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Authors Michael Davis and Harvard professor Arthur Miller provide authoritative coverage on the foundations of patents, trademarks, and copyright laws. The text includes authoritative treatment of all relevant doctrines and the latest statutory and judicial changes. It further addresses relevant torts, property, antitrust, regulatory, and federalism intersections with intellectual property law.

Reviews the law, practice, regulation and dispute settlement of foreign investment. After introducing entry and operational control patterns found primarily in the developing world, notably expropriation, this Nutshell focuses on investing in China, Europe and North America as ""case studies"".

Provides a framework for understanding individual liberty and governmental power and the institutional role played by the Supreme Court. Coverage includes all the major topics of the subject: judicial review: commerce clause and state powers: federalism: separation of powers: congressional and executive powers: and individual civil rights.

Knowing about the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) means to know about the law relating to international import/export contracts applicable to more than ? of world trade. This book provides a valuable guide to the understanding of both the fundamentals of that law and how it is interpreted in various countries, thus making it a helpful tool not only for students but also for practitioners.

This nutshell offers a general introduction to comparative law that includes both an overview of the methods of comparative law as well as of the two most widespread legal traditions in the world: civil (or Romano-Germanic) law and common law. For both legal traditions, this expert discussion covers their history; legal structures, including constitutional systems, courts, and judicial review; the roles of central legal actors, including lawyers, judges, and scholars; an overview of civil and criminal procedure; the principal sources of law and divisions of substantive law; and the judicial process. Throughout, the discussion also includes references to the place and the importance of supranational law and institutions and their impact on the civil law and common law traditions in Europe.

A short, funny, insightful, and occasionally philosophical guide to what you'll need to know when planning and conducting trials, interviewing and counselling clients, negotiating cases and drafting deals, writing briefs and making oral arguments, solving problems and telling stories, and using your computer to make you a better lawyer.

Briefly reviews the historical roots of privacy, and then examines each of these US privacy statutes and regulations. The US follows a sectoral approach to privacy, whereby Congress responds to each privacy "crisis" with a new statute and set of regulations. This Privacy Nutshell is an excellent introductory guide to the legal privacy world.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the Florida Constitution. After briefly describing the constitution's history, it organises the constitution's numerous subjects into five discrete units: sovereignty; citizens' rights; government operations; public finances; and constitutional amendments.

Addresses both the law governing pretrial litigation and the legal skills required for successful practice in this area. The text is fully updated to incorporate all amendments to the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure to December 1, 2019, as well as recent federal statutes and judicial decisions.

Discusses the manner in which Islamic law is applied and adjudicated in modern states. This includes the enactment of legislation derived from Islamic law, the drafting of contracts to comply with Islamic law, and the adjudication of Islamic law disputes in courts in Muslim and non-Muslim majority nations.

Covers subjects such as the history and structure of the financial services industry and its regulators, interaction of law with monetary and economic policy, increased competition, bank and thrift failures, large-scale bailouts, and deregulation and restructuring efforts.

This Nutshell presents an overview of the major federal disability laws with emphasis on the statutes, regulations, and significant points of substantive and procedural law. The fifth edition includes significant focus on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), including its 2008 Amendment and accompanying regulations. Features coverage on constitutional rights; the definition of "e;disabled"e;; Rehabilitation Act of 1973; employment discrimination; programs and services; and housing, education, and transportation. Also reviews the many relevant areas of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), including the 2004 Amendments.

Provides an overview of the rules and principles of estates and future interests, including concurrent estates, marital estates (including the modern elective share), and powers of appointment. It includes new innovations from the Restatement of Property, Third Edition, modernizing the law of future interests and dramatically changing the Rule Against Perpetuities.

Provides an explanation of the rules that govern the legal relations between landlords and tenants. The book describes the exceptions to these rules and explores the underlying reasons for them. It also reviews the creation, duration, and termination of tenancies; termination of leases before expiration; repairs and improvements; extensions, renewals, and purchase options; and rent and security.

