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Scholarship is a core priority for the Pacific McGeorge faculty. Among their scholarly pursuits, Pacific McGeorge faculty develop and present at scholarly symposia and conferences, author books for the legal profession, students, and the general public, and produce scholarship for top journals around the country and the world.
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  • Representing Clients: Simulation Case Files for Legal Education by Luo Wenyan and Brian K. Landsberg

    Representing Clients: Simulation Case Files for Legal Education

    Luo Wenyan and Brian K. Landsberg

  • Global Issues in Criminal Law by Linda Carter, Christopher L. Blakesley, and Peter J. Henning

    Global Issues in Criminal Law

    Linda Carter, Christopher L. Blakesley, and Peter J. Henning

    This book provides an introduction to issues arising in international and transnational crimes, giving students a broader perspective on a developing area of the law. Faculty and students have access to material from domestic and international sources. The book builds on a number of subjects treated in the traditional criminal law class, such as mens rea, actus reus, accomplice and conspiratorial liability, and defenses, by analyzing three subjects of current interest: transnational crimes, terrorism, and genocide.

  • Global Issues in Tort Law by Julie A. Davies and Paul T. Hayden

    Global Issues in Tort Law

    Julie A. Davies and Paul T. Hayden

    Global Issues in Tort Law introduces law students and law practitioners to selected topics in comparative tort law and U.S. statutory law dealing with international tort issues, such as the Alien Tort statute and the Warsaw Convention. The comparative tort law chapters feature the case law and jurisprudence of various countries, including Ghana, Costa Rica, France, and Japan, and include topics such as verbal insults, governmental liability, products liability, and privacy, among others.

  • Global Issues in Employment Discrimination Law by Brian K. Landsberg and Samuel Estreicher

    Global Issues in Employment Discrimination Law

    Brian K. Landsberg and Samuel Estreicher

    This casebook emphasizes primary materials (statutes, European Union directives, regulations, guidelines, and cases) that have been edited to facilitate classroom discussion. Topics include what employers are covered, including extraterritorial application; protected classes in Europe, Asia, South Africa and Mexico; types of unlawful discrimination; and remedies and enforcement mechanisms. The primary material is enhanced by brief notes and questions. The book can supplement a domestic-only employment discrimination law course, or serve as the basis of a stand-alone seminar, to advance the students' understanding of their own system and the kinds of issues they will face in an era of globalization.

  • Global Issues in Constitutional Law by Brian K. Landsberg and Leslie Gielow Jacobs

    Global Issues in Constitutional Law

    Brian K. Landsberg and Leslie Gielow Jacobs

    Global Issues in Constitutional Law is designed to supplement constitutional law classes with international, comparative, and transnational law issues. This volume covers: judicial review, separation of powers, individual rights, equal protection, due process, freedom of speech and religion and other topics.

  • Global Issues in Contract Law by Michael P. Malloy, John A. Spanogle, Louis Del Duca, Andrea K. Bjorklund, and Keith A. Rowley

    Global Issues in Contract Law

    Michael P. Malloy, John A. Spanogle, Louis Del Duca, Andrea K. Bjorklund, and Keith A. Rowley

    Global Issues in Contract Law is designed to allow the introduction of international, comparative, and transnational legalissues into the basic Contracts course. In addition to providing guidance on the status and scope of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and other international authorities, the book provides internationally oriented materials on basic contract law topics that can be folded into the basic course.

  • International Environmental Law and Policy by Stephen C. McCaffrey, Edith Brown Weiss, Daniel B. Magraw, and A. Dan Tarlock

    International Environmental Law and Policy

    Stephen C. McCaffrey, Edith Brown Weiss, Daniel B. Magraw, and A. Dan Tarlock

  • Global Issues in Corporate Law by Franklin A. Gevurtz

    Global Issues in Corporate Law

    Franklin A. Gevurtz

    This book is designed primarily to serve as a supplement allowing professors teaching corporate law courses in law schools in the United States to introduce their students to corporate laws outside of the United States. By doing so, this book seeks to familiarize students with laws governing the foreign companies US attorneys may increasingly need to deal with in a global economy, to clarify United States corporate law by examining how other systems address the same concerns, to challenge students’ unquestioning assumption that the law du jour in the United States is, by definition, the best law, and to predict the direction of United States corporate law in the future given our history of borrowing from foreign corporate laws in the past. Subjects covered include taxonomy of business forms, choice of corporate law, creditor protection, corporate governance, mismanagement, insider trading, and takeovers.

  • Pass the bar! by Denise Riebe and Michael Hunter Schwartz

    Pass the bar!

    Denise Riebe and Michael Hunter Schwartz

    Pass the Bar! provides a comprehensive overview of the pre-bar review, bar review, and bar exam process. The authors demystify the bar exam process and take readers through the steps they need to follow to succeed.

    Readers are given specific information about what to do during the year before their bar exams; checklists, exercises, and reflection questions; tips for studying and completing practice questions; and sample exam questions and answers to maximize their likelihood of bar exam success.

    The book has been designed with several uses in mind:

    • As the text for a for-credit law school bar preparation course;
    • As a supplemental text for an upper-level doctrinal course, allowing professors to build students’ bar study skills in the context of learning a bar-tested subject;
    • As a text for non-credit bar preparation workshops; or
    • For students’ independent study.

