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Civil Jury Instruction Handbook, 2024-2025 ed. (Vol. 6B, Washington Practice Series)
David K. DeWolf
Providing the time-challenged practitioner with quick references to actual instructions given in civil cases, Civil Jury Instruction Handbook includes selected jury instructions and verdict forms given in actual Washington state cases. The text categorizes instructions and verdict forms by subject matter and relevant issues, and includes:
- Verbatim reproductions of pattern instructions
- Significantly modified pattern instructions
- Completely original instructions
Commentary is included throughout the text to identify or provide a short note on the appropriate application of the instruction. Additionally, references assist practitioners in drawing upon databases to find additional examples.
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Washington Construction Law Manual, 2d (Vol. 33, Washington Practice Series)
David K. DeWolf
From contractor business formation and entering into contracts to delay, damage, and defect claims, Washington Construction Law Manual guides you through all aspects of the Washington construction process. It offers substantial direction on handling construction delay and change orders, so practitioners can effectively advise their clients. This manual includes:
- Sample documents and forms for transactions and litigation
- A major overview of Washington construction law that helps you find cases and statutes
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Washington Insurance Law and Litigation, 2024-2025 ed. (Vol. 35, Washington Practice Series)
David K. DeWolf
Washington Insurance Law and Litigation addresses insurance, coverage under policies, and rejection of claims that often lead to litigation.
Topics covered in this volume include:
- General insurance law
- Auto and motor vehicle insurance
- Health and life insurance
- Homeowners and renters insurance
- Commercial general liability
- Other insurance such as title, directors and officers, and attorney liability litigation and bad faith
You'll also find in-depth discussion of the Washington Insurance Fair Conduct Act, as well as a variety of legal forms for complaints, answers, discovery, and jury instructions.
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Washington Elements of an Action, 2023-2024 ed. (Vol. 29, Washington Practice Series)
David K. DeWolf
Washington Elements of an Action presents vital information to help you determine strategy and prepare for trial. It provides a valuable, time-efficient way to explore an unfamiliar case or topic area and offers substantive and practical overviews of more than 20 causes of action. Defenses, pleadings, jury instructions, and jury verdicts are discussed. Each chapter identifies the elements of an action, discusses how to investigate and analyze a given case, and suggests litigation strategies, potential remedies, and possible defenses.
Topics include:
Actions for abuse of process, Animals, Business torts, Contracts, Dram-shop liability, Employment, False imprisonment, Breach of fiduciary duties, Fraud, Government tort liability, Insurance bad faith, Intentional infliction of emotional distress, Libel and slander ,Malicious prosecution, Medical malpractice, Negligence, Nuisance, Premises liability, Privacy, Products liability, Wrongful death
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The Investigative State: Regulatory Oversight in the United States
Daniel Z. Epstein
This book is a timely examination of congressional oversight in the United States, serving as a definitive guide for scholars and political, legal, and media observers seeking to navigate contemporary conflicts between Congress and the White House. Author Daniel Epstein has spent his professional career as a lawyer serving all sides of the regulatory process: he ran investigations for Congress, defended the White House from congressional oversight, and represented individuals, nonprofit news organizations, and entrepreneurs in federal court to fight for regulatory transparency and fairness. Epstein uses historical and observational data to argue that the modern federal bureaucracy did not begin as a regulatory state but as an investigative state. The contemporary picture of Congress having empowered the bureaucracy to set policy through rules is a relatively recent development in the political development of administrative law. The book’s novel econometric models and historical analyses force a shift in how legal scholars and judges understand delegation, congressional oversight, and agency investigations.
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Human Flourishing: The End of Law
W. Michael Reisman and Roza Pati
This rich volume is an homage to the significant impact Professor Siegfried Wiessner has had on scholarship and practice in many areas of international and domestic law. Reflecting the depth and breadth of his writings, it is a collection of thought-provoking, original essays, exploring topics as diverse as theory about law, human rights, the rights of indigenous peoples, the rule of law, constitutional law, the rights of migrants, international investment law and arbitration, space law, the use of force, and many more, all integrated by the problem- and policy-oriented framework of what has come to be known as the New Haven School. Its title “Human Flourishing: The End of Law” reflects the conviction that the purpose of law ought to be to allow humans to achieve their full potential - to thrive and develop, both materially and spiritually, under the law. The volume contributes to a vision of the law as a public order in which the common interest is clarified and implemented peacefully, and offers a source of inspiration for scholars and practitioners working towards such an order of human dignity.
