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A favorite among law students and professors alike, the Examples & Explanations series is ideal for studying, reviewing and testing your understanding through application of hypothetical examples. Authored by leading professors with extensive classroom experience, Examples & Explanations titles offer hypothetical questions in the subject area, complemented by detailed explanations that allow you to test your knowledge of the topic, and compare your own analysis.

<b>Examples & Explanations: Contracts, Fourth Edition,</b> is an accessible, comprehensive treatment of first-year contracts topics. This popular and well-written study aid speaks clearly and directly to students and is designed to provide them with information, examples, and analysis in appropriate complexity and detail. <p class="copymedium"><b>Important features of this highly regarded study aid include</b></p><ul><li class="copymedium"> the author's strong writing ability and skill in teaching first-year students to develop an understanding of difficult concepts </li><li class="copymedium"> clear and direct explanatory text that is specifically geared to the needs of first-year students </li><li class="copymedium"> diagrams that provide useful visual aids for students to help in remembering key points </li><li class="copymedium"> the unique, time-tested Examples & Explanations format that combines textual material with well-written and comprehensive examples, explanations, and questions to test student comprehension of the materials and provide practice in applying information to fact patterns </li><li class="copymedium"> comprehensive questions with a variety of issues in one fact situation, similar to those on law school or bar examinations </li></ul><p class="copymedium"><b>New to the Fourth Edition:</b></p><ul><li class="copymedium"> updated discussion of UCC Articles 1 and 2, including both the current and revised versions of the Articles and an explanation of the changes </li><li class="copymedium"> new cases and developments </li><li class="copymedium"> new and revised examples and explanations based on new cases and changes in the UCC </li></ul><p></p>

A perfect fit for the upper-level legal drafting course, <b>Drafting Contracts: How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do</b> teaches the key practices of contract drafting, with particular emphasis on how to incorporate the business deal into the contract and add value to the client¿s deal. By providing many solid examples of quality writing, the book helps students to master the basics and to incorporate similar techniques into their own drafting. This text is also appropriate for use in transactional simulation courses, transactional clinics, advanced writing courses, first-year writing courses, first year-contracts courses, and interviewing, negotiating, and counseling courses. <p class="copymedium"><b>Many great features ensure the value and reliability of this text:</b></p><p class="copymedium"></p><ul><li class="copymedium"> PART I: introduces the building blocks of contracts and teaches the analytic skill of ¿translating the business deal into contract concepts¿ so that students learn how and why a drafter chooses a specific contract concept </li><li class="copymedium"> PART II: sets out the framework of an agreement and works through it from the preamble to the signature lines, discussing the business, legal, and drafting issues that occur in each part of a contract </li><li class="copymedium"> PART III: turns to drafting rules for good writing and to techniques for enhancing clarity and avoiding ambiguity </li><li class="copymedium"> PART IV: details how to look at the contract from the client¿s perspective¿what does the client want to achieve and what risks does it want to avoid¿in order to find and resolve business issues </li><li class="copymedium"> PART V: shows students how to integrate everything they have learned: how to organize a contract, how to use precedents, and how to review and comment on a contract </li><li class="copymedium"> PART VI: addresses ethical issues that arise in drafting </li><li class="copymedium"> PART VII: provides additional exercises </li><li class="copymedium"> presents a five-prong framework for considering business issues that appear in almost every transaction: money, risk, control, standards, and endgame (Chapter 17, ¿Adding Value to the Deal¿) </li><li class="copymedium"> includes plentiful examples of well-drafted provisions, many based on commercial agreements </li><li class="copymedium"> provides exercises for use in or out of class, individually or collaboratively, including contract mark-ups, new drafting, and both combined into a single exercise </li><li class="copymedium"> integrates a single fact pattern throughout many exercises in the book¿the purchase of a jet by a ne¿er-do-well with significant financial problems¿and varying fact patterns relating to employment relationships and to assignment and delegation provisions. </li><li class="copymedium"> accompanied by a Teacher¿s Manual that includes notes explaining the answers to each exercise and answers to questions that students commonly ask. </li><li class="copymedium"> also accompanied by a website that provides all mark-up exercises that can be projected and walked through during class, a template for formatting, and multiple versions of one of the culminating exercises so that professors can use the version best suited to their classes </li></ul><p> An author website to support classroom instruction using this title is available at <a href="http://www.aspenlawschool.com/stark" target="_blank"> http://www.aspenlawschool.com/stark</a></p>

This casebook provides detailed information on tort law. The casebook provides the tools for fast, easy, on-point research. Part of the University Casebook Series®, it includes selected cases designed to illustrate the development of a body of law on a particular subject. Text and explanatory materials designed for law study accompany the cases.

The author of "Across the Wire" offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, in May 2001, a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona. Only 12 men came back out. "Superb . . . Nothing less than a saga on the scale of the Exodus and an ordeal as heartbreaking as the Passion . . . The book comes vividly alive with a richness of language and a mastery of narrative detail that only the most gifted of writers are able to achieve.--"Los Angeles Times Book Review."