    The authors’ recommendations are grounded in educational and psychological research as well as their personal experiences in designing programs and preparing thousands of students to pass their bar exams. Readers will find the text user-friendly and its recommendations straightforward and practical.

    “Once in awhile the perfect book comes along at the perfect time. Pass the Bar! is just such a book, arriving at the ideal time to help law students clear the last hurdle of the race they began when they started law school. The authors’ approach is both logical and powerful, and would immediately enhance any bar taker’s likelihood of success. I will happily recommend the book to generations of students as they prepare to cross the finish line of their challenging bar exam race.” — Professor Ruth Ann McKinney, Director of the Writing and Learning Resources Center, The University of North Carolina School of Law

  • Global Issues in Property Law by John G. Sprankling, Raymond R. Coletta, and M.C. Mirow

    Global Issues in Property Law

    John G. Sprankling, Raymond R. Coletta, and M.C. Mirow

    This title is designed to introduce comparative law perspectives that help students understand domestic property law concepts, in areas including adverse possession, the right to exclude, estates in land, future interests, marital property, the landlord-tenant relationship, eviction of tenants, low-income housing, land sales transactions, title assurance, nuisance, and land use. It also introduces students to areas of international law that are beginning to affect domestic property law, including the human right to property, international regulatory takings, and global land sales transactions.

  • Practicing Persuasive Legal Written and Oral Advocacy: Case File III by Michael Vitiello, David W. Miller, and Michael R. Fontham

    Practicing Persuasive Legal Written and Oral Advocacy: Case File III

    Michael Vitiello, David W. Miller, and Michael R. Fontham

    Based on a tort action in federal court against an Alabama church for financial exploitation by a pastoral counselor, this case simulation problem offers a complete set of court documents to supplement your Persuasive Legal Writing, Pretrial Practice, Appellate Advocacy, or Moot Court. Case File III presents a complete set of realistic court documents ; A complaint, defensive motions with supporting documentation, and transcripts of six depositions in Petrillo v. Rooks. A notice of appeal from a dispositive opinion and order Case File III is a solid platform for: Written and oral exercises ; One or more memoranda and oral arguments before the district court ; Briefs and oral arguments before the court of appeals. Case File III raises numerous legal issues, such as: Diversity jurisdiction ; State law bases for church liability for pastoral misconduct ; Constitutional limits on church liability for pastoral misconduct ; Testimonial privilege for confidential communications with clergy members.

  • Practicing Persuasive Legal Written and Oral Advocacy: Case File II by Michael Vitiello, David W. Miller, and Michael R. Fontham

    Practicing Persuasive Legal Written and Oral Advocacy: Case File II

    Michael Vitiello, David W. Miller, and Michael R. Fontham

    This text will expose you to the many documents used in preparing for trial and appellate advocacy by providing a complete set of documents to supplement your persuasive legal writing, pre-trial practice, appellate advocacy, or moot court class. Case File II spotlights First Amendment and substantive tort issues that teach you how to argue legal and factual issues, extrapolate issues from the record, find evidentiary support for their position, and grapple with challenges of scope of review and harmless error.

    Practicing Persuasive Written and Oral Advocacy: Case File II demonstrates the link between the classroom and the courtroom:a simulated case, Coburn v. Martinez, is based on actual events and offers high human-interest value

  • documents are designed to achieve precise teaching objectives; they faithfully replicate reality, but improve upon it
  • the case file includes: a compliant, defensive motions with supporting and opposing declaration, depositions, and a detailed record-on-appeal transcript
  • exercises may contain one or more memoranda and oral arguments before the trial courts, as well as briefs and oral arguments before an appellate courts

  • Practicing Persuasive Legal Written and Oral Advocacy: Case File I by Michael Vitiello, David W. Miller, and Michael R. Fontham

    Practicing Persuasive Legal Written and Oral Advocacy: Case File I

    Michael Vitiello, David W. Miller, and Michael R. Fontham

    Case File I incorporates issues of service of process and personal jurisdiction in a format designed to build written and oral advocacy skills through practice.

  • Studying Law: An Introduction to Legal Research by J. Clark Kelso

    Studying Law: An Introduction to Legal Research

    J. Clark Kelso

    This excellent classroom-proved material contains self-instructional research exercises, which can be completed by the student and monitored by the instructor.

    This book provides a clear and concise introduction to legal research, including narrative introductions to the basic primary and secondary sources with which students must become familiar, and online, practical exercises, such as multiple choice, true-false, library simulation exercises, and actual library exercises.

    This edition offers significantly expanded coverage of source materials and of specialized research in Constitutional Law, United States treaties, and International Law. Each chapter also includes explanations of LexisNexis and Westlaw usage.

  • The Law of Hazardous Wastes and Toxic Substances in a Nutshell by John G. Sprankling and Gregory S. Weber

    The Law of Hazardous Wastes and Toxic Substances in a Nutshell

    John G. Sprankling and Gregory S. Weber

    The law of hazardous wastes and toxic substances is complex and constantly changing. It is a specialized field involving the overlap of law, science, economics, and the public policy it presents. This text covers the risks involved with and the regulation of the production, sale, use, and disposal of toxic substances. Briefly explores the special problems of nuclear materials.

  • Trial manual for Louisiana prosecutors by Michael Vitiello, Arthur Lemann, and Gerard Rault

    Trial manual for Louisiana prosecutors

    Michael Vitiello, Arthur Lemann, and Gerard Rault

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