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Duncan and Turner's Torts: A Contemporary Approach (Interactive Casebook Series)
by Meredith Duncan and Ronald Turner

This casebook is a user-friendly text organized to facilitate the study of tort law in the first year of law school. The text begins with an overview of the subject, being sure to point out distinctions between tort law and other types of law. It then covers intentional torts, negligence actions, and strict liability. The book includes classic cases as well as cases that are modern, interesting, and relevant to today’s students. Sections from the Second and Third Restatement of Torts are interspersed throughout. The text is rich in the competing policy issues that drive and shape current tort law. The book also contains many problems and hypotheticals. As part of the Interactive Casebook Series, the text is available to students in both a hardbound and an electronic format. The electronic version is full of “hot links” that will take students wanting more to items of interest. Learn More

Business Associations, Cases and Materials on Agency, Partnerships, and Corporations, 7th
by William A. Klein, Mark J. Ramseyer, and Stephen M. Bainbridge

With the prior edition of this concise, up-to-date casebook having been adopted at over 100 law schools, the seventh edition preserves the authors’ tradition of providing a comprehensive overview of agency, partnership, and corporation law. It also continues to emphasize six basic editorial principles:

• Be lean but not mean; cases edited ruthlessly to produce a readable and concise result.
• Facts matter, so they are included in all their potential ambiguity.
• Bring a planner’s perspective to the table through extensive use of transactionally-oriented problems.
• Keep it a casebook not a treatise. No long, stultifying textual passages. Provide the cases and let the individual teacher use them as he or she sees fit.
• Try to find cases that are fun to teach. Great facts or a clever analysis are always given first priority in case selection.
• Provide a teachers’ manual that goes into great depth with analysis of every case, and that offers, whenever applicable, the disparate views of each author.

• Perretta v. Prometheus Development Company, Inc.
• Benihana of Tokyo, Inc. v. Benihana, Inc.
• In re The Walt Disney Co. Derivative Litigation
• Stone v. Ritter
• AFSCME v. AIG, Inc.
• Brodie v. Jordan

Manning and Stephenson's Legislation and Regulation
by John F. Manning and Matthew C. Stephenson

This casebook is specifically designed for a first-year class on Legislation & Regulation, and provides a proven, ready-to-use set of materials for schools or instructors interested in introducing such a class to their 1L curriculum.

This book is based on the materials used in Harvard Law School’s 1L “Legislation and Regulation” course, which has rapidly become one of the most popular and effective courses in Harvard’s 1L curriculum, and one of the most successful experiments in introducing statutory and regulatory law and principles into the first year. The book integrates material on statutory interpretation and regulatory law in a single text, and presents this material in a way that is accessible to 1Ls and easy to teach. In addition, this book’s integration of statutory interpretation and regulatory law would make it an attractive alternative text for upper-level Administrative Law courses at schools that do not offer a 1L Legislation & Regulation class, and the material on statutory interpretation would be suitable for a Legislation course focused principally on statutory interpretation.

Although many law schools have recently introduced, or are considering, a first-year course on public law and regulation, there are not currently any casebooks specifically designed for such a course, and instructors have had to make do with books designed for upper-level Administrative Law or Legislation classes, or to develop their own supplements from scratch. This book is meant to fill that gap. The book focuses on the tools and methods of interpreting legal texts, using Supreme Court and other appellate decisions as the primary texts, yet the note material gently introduces students to applicable insights from political science, history, economics, and philosophy. The pedagogical objectives of this book are to familiarize students with the tools and techniques that lawyers and judges use when crafting legal arguments in statutory or regulatory contexts, and to give students a sense of the larger questions of institutional design that are implicated by these interpretive questions. Learn More

Medill's Developing Professional Skills: Property
by Colleen E. Medill

Incorporating skills training into a traditional Property course is challenging. This creative and original book provides ten independent exercises designed to develop student skills in legal drafting, client interviewing and counseling, negotiation and advocacy. Each exercise is based on fundamental Property rules and doctrines so that the book can be used as a supplemental text with any doctrinal casebook. Students are required to spend a manageable one to two hours on such tasks as replying to a client e-mail, writing a demand letter to an opposing party, preparing an executive summary, interviewing and counseling a client, litigating nondisclosure claims, negotiating a lease agreement and a condemnation award, and drafting a deed and an easement agreement. Each exercise contains a work product template that the student must complete for assessment purposes. A comprehensive Teacher's Manual provides guidance and suggestions for expanding the classroom discussion to include ethical issues, professional responsibility concepts and the norms of modern legal practice. Learn More

Merritt and Simmons's Learning Evidence: From the Federal Rules to the Courtroom, 2d
by Deborah Jones Merritt and Ric Simmons

Learning Evidence engages students by offering colorful courtroom examples, excerpts from trial transcripts, and lucid explanations of each evidentiary rule. The second edition has been fully updated to reflect the emergence of electronic media, the Supreme Court’s Sixth Amendment jurisprudence, and the restyled Federal Rules of Evidence. A comprehensive teacher’s manual and website include classroom exercises, PowerPoint slides, videos, and other support. Learn More