<p> Updated throughout, the <b>Third Edition</b> of <b>Commentaries and Cases on the Law of Business Organization</b> continues to provide a refreshingly accessible economic analysis perspective. The distinguished team of authors introduces and explains economic concepts in a way that makes this sophisticated book clear and engaging for students. </p><p><b>This highly accessible casebook features:</b></p><ul><li> Extraordinary authorship—Allen, former Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, adds a unique real-world perspective to the book </li><li><b>Logical and flexible organization:</b><ul><li> Chapters 1-5 cover the fundamentals of organizational law in a business setting </li><li> Chapters 6-14 address the legal regulation of a variety of actions, decisions, and transactions that involve or concern the modern public corporation </li><li> Chapters can be taught out of order to accommodate alternative teaching approaches </li></ul></li><li><b>Introductions and transitional text, clearly and concisely written</b>, that provide context and perspective </li><li><b>Rich commentary in the form of explanatory notes</b> that facilitate teaching and understanding </li><li><b>Intelligent case editing and selection, including both classic and important recent cases</b></li><li><b>An economic–analysis perspective presented accessibly</b> through clear and consistent explanatory text, including: <ul><li> A useful analytic tool for evaluating business models </li><li> A coherent theme for the course </li></ul></li><li><b>Examples, hypotheticals, and diagrams</b> that illustrate conceptual and theoretical models </li><li> Flexibility for use in <b>Business Organization courses with the focus on corporate law</b></li><li><b>A complete teaching package, including:</b><ul><li><b>A...

The Police in America provides a comprehensive introduction to the foundations of policing in the United States today. Descriptive and analytical, the text is designed to offer undergraduate students a balanced and up-to-date overview of who the police are and what they do, the problems they face, and the many reforms and innovations that have taken place in policing. Using timely articles and excerpts, the authors take readers beyond the headlines and statistics to present a comprehensive and contemporary overview of what it means to be a police officer.

Strategies that are effective and legal for putting one’s assets safely out of reach

In today’s increasingly litigious world, the shielding of assets has become a prominent issue for financial planners, business owners, and high-net-worth individuals. Asset Protection details methods that are both legally and morally legitimate for protecting one’s assets from creditors, lawsuits, and scams.

Bringing economic common sense and legitimacy to an area that is drowning in gimmickry, two of today’s top lawyers examine the fundamental issues in this growing area, avoiding dense legalese to make the book accessible to anyone. Asset Protection covers everything readers want to know about:

• Establishing an effective asset protection program
• Today’s most popular, established strategies
• Newer strategies that are still being resolved by the courts

KEY BENEFIT: Bring your best case to the table by putting theory into practice with this guide to labor relations, unions, and collective bargaining. Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining: Cases, Practice, and Law Ninth Edition introduces students to collective bargaining and labor relations.  The text is concerned with application, as well as coverage of labor history, laws, and practices. In this ninth edition, chapters have been reorganized and updated with over one hundred additions to focus students on the practical implications of the latest laws, court rulings, and current events that affect labor relations. There is also a new Collective Bargaining Simulation to enhance traditional lectures with hands-on contract negotiation.
LABOR RELATIONS OVERVIEW; THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING PROCESS; COST OF LABOR CONTRACTS; THE LABOR RELATIONS PROCESS IN ACTION 
MARKET: This newly updated reference will give students the skills they need to enter the labor relations field as knowledgeable and effective advocates with a grasp of current laws, trends, and negotiating tactics.

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 2007, as well as substantially expanded coverage of judicial deference to administrative agency interpretation.

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In 1963, the first edition of  Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business, authored by Bob Corley, started a new course emphasizing the legal environment in which business is conducted. By focusing on the public nature of how government regulates business activities, rather than simply how businesses privately make transactions, a movement away from traditional Business Law began. Through its previous 14 editions, The Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business  has been the leader in setting the standard for materials covered in an introduction to the legal and regulatory environment of business.

The 12th edition of  Business Law with UCC applications  presents an up-to-date teaching-learning system that is written in an easy-to-understand style and provides comprehensive information about all facets of business law. Material is presented in nine sections, which include relevant case studies featuring excerpts from the court's opinion. Content has been updated to reflect the many recent changes in the legal field and color photos throughout the text help students relate the material to their own lives.

<p> Clearly written and following a traditional organization, <b>Contracts: Cases, Discussion, and Problems, Second Edition</b>, offers a direct and accessible approach to contract law that engages students and prepares them for the critical thinking and rigorous analysis the law demands. In this new edition the authors have updated, expanded, and fine tuned the text without compromising their concise and effective presentation. </p><p><b>The strengths of this casebook include:</b></p><ul><li><b>clear, straightforward text </b>that illuminates cases, concepts, theory, questions, and problems </li><li><b>carefully edited modern, engaging cases as well as classic older cases,</b> which the authors adroitly place in context </li><li><b>insightful questions</b> that help prompt class discussion by drawing students’ attention to difficult or crucial aspects of the law </li><li><b>manageable problems </b>that supplement the cases or introduce topics taught most effectively through problems </li><li><b>traditional organization</b> that begins with formation and proceeds through the sequence followed by the Restatement of Contracts and the Restatement (2nd) of Contracts </li><li><b>concise, efficient presentation</b> that keeps the length under control </li><li><b>comprehensive Teacher’s Manual </b></li></ul><p><b>New to the Second Edition:</b></p><ul><li><b>increased emphasis on transactional skills and perspectives related to</b> drafting, client counseling, and negotiation </li><li><b>new international and comparative material</b> throughout the book—drawing on the approaches taken by the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts—to help make students aware of alternative approaches </li><li><b>n...

