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

This classic casebook has been thoroughly updated for 2020 - retaining what has made it a favuorite for decades while also remaining current and user-friendly. It contains lightly-edited cases with extensive explanatory notes, thereby teaching students how to read cases while learning doctrine.

This statutory supplement focuses on closely held businesses, including agency, general partnerships, close corporations, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, limited liability companies, and other hybrid entities.

Covers the law of business associations for introductory courses, including agency, general partnerships, closely held corporations, publicly held corporations, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, and limited liability companies. The material on the unincorporated business forms has been revised, updated, and expanded.

Provides a reliable resource on American Indian law. This authoritative text covers the essentials of this complex body of law, with attention to the governmental policies underlying it. The work emphasizes both the historical development of Federal Indian Law and contemporary issues.

Offers a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the vital field of legislation and regulation. This volume addresses efforts by President Trump to curtail the powers of the administrative state, and new Supreme Court decisions reviewing challenges to these efforts under the Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act.

Technology is redefining financial services - including the way actors make and settle payments, raise capital, and memorialize increasingly complex relationships. At the same time, new innovations are creating novel regulatory issues. This Nutshell provides an overview of some the key developments reshaping finance.

This comprehensive text is designed to help students understand the basic principles covered in law school courses in corporate taxation. It explains all the concepts and transactions affecting C and S corporations and their shareholders, and includes numerous illustrative examples, self-test questions with answers, and sample exam questions.

Teaches students the law that governs the investigation of criminal cases. The book presents the material in plain language so that students do not have to guess what the rules are. Each topic includes a clear, straightforward description of the binding legal rules, illustrations of how the rules are applied, and excerpts of the leading Supreme Court cases.

This up-to-date collection of documents is designed primarily for use in conjunction with Damrosch and Murphy's International Law: Cases and Materials, Seventh Edition (2019). This "Documents Supplement" also provides a handy general reference for anyone working in the field of international law.

Delivers an up-to-date overview of US Family Law that weaves together black-letter rules, policy, narrative, history, transnational sources, and theory, into an accessible and teachable whole. The book is written with an eye toward helping teachers prepare their students to appreciate and engage Family Law's dynamic present, and to begin imagining how to actively shape its future.

This third edition contains a new section on the major threats to biodiversity, including several chapters detailing the impact of climate change and the emerging legal and administrative issues that are arising in response to this development. The book further defines biodiversity, and outlines factors in choosing from different policy approaches for its protection.

Provides an up-to-date foundation for understanding environmental law. Expert text includes coverage of the full range of environmental issues, from climate change and air pollution, to waste disposal and wetlands. Surveys the many statutory and common-law regulations shaping the world in which we live.

It is vital that every evidence or trial practice student, professor or litigator know how to introduce a business record, lay a foundation for expert testimony, or cross-examine a witness about his or her bias. This text cuts through the complexities of evidence and trial law to supply straight-forward advice on ways to get this done.

The Third Edition of this pathbreaking text expands the principles of client-centered lawyering into areas not explored in previous editions.

Provides law students with an in-depth introduction to the UCC without burdening them with unnecessary detail. Citations have been used to enable the reader to understand the kinds of cases that might be presented under particular provisions of the Code.

Provides the reader with both critical race and critical feminist theory perspectives on criminal law while following a traditional format. All of the usual subject areas are covered, but the book is unique in highlighting the cultural context of substantive criminal law.

Captures all of the recent and rapidly emerging changes in case law and legislation, yet retains its student- and professor-friendly approach to the policies and rules of patent law. This version teaches the far-reaching legal tenets of patent law that are venerable and yet as current as the latest developments from the laboratory bench.

Provides up-to-date versions of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, Rules of Procedure of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, habeas corpus rules, Rules of the Supreme Court of the United States, Federal Rules of Evidence, and the US Constitution.

Includes introductions that quickly orient students within unfamiliar territories. Cases present both the doctrine applied and, in some instances, the shortcomings of that doctrine. The authors express their disagreement about basic issues, so that students can experience the range of possible views in modern contract law.

Offers a clear and concise introduction to the economics and regulation of securities markets, with a single-minded focus on disclosure and the economics of disclosure. The book is concise, easy to read, and student friendly.

Provides authoritative coverage of the legal rules that govern the development of privately owned mineral rights in the United States, which often also apply to government-owned resources. The book covers topics such as the nature, protection, and conveyance of oil and gas rights, leasing, and taxation.

Contains detailed text and explanatory materials. This seventh edition covers recent regulations, rulings, cases and other new developments, including the many changes made to the Internal Revenue Code by the several tax acts that Congress passed since the previous edition.

Since it first appeared, this casebook has sought to capture the challenges of civil procedure in a way that engages students and fosters critical judgment on the underlying policy issues. The authors have closely monitored the evolution of procedure over this time, and adapted the basic structure of the book to take account of those changes.

Offers a quick reference to the various ways in which the courts have translated the text of the Federal Rules of Evidence. It is useful for students enrolled in trial practice courses and clinics and is also helpful as an adjunct reference for students taking basic and advanced evidence courses.

This casebook is organised to facilitate the study of law in the first year of law school with a focus on the study of tort law in particular. The text begins with an overview of tort law, pointing out distinctions between tort law and other types of law. It then covers intentional torts, negligence actions, and strict liability, covering all topics in detail.

This problem-based book contains conversational textual explanations of the core areas of the UCC tested on most bar exams. It focuses on Articles 2, 3, 4, and 9 with some coverage of relevant federal laws such as the Bankruptcy Code, Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, and the Truth in Lending Act.

Five years after publication of the third edition, and reflecting the dynamic nature of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, this fourth edition incorporates the latest legislative, regulatory, and judicial developments, describes recent scientific advances, and excerpts or references new scholarly contributions to this broad field.