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Covers the evolution of the basic building blocks of modern tort law. Includes revised chapters on product liability, insurance, and non-tort alternatives. Minimally edited cases make this edition a good vehicle for teaching first-year students the essential techniques of case analysis and legal method. Includes chapters on negligence, causation and plaintiff's conduct as a contributing cause, nuisance, misrepresentation and tortious interference with contract and prospective contract, false imprisonment and misuse of legal process, constitutional torts, and immunities.

This popular casebook, through the selection of classic and modern cases, provides an excellent tool for teaching students the common law foundations of the criminal law and modern statutory reform, including the Model Penal Code. Along the way, the casebook considers modern controversies (e.g., "shaming" punishment, rape law, self-defense by battered women, euthanasia, the role of culture in determining culpability), and creatively uses literature (e.g., examining insanity through Edgar Allen Poe's The-Tell Tale Heart) and even "brain teasers" to confront (as the Preface states) "the Big Questions . . . that philosophers, theologians, scientists, and poets, as well as lawyers, have grappled with for centuries

This eagerly-awaited revision of <b>Modern American Remedies</b> continues to examine the overarching policy themes and principles behind remedies law, with unmatched quality and effectiveness.<p class=copymedium> The casebook retains the characteristics that made it the bestseller in the field: <li class=copymedium> outstanding authorship by the widely respected teacher and scholar Douglas Laycock <li class=copymedium> an effective analytical approach structured around general remedial principles; never presents remedies as a compendium of prescriptions for various substantive wrongs <li class=copymedium> balanced coverage of both public and private law, emphasizing their remedial similarities as well as their differences <li class=copymedium> doctrine, fairness, corrective justice, and economic efficiency as competing and often reinforcing approaches; keeps the economics accessible to all <li class=copymedium> logical organization around the basic remedial choices <li class=copymedium> effective cases-and-notes pedagogy, refined in each edition</ul><p class=copymedium>Be sure to notice these new and improved features of the Third Edition: <li class=copymedium> completely updated notes and illustrations <li class=copymedium> extensive new note material in areas of rapid development, such as governmental immunities and tort reform <li class=copymedium> reorganized material on structural injunctions is both more concise and more current <li class=copymedium> more focused material on restitution, incorporating major new scholarship <li class=copymedium> major new cases: United States v. Virginia, Lewis v. Casey, and Missouri v. Jenkins, and a note on United States v. Microsoft, all on structural injunctions; Glendale Federal Savings v. United States, on the frontiers of restitution; BMW, Inc. v. Gore on punitive remedies; International Union, United Mine Workers v. Bagwell on contempt of court; Alexander v. Sandoval, on implied rights of action; FEC v. Akins, on private initiation of administrative remedies</ul>

This soft cover book contains a complete, unchanged reprint of Chapters 1-10 and Chapter 14 of Dressler and Thomas' Criminal Procedure: Principles, Policies and Perspectives, Third Edition. Please see that description for more about the style and approach of the book.

Pages: 538, Paperback, West Group Publishing

This edition is designed to accommodate either a focus on individual documents one at a time or a focus on transferable skills. Revised and expanded chapters on the skills of using clients and documents as resources; drafting with flexible language; avoiding inadvertent ambiguity; defining terms and naming concepts; and making stylistic choices.

In order to inspire and motivate their readers, the authors have appended a selective list of student notes and comments and a chapter on techniques to help writers narrow their subjects and find theses. The authors added a section on reading for types of legal argument and an exercise to address increasing student concern over plagiarism. Includes a short section on the importance of editorial cooperation and communication. Offers a new chapter on entering writing competitions and publishing.

This book serves as a comprehensive guide and reference tool on constitutional law. Expert authors summarize judicial review and its limits, national legislative powers, state power in American federalism, Congress and the executive power, due process of law, equal protection, freedom of expression and religion, state action, and congressional legislation in civil rights and liberties.

Pages: 423, Edition: 2, Paperback, Thomson West

The most significant change in the Seventh Edition deals with the revolution in Confrontation Clause jurisprudence occasioned by the Supreme Court's decisions in Crawford v. Washington (2004) and Davis v. Washington (2006). The confrontation section of the book in Chapter 13 is completely revised and substantially expanded. Extensive notes describe the operation of the earlier system of confrontation analysis, the immediate impact, and the areas of continuing uncertainty under Crawford and Davis. The new edition also continues the trend in the Sixth Edition, which dramatically revamped the book's treatment of scientific evidence, and includes a number of new cases and notes regarding scientific evidence because of the dynamic nature of that particular area of evidence law.