materials, and notes
- Is set out in a structure that mirrors U.S. constitutional jurisprudence
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Global Issues in Environmental Law
Rachael E. Salcido and Stephen C. McCaffrey
This book introduces the student to international and comparative dimensions of environmental law. Intended for use as a supplement in basic environmental law courses, Global Issues in Environmental Law covers constitutional protection of the environment; the precautionary principle; intergenerational equity; international and comparative approaches to the regulation of air, water, and toxic substance pollution; global climate change; wildlife and biodiversity preservation; the law of the sea; and management of oceans and coastal areas.
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美国财产法精解 = Understanding property law / Mei guo cai chan fa jing jie = Understanding property law
John G. Sprankling and Shufeng Zhong
This comprehensive and authoritative Understanding treatise is suitable for use in conjunction with any Property casebook. Features include:
• Complete coverage of all standard property topics, including landlord-tenant law, adverse possession, rights in personal property, estates and future interests, marital property, land sale transactions, servitudes, nuisance, zoning, takings, and other land use issues;
• Analysis of cutting-edge topics, such as property rights in human bodies, current takings issues, the new Restatement (Third) of Property (Servitudes), rights and duties of homeowners' associations, and property rights in personal names and likenesses;
• Discussion of the policy and historical underpinnings of property law doctrines; and
• Clear writing and detailed organization to facilitate student understanding of both basic concepts and controversial topics. -
Mediation Skills and Techniques
Laurence Boulle, Michael T. Colatrella Jr., and Anthony Picchioni
This is an essential and comprehensive addition to the professional library of all mediators. It provides a thorough course of study of the mediation process, from convening the mediation to formalizing the settlement agreement. The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to mediation, integrating knowledge and expertise from law, psychology, and sociology. Practical examples and case studies are used to illustrate the skills and techniques necessary to become an effective mediator. Bolstered with scientific research, the content of the book goes far beyond the scope of most other mediation books with its extensive consideration of the dynamics of interpersonal conflict and negotiation techniques that set high-quality mediators apart from the crowd. Additional helpful practical advice about cultivating a successful mediation practice is provided, including a survey of careers in mediation, tips on marketing, and appendices with useful forms and worksheets. All mediators and students of mediation will find sound and applicable guidance in this book, regardless of their experience level, background, education, or field of practice. This book answers the call for the systematic preparation of forward thinking mediation professionals who seek to be on the vanguard of this rapidly expanding and evolving field. Coverage includes:
- Ch. 1: Introduction to Learning Mediation Skills and Techniques
- Ch. 2: Establishing the Foundation: Introductions, Intake, Screening & Preparation
- Ch. 3: Maintaining a Favorable Climate
- Ch. 4: Managing the Mediation Process
- Ch. 5: Assisting the Communication Process
- Ch. 6: Managing Conflict from Crisis to Opportunity
- Ch. 7: Facilitating the Negotiations
- Ch. 8: Encouraging Settlement
- Ch. 9: Variations in the Mediation Process
- Ch. 10: Special Issues in Mediation
- Ch. 11: Avoiding Mediator Traps
- Ch. 12: Becoming a Mediator, Careers in Mediation, and Establishing a Private Mediation Practice
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