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  Class Actions and Other Multi-Party Litigation: Cases and Materials (2d ed. 2006)

  Robert H. Klonoff, Edward K. Bilich, and Suzette M. Malveaux

  This casebook focuses on one of the most important and dynamic areas of modern federal and civil practice - aggregate-party litigation, particularly class actions. Examples of such litigation include path-breaking cases involving Agent Orange, breast implants, tobacco, and contraceptive devices. In addition to class actions, the text addresses joinder, consolidation, intervention, impleader, interpleader, multi-district litigation, and bankruptcy, among other topics. It includes rich theoretical materials, as well as practical discussions useful for a student contemplating a professional focus in class actions. The second edition covers major developments since the first edition, including the 2003 amendments to Rule 23 and the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005. It also includes several major Supreme Court and federal court of appeals decisions that have been handed down since the first edition.

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  The Law of Preclearance: Enforcing Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, in The Future of the Voting Rights Act (David L. Epstein et al. eds., 2006)

  J. Peyton McCrary, Christopher B. Seaman, and Richard M. Valelly

  The Voting Rights Act (VRA) stands among the great achievements of American democracy. Originally adopted in 1965, the Act extended full political citizenship to African-American voters in the United States nearly 100 years after the Fifteenth Amendment first gave them the vote. While Section 2 of the VRA is a nationwide, permanent ban on discriminatory election practices, Section 5, which is set to expire in 2007, targets only certain parts of the country, requiring that legislative bodies in these areas—mostly southern states with a history of discriminatory practices—get permission from the federal government before they can implement any change that affects voting. In The Future of the Voting Rights Act, David Epstein, Rodolfo de la Garza, Sharyn O'Halloran, and Richard Pildes bring together leading historians, political scientists, and legal scholars to assess the role Section 5 should play in America's future. The contributors offer varied perspectives on the debate. Samuel Issacharoff questions whether Section 5 remains necessary, citing the now substantial presence of blacks in legislative positions and the increasingly partisan enforcement of the law by the Department of Justice (DOJ).

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  Courtiers of the Marble Palace: The Rise and Influence of the Supreme Court Law Clerk (2006)

  Todd C. Peppers

  Courtiers of the Marble Palace is the first systematic examination of the "clerkship institution"—the web of formal and informal norms and rules surrounding the hiring and utilization of law clerks by the individual justices on the United States Supreme Court. Todd Peppers provides an unprecedented view into the work lives of and day-to-day relationships between justices and their clerks; relationships that in some cases have extended to daily breakfasts, games of competitive basketball and tennis, and occasional holiday celebrations. Through personal interviews with fifty-three former clerks and correspondence with an additional ninety, as well as personal interviews with a number of non-clerks, including Justice Antonin Scalia, Peppers has amassed a body of information that reveals the true inner-workings of the clerkship institution.

  With a Foreword by Professor Robert M. O'Neil of the University of Virginia School of Law, former President of the University of Virginia and former law clerk for Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.

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  Remedies: Cases and Materials (7th ed. 2006)

  Doug Rendleman

  Concisely covers the complex subject matter of Remedies with an emphasis on the lawyer's process. Decisions were picked and edited to build on first-year courses in contracts, torts, civil procedure, property, and constitutional law. Text also develops the differing measures of contract and tort damages and the availability of punitive damages for torts.

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  Voices of African Women: Women's Rights in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania

  Johanna E. Bond

  Voices of African Women is a collection of essays by accomplished women’s rights lawyers from Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania. In the last decade, women’s human rights have been the focus of significant attention at the international level. There remains, however, a dearth of information concerning the application and relevance of international norms at grassroots levels within Africa. There are few works about women’s human rights within Africa that are actually written by African women lawyers and human rights activists. This book offers a glimpse into the lives of women in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania; it describes — in their own words — the challenges these activists face in implementing international human rights norms at the local and national levels.

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  Choice of Business Entity: Weighing the LLC Against the Alternatives, in South Carolina Corporate Practice Manual (2nd ed. 2005)

  Brant J. Hellwig

  The South Carolina Corporate Practice Manual, Second Edition is a comprehensive and practical handbook designed for both the general practitioner and corporate specialist. This updated resource tracks the entire process of forming and operating most types of corporate entities. Fully updated since the First Edition, the book includes practical instructions on advising clients about selecting the correct corporate entity, choosing and protecting the corporate name, corporate finance and control, and securities. Model articles, bylaws, resolutions, minutes, tax and other forms are included on CD.

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  The Legal System of Nepal, in Legal Systems of the World: A Political, Social, and Cultural Encyclopedia (Herbert M. Kritzer ed., 2002)

  Johanna E. Bond

  Legal Systems of the World is the only comprehensive reference work that covers the legal systems of every nation on earth, every state in the Union, and every province of Canada.

  • 400 A–Z entries on places from Scotland to Suriname, concepts and terms like legal realism and retribution, and key documents such as the Writ of Certiorari
  • Entries by an international team of over 350 contributors
  • Highly readable maps of every country in the world, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe
  • Nearly 275 diagrams illustrating the legal structure of various states and countries
  • A glossary of hundreds of key terms like "adversarialism" and "sharia"

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  Jointly Owned Property, in Estate Planning Strategies: A Lawyer's Guide to Retirement and Lifetime Planning (Jay A. Soled ed., 2002)

  Robert T. Danforth

  This comprehensive book is a guide to help circumnavigate the estate-planning world and specific changes EGTRRA has brought and will sensitize lawyers to the estate planning needs of their clients in a legal environment that is in transition. To assist in the navigation process, many of the nation's top estate-planning experts and practitioners have been assembled to participate in the production of this book

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  Violence Against Women and International Human Rights Law, in Sourcebook on Violence Against Women (Claire M. Renzetti et al. eds., 2001)

  Johanna E. Bond and Robin Phillips

  This textbook comprises a collection of original scholarly writings extensively covering current research on violence against women. It is intended as a resource for students, practitioners, and academics.

