This book provides a comprehensive, reader-friendly approach to researching, writing, and publishing a variety of documents relevant to legal practice in today's world, including law journal articles, seminar papers and capstone projects, bar journal articles, policy papers, op-eds, social media posts and blogs, and even creative works.
This book offers researchers confronted with legal issues that implicate public international law a foundation in these sources of law, research strategies for handling them, and real-world examples that focus on the process for carrying out research.
Skills & Values: Discovery Practice is designed to serve as an introduction to the practical application of the discovery rules. The book and the companion Web Course introduce each discovery topic briefly and then provide a context and structure for exercises and self-study.
Relying upon case law, statutes, regulations, constitutional provisions, law review articles, social science research, historical accounts, scientific studies, and other sources, this interdisciplinary book explores why and how people discriminate as well as how the law aims to prevent and punish such behavior.
The book consists of forty-two chapters with each chapter addressing a basic topic in individual income taxation, e.g., the taxation of personal physical injury award, gifts, devises and inheritances, the taxation of gains from the sale or exchange of property, and the tax consequences of divorce.
Using the most current information available, this book explores the phenomenon and research on status offenders, or offenses that can only be committed by minors. Examples include running away, truancy, incorrigibility, curfew violations, underage drinking and smoking.
Changes in the area of employment discrimination law, since publication of earlier editions of this book, have refined many of the substantive doctrines and continued to clarify procedural issues.
The book begins by exploring these theories and identifying the sources of meaning the theorists use to interpret statutes, including intrinsic, extrinsic, and policy-based.
Law Teaching Strategies for a New Era: Beyond the Physical Classroom, the first comprehensive book on online legal education, explores techniques, tools, and strategies that can assist all types of law professors in that endeavor.
Criminal Injustice examines the influence of politics and ideology on criminal justice practice. The book clearly illustrates that criminal justice practice is directly and meaningfully impacted by politics and ideology, beginning with law-making.