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Contracts Simulations: Bridge to Practice
Michael P. Malloy and Deborah R. Gerhardt
This book brings contract law to life through contemporary problems to help students build a skill set they can use in practice. In the real world of practice, abstract contract principles are applied to specific factual settings. Facts don't arrive pre-digested and regurgitated for baby birds or law associates. This book pickpockets life for real-world documents and contemporary situations, like the pandemic, to help students learn how contract law works in practice. Each chapter provides concise discussion of a specific topic or issue in contract law and a realistic, documented problem that provides a base for students and enough material for traditional Socratic method teaching. Imperfect but real contracts will give students the chance to see how client counseling, fact-gathering and careful crafting of contract language can help clients avoid disputes. Stories from art, sports and Internet games make the contract concepts vivid and memorable to facilitate student engagement and productive classroom discussion. The Teacher's Manual provides additional background and suggestions for class use in drafting exercises, counseling and advocacy settings, client meetings, compliance presentations and negotiating with opposing counsel.
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Calamari, Perillo, Bender, and Malloy's Cases and Problems on Contracts
Michael P. Malloy, Joseph M. Perillo, John D. Calamari, and Helen Hadjiyannakis Bender
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Contracts in a Nutshell
Michael P. Malloy, Claude D. Rohwer, and Anthony M. Skrocki
This Nutshell provides a comprehensive guide to the law of contracts. It contains detailed explanations of contract concepts under both the common law and Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code, as well as the basics of restitution law. It also provides an extensive introduction to contracts in the digital age.
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Cybersecurity Law
Michael S. Mireles and Jack Hobaugh Jr.
This book provides a relatively comprehensive examination of cybersecurity related laws that would be helpful for lawyers, law students, and Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and other cybersecurity and privacy professionals. The book outlines and details the U.S. federal sectoral approach to cybersecurity, such as covering the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and regulations, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Security Rule, as well as an examination of state laws impacting cybersecurity, such as data breach notification, privacy and state education laws. International issues as well as specific topics such as ransomware and the Internet of things are addressed. Notably, the book provides a review of the role of the cybersecurity professional, risk assessment as well as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) risk assessment framework, and laws related to hacking.
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Cybersecurity Law: An Evolving Field
Michael S. Mireles and Jack Hobaugh Jr.
Cybersecurity Law: An Evolving Field is a casebook that covers the duties of a cybersecurity professional, state and federal regulation, risk assessment and the NIST Risk Assessment Frameworks, common law and statutory causes of action concerning data breach, laws related to anti-hacking, problems concerning the Internet of Things and selected international issues. This text is for law students and counsel who want to understand the connections between cybersecurity laws and cybersecurity requirements, and advise clients concerning cybersecurity related issues. In part, it seeks to bridge the communication gap between the legal department and the cybersecurity team.
The casebook includes over 75 questions and there are answers to those questions in the Teacher's Manual. The notes in the casebook are intended to stimulate discussion and most contain hints to the relevant arguments. The Teacher’s Manual provides over 250 additional descriptive questions and answers which could be used as written or oral quizzes in class. The Teacher's Manual also includes hypotheticals as well as summaries of each case and teaching tips. The teaching materials are designed to allow a relatively new cybersecurity professor to deliver an excellent and relatively comprehensive course. -
Understanding International Law
Stephen C. McCaffrey
This clearly written Understanding treatise is designed to explain what international law is, why it exists, and the basic subjects it covers. The law of treaties is given particular attention, chiefly because of the increasing importance of the treaty in international life. The number of treaties has mushroomed since the Second World War and many of these agreements include over 100 states as parties. Because of their number and the breadth of their coverage, treaties are thus the main form of international legislation.
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Contracts: A Context and Practice Casebook Teacher's Manual
Michael Hunter Schwartz and Adrian Walters
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Understanding Trade Secret Law
John G. Sprankling and Thomas Sprankling
Today the acquisition, control, and use of information drive both our economy and society in general. Trade secret law is the main tool for protecting valuable information. This treatise explains trade secret law clearly and succinctly, while being mindful of the evolving policies and tensions that underlie the field. It examines state law under the Uniform Trade Secrets Act and federal law under the 2016 Defend Trade Secrets Act, together with common law doctrine.
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International banking: cases, materials, and problems
Michael P. Malloy
Organized around the birth-to-death experience of international financial services institutions, this casebook is the first of its kind to integrate fully issues concerning post-Meltdown regulation of international banking, the likely effects of Brexit, the new Economic Growth, and other significant policy changes. International Banking contains case excerpts, related materials, and over 200 detailed problems and notes that are accessible yet challenging. It focuses on regulation at the federal level but with extensive international and comparative materials. A detailed Teacher's Manual provides feedback on all problems and notes.
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Banking and Financial Institutions Law in a Nutshell
Michael P. Malloy and William A. Lovett
Authoritative coverage provides a foundation for understanding core concepts and recent developments in banking and financial institutions. This Nutshell title covers subjects such as the history and structure of the financial services industry and its regulators, interaction of law with monetary and economic policy, increased competition, bank and thrift failures, large-scale bailouts, and deregulation and restructuring efforts. Unresolved challenges include budget stimulus, treatment of deficits, and new questions about the appropriate role of supervision by regulators.
