Faculty Books
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Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure (6th edition)
David Crump, William V. Dorsaneo III, Rex R. Perschbacher, and Debra Lyn Bassett
The Sixth Edition includes new landmark cases and reflects recent changes in procedural rules and practice. While essentially a traditional casebook organized along the lines of the events in a lawsuit, this edition of Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure retains the unique features that have made prior editions a success.
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Developments in Business Law and Policy
Marc I. Steinberg
Developments in Business Law and Policy focuses on fundamental principles of law, adding information on practical and theoretical perspectives and policy to the subject.
The book begins with a discussion of agency law, which is a bedrock subject for students in business law courses. The topic is made fresh and interesting through exploration of current, topical developments such as those pertaining to the Disney case in Delaware. This is followed by two subsequent foundational chapters discussing the choice of enterprise forms and shareholder agreements. Whether or not a student intends to become an entrepreneur, these subjects are critical to knowing the ins and outs of entering into a business.
The material in Developments in Business Law and Policy is organized in a provocative manner that brings real world examples to the classroom. Later chapters address important and timely subjects including corporate governance, veil piercing, director and officer duties, mergers and acquisitions, and insider trading. The book concludes with a policy analysis of where regulation failed in the Madoff financial scandal. Each chapter focuses on a scenario that highlights the practical and policy issues covered in the chapter. The inclusion of recent high-profile cases and issues makes the book interesting and appealing to both students and professors.
Developments in Business Law and Policy is written primarily for undergraduate business law courses and MBA courses on the subject. It is also an excellent supplementary text for use in law schools. -
Questions & Answers: Civil Procedure (3rd edition)
William V. Dorsaneo III and Elizabeth G. Thornburg
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Inside the Castle: Law and the Family in 20th Century America
Joanna L. Grossman and Lawrence M. Friedman
Inside the Castle is a comprehensive social history of twentieth-century family law in the United States. Joanna Grossman and Lawrence Friedman show how vast, oceanic changes in society have reshaped and reconstituted the American family. Women and children have gained rights and powers, and novel forms of family life have emerged. The family has more or less dissolved into a collection of independent individuals with their own wants, desires, and goals. Modern family law, as always, reflects the brute social and cultural facts of family life.
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Insider Trading
Marc I. Steinberg and William KS Wang
Insider Trading by William Wang & Marc Steinberg: Congress, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have heightened their scrutiny of the trading of stock in the aftermath of recent corporate misconduct scandals. This third edition is fully updated and serves as the go-to treatise for securities practitioners, in-house counsel, and any attorney looking for clear and comprehensive information on insider trading liability.
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Property Law: Cases, Materials, and Questions (2d edition)
Edward E. Chase and Julia Patterson Forrester Rogers
"The materials in this book are highly accessible to students, presented in a straightforward but intellectually rigorous manner. There are a large number of contemporary cases, although the classics have been retained. The Questions following the cases (which number more than in most Property books) provide a guide for instructors on teaching each case, while still allowing sophisticated discussions of doctrine and policy."
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Gender Equality Dimensions of Women's Equal Citizenship
Joanna L. Grossman and Linda C. McClain
Citizenship is the common language for expressing aspirations to democratic and egalitarian ideals of inclusion, participation, and civic membership. However, there continues to be a significant gap between formal commitments to gender equality and equal citizenship – in the laws and constitutions of many countries, as well as in international human rights documents – and the reality of women’s lives. This volume presents a collection of original works that examine this persisting inequality through the lens of citizenship. Distinguished scholars in law, political science, and women’s studies investigate the many dimensions of women’s equal citizenship, including constitutional citizenship, democratic citizenship, social citizenship, sexual and reproductive citizenship, and global citizenship. Gender Equality takes stock of the progress toward – and remaining impediments to – securing equal citizenship for women, develops strategies for pursuing that goal, and identifies new questions that will shape further inquiries.
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Methods of Interpretation: How the Supreme Court Reads the Constitution
Lackland H. Bloom Jr.
Methods of Interpretation: How the Supreme Court Reads the Constitution examines the various methodologies the Supreme Court, and individual justices, have employed throughout history when interpreting the Constitution. Rather than attempting to set forth an overall theory of constitutional interpretation or plunge into the never ending scholarly debate over interpretative theory, Lackland H. Bloom focuses exclusively on what the Court and individual justices have done and said about constitutional interpretation in the course of deciding constitutional cases. He identifies many of the best, and a few of the worst, examples of particular interpretative methodologies, as well as the best examples of explicit discussions of constitutional interpretation by the Court and individual justices. Professor Bloom pays particular focus on the Supreme Court's approaches to constitutional interpretation since it is the Court that sets the standards. Although commentators may have the final word on what constitutional interpretation should be, he argues that the Court essentially has the final word on what it actually is.
