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This book is designed for use in courses in law schools and university departments of philosophy. It can serve as a text for basic and advanced courses and seminars. Readings include excerpts of classic works of Aristotle, Aquinas, Locke, Hobbes, ...

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This text presents a comprehensive view of jurisprudential legal theory, providing essential perspectives on its history and on the modern legal landscape, allowing for a deeper understanding of society and our system of laws. The text surveys the...

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The English language knows only two types of writing-good writing and bad writing. Good legal writing is good writing about a legal subject." From this core proposition, this compact book provides researching and writing lessons for 1L's, upp...

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The Seventh Edition provides in-depth coverage of the freedoms of speech, press and association, as well as the free exercise and establishment clauses. The material covers in freestanding form all the chapters and materials relating to the First ...

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This book covers the ethical, legal, and policy impact of human genetics across a broad range-from research ethics to medical malpractice law to forensics. It is perfect for an upper level law school, graduate, or undergraduate seminar or course. ...

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Nearly all of the aspects of federal antitrust policy are covered in this treatise. And it's written so you don't need a background in economics to understand it. Expert narration states the "black letter" law and presents policy argumen...

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Technology is redefining financial services-including the way actors make and settle payments, raise capital, extend loans, and memorialize increasingly complex relationships. At the same time, new innovations-from cryptocurrencies to marketplace ...

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This compact casebook surveys the full breadth of international criminal law rather than focusing narrowly on either violence or white-collar crime, as is characteristic of most books in the field. It deals with the complete range of harmful human...

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This casebook provides a unique combination of clearly structured and lawyerly coverage of the cases with rich historical, theoretical, and philosophical materials that illuminate the development of our constitutional law. The note materials and q...

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This casebook organizes contemporary foreign, as well as U.S., case law and literature to equip law students with the knowledge they need to practice intellectual property law in both transactional and litigation settings in the current globalized...

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This comprehensive text provides an exhaustive analysis and discussion of every aspect of bankruptcy law, including an overview of bankruptcy; invoking bankruptcy relief (with a very detailed explanation of the means test); the automatic stay; jur...

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This product provides a short and readable source for individuals interested in constitutional law, First Amendment law, and communications law. It is divided into four parts: the history, methodology, and philosophical foundations of the First Am...

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Written by a leading national scholar, Farber's coverage of the First Amendment is clear and incisive. All of the major areas of this complex doctrine are reviewed, including the religion clauses. The text also probes theories of free speech and d...

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Principles of International Trade Law commences with coverage of the World Trade Organization and its many agreements, followed by Customs and Import/Export Law, and ends with coverage of Technology Transfers across Borders. Principles is intended...

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More than a rulebook, this text discusses the remedies that are available in a particular fact setting. Illustrates possible applications of difficult rules, explains proof requirements, assesses arguments and offers options in uncertain situation...

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More than a rulebook, this text discusses the remedies that are available in a particular fact setting. Illustrates possible applications of difficult rules, explains proof requirements, assesses arguments and offers options in uncertain situation...

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More than a rulebook, this text discusses the remedies that are available in a particular fact setting. Illustrates possible applications of difficult rules, explains proof requirements, assesses arguments and offers options in uncertain situation...

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Black Letter Outlines are designed to help a law student recognize and understand the basic principles and issues of law covered in a law school course. Black Letter Outlines can be used both as a study aid when preparing for classes and as a revi...

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Nickles and Epstein's Black Letter Outline on Bankruptcy and Related Law helps law students recognize and understand the basic principles and issues of law covered in law school courses. This Black Letter outline can be used both as a study aid wh...

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This work provides a comprehensive treatment of all three major branches of intellectual property law, surveying basic principles and emerging issues. The book summarizes what is clear, identifies what is unsettled, and offers concise views on how...

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Corporate taxation is widely regarded as one of the more difficult courses in the law school curriculum, one in which students confront a confusing compendium of seemingly random detail. This book takes students behind the scenes of corporate taxa...

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The topics covered in this Conflict of Laws outline include domicile, jurisdiction (including notice and opportunity to be heard, minimum contacts, and types of jurisdiction), choice of law (including vested rights approach, most significant relat...

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This Estate and Gift Tax Outline discusses the Estate Tax, the Gift Tax, Coordination of the Federal Estate and Gift Taxes, The Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax, Taxing Jurisdiction, Proposals for Repeal of the Federal Estate Tax, Substantive Aspe...

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The book examines the basis of discrimination against people with disabilities, including the history of such discrimination and a review of studies that explore why people engage in this sort of discrimination. It examines the federal laws that c...

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This title identifies and explores recurring problems caused by private cross-border disputes, while presenting the solutions that appear to be emerging, whether in the form of legislation, case law, treaty or Restatement enumeration. It covers pe...

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This book describes the formal rules and informal practices involved in the development and resolution of a criminal case, from the decision to charge, to disposition by trial or plea, to sentencing. Analysis of the work of prosecutors and defense...

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This collection of negotiation materials represents what the authors consider the most instructive and provocative writings in the field. Includes interesting case studies and intriguing treatments of peripheral topics. Each chapter is introduced ...

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This reference provides an overview of unfair trade practices, including the common-law and statutory basis of unfair competition, antitrust, consumer protection, regulated industries, and labor. Includes discussion of intellectual property, which...

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This product guides the reader through both the traditional topics, such as fair use, and more modern topics, such as the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, without getting bogged down in unnecessary or tedious ...

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This new volume hits the sweet spot of thorough and thoughtful coverage of trademark law without bogging readers down in minutiae and a blizzard of footnotes. Professors Schechter and Thomas, authors of multiple texts on IP law, have enlivened thi...

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