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LEARNING EMPLOYMENT LAW
Francis J. Mootz III, Michael Maslanka, and Leticia M. Saucedo
Provides concise and clear text, examples, and case excerpts that empower students to engage in sophisticated problem-solving regarding the most pressing issues in contemporary workplace law. Students will gain a sophisticated understanding of the challenges facing lawyers in this rapidly developing area of the law.
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Cases and Material on Marijuana Law
Michael Vitiello, Howard Bromberg, and Mark Osbeck
Presents a thorough exploration of the rapidly evolving and complex area of marijuana law. Current to the end of 2018, this casebook explains marijuana law from all perspectives, including federal, state, local, and international law. Also treated are the fascinating civil, criminal and constitutional issues emerging from current marijuana law.
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Federal and California Evidence Rules
Emily Garcia Uhrig and Thomas Jay (J). Leach
Federal and California Evidence Rules, 2018-2019 Supplement: Printed on Facing Pages, with Notes, Comments, Selected Legislative History, and Comparative Commentary
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Moylan and Thompson's Global Lawyering Skills
Mary-Beth Moylan and Stephanie J. Thompson
Across practice areas and jurisdictions, new lawyers need fundamental lawyering skills. Global Lawyering Skills is designed to teach these fundamental lawyering skills by introducing students to a broader range of skills than a traditional research and writing textbook. While the book covers foundational objective and persuasive legal writing skills, it also addresses other lawyering skills, such as oral argument, alternative dispute resolution, transactional drafting, and client interviewing and counseling. Additionally, students need an understanding of how cross-cultural and transnational considerations impact the practice of law. GLS is one of the only legal research and writing textbooks available that covers foreign legal systems, intercultural competence, and cross-cultural considerations in the practice of law. GLS is sufficient for a two-year curriculum, but would also work well in a one, two, or three semester course. The new edition provides updates to existing chapters and includes new chapters on professionalism and professional identity, incorporating feedback, and judicial writing.
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California Family Law: A Practice Focused Casebook
John E.B. Myers
Family law in California is enormously complex. This casebook is unique in its focus on California family law. Most students enrolled in family law in California intend to practice in the Golden State. This book helps them understand the day-to-day work of California family law attorneys. Although the book contains several out-of-state cases, most cases are from our Supreme Court and Court of Appeal. The Family Code is referenced and quoted throughout. Relevant sections of the Family Code are in an appendix. Other California Codes – e.g., Probate, Civil Procedure – are cited where appropriate.
The book covers all the subjects typically treated in family law casebooks, but with a California twist. Thus, there are chapters on Marvin agreements, premarital agreements, marriage, divorce – with an emphasis on the nuts and bolts of divorce in California’s form driven practice, annulment, paternity, child and spousal support, child custody – with emphasis on the UCCJEA and the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction – adoption, and alternative means reproduction. The community property chapter is lengthy, and can be used to teach the community property course. Many students enrolled in family law want to help children and families. The chapter on juvenile court emphasizes dependency, and the role of counsel in child protection. -
The Law of Hazardous Wastes and Toxic Substances in a Nutshell
John G. Sprankling and Rachael E. Salcido
The law of hazardous wastes and toxic substances is a specialized field involving the overlap of federal and state statutes, science, economics, and public policy. This text covers the regulation of the production, sale, use, and disposal of toxic substances, ranging from pesticides to chemicals to genetically-engineered animals. It also addresses the “cradle-to-grave” regulation of hazardous wastes under RCRA and the cleanup of these wastes under CERCLA, the Superfund law.
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Persuasive Written and Oral Advocacy: In Trial and Appellate Courts
Michael Vitiello and Michael R. Fontham
While focused on the appellate setting, Persuasive Written and Oral Advocacy is 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. Technological developments are explored, including electronic filing and electronic research.
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Family Law in a Nutshell
John E.B. Myers and Harry D. Krause
Few areas of law practice cover as many issues as family law. The subject embraces marriage and divorce, annulment, custody of children, spousal and child support, complex property issues, paternity, domestic violence, adoption, and alternative means of reproduction. Each of these topics itself is complex. For example, within the broad subject of child custody lie the issues of interstate move away cases, international parental child abduction, and the impact of domestic violence on a parent’s right to custody or visitation. In addition to purely legal issues, family law has a large psychological component, touching on some of the most important and sensitive aspects of human nature and interaction, such as, what is a family, what are the rights and responsibilities of parents toward children, and how should society respond to child abuse and domestic violence? All of these issues, and more, are discussed in this Nutshell. The book provides a thorough introduction to this challenging field of practice.
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Contracts in a Nutshell
Claude D. Rohwer, Michael P. Malloy, and Anthony M. Skrocki
This Nutshell provides a comprehensive guide to the law of contracts. It contains expert explanations of contract concepts under both the common law and Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code. It also includes the basics of the Law of Restitution and an introduction to digital contracting.
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