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Privilege or Punish: Criminal Justice and the Challenge of Family Ties
Dan Markel, Jennifer M. Collins, and Ethan J. Leib
This book answers two basic but under-appreciated questions: first, how does the American criminal justice system address a defendant's family status? And, second, how should a defendant's family status be recognized, if at all, in a criminal justice system situated within a liberal democracy committed to egalitarian principles of non-discrimination? After surveying the variety of "family ties benefits" and "family ties burdens" in our criminal justice system, we explain why policymakers and courts should view with caution and indeed skepticism any attempt to distribute these benefits or burdens based on one's family status. This is a controversial stance, but we argue that in many circumstances there are simply too many costs to the criminal justice system when it gives special treatment based on one's family ties or responsibilities.
This book breaks new ground by offering an important synthetic view of the intersection between crime, punishment, and the family. Although in recent years scholars have been successful in analyzing the indirect effects of certain criminal justice policies and practices on the family, few have recognized the panoply of laws (whether statutory or common law-based) expressly drawn to privilege or disadvantage persons based on family status alone. It is critically necessary to pause and think through how and why our laws intentionally target one's family status and how the underlying goals of such a choice might better be served in some cases. This book begins that vitally important conversation with an array of innovative policy recommendations that should be of interest to anyone interested in the improvement of our criminal justice system.
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Antitrust Law: Policy and Practice (4th edition)
C. Paul Rogers III, Stephen Calkins, Mark Patterson, and William R. Andersen
This book explores in detail those legal issues that arise in counseling, planning, and litigating under the antitrust laws.
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Federalism, Democratization, and the Rule of Law in Russia
Jeffrey D. Kahn
This book examines the development of Russia's current federal system of government from its Soviet origins, through Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, to the presidencies of Boris Yeltsin and the early years of Vladimir Putin. The theoretical relationship between democracy, law, and federalism is examined with a focus on its application to the study of post‐authoritarian state systems. Federal institutions shape political agendas in the constituent units of a federation just as much as those units influence the shape of the federal whole. Case studies focus on Russia's 21 ethnic ‘republics’ (out of 89 units in a complicated multi‐level federal hierarchy) using previously unpublished primary source materials, including official documents and interviews with key participants on a variety of institutional levels.
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Comparative Income Tax Deferral, The US and Japan
Christopher H. Hanna
Comparative Income Tax Deferral examines the benefits achieved by deferring income or accelerating deductions, with reference to the income tax systems of the United States and Japan.
The United States has been at the forefront of recognising the time value of money benefit of tax deferral and of devising methods to prevent tax deferral. Japan, on the other hand, is only gradually placing greater emphasis on tax deferral issues, in light of the activities of foreign companies, and the constant introduction of new financial products which take advantage of the tax deferral allowed under Japanese income tax rules.
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Dorsaneo's Texas Pretrial Procedure
William V. Dorsaneo III
Dorsaneo's Texas Pretrial Procedure contains the most extensive, authoritative, and up-to-date coverage of pretrial procedure available in Texas. In step-by-step fashion, Professor Dorsaneo guides the practitioner through the prelitigation process that provides the critical foundation for a successful case to a thorough discussion of strategies that can be used to secure a disposition before trial. In the process, he provides in-depth analysis of such issues as plaintiffs pleadings, service of citation, forum selection, and discovery, all updated to reflect recent changes in the Texas rules.
Dorsaneo's Texas Pretrial Procedure is a complete practice guide including treatise discussions, procedural guides, and the highly regarded forms that are a mainstay of the Texas Litigation Guide.
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Texas Real Estate Guide
William V. Dorsaneo III and Frank A. St. Claire
Texas Real Estate Guide puts at your fingertips more than 540 Texas real estate transaction and litigation forms drawn from the most trusted sources -- Texas Transaction Guide and Dorsaneo, Texas Litigation Guide. Plus, there are step-by-step checklists on virtually all real estate matters to help you master important key issues and avoid costly errors.
Included are detailed bibliographies on every covered topic, along with comprehensive finding tools such as: topical indices, a separate forms index, topical statute bibliographies, and cross references between the transaction chapters and litigation chapters. -
International Securities Law, Contemporary & Comparative Analysis
Marc I. Steinberg
The globalisation of the securities markets, rapid technological advancement, the perpetration of widespread cross-border fraud and the proliferation of emerging capital markets have made international financial law an increasingly important area of regulation, practice and research. Its significance will continue to grow in the 21st century, making the advent of a book focusing on developments in international securities law extremely timely.
Key topics covered in this book include disclosure requirements, insider trading regulation, global offerings, transnational regulatory co-operation, the role of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), memoranda of understanding and emerging capital markets.
Discussion of these issues is supported by examination of the law and policy in numerous countries, including developed and emerging capital markets. The author makes detailed analysis of applicable legal principles with regard to a wide range of topics, discusses proposed standards for law reform and makes recommendations to enhance international cooperation.
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Texas Litigation Guide
William V. Dorsaneo III
Since it was first published in 1977, Texas Litigation Guide has become an indispensable resource for Texas litigators. Dorsaneo, Texas Litigation Guide gives you the value of superior content and coverage. The guide is cited frequently by Texas courts and updated four times per year, while the competing publication from West is updated only once per year. This step-by-step guide also offers a comprehensive collection of litigation forms--from letters and notices to discovery requests, motions, petitions and appellate forms--to save you hours of time preparing pleadings, motions, petitions, and other forms.