The unique approach of Torts: Cases and Questions, Second Edition, presents extraordinary teaching cases positioned in tandem, challenging students to compare the cases and draw connections and distinctions between the two. Teachers across the country are discovering the lively and instructive classroom experience promoted by this fresh and innovative format.

Torts: Cases and Questions, Second Edition, features:

• an exceptionally strong collection of cases arranged in pairs that challenge students to explain the distinctions between them
• logical organization that starts with intentional torts
• a balance of classic and contemporary cases chosen to stimulate active student engagement and lively class discussion
• intermediate cases shorter excerpts than principal cases, but more lightly edited than typical note cases that present a broad survey of the field
• problems integrated throughout the book that help students apply new concepts and prepare for exams
• a compatible pedagogical approach that supports a variety of teaching objectives
• an extensive Teacher's Manual that offers hundreds of interesting questions and answers suitable for classroom use

Revised for enhanced clarity throughout, the updated Second Edition includes:

• coverage that reflects the expanded use of the Restatement (Third) of Torts
• additional facts added to some case descriptions
• notes on recent public events of interest, including the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund and litigation over the painkilling drug Vioxx

Now with enhanced clarity and even stronger teaching cases, the second edition of Torts: Cases and Questions will revitalize how you teach Torts while it provides complete and sustained support of your coverage preferences and teaching objectives.

In The Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named Magnesia. His laws not only govern crime and punishment but also form a code of conduct for all aspects of life in his ideal state—from education, sports, and religion to sexual behavior, marriage, and drinking parties. Plato sets out a plan for the day-to-day rule of Magnesia, administered by citizens and elected officials, with supreme power held by a Council. Although Plato’s views that citizens should act in complete obedience to the law have been read as totalitarian, The Laws nonetheless constitutes a highly impressive program for the reform of society and provides a crucial insight into the mind of one of classical Greece’s foremost thinkers.

Using the rule of law as its main theme, this text shows how abstract questions and concepts of legal philosophy are connected to concrete legal, political, and social issues. The text addresses several modern controversies and challenges students to consider both sides of an argument, using sound, reasoned thinking.

Contagious Divides charts the dynamic transformation of representations of Chinese immigrants from medical menace in the nineteenth century to model citizen in the mid-twentieth century. Examining the cultural politics of public health and Chinese immigration in San Francisco, this book looks at the history of racial formation in the U.S. by focusing on the development of public health bureaucracies.

Nayan Shah notes how the production of Chinese difference and white, heterosexual norms in public health policy affected social lives, politics, and cultural expression. Public health authorities depicted Chinese immigrants as filthy and diseased, as the carriers of such incurable afflictions as smallpox, syphilis, and bubonic plague. This resulted in the vociferous enforcement of sanitary regulations on the Chinese community. But the authorities did more than demon-ize the Chinese; they also marshaled civic resources that promoted sewer construction, vaccination programs, and public health management.

Shah shows how Chinese Americans responded to health regulations and allegations with persuasive political speeches, lawsuits, boycotts, violent protests, and poems. Chinese American activists drew upon public health strategies in their advocacy for health services and public housing. Adroitly employing discourses of race and health, these activists argued that Chinese Americans were worthy and deserving of sharing in the resources of American society.

Celebrated legal scholar Kenji Yoshino's first book, Covering, was acclaimed—from the New York Times Book Review to O, The Oprah Magazine to the American Lawyer—for its elegant prose, its good humor, and its brilliant insights into civil rights and discrimination law. Now, in A Thousand Times More Fair, Yoshino turns his attention to the question of what makes a fair and just society, and delves deep into a surprising source to answer it: Shakespeare's greatest plays. Through fresh and insightful readings of Measure for Measure, Titus Andronicus, Othello, and others, he addresses the fundamental questions we ask about our world today and elucidates some of the most troubling issues in contemporary life.

Enormously creative, engaging, and provocative, A Thousand Times More Fair is an altogether original book about Shakespeare and the law, and an ideal starting point to explore the nature of a just society-and our own.

Mediating Divorce: A Step-by-Step Manual is written for family law attorneys and therapists who need a comprehensive resource for facilitating the divorce mediation process. This invaluable package--which includes a mediator's manual and two client workbooks--provides a four-step method for leading a successful divorce mediation. Written by Marilyn S. McKnight and Stephen K. Erickson, two widelyknown pioneers in the field of divorce mediation, this useful guide will show how to implement the techniques needed to be an effective divorce mediator. It includes helpful information for understanding and working through the emotions experienced by people going through a divorce.

Despite what your students may have learned in Schoolhouse Rock, the textbook how-a-bill-becomes-a-law scenario is a rarity. As evidenced with health care reform legislation, most major measures wind their way through the contemporary Congress in what Barbara Sinclair has dubbed unorthodox lawmaking.

Whatever path a bill takes whether considered by multiple committees or subjected to a filibuster in the Senate Sinclair explores the full range of special procedures and processes that make up the legislative process, as well as the reasons these unconventional routes evolved.

This much-anticipated fourth edition updates the book through the end of the 111th Congress. Sinclair incorporates new examples and new case studies throughout, including the economic stimulus bill of 2008, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, and, of course, the health care reform legislation of 2009 and 2010. New coverage also includes recent developments in the Senate (for example, filling the amendment tree); major changes in how the House and Senate resolve their differences (fewer conferences and more informal bargaining and amendments); and earmarks and changes in the appropriations process.

With Sinclair's unique perspective, Unorthodox Lawmaking introduces students to the intricacies of Congress while also providing the tools to assess the relative successes and limitations of the legislative process.