This text introduces the law of payment systems in a way that promotes understanding and furnishes a sound foundation for any further study of the subject. It includes portions of Articles 3-4, 4A, 5 and 7 of the Uniform Commercial Code, as well as federal law dealing with credit and debit cards. The term "e;payment system"e; refers to a wide variety of methods of paying debts, including currency, digital cash, checks, drafts, credit cards, electronic funds transfers, and letters of credit. The text provides the scope and highlights you need to excel in understanding this field.

Provides the leading in-depth summary of historic preservation law within its local, state, tribal, federal, and international contexts. This book covers the primary federal statutes, and many facets of state statutes, dealing with the protection and preservation of historic resources.

A people-skills book for new lawyers, law students, paralegals, and pre-law students. This Nutshell dentifies skills lawyers need; and addresses getting practical lawyering skills and help you need - on the job and in law school. It also includes chapters on emotional intelligence, diversity, meetings, managing research assignments, meeting with clients, and working with your supervisor.

Summarises the marital property laws dealing with creation, management and termination of community property in nine states (Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin). The book also includes coverage of community option states (Alaska and Tennessee).

The law of hazardous wastes and toxic substances is a specialized field involving the overlap of federal and state statutes, science, economics, and public policy. This text covers the regulation of the production, sale, use, and disposal of toxic substances, ranging from pesticides to chemicals to genetically-engineered animals.

The first book in the Nutshell series to cover trade secret law in depth. It was written as a companion to Cases and Materials on Trade Secret Law by Rowe and Sandeen, but adds more practical advice. Like the casebook, it focuses on the predominate law governing trade secrets in the US. It also addresses both international and criminal enforcement of trade secret rights.

Provides a ten-step guide to clear, precise, and effective legal writing and analysis for both law students and experienced lawyers. This book gives the keys to writing legal memoranda and briefs, organising analysis, crafting clear and concise sentences, using legal language accurately, using grammar and punctuation properly, and writing persuasively using classical rhetorical techniques.

This book offers a concise, knowledgeable guide to the laws governing administrative agencies. In straightforward, readable prose, the authors not only summarize the dominant statutes and case law in the area, but also discuss informal administrative processes and the background realities of the regulatory state.

Concise yet comprehensive text that provides an overview of marijuana law. It discusses important issues pertaining to public policy, legal history, constitutional law, criminal law, and jurisprudence, as well as practical legal issues that concern both marijuana-related businesses and individuals, in areas such as banking, employment, tax, bankruptcy, and child custody. The text provides in-depth coverage of federal laws governing marijuana, along with an overview of international, state, and local laws relating to marijuana regulation. It also provides an overview of arguments for and against medical and/or recreational legalization, as well as an analysis of how marijuana compares to other potentially harmful substances, both legal and illegal.

Written by experts in the field, this Nutshell offers insight on establishing professional relationships and examines negligence-based claims, intentional torts, causation, damages, affirmative defenses, limitations, immunities, and liabilities. It also provides an overview of medical care liability issues affecting hospitals and managed care organizations.

An excellent reference tool, this book explores a range of sentencing-related topics, including the principal purposes of criminal sentences, restorative justice, guilty pleas and plea bargaining, rights during sentencing proceedings, sentencing factors, different ways to structure sentencing systems, community-based sentencing options, the death penalty, Eighth Amendment constraints on sentences in noncapital cases, parole release, probation and parole revocation, and enmeshed penalties (often called the "e;collateral consequences"e; of a conviction). The latter half of the book contains a helpful and illuminating overview of the constitutional rights of prisoners, the mechanics of litigating incarcerated persons' 1983 suits, and the remedies available to them.

Provides authoritative coverage of the legal rules that govern the development of privately owned mineral rights in the United States, which often also apply to government-owned resources. The book covers topics such as the nature, protection, and conveyance of oil and gas rights, leasing, and taxation.

This work introduces the study of toxic torts and identifies the theories of liability related to both toxic products and environmental pollution. It covers special defendants, such as employers and governmental entities, workers compensation, preemption, causation and scientific evidence, and new theories of injury and damages.