The Tenth Edition of this popular casebook explores cutting edge issues and incorporates new Supreme Court cases that impact subject-matter jurisdiction (Grable), pleading (Twombly), joinder (Pimentel), and other important topics, and also explores the effect of recent federal statutes such as the Class Action Fairness Act. The casebook covers all of the major topics that a professor might wish to ...

Manufacturer: West
Written By: Jack H. Friedenthal, Arthur R. Miller, John E. Sexton, Helen Hershkoff

For more than two decades, Health Law: Cases, Materials and Problems has defined the field of health law, providing a balanced overview of law as it affects patients, professionals, institutions, and entities that deliver and finance U.S. health care. Health Law comprehensively treats topics concerns such as the oversight of quality (including the latest developments in patient safety), cost ...

Manufacturer: West
Written By: Barry R. Furrow, Thomas L. Greaney, Sandra H. Johnson, Timothy S. Jost, Robert L. Schwartz

Covers due process, retroactivity, the federal supervisory power, and state rights protection. Touches on the right to counsel, transcripts, and other aids such as poverty, equality, and the adversary system. Includes reflections on the police, courts, and the criminal process. Provides insight into arrest, search and seizure, wiretapping, electronic eavesdropping, the use of secret agents to ...

Manufacturer: West
Written By: Yale Kamisar, Wayne R. LaFave, Jerold H. Israel, Nancy J. King, Orin S. Kerr

The sixth edition of this casebook continues its tradition of comprehensive analysis and coverage of immigration and citizenship. Additions and refinements include new material on the growing role of states and cities in the direct and indirect enforcement of federal immigration law, as well as a more compact treatment of asylum and the Convention Against Torture in a depth suitable for an ...

Manufacturer: Thomson West
Written By: T. Alexander Aleinikoff, David A. Martin, Hiroshi Motomura

The fourth edition maintains the pathbreaking materials on theories of legislation, the legislative process, representational structures, campaign finance, regulation of lobbying, direct democracy, the relation of statutes and the common law, statutory interpretation, and statutory implementation. The new edition features up-to-date coverage of the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of ...

Manufacturer: Thomson West
Written By: William N. Eskridge, Jr., Phillip P. Frickey, Elizabeth Garrett

This contracts casebook 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 in modern contract law. To save time, the authors avoid extensive citation of ...

Manufacturer: Thomson West
Written By: Bruce W. Frier: James J. White

Introduces the history and nature of international law, and examines the sources of international law—treatise, custom, general principles, jus cogens, and equity. Also covers important fields of international law: individuals and human rights; recognition and self-determination; war and peace and the United Nations; Antarctica, outer space, the law of the sea, and international environmental ...

Manufacturer: Thomson/West
Written By: Mark W. Janis; John Noyes

Includes a path-breaking reorganization of the treatment of the rules that govern evidence of character and credibility. Focuses on social scientific information that bears on the design and operation of rules of evidence. Improved format includes an array of problems that explore the nooks and crannies of the rules of evidence, but most of these problems are now grouped at the end of chapters, or ...

Manufacturer: Gale Cengage
Written By: Stephen A. Saltzburg, Richard O. Lempert

The new 12th edition of the Kamisar-LaFave-Israel-King-Kerr criminal procedure casebook is completely up to date. Older material has been compressed or eliminated to make way for the new. Moreover, the new edition displays the same (a) thoughtful organization of subjects, (b) judicious selection and editing of cases, and (c) intelligent use of the rich criminal procedure literature that has made ...

Manufacturer: West
Written By: Yale Kamisar, Wayne R. LaFave, Jerold H. Israel, Nancy J. King, Orin S. Kerr

The methodology in Cases and Problems on Contracts started as a successful experiment. Students are forced to exercise analytic thinking prior to coming to class and master basic contracts by working problems and dissecting cases. The material employs the problem method in tandem with case dissection to develop students' interest and increase their store of knowledge. A large number of the cases ...

Manufacturer: Foundation Press / Thomson West
Written By: Joseph M. Perillo; Helen Hadjiyannakis Bender