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Critical Reading for Success in Law School and Beyond
Jane Bloom Grisé
Critical Reading for Success in Law School and Beyond presents critical reading strategies in a systematic sequence so that students can become effective readers who are successful in both law school and in law practice. This reading system was developed by identifying the characteristics of expert readers at different stages of the reading process and then creating a curriculum to teach these skills. It contains essential ingredients for developing skills in reading comprehension as well as legal analysis, case evaluation, and case synthesis. Critical Reading starts with chapters on reading as an advocate and with focus and then introduces students ...Read More
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Gaslight Lawyers: Criminal Trials and Exploits in Gilded Age New York
Richard H. Underwood
From the 1870s to the early 1900s, post-Civil War New York City was becoming a wonder city of commerce and invention, art and architecture, and emerging global prominence. The city and its innocent inhabitants needed to be protected from crime and corruption. Order had to be maintained. Then, as now, malefactors had to be brought to justice. But not every victim was quite so innocent, and not every defendant was as guilty as he (or she) looked.
The Gaslight Era has been called the Second Golden Age of the New York Bar. The book sheds new light on a gallery ...Read More -
Mutual Assistance in the Digital Age
Andrew Keane Woods
This chapter provides an overview of the sudden importance of mutual legal assistance in an age when an increasing amount of criminal evidence is both digital and held by offshore firms. The chapter begins with a description of the current - regrettable - state of affairs. Part II describes some of the easiest ways to improve the existing MLA regime, reforms that may require money or manpower, but will not require legal change. These are critical reforms, but even a streamlined and well-oiled MLA regime will never be able to satisfy the needs of local law enforcement demands for digital ...Read More
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Election Law Stories
Joshua A. Douglas, Editor and Eugene D. Mazo, Editor
This title offers a rich and detailed account of the most significant cases in election law, including the landmark decisions of Reynolds v. Sims, Bush v. Gore, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, and Shelby County v. Holder. The book relies on a unique encapsulated approach to storytelling, as each of its authors surveys an important doctrinal area in the field through the telling of his or her story. The volume’s thirteen cases concern the right to vote, redistricting and gerrymandering, campaign finance, and election administration. The book is suited for courses in the law of democracy at both the ...Read More
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CrimeSong: True Crime Stories from Southern Murder Ballads
Richard H. Underwood
In CrimeSong, law professor and authentic storyteller Richard H. Underwood recreates in engaging and folksy prose the true facts behind twenty-four Southern murder ballads. Underwood has resurrected these stories and shares them with the reader through his old lawyer trifocals.
He presents his case studies, documented through contemporary news accounts and court records, as a series of dramas filled with jump-off-the-page real and memorable characters. -
Liability for Negligence Involving Colleges and Students: An Evolving Duty of Care
Scott R. Bauries and Joseph C. Beckham
This chapter considers premises liability, third-party assaults on students, hazing activities, athletics and related programs, alcohol-related cases, suicide, tort immunities and alternative claims procedures, and emerging issues.
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At the Cross: Race, Religion, and Citizenship in the Politics of the Death Penalty
Melynda J. Price
Curing systemic inequalities in the criminal justice system is the unfinished business of the Civil Rights movement. No part of that system highlights this truth more than the current implementation of the death penalty. At the Cross tells a story of the relationship between the death penalty and race in American politics that complicates the common belief that individual African Americans, especially poor African Americans, are more subject to the death penalty in criminal cases. The current death penalty regime operates quite differently than it did in the past. The findings of this research demonstrate the the racial inequity in ...Read More
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Introduction to Crime and Custom in Savage Society
James M. Donovan
With a new introduction by James M. Donovan, Crime and Custom in Savage Society represents Bronislaw Malinowski's major discussion of the relationship between law and society. Throughout his career he constructed a coherent science of anthropology, one modeled on the highest standards of practice and theory. Methodology steps forward as a core element of the refashioned anthropology, one that stipulates the manner in which anthropological data should be acquired.
Malinowski's choice of law was not inevitable, but neither was it unmotivated. Anyone interested in understanding the social structure and organization of societies cannot avoid dealing with the concept of "law," ...Read More
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Law of Employee Pension and Welfare Benefits
Kathryn L. Moore and Lawrence Frolik
This book introduces the student to how ERISA and the IRC protect and regulate employee pension and welfare benefit plans. The authors wrote this book mindful of the following concerns: Coverage; Case Selection; Questions and Problems; Adaptability; Teachers Manual
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Business Planning
Douglas C. Michael and Scott B. Ehrlich
This casebook takes both an analytical and practical approach to the formation, operation, and dissolution of business enterprises. Business Planning examines doctrinal, statutory, and regulatory foundations that attorneys rely on to draft documents, advise clients, and make strategic decisions regarding the formation, operation, and dissolution of business entities.
