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Welcome Faculty!
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The 2012-2013 West Academic Publishing and Foundation Press Catalogs are now available and have been sent to all full-time law school professors. Other faculty may request a copy by emailing their account manager at westacademic@thomsonreuters.com or foundation-press@thomsonreuters.com. A new electronic/interactive version is also available at www.westacademic.com/catalog and www.foundation-press.com/catalog where you can easily and quickly search from your computer.
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Hear firsthand from West and Foundation Press authors as they talk about their books, their series and their areas of expertise on our Author Video landing page. www.westacademic.com/authorvideos
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Our American Casebook Series® covers have a new look! In an effort to promote sustainability, our casebooks will now be covered in 100% renewable natural fiber with vegetable-based ink. The new cover design has migrated from the long-standing brown cover to a contemporary charcoal color with silver-stamped lettering and black accents. We hope that you will find these books a pleasing addition to your bookshelf.
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Featured Products
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Estin's Domestic Relationships: A Contemporary Approach (Interactive Casebook Series)
By Ann Laquer Estin
In print and online, this new casebook considers the full range of contemporary domestic relationships, including families based on marriage and families formed through nonmarital cohabitation. The book presents the framework of constitutional and federal law that shapes family law at the state level, and materials to help students master the practical dimensions of family law including the mechanics of determining marriage validity, establishing parentage, and working with uniform jurisdictional statutes. Text boxes and links to online resources pose critical thinking questions and direct students to international and comparative dimensions of the subject, important ethical questions, and further reading. Learn More
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Epstein, Markell, and Ponoroff’s Cases and Materials on Contracts: Making and Doing Deals, 3d
by David G. Epstein, Bruce A. Markell, and Lawrence Ponoroff
This is a book that students will read. Since the first edition, students have been reading Making and Doing Deals because they see the cases, problems, and text as helping them learn what they need to know as first year law students, but also because they find the book to be accessible and enjoyable to read.
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Massey’s Property Law: Principles, Problems, and Cases
by Calvin Massey
Like the successful constitutional law casebook by this same author, this brand-new property law casebook is distinctive for its use of direct explanation to set the cases in an understandable context. A narrative thread, in introductions and note commentary, reveals the doctrine while promoting inquiry and debate about the policy rationales. Abundant problems test student understanding of the doctrines. Questions frame policy issues and trigger discussion. Provocative cases introduce the societal contingency of the concept of property. And a comprehensive teacher's manual covers all the questions, notes, and problems, and includes additional hypothetical problems for class discussion. Learn More
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Merrill and Smith’s Property: Principles and Policies, 2d
by Thomas W. Merrill and Hnery E. Smith
This revised casebook is designed for a “building block” Property course that serves as a student’s foundation for the rest of law school and beyond. Avoiding the typical hodge-podge of issues, the book presents the material in an integrated way, starting with the central role of exclusive in rem rights in property and systematically developing elaborations, exceptions, and counterfoils to this idea, using vivid cases old and new. Timely issues in intellectual property, mortgages, and regulatory takings, as well as traditional topics like equity and restitution, are given expansive treatment. The emphasis throughout is on fundamental principles and policy questions.
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Rowe, Sherry and Tidmarsh’s Civil Procedure, 3d
by Thomas D. Rowe, Suzanna Sherry and Jay Tidmarsh
This 750 page book is structured so it can be taught quickly but at a high level. The tightly edited cases capture students’ interest while teaching the material well. Notes are short but intellectually challenging. The book has enough materials to cover topics basically or in depth. The casebook introduces students to the themes running through civil procedure: efficiency and fairness, advantages and disadvantages of the adversarial system, real-life litigation strategies, and issues of federalism and separation of powers. The teacher's manual suggests strategies for teaching the materials and different approaches for credit allocations and teacher preferences. Learn More |
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