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Estates in Land and Future Interests: Problems and Answers, 7th Edition
John Makdisi
Proven effective, Estates in Land and Future Interests, Seventh Edition provides an accessible and systematic presentation of the classifications and rules of estates and future interests law. Clear explanations, along with comprehensive problem sets in each chapter, cover all of the rules as they are applied in practice. Students will master this complex area of Property Law by applying the rules and assigning classifications to the hypothetical problems in this practice-based workbook.
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The Object of the Moral Act: Understanding St. Thomas Aquinas through the Work of Steven Long and Martin Rhonheimer
John Makdisi
In the 1993 encyclical Veritatis Splendor Pope John Paul II stated that the “morality of the human act depends primarily and fundamentally on the ‘object’ rationally chosen by the deliberate will.” Since that time the interpretation of the moral object has garnered increased attention among Thomist scholars. Yet it remains a source of dispute. Two scholars who take rather opposed views on what Aquinas means by the moral object are Martin Rhonheimer and Steven Long. The purpose of this dissertation is to elucidate the account of Aquinas’s doctrine through a comparison of the interpretations of each of these scholars with Aquinas’s own work. Part 1 will elaborate the work of Steven Long and Martin Rhonheimer in order to identify the areas of disagreement between the two. Part 2 will summarize the work of Aquinas’s precursors in order to provide the context in which Aquinas developed his own doctrine and then examine Aquinas’s own work as it relates to the areas of disagreement between our two scholars. Part 3 will compare each scholar’s work with Aquinas’s texts in order to evaluate the accuracy of each account and the insights each has to offer. This analysis of two clearly opposing views in the post-Veritatis Splendor debates, informed by a critical reading of Aquinas’s texts, offers to provide a deeper understanding of the moral object as elaborated by Aquinas. ii This dissertation by John Makdisi fulfills the dissertation requirement for the doctoral degree in Moral Theology/Ethics approved by William C. Mattison III, Ph.D., as Director, and by Joseph Capizzi, Ph.D., and Tobias Hoffmann, Ph.D. as Readers.
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Contract Law & Practice, 3d (Vol. 25, Washington Practice Series)
David K. DeWolf
Contract Law & Practice provides state-specific commentary and critical discussion of contract law, analyzing those cases that have significant impact on standards covering contract formation, interpretation, and construction. Topics covered include:
- Formation of contracts
- Statute of frauds
- Parol evidence rule
- Interpretation and construction of contracts
- Promissory estoppel/detrimental reliance
- Contracts violative of public policy
- Conditions
- Unconscionability and misconduct defenses
- Performance and nonperformance
- Modification and rescission
- Third-party beneficiaries
- Assignment and delegation
- Damages
- Specific performance and injunctions
- Discharge of contracts and limitation defenses
- Employment contracts
- Jury instructions
The guide also includes a table of cases, forms, and pleadings.
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Handbook on Human Trafficking, Public Health and the Law
Wilhelm Kirch, Siegfried Wiessner, and Roza Pati
This booklet is the result of the Spring School on Public Health, Human Trafficking and the Law funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) as an ERASMUS INTENSIVE PROGRAMME, held in March, 2013 in Siena, Italy. The aim of the intensive program was to present and analyze the problem of human trafficking in line with the perspective of the New Haven School in order to recommend concrete solutions. For this purpose, the trafficking of humans has been explored in relation to public health and the European law, in close cooperation with participating students and experts in medicine, social sciences, and law.
An award-winning international medical and scientific publisher, Thieme has demonstrated its commitment to the highest standard of quality in the state-of-the-art content and presentation of all of its products. Thieme's trademark blue and silver covers have become synonymous with excellence in publishing.
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Tort Law and Practice, 5th (Vols. 16 and 16A, Washington Practice Series)
David K. DeWolf
Tort Law and Practice describes the basic principles of Washington tort law and unifies the often-fragmented world of tort law to provide you with real-world guidance. Combining a scholarly perspective on Washington tort law with practical assistance, this publication covers such topics as:
- Statutes of limitations
- Measures of damages
- Joint and several liability
- Professional negligence
- Civil rights violations under section 1983
- Joint tortfeasors
- Malicious prosecution
- Libel
- Tortious interference with contract
Key case citations, suggested jury instructions, and sample forms taken from actual litigation are included.
