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Through the use of contemporary cases, extensive notes, intriguing problems, and frequent references to popular culture, this book is the first to make clear just how large a role aviation plays in everyday life and explain why all lawyers can profit from having at least a passing familiarity with the field.

Criminal Law: Cases, Statutes, and Lawyering Strategies is one of the most compact casebooks in the market, yet it covers all of the traditional criminal law subjects and also contains several special features: explanations and introductions to complex material, a problem approach, an emphasis on reading statutes, current issues such as terrorism, case files, sound coverage of some important areas neglected by other books, and a focus on the realities of the criminal law.

This publication differs from most existing tax casebooks the following ways: The book includes complete chapters on business, international, and estate and gift taxation, three areas of substantial importance that are historically left out of the basic tax course.

This publication is an excellent text for both the novice and the experienced professor. The book is designed to be useful in a wide variety of law or business school courses, including a doctrinal course, seminar, graduate law or MBA course, or as a helpful desk reference for nonprofit professionals.

This book presents, in a logical sequence, the central subjects that should be mastered by an educated mediator or a law student who will be representing clients in a mediation.

The Pretrial Process covers all stages of pretrial litigation comprehensively, pragmatically, and succinctly without being over-simplified. This book is designed to be useful both to clinical students working on their first cases and to classroom students expecting an intellectually satisfying law school experience.

This book covers the three key areas of the international dimension of policing: comparative policing and the creation of international “good practice” cooperative efforts to respond to emerging transnational and international crime threats; and peace operations and capacity building in post-conflict and transitional societies.

This book offers a series of interrelated narrative essays that rely on fictional characters to confront readers with challenging issues of law and justice, issues that demand careful analysis and lend themselves to elegant, although disputable, resolution.

The goal in an interrogation, or in any situation where a person with information might be uncooperative, is to effect a transition in willingness — ethically and legally. This book demonstrates to interviewers the fundamentals of effective inquiry.

In this book, the authors—who were all directly involved in law teaching, law reform, and judging during that period—explore the potent and enduring grip of colonialism on law and politics long after the colonial regime has been formally disbanded.