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Focuses on making the key concepts of contract law, and the relationship among those concepts, easier to understand and retain. The book sets forth understandable techniques for mastering the law governing each critical aspect of the contract relationship, including, contract formation, enforcement, interpretation, performance, breach, and remedies.

This book is intended as an introduction to the field of employment discrimination law, both at the abstract level of theory and at the concrete level of doctrine. It is as much an introduction for experienced lawyers and scholars who come to this field with a thorough knowledge of other aspects of the law as for law students who have just begun preparing for their careers.

Offers a rich blend of materials mixing textual coverage, problems and provocative cases designed to promote lively class discussion in Remedies. This edition includes revisions and updates, especially in the areas of Attorney Fees, Preliminary Injunctions, Structural Injunctions, Specific Performance, Equitable Defenses, and Restitution.

This outline discusses consideration, mutual assent, defenses, third-party beneficiaries, and assignment of rights and delgation of duties. It also covers conditions, substantial performance, material v. minor breach, anticipatory breach, impossibility, discharge, and remedies. Covers formalities, De Jure v.

This casebook emphasizes environmental policy, as well as the structure and details of the federal environmental statutes. It focuses students' attention on how tradeoffs between environmental goals and social goals are resolved in different and difficult contexts.

Covers domestic and international sales law as well as important aspects of the law governing transport and payments relating to sales contracts. Topics are introduced with detailed descriptions of relevant law and examples. Cases and problems are integrated with the descriptive material to apply important content of relevant statutory provisions.

Explores both the technical and policy issues associated with general principles of income taxation. The book is unrivaled in scope, depth of analysis, and flexibility. The materials facilitate focusing on either in depth coverage or broad policy issues for any particular topic.

This classic casebook has been thoroughly updated for 2020 - retaining what has made it a favuorite for decades while also remaining current and user-friendly. It contains lightly-edited cases with extensive explanatory notes, thereby teaching students how to read cases while learning doctrine.

This convenient selection of federal taxation statutes and regulations is designed to provide up-to-date information, through May 2020, for students and professors alike. It includes edited provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, Treasury regulations, and various materials prepared by the Internal Revenue Service.

The eighth edition of this popular and manageably sized casebook retains the general structure of the prior edition, with its emphasis on practical skills and comparative material. New cases, statutes and notes have been added where appropriate to provide current information. One of the main changes is the addition of the 2015 Obergefell opinion by the U. S. Supreme Court regarding gay marriage.

Nearly all aspects of federal antitrust policy are covered in this book. And it's written so you don't need a background in economics to understand it. Expert narration states the ""black letter"" law and presents policy arguments for alternatives. The text also includes an analysis of recent Supreme Court and lower-court decisions.

This supplement accompanies the course books International Business Transactions: A Problem-Oriented Coursebook, Twelfth Edition and International Transactions: Trade and Economic Relations, Twelfth Edition .

Covers the changing landscape of securities regulations, dealing concisely with the current state of the law, as well as with expected modifications to securities regulation. The philosophy for the presentation of materials is that securities law is tricky, and most students need a straightforward guide through the maze.

This new version of a classic text allows professors to assign problems in advance for preparation with case material. To prepare answers for the problems, students must synthesize case material from the entire assignment and frequently incorporate material from earlier assignments. In reviewing the problems in class, the teacher has a greater opportunity to develop rigorous case analysis.

Integrates skill-based exercises into a traditional casebook framework. It features all the traditional cases of a corporations or business organisations book, framed in the context of actual problems that would be presented to a business attorney. In addition to the traditional cases found in this area, the book includes practical skill training in the form of exercises and scenarios.

This product provides a short and readable source for individuals interested in constitutional law, First Amendment law, and communications law.

Features expanded coverage of electronic sources, both subscription-based and those available without charge. It discusses factors to be considered in deciding between print and online research; chapters discussing primary sources illustrate several online sources for finding these materials. The introductory materials illustrate solving a research problem.

The Thirteenth Edition includes substantial material involving new media, as technological changes affect traditional patterns of both communication and governance. Key principles remain but are under stress as both media and interpersonal communication systems evolve.

This up-to-date and comprehensive title covers the entire field of corporate finance, including the recent changes stemming from the Dodd-Frank Act.

This casebook focuses not only on the rules and principles of contract law, but also on the lawyer's role in planning and drafting contracts and on the richness of contract theory. The book opens with materials tracing a contracts dispute from the agreement stage through contract breakdown and litigation.

Organises cases over four periods: 1890 to 1914, in which most of today's issues were foreshadowed; 1915 to 1939, in which the "rule of reason" forced courts to investigate the actual consequences of business practices; 1940 to 1975, in which the per se rule and industry concentration provided the predominant models for analysis; and the modern period.

Teaches basic corporate acquisition planning. In addition to state corporate law and federal securities law, the book covers tax, accounting, environmental, products liability, pension, antitrust, national security, bankruptcy, and labour law issues. Each topical unit contains statutes, regulations, and case law that affect the structure and timing of acquisitions and reorganisations.

Presents a collection of 17 chapters in an attempt to fill the gap between the complex legal issues that matter most to environmental law and animal law movements. These chapters compare the very different trajectories of the regulatory history of both movements, examining the legal intersections that may exist across them.