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Estates in Land and Future Interests: Problems and Answers, 6th Edition
John Makdisi
This workbook provides a basic, systematized account of the rules and classifications of estate law. Problem sets in each chapter, let students practice applying the rules and assigning the classifications of this intricate area of law in hypothetical situations.
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Accidentes de Tránsito
Dr. Dora Szafir, M. Florencia Cornu Laport, Santiago Carnelli, and Silvia Carretto Pereira
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Law and Popular Culture: Text, Notes, and Questions
David Papke, Christine Corcos, Peter Huang, Lenora P. Ledwon, and Carrie Menkel-Meadow
This new Second Edition of Law and Popular Culture: Text, Notes, and Questions maintains the most appreciated features of the First Edition published in 2007.
- Each of the chapters begins with a list of readily available Hollywood films that are relevant to the particular chapter.
- After an introduction to the study of popular culture and an outline of the goals of the book, the chapters themselves fall into two categories. Half concern the pop culture portrayals of legal institutions and actors ― law schools, the legal profession, clients, witnesses, judges, and juries. The second half concern various areas of law ― Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Torts, Business Law, Family Law, and International Law.
- Well over one hundred excerpts from articles by the leading law and popular culture scholars still are included. A majority of these excerpts appeared in the First Edition, but many appear for the first time in this Second Edition.
- Film remains the most prominent medium.
The Second Edition also adds these exciting new features:
- An original chapter on "Punishment" explores the surprisingly large body of pop cultural works related to imprisonment and capital punishment.
- Law-related imagery and portrayals in such other media as television, inexpensive fiction, children's literature, and the comics receive much greater attention in the text's notes and comments sections than was the case in the First Edition.
- Emphasis on the reasons, forms, and ramifications of law related popular culture, moving away to some extent from attempts either to point out the legal errors in popular culture or to teach the law using popular culture.
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Looking to the Future
Mahnoush H. Arsanjani, Jacob Cogan, Robert Sloane, and Siegfried Wiessner
Throughout his career, Michael Reisman emphasized law’s function in shaping the future. In this wide-ranging collection of essays, major thinkers in the international legal field address the goals of the twenty-first century and how international law can address the needs of the world community. The result is a volume of outstanding scholarship that will appeal to all those – lawyers, political scientists, and educated laymen— interested in international law, legal theory, human rights, international investment law and commercial arbitration, boundary issues, law of the sea, and law of armed conflict.
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Inside Property Law: What Matters and Why
John Makdisi and Daniel B. Bogart
A concise and student-friendly study guide, Inside Property What Matters and Why emphasizes the essential components of Property Law, how they fit together, and why. Explicit pedagogical features include graphics, Sidebars, and Frequently Asked Questions, among others, to guide comprehension and reinforce learning. Along with an attractive two-color page design.
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Introduction to the Study of Law: Cases and Materials, 3rd Edition
John Makdisi and Michael Makdisi
This coursebook is designed for use by beginning law students. The first three chapters provide background reading for the summer months preceding law school and are intended to initiate the student to legal reasoning, law school, and the case method of study. The four topics following these chapters provide several assignments for teaching an orientation course. These assignments focus on the techniques of the case method of study in the areas of Contracts, Property, Torts, and Criminal Law and include explanatory and thought provoking discussions, sample case briefs and sample questions. The purpose of the orientation course is not to teach substantive law, but to initiate the student to the methods of legal reasoning. brbr iThe Third Edition of Introduction to the Study of Lawi adds a number of new readings while at the same time streamlining the existing readings to provide a greater focus on what a student needs to prepare for the unique method of study found in law school. The previous edition split the nature of law and legal reasoning into separate chapters; this edition combines them in order to show their integrated nature. The final chapter continues to introduce the student to the unique case method of study, but this edition has added material to provide further guidance on the mechanics of reading, annotating, and briefing cases. The topics remain mostly the same, with a few exceptions. The most notable change is the addition of a topic in the area of criminal law and statutory analysis.
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Due Process and International Terrorism
Roza Pati
Acts of terror on a global scale are straining to the breaking point the due process guarantees of the legal systems of modern democracies. In unequalled breadth and depth, this book analyzes the rights of persons suspected of a crime, in normal times and emergencies, from the pre-trial phase to the trial and the post-trial period under all the universal and regional human rights treaty regimes, pertinent customary international law, general principles of law, international humanitarian law as well as the hybrid procedures developed by international criminal tribunals.
