The maritime law of the United States is harmonious in broad outline with the laws of other maritime nations, but it has a unique structure—tied to the U.
This textbook is designed for use in upper-level law school courses. It reflects the belief that the most effective teaching materials for students beyond the first year of law school are centered on problems of the kind that lawyers face in practice.
The second edition of Advanced Torts focuses primarily on tort theories that are not covered in significant detail in the standard first-semester Torts course, such as legal malpractice, defamation, invasion of privacy, interference with contractual relations, misrepresentation and related theories, bad faith claims, aiding and abetting liability, and misuse of the legal process.
This book focuses on lawyering skills in negotiating and mediating, including the lawyer's counseling function and ethical responsibilities in connection with these dispute resolution processes.
This latest edition of Agency, Partnership and the LLC: The Law of Unincorporated Business Enterprises, Cases, Materials, Problems incorporates developments in the law of agency and unincorporated business entities since publication of the Eighth Edition in 2011.
This book is an abridged version of the same title. This abridged version provides cases and materials on agency law and on unincorporated business entities: general partnerships, limited partnerships, and limited liability companies. This edition is particularly designed for one or two credit hour courses that are limited to these topics.
In this book, agency, partnerships (including limited liability partnerships), limited partnerships, and limited liability companies are covered sequentially, followed by ownership interests and fiduciary duties in unincorporated business entities.