This one-of-a-kind workbook streamlines the divorce process

This completely unique guide helps anyone --even someone enduring a not-so-easy split--create a complete, accessible record of absolutely everything needed to confidently tackle, organize, and prepare for the legal, emotional, and financial aspects of divorce. Family attorney Brette McWhorter Sember's The Divorce Planner & Organizer includes:

• Suggestions for selecting an attorney and getting the most legal help for the dollar
• Tips on how to gather and organize information for easy access during legal proceedings
• Advice on required documentation for homes, cars, investments, bank accounts, debts, insurance, and household expenses
• A tracker to record alimony, child support payments, and children's medical, educational, and athletic expenses
• A personal property inventory and wish list, a budget form, and fill-in contact information lists

This popular study guide helps students master the complexities of wills, trusts, and estates through a combination of textual material and well-written, comprehensive examples, explanations, and questions. <b>Examples & Explanations: Wills, Trusts, and Estates, Fourth Edition,</b> provides students with the essential background and review materials they need to practice applying legal concepts to fact patterns. <p class="copymedium"><b>Among the features that make this high-quality study guide popular with both students and instructors:</b></p><ul><li class="copymedium"> comprehensive coverage — the text covers intestacy, wills, and trusts, including nonprobate assets, estate administration, wealth transfer taxation (gift tax, estate tax, generation-skipping transfer tax), disability and death planning, and malpractice/professional responsibility </li><li class="copymedium"> a conversational writing style that is clear, accessible, and holds students¿ interest </li><li class="copymedium"> uses the <i>Examples & Explanations</i> format to help students learn in a step-by-step manner and also includes comprehensive questions, with a variety of issues in one fact situation, that are similar to those on law school and bar examinations </li><li class="copymedium"> casebook correlation charts that make it easy to use the study guide with any of the seven most popular casebooks </li><li class="copymedium"> a "learning by doing" approach that provides students with the opportunity to evaluate how well they can apply what they have just learned </li><li class="copymedium"> practical suggestions throughout the text that enhance its pedagogical value and give students an appreciation of the how the concepts apply in the real world </li><li class="copymedium"> samples of will and trust provisions and an extensively annotated model will </li><li class="copymedium"> an overview of general nationwide rules </li><li class="copymedium"> a comprehensive, student-friendly index that allows students to easily find the information they seek </li><li class="copymedium"> tables for quick location of material relevant to the Uniform Probate Code, Uniform Trust Code, and Internal Revenue Code </li><li class="copymedium"> updates available on author's website: <a href="http://www.professorbeyer.com/" target="_blank"> www.ProfessorBeyer.com</a></li></ul><p class="copymedium"><b>Fine-tuned and updated, the Fourth Edition offers:</b></p><ul><li class="copymedium"> materials on recent developments, including: transfer of death deeds; self-settled spendthrift trusts; Rule Against Perpetuities reform; federal gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer tax; Uniform Trust Code; rights of same-sex partners; Medicaid planning; physician-assisted suicide </li><li class="copymedium"> revised examples that reflect the updated content </li><li class="copymedium"> updated casebook correlation tables reflecting new editions of the major casebooks </li></ul><p></p><p></p>

The latest version of this best-selling text includes updates to account for new legal, regulatory and policy developments. Pharmacy Practice and the Law, Sixth Edition provides background, history and discussion of the law so as to enable the student to not only learn the facts, but to help them understand, apply and critically evaluate the information. The issues covered in this text are discussed in non-legal, easy to understand language. Challenging open-ended discussion questions and edited cases are included in every chapter to facilitate discussion and critical thinking. Citations to all laws, court cases, regulations and other documents are provided. An online instructor s manual is available. Pharmacy Practice and the Law, Sixth Edition, is a useful resource both for teaching the facts of pharmacy law and for stimulating critical thinking issues in pharmacy law.

The danger of deportation hangs over the head of virtually every noncitizen in the United States. In the complexities and inconsistencies of immigration law, one can find a reason to deport almost any noncitizen at almost any time. In recent years, the system has been used with unprecedented vigor against millions of deportees.

We are a nation of immigrants--but which ones do we want, and what do we do with those that we don't? These questions have troubled American law and politics since colonial times.

Deportation Nation is a chilling history of communal self-idealization and self-protection. The post-Revolutionary Alien and Sedition Laws, the Fugitive Slave laws, the Indian "removals," the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Palmer Raids, the internment of the Japanese Americans--all sought to remove those whose origins suggested they could never become "true" Americans. And for more than a century, millions of Mexicans have conveniently served as cheap labor, crossing a border that was not official until the early twentieth century and being sent back across it when they became a burden.

By illuminating the shadowy corners of American history, Daniel Kanstroom shows that deportation has long been a legal tool to control immigrants' lives and is used with increasing crudeness in a globalized but xenophobic world.

<p> The newly revised edition of the best-selling text; <b>Basic Contract Law for Paralegals</b> gives students a firm foundation in the basics of contract law. This comprehensive and straightforward text speaks clearly to students, engaging them with lively examples which help to bring theory to life. </p><p><b>Instructors choose Basic Contract Law for Paralegals for it’s: </b></p><p>• <b>quick, simple, and straightforward introduction</b> to all of the basics of contracts law, specifically designed for paralegal students </p><p>• <b>comprehensive coverage</b> of all the key topics including a chapter on <b>drafting simple contracts</b></p><p>• <b>clearly written text</b> and <b>lively examples</b> that help students understand the law </p><p>• <b>well-crafted pedagogy</b>, including chapter overviews, highlighted examples, key terms, review questions, sample clauses for analysis, edited cases, chapter summaries, and end-of-chapter exercises </p><p>•<b> manageable length</b> which makes it ideal for shorter courses </p><p><b>Exciting changes to the Fifth Edition include:</b></p><p>• <b>new cases</b> keep the book fresh in its Fifth Edition </p><p>• <b>additional new cases</b> in the supplemental cases appendix </p><p>• <b>appendix with updated sample contracts</b>, and additional samples provided in the Instructor’s Manual </p><p> For instructors in search of a basic, straightforward book on the key concepts in contract law, <b>Basic Contract Law for Paralegals, Fifth Edition</b> is just what they are looking for. Its student-friendly design and manageable length makes this text appealing to professors and students alike. </p><p> An author website to support classroom instruction using this title is available at <a href="http://www.aspenlawschool.com/helewitz_contracts5 " target="_blank"> http://www.aspenlawschool.com/helewitz_contracts5</a></p><p></p>