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Legal Anthropology: An Introduction
James M. Donovan
LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION offers an initial overview of the challenging debates surrounding the cross-cultural analysis of legal systems. Equal parts review and criticism, the author outlines the historical landmarks in the development of the discipline, identifying both strengths and weaknesses of each stage and contribution. LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY suggests that future progress can be made by treating as the distinguishing feature of law the perceived fairness of structural inequalities of social systems, rather than the traditional emphasis upon sanction or dispute resolution.
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Sexual Orientation and the Law: A Research Bibliography Selectively Annotating Legal Literature through 2005
James M. Donovan
SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND THE LAW: A RESEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHY is a project of the Standing Committee on Lesbian and Gay Issues of the American Association of Law Libraries. This almost-500 page volume includes several features that the Standing Committee hopes will be useful to librarians and their patrons. These include: a description of the bibliography project from its origins in 1987; an introduction by Brad Sears, Executive Director of the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy that places this literature into intellectual, historical and legal perspective; a reprint of the original 1994 bibligraphy as it appeared in Law ...Read More
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Anthropology & Law
James M. Donovan and H. Edwin Anderson
This book defends the thesis that the two fields of law and anthropology co-exist in a condition of "balanced reciprocity" wherein each makes important contributions to the successful practice and theory of the other. Anthropology offers a cross-culturally validated generic concept of "law," and clarifies other important legal concepts such as "religion" and "human rights." Law similarly illuminates key anthropological ideas such as the "social contract," and provides a uniquely valuable access point for the analysis of sociocultural systems.
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Modern Litigation and Professional Responsibility Handbook: The Limits of Zealous Advocacy
Richard H. Underwood, William H. Fortune, and Edward Imwinkelried
Find practical answers to hard questions about professional conduct -- and avoid wrong answers that could set back your firm -- with this authoritative guide to legal ethics. Drawing on statutes, standards, and actual cases, the authors show you how to: evaluate tactics for possible ethical consequences; understand and comply with statutes, procedural rules, and standards of professional conduct while zealously representing your client; prevent your opponents from turning the rules to their own advantage
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Trial Ethics
Richard H. Underwood and William H. Fortune
Trial Ethics is offered as an introduction to the variety of ethical problems encountered daily by trial lawyers in civil and criminal cases in the United States. Prepared by two academic lawyers who share the view that the content of the lawyer Codes has a practical and tactical dimension, the goal of Trial Ethics is to outline some of the traps and pitfalls a lawyer may encounter at the various stages of litigation, beginning with the initial interview and ending with appeal.
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Florida Water Law
Richard C. Ausness, Frank E. Maloney, Sheldon J. Plager, and Bram D.E. Canter
This study attempts to make a comprehensive examination of Florida water law, including both consumptive uses of water and land use activities that affect the aquatic environment. Florida Water Law examines: common law water rights; state, regional, and local water resource agencies; state regulation of consumptive uses; the law and administration of pollution control in Florida; diffused surface water; submerged lands and water boundaries.
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Foreign Seizures: Sabbatino and the Act of State Doctrine
Eugene F. Mooney
The United States Supreme Court framed a unique legal doctrine on foreign seizure of American-owned property in the case of Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Sabbatino in 1963. This ruling has far-reaching implications for international law, American foreign policy, and the role of the Court in both domestic and international arenas of power. Disagreeing with the Court’s decisions, Eugene F. Mooney undertakes to place the Act of State Doctrine in its proper historical, jurisprudential, and political perspective.
Mooney argues forcefully that the dogmatic application of the Act of State Doctrine is indefensible in light of its origin, the history of ...Read More
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Perpetuities Law in Action: Kentucky Case Law and the 1960 Reform Act
Jesse Dukeminier Jr.
Few rules of law can so quickly strike terror into the hearts of lawyers as the Rule against Perpetuities. This rule, two centuries in development, is designed to prevent tying up property for too long a time. It can be stated in one sentence, but the great nineteenth-century master of the Rule, John Chipman Gray, required more than 400 scrupulously detailed pages to explain it. For deceptive subtleties and unexpected traps it has no equal.
This book views the Rule in the microcosm of Kentucky cases. It shows that perpetuities law in action differs from perpetuities law in the books. ...Read More
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