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This is a detailed and informed casebook examining major aspects of property, contract, conservation, and environmental law governing oil and gas exploration and development. It provides original text and explanatory materials. The appendices include sample forms.

A combination textbook/casebook, this gives a complete overview of higher education law; covering common law, constitutional law, and interpretations of statute at state and federal levels. The content also defines the legal rights and responsibilities in colleges and universities.

This supplement brings the principal text current with recent developments in the law.

While retaining a great majority of prior cases and materials, this eighth edition adds a number of important new cases and legislative developments, makes minor organisational enhancements, and adds depth to the most important sections.

This supplement brings the main casebook up to date with recent changes in the law.

Provides a finance-oriented approach to corporate law, focusing on what students will need to know in corporate practice. Students learn financial fundamentals, such as balance sheets; application of financial principles to understand case studies; and contractual solutions employed to deal with the various conflicts and ambiguities that arise.

This classic civil procedure casebook begins with a detailed overview, providing students with a solid and complete grounding in the subject, before proceeding to in-depth coverage of the major problem areas. It is highly versatile and can serve the most profound of civil procedure courses as well as a modern compact course.

Completely revised and up to date with all the new tax laws, this third edition of Exam Pro for Federal Income Tax contains 200 multiple-choice questions derived from actual final examination questions. The questions are ""challenging"" and provide you with a comprehensive landscape of concepts and topics.

This classic casebook, now in its ninth edition, offers first-year students a solid and inviting introduction to contract law, recognizing both the English and American common law traditions and bringing them into our age of statutes, most particularly the Uniform Commercial Code.

Begins by examining the tax treatment of a withdrawal of property from an existing corporation. The reason for choosing that organization is that the concepts embodied in such topics as dividends, earnings and profits, and stock redemptions are the fundamental building blocks on which the more complex provisions of corporate taxation rest.

The 13th edition, while retaining materials that have stood the test of time, represents a major overhaul of the text, with significant changes to every chapter. The changes are meant not only to update the text but to give the entire book a fresh, new feel.

Covers jurisdiction and interstate and international private litigation in torts, contracts, business planning, family law (marriage, same-sex relationships, property rights, support, child custody), property, succession and estate administration, and the recognition of sister-state and foreign judgments.

Completely updated to reflect the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the Third Edition of Federal Income Tax continues its successful integration of several modern platforms to introduce students to the federal income taxation of individuals. As before, the book takes three passes through the system, each in increasing detail.

As the legal profession undergoes structural changes, longstanding principles of ethics still govern the day-to-day lives of practicing lawyers. This new Hornbook on professional responsibility provides both a snapshot of ongoing systemic changes and a thorough examination of the fundamentals of lawyer and judicial ethics.

Provides a thorough and current introduction to the content and concepts behind toxic substances and hazardous waste law, focusing on major statutes and including key scientific, policy, and economic context. Toxic torts and alternative approaches to toxics regulation are also described and analysed.

The death penalty is contested across modern social, political, academic, and legal institutions, and this interdisciplinary text helps readers analyse that debate. The text explores the legal rules and moral reasoning behind the principle of the death penalty, as well as the uncomfortable realities of American capital punishment.

The study of business organisations is, broadly speaking, a study of how people engage in business and, more importantly, how the law facilitates and regulates the operation of such businesses. Written in a clear and informative style, and chock full of examples and illustrations, this book examines the legal rules and doctrines associated with running a business.

This compact casebook is designed for one-semester contracts classes. It helps students synthesize groups of related cases by focusing attention on the principles, policies, and rules of contract law. It employs many transitions and notes written for students. Questions are limited to central issues to avoid overwhelming and losing students.

Provides a mini-course in American labour law history, describing the development of labour law in the US. Unlike most labour law casebooks, this one remains lean: cases are tightly edited, notes are brief, and the text hews closely to major points. The streamlined presentation is ideal for professors who wish to supplement the material with simulations or other experiential learning exercises.

Provides an explanation of the rules that govern the legal relations between landlords and tenants. The book describes the exceptions to these rules and explores the underlying reasons for them. It also reviews the creation, duration, and termination of tenancies; termination of leases before expiration; repairs and improvements; extensions, renewals, and purchase options; and rent and security.

Uses outline-like checklists to lead law students through the analytical steps necessary to analyse intellectual property issues. The book covers trademark, patent, copyright, and trade secret law. Each chapter begins with a brief review of the important rules and concepts that govern a particular area of intellectual property law.

This book is a spinoff of the author's Accounting, Finance and Auditing for Lawyers and focuses on elementary accounting for law professionals. It is intended for use in 1-credit classes or as a supplement. It includes all tables, formulas and problems included in the bigger book.

Most of the world's scandals weren't caused by villains; but rather by humans reacting to certain types of situations. In retrospect, it's possible to piece together what caused a scandal, but this book gives students the tools to try to forestall the development of a scandal in the first place.

Use of this book assists bankruptcy law professors in transforming podium courses into ABA-required experiential learning opportunities. This book helps law students put together the interconnected pieces of consumer debtor- or creditor-focused law practice with simulation exercises.

Faculty teaching criminal procedure often find it difficult to craft relevant, well-defined exercises that require students to apply the rules governing the investigation and adjudication of criminal cases. This innovative book offers ten separate assignments that encourage students to develop the wide range of skills they will need for the effective practice of law.

Teaches students how tort law works to resolve disputes in the real world of litigation and settlement negotiations. The first chapter is an overview of trial court procedure in tort cases; the second is a concise treatment of intentional torts and defenses; and the third introduces negligence law with a streamlined treatment of the core breach-of-duty/substandard conduct concept.

A practical legal analysis and writing handbook. Designed for first-year students, it is also a valuable refresher text for more advanced students, and for practitioners. This easy-to-read book features fundamental advice on how to communicate written and oral legal analysis from a problem-solving perspective. It features illustrative examples and templates.

This ninth edition continues the basic approach of its predecessors: using problems as a vehicle for discussing cases and textual material to develop an understanding of the law of business enterprises and the policy issues that influence its evolution. The new edition adds significant new material on agency, partnerships and LLCs to enable its use in a course in Business Associations.

The authors have updated the popular casebook with new cases and materials that capture rapid changes in child advocacy and juvenile justice. The book continues its interdisciplinary emphasis, practical approach, and in-depth coverage of lawyering, child abuse and neglect, foster care, adoption, status offenses, and delinquency.

This ninth edition includes extensive discussion of the Draft Restatement (Third) of Consumer Contracts. There are new cases on telemarketing, good faith, the perfect tender rule, warranties and reliance, half-truths, fraud liability between contracting parties, class arbitration, adequate assurances, mitigation, mental anguish, intentional interference, and personal services contracts.