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  Commercial Contracting Sales, Leases, and Computer Information

  Francis J. Mootz III, David Frisch, and Peter Alces

  This innovative book includes cases, problems, note materials and questions, as well as excerpts from law review articles and other secondary sources that explain the fit among the contemporary sources of Commercial Contracting Law. While the authors emphasize Uniform Commercial Code Articles 1 (as revised) and 2 (as enacted), but there are liberal references to Article 2A, UCITA, UETA, E-Sign, and the CISG to provide a sophisticated yet accessible presentation of the legal rules and principles that govern contemporary sales, leasing, and computer information transactions.

  Contemporary commercial contracting presents considerable pedagogical challenges. The authors provide a text that clearly explains the basic commercial context for the rule in question, and then provide materials that enable students to delve into more complex issues. Commercial Contracting: Sales, Leases, and Computer Information includes the cases that have continued to define commercial law for years as well as the most recent decisions that have changed the way we think about commercial contracting. The cases are complemented by extensive problems, permitting the instructor to emphasize either the case or problem approach. The authors have also integrated text and excerpts from treatises and law review articles that both put the issues in transactional context and test the limits of commercial codification. A comprehensive Teacher's Manual is available, and the authors also will provide sample syllabi, teaching notes, and PowerPoint¨ slides that they have found work well in teaching the course.

  A Teacher's Manual is available to professors.

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  Representing Clients: Simulation Case Files for Legal Education

  Luo Wenyan and Brian K. Landsberg

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  International Environmental Law and Policy

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

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  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.

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  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

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  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.

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  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.

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  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