The book then presents a detailed analysis of United States’ due process guarantees, in peacetime and in war, and the executive, legislative and judicial responses to the attacks of September 11, 2001. Professor Pati appraises the American actions in terms of international law’s due process guarantees and proposes courses of action which can better defend a public order of human dignity. -
Estates in Land and Future Interests: Problems and Answers, 5th Edition
John Makdisi and Daniel B. Bogart
Estates in Land and Future Interests: Problems and Answers provides a clear and systematic presentation of the rules and classifications of estate law. Problem sets in each chapter let students practice applying the rules and assigning the classifications of estates and future interests, carefully leading students from one level of complexity to the next.
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Florida Property Law: Conveyancing and Governmental Controls Vol. 2
John Makdisi
Florida Property Law adds two innovative features to the traditional mode of teaching the basic property course — a learning-by-doing approach and a focus on the law of one jurisdiction. In order to provide students with a deliberative learning-by-doing approach, this book is designed to present a hypothetical problem in advance of class so that the student can prepare an answer on his own for later discussion and evaluation in class. Each problem in the book is designed to be solved by reading, analyzing and applying the cases and materials that accompany it. Speed of analysis is no longer a primary factor for success in the classroom. The problems are more complex than those presented ad hoc by the teacher in class, and emphasis is now placed on the student's proactive analytical abilities to solve issues on her own.
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Florida Property Law: Possession, Estates, and Tenancy Volume 1
John Makdisi
Florida Property Law adds two innovative features to the traditional mode of teaching the basic property course ― a learning-by-doing approach and a focus on the law of one jurisdiction. In order to provide students with a deliberative learning-by-doing approach, this book is designed to present a hypothetical problem in advance of class so that the student can prepare an answer on his own for later discussion and evaluation in class. Each problem in the book is designed to be solved by reading, analyzing and applying the cases and materials that accompany it. Speed of analysis is no longer a primary factor for success in the classroom. The problems are more complex than those presented ad hoc by the teacher in class, and emphasis is now placed on the student's proactive analytical abilities to solve issues on her own.
The five chapters in the book that are devoted to estates and future interests are designed with problem sets instead of hypothetical problems. This area of the law is best learned by working through several short fact patterns rather than the long fact pattern found in the hypothetical problems. Answers to the problem sets are provided at the end of each chapter.
A second feature of this book, in addition to the problems and problem sets attached to the chapters, is the adoption of cases and materials primarily within one jurisdiction to expound the law. The traditional assignment of cases from several jurisdictions gives the impression that we have one common law jurisdiction when, in fact, each state has its own. Only by studying the law of one jurisdiction consistently can one start to appreciate law as a well-integrated whole, each of whose parts is dependent on the rest. Only within the context of a single jurisdiction does the law truly become a seamless web.
Florida is an ideal jurisdiction to study because most of its law conforms with the rules and principles of property law that are generally accepted throughout the states. When a rule or principle differs radically from the rest of the states, that fact is indicated. When a rule or principle to govern a particular issue is undecided in Florida, cases from other jurisdictions are offered to provide an opportunity for students to argue policy reasons for or against adoption of the rule in Florida. This absence of law on a particular point of law in Florida makes the policy argument real in the sense that it will probably have to be made one day in the Florida courts or legislature.
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Islamic Property Law: Cases and Materials for Comparative Analysis with the Common Law
John Makdisi
Islamic Property Law is the first casebook of its kind to offer training in Islamic law to American law students in the comparative case-method style of learning. The several areas of law covered under the umbrella of Property are developed through translations of classical Islamic law texts in conjunction with English and American cases on the same subjects. The materials are sufficiently detailed to provide the type of sophisticated analysis with which law professors and students are familiar. Although the focus is on Islamic property law, the course also covers areas in torts, contracts, criminal law, wills and trusts, constitutional law, and jurisprudence, insofar as these areas touch on property. In this way the book also satisfies the tradition of comparative law casebooks that are comprehensive in coverage.
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The New Dialogue of Civilizations
Roza Pati and Joe Holland
This book is an international collection of reflections, statements, and resources responding to the United Nations call for a new “dialogue among civilizations,” a theme taken up by the United Nation’s Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in relation to its work on behalf of a “Culture of Peace.” These contributions were occasioned by the 11 September 2002 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City. They come from members around the world of Pax Romana / International Catholic Movement for Intellectual & Cultural Affairs (ICMICA), and were gathered by the US federation of Pax Romana / ICMICA.
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