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.
This edition updates and reassesses the Big 3; of dispute resolution, negotiation, and mediation. Arbitration chapters provide coverage of new major cases, including DIRECTTV and Concepcion. New note materials raise serious questions about these cases and challenge the notion that there exists a national policy favoring arbitration.
Author(s): Robert L. Felix (Author) , Ralph U. Whitten (Author)
Publisher:
Carolina Academic Press
ISBN: 9781531013561
This edition of American Conflicts Law: Cases and Materials continues the organizational pattern of the Seventh Edition, along with the problem approach adopted there.
American Indian Law: Native Nations and the Federal System surveys the tribal-federal relationship. It is primarily devoted to the study of federal Indian law, i.e. the federal law developed to regulate the tribal-federal relationship. This book pursues a broad perspective, merging jurisprudence, history, comparative law, ethnology, and sociology to bring meaning to the tribal-federal relationship.
The book provides an overview of American legal institutions and sources of law, and presents a guide to the interrelationships between and among those institutions and legal authorities.
Author(s): Ursula Bentele (Author) , Eve Cary (Author)
Publisher:
Carolina Academic Press
ISBN: 9780327176657
Appellate Advocacy: Principles and Practice is designed primarily for use in an upper class appellate practice course. It will provide students with a basic understanding of the most fundamental principles of appellate litigation, using examples from the federal system as well as several illustrative states.
Bankruptcy Law: Principles, Policies, and Practice puts bankruptcy law in context, illuminating the evolution of the Bankruptcy Code with an exploration of current and historical non-bankruptcy remedies.
Author(s): Gary A. Ames (Author) , C. Steven Bradford (Author)
Publisher:
Carolina Academic Press
ISBN: 9781531011925
This book is not a slimmed-down Accounting for Lawyers casebook, but a book especially designed as an auxiliary book for other courses that draw on accounting. It is brief, inexpensive, and gives students a plain English, sometimes even humorous, introduction to the basics of accounting and to the financial concepts of present value and expected value.