Author: Daniel J. Lathrope
Publisher: West
Keywords: motro, tax, map, regulations, statutes, federal, taxation, selected
Number of Pages: 1891
Published: 2008-07-22
List price: $43.00
ISBN-10: 0314190732
ISBN-13: 9780314190734

This convenient selection of federal taxation statutes and regulations is designed to provide up-to-date information for students and professors alike. It includes edited provisions of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), Treasury regulations, and various materials prepared by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). A staple text in law schools, this informed volume is relied upon for its consistent format and extensive coverage. Detailed sections on the Internal Revenue title and Treasury regulations discuss income taxes, estate and gift taxes, employment taxes, miscellaneous excise taxes, procedure

Author: John Herbert William
Publisher: West Pre
Keywords: inspiration
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2007-10-29
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1408624451
ISBN-13: 9781408624456

INSPIRATION - 1919 - PREFACE - THE Provide ttissimzcs Deas of Leo XI I I. directs attention to. the work of the earliest Patristic Fathers of the Church in the exposi and tion of Holy Scripture, beginning with immediate disciples of the Apostles, St Clement of Rome, Sr. Ignatius of Antioch, and including such famous names as Cyril, Chrysostom, Origen, Augustine, Jerome. The authority of these early Fathers is pre-eminent, not only for their learning but for their sanctity, which suggests that they may possess a divine illumination. We are also to perceive that a new and more abundant daetiora

Author: Mary LaFrance
Publisher: West
Keywords: nutshell, law, copyright
Number of Pages: 444
Published: 2008-06-04
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0314169288
ISBN-13: 9780314169280

Coverage ranges from the fundamental concepts of originality, authorship, and infringement, to the highly technical rules governing digital phonorecord deliveries and digital public performance rights in sound recordings, the safe harbor provisions that limit the liability of internet service providers, and the anti-circumvention and copyright management information provisions of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. The ever-evolving doctrines of fair use and contributory liability are given thorough attention.

Author: Joshua Dressler
Publisher: West
Keywords: american, casebook, law, criminal, materials, cases
Number of Pages: 1099
Published: 2009-10-28
List price: $178.00
ISBN-10: 0314206450
ISBN-13: 9780314206459

This popular casebook, through the selection of classic and modern cases, provides an excellent tool for teaching students the common law foundations of the criminal law and modern statutory reform, including the Model Penal Code. Along the way, the casebook considers modern controversies (e.g., shaming punishment, rape law, self-defense by battered women, euthanasia, the role of culture in determining culpability), and creatively uses literature (e.g., examining insanity through Edgar Allen Poe’s The-Tell Tale Heart) and even brain teasers to confront (as the Preface states) ;the Big Qu

Authors:Dan B. Dobbs, Paul T. Hayden, Ellen M. Bublick,
Publisher: West
Keywords: injury, american, casebook, responsibility, social, compensation, personal, accountability, torts
Number of Pages: 1061
Published: 2009-03-27
List price: $146.00
ISBN-10: 0314184902
ISBN-13: 9780314184900

The Standard Edition of the casebook now covers the course in less than 1,000 pages. It includes additions carefully selected from hundreds of cases and statutes decided between 2005 and 2008. New cases illustrate core negligence issues such as the emergency doctrine, negligence per se, foreseeability, actual harm, cause in fact, proximate cause, comparative fault, and assumed risk. New cases also address limited duties, immunities and specialized fields, such as medical malpractice, products liability, governmental immunities, effect of contract on tort, duty to protect the plaintiff from oth

Authors:John H. Jackson, William J. Davey, Alan O. Sykes,
Publisher: West
Keywords: relations, american, casebook, series, economic, international, materials, text, legal, problems, cases
Number of Pages: 1264
Published: 2008-07-09
List price: $166.00
ISBN-10: 0314160264
ISBN-13: 9780314160263

Focuses on the rules-based multilateral trading system created by GATT, as greatly expanded and elaborated by the establishment of the World Trade Organization in 1995. Particular emphasis is given to the rich and detailed jurisprudence developed by the WTO’s Appellate Body. Includes the impact of international economic interdependence and the struggle of legal institutions to cope with this and other aspects of globalization. Offers a basic understanding of the international economic system as it operates in real life, and as it is constrained or aided by a number of fundamental legal i

Authors:Bryan A. Garner, Bryan A. Garner,
Publisher: West
Keywords: standard, black, dictionary, law, ninth
Number of Pages: 1940
Published: 2009-06-25
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0314199497
ISBN-13: 9780314199492

For more than a century Black’s has been the gold standard for the language of law. Today it is the most widely cited law book in the world. Edited by Bryan A. Garner, the world s leading legal lexicographer, the 9th Edition is the most authoritative, comprehensive law dictionary ever published. It contains more than 45,000 terms and includes: 2,000 more terms than the 8th Edition and 19,000 more than the 7th Edition including click fraud, Code Adam, collaborative law, ecoterrorism, environmental tort, friendly subpoena, happy-slapping, honor crime, secret detention, Schumer box, and sup