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  When May the Right Be Invoked? in The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination in Civil Litigation (ABA Section of Antitrust Law, 2001)

  Julie Schwartz

  This book analyzes the application of the constitutional right against self-incrimination to civil litigation. This topic is of growing importance in an era when parallel civil, criminal, and administrative proceedings are becoming increasingly common and practitioners must necessarily consider all of the implications of a witness' decision to invoke, or not invoke, the right against self-incrimination. These decisions have always been, and remain, important in familiar areas of litigation such as antitrust, RICO, and securities. However, with the continued growth of regulatory structures that allow for civil, criminal, and administrative liability-often for essentially the same conduct-and the proliferation of civil forfeiture proceedings that can precede, accompany, or follow a criminal prosecution, the importance of these decisions continues to increase. Counsel for parties and nonparty witnesses must continually grapple with decisions whether to advise individuals to invoke their right against self-incrimination, and counsel for organizations must understand the implications of those invocations for their clients as well.

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  Federal Income Taxation of Estates and Trusts (3d ed. 2001, Supp. 2019)

  Howard M. Zaritsky, Norman H. Lane, and Robert T. Danforth

  For more than two decades WG&L's Federal Income Taxation of Estates and Trusts, Third Edition, has been the definitive resource for lawyers, accountants, financial advisers, trust officers, and others who plan for and comply with the special income tax rules that apply to estates and trusts. With detailed, comprehensive, and practical guidance, the Treatise provides:

  • Advice about computing the taxable income and tax liability of estates and trusts
  • Coverage of the allocation of the tax burden between estates and trusts and their beneficiaries
  • Differences between so-called simple and complex trusts
  • Explanation of the taxation of foreign situs trusts
  • Professional guidance about so-called grantor trusts (trusts that are treated as alter egos of their grantors)
  • In-depth examination of tax rules covering the administration of charitable trusts, including charitable lead trusts and charitable remainder trusts
  • Professional guidance about the planning and administration of numerous special-purpose trusts, including trusts designed to hold Subchapter S stock, non-exempt employee benefit trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts, and qualified personal residence trusts
  • Complete coverage about planning for and managing income in respect of a decedent (IRD)
  • Numerous examples that apply complex tax rules to real life situations
  • Frequent supplementation that gives subscribers the most current guidance and strategies involving estate and trust law

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  Remedies: Cases and Materials (6th ed. 1999)

  Doug Rendleman and Kenneth H. York

  Concisely covers the subject matter of Remedies with an emphasis on the lawyer's process. Decisions were picked and edited to build on first-year courses in contracts, torts, civil procedure, property, and constitutional law. Text also develops the differing measures of contract and tort damages and the availability of punitive damages for torts.

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  A Personal Account of a Struggle to Be Evenhanded in Teaching About Abortion, in Advocacy in the Classroom: Problems and Possibilities (Patricia Meyer Spacks ed., 1996)

  Samuel W. Calhoun

  In this collection of essays that originated at a conference sponsored by a group of national academic organizations, the issue of pedagogical advocacy, as well as authority in the classroom, is addressed from a wide range of opinion and practice by 42 graduate and undergraduate professors (and one secondary school teacher). Because the issue involves questions of academic freedom, political correctness and cultural diversity, there are fundamental disagreements as well as large areas of convergence among the contributors here. Viewpoints range from Gertrude Himmelfarb's wariness about postmodernism and its "denial that there is any such thing as knowledge, truth, reason, or objectivity" to Louis Menand's arguing for pedagogical passion that "must always characterize the good teacher." This well-organized, provocatively diverse collection should promote dialogue and discussion among academics.

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  Enforcement of Judgments and Liens in Virginia (2d ed. 1994)

  Doug Rendleman

  With the increasing emphasis on consumers' rights and developments in federal debtor-creditor law, Enforcement of Judgments and Liens in Virginia helps the practicing lawyer solve frequently-occurring collection problems.

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  Conflicts, in Family Law and Practice in Virginia (Richard D. Balnave ed., 2d ed. 1993)

  Doug Rendleman and Elizabeth M. Schmidt

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  Resolving Libel Disputes Out of Court: The Libel Dispute Resolution Program, in Reforming Libel Law (John Soloski & Randall P. Bezanson eds., 1992)

  Brian C. Murchison

  Current libel law in the U.S. has proven problematic for plaintiffs and media alike. From the plaintiff's perspective, the law seems frustrating and unfair, providing little opportunity to repair reputations; from the media standpoint, the high cost of litigation threatens to deter journalistic pursuit of controversial stories. Over the last decade, these problems have led legal scholars to propose comprehensive reforms. Some of these proposals have been available to the limited readership of law reviews, while others were published only in abbreviated form-- have been the subject of heated debate. Presenting the most significant of these proposals complete and under one cover this volume makes the issues and controversies surrounding libel law reform accessible to a wide readership for the first time.

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  Injunctions (2d ed. 1984)

  Doug Rendleman and Owen M. Fiss

  This casebook provides detailed information on injunctions. The casebook provides the tools for fast, easy, on-point research. Part of the University Casebook Series, it includes selected cases designed to illustrate the development of a body of law on a particular subject. Text and explanatory materials designed for law study accompany the cases.