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Animal law; welfare, interests, and rights.

Favre (Michigan State College of Law) addresses issues of animal welfare and rights, including the question of why there should be a body of law to establish and protect animal rights. Topics include sale and ownership of animals, custody issues in divorce cases, recovery for damages resulting from harm to animals, veterinary malpractice, state control of dangerous animals, criminal liability under state anti-cruelty laws, and policies relating to commercial agricultural animals. Each section contains multiple case studies including historic cases, news stories, and questions and notes on the topics covered. This publication is supplemented by a free-access website. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Attorney's guide to business and finance fundamentals, 2d ed.

Hamilton (U. of Texas School of Law) and Booth (U. of Maryland School of Law) update this volume to explain contemporary business and financial concepts. Written for lawyers whose practice involves business and finance, it also is a resource for fledgling lawyers with minimal or no background in business and finance, and may also be useful for judges and arbitrators. The book focuses on business and financial concepts rather than legal rules, and is not intended to be a substitute for resources that explain applicable law. Emphasizing the vocabulary of business and finance, this reference explores topics that include: real estate, annuities and retirement plans, insurance, accounting and financial reporting, valuation, income taxation, time value of money, bankruptcy, mergers and acquisitions, and other pertinent issues. To summarize, the authors' intent is to help lawyers communicate effectively and confidently with clients, the courts, adversaries, and others. This is a successor edition to Fundamentals of Modern Business. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Basic contract law for paralegals, 5th ed.

This textbook for paralegal students and practitioners is now in its fifth edition. Each chapter includes clearly outlined objectives and an overview, followed by the bulk of the instruction (which is rife with vernacular examples), and closes with a summary, synopsis, glossary, exercises, and lengthy case examples. The appendices provide sample contracts and supplemental cases. Helewitz (law, City University of New York) maintains that the book is not designed for law students, nor does it contain complete legal definitions of contract law, but is designated as both an instructional and a reference text. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Cases and materials on employment discrimination, 7th ed.

This seventh edition of the casebook includes noted changes in content and form. The most significant change in content is to the individual disparate treatment materials, which have been reordered to account for changes in the law and increasing social science scholarship on the nature of discrimination; other significant changes include the removal of the chapter regarding legal approaches to the employment relation (which appears instead in the teacher's manual of the book), reconceptualization of the materials on sex discrimination, the rewriting of the procedures material, and an added chapter on risk management. This edition returns to the original casebook format as opposed to more recent manifestations that included multiple treatises on the subject. Chapter topics include individual and systemic disparate treatment discrimination; systemic disparate impact discrimination, the interrelation of the three theories of discrimination; disability discrimination; procedures for enforcing antidiscrimination laws, and judicial relief. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Children, parents, and the law; public and private authority in the home, schools, and juvenile courts, 2d ed.

This book is intended to be used in coursework in children, parents, and the state or for a class in juvenile courts. It also is intended to introduce students to the importance, legal and human complexity, and the sophistication of the law as it relates to children, parents, the state, and to the theory and practice of American juvenile courts. In this volume, Harris and Teitelbaum extensively discuss juvenile court jurisdiction and procedure in delinquency, status offense, and child protection. The casebook also provides a detailed consideration of the constitutional and other principles on public and private authority for decisions affecting the education and care of young people. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Clear and effective legal writing, 4th ed.

Designed to help law students deal effectively with the difficulties and constraints imposed by the law and legal situations on legal writing, the second edition is intended to better incorporate the writing process into the legal process. A complete update, this second edition includes new problems in the exercises, new examples of appellate briefs, and a new appendix intended to illustrate how to get maximum benefit from word processing and electronic publishing capabilities that did not exist when the first edition was published. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

A concise guide to the EU anti-dumping/anti-subsidies procedures.

The basic texts forming the legal basis of anti-dumping and anti- subsidy investigations in Europe are Council Regulation (EC) No. 384/96 on protection against dumped imports from countries not members of the European Community and Council Regulation (EC) No. 2026/97 on protection against subsidized imports from countries not members of the European Community. This volume provides guidance on the procedures developed in these texts and in their corresponding regulations from initial complaint to judicial review. Discussion of relevant cases and actual measures is incorporated into the text. Distributed in North America by Aspen Publishers, Inc. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Environmental law; a conceptual and pragmatic approach.

This law school textbook provides a conceptual approach in its introduction to US natural resources law and pollution control law and selects statutes and cases that illustrate the core principles of environmental law. Opening materials provide an overview of environmental problems; discussion of the common law and the turn to statutory solutions in the 1970s; introduction to the goals of environmental law; and examination of the idea of statutory schemes, the role of administrative agencies and judicial review, and the continuing role of the common law. The second section contains chapters on the criteria that most frequently govern decisions about the stringency of regulatory standards: effects-based, technology- based, and cost-benefit-based criteria. The means of environmental protection are then explored in chapters addressing traditional regulation, market-based alternatives, information based approaches, and pollution prevention and recycling. Then come chapters on the distribution of responsibility for clean-up under the Superfund statute, the distribution of responsibilities among government units, and enforcement. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Federal income taxation, 2d ed.

This book is a text for law students studying income tax law. The intent of the book is to introduce students to concepts fundamental of the current income tax and to plausible future versions of the tax. Also, this text is intended to help students develop skill in interpreting complex statutes and regulations and to learn the details of a limited number of income tax provisions of importance. The authors, both affiliated with the Duke University School of Law include more than 75 cases, rulings, and similar materials in the text, including most of the classic cases and more recent cases, as well. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

International construction arbitration law.

This volume is presented as a practical guide to international dispute resolution under construction contracts (with a focus on arbitration) aimed primarily at in-house lawyers experienced as commercial contract negotiators but without experience in construction disputes or construction contract management. Over the course of 13 chapters, the authors address the key features of a construction contract; dispute avoidance and resolution; contract management and claims administration; proceedings for dispute review boards or expert panels; mediation, conciliation, and other forms of alternative dispute resolution; the steps for the commencement of arbitration proceedings; effective case management in arbitration; preparation and collection of evidence; procedural issues; the conduct of the hearing; and effect of the award, potential grounds for challenge, and enforcement of the award. When examples are included, they tend to be of English law procedures and rules. Distributed in North America by Aspen Publishers, Inc. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

International expatriate employment handbook.

This handbook gives practical legal advice on employment-related issues for relocating expatriate employees such as employment status, compensation and benefits, tax issues, immigration law, and enforcement of contract in the following jurisdictions: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Peru, the Philippines, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the UK, and the US. Each contribution is structured in the same way, with 34 specific legal questions being answered for the jurisdiction in question. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Piercing the corporate veil.

Piercing the corporate veil refers to those exceptional cases wherein limited liability is lifted and the separate legal personality of corporations is disregarded such that the shareholder, which may be a parent corporation, is held responsible for a company's debts or actions. This study is a functional comparative analysis of corporate veil piercing in Belgium, the United States, Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom that provides analysis of veil piercing in cases of undercapitalization, transfers of assets/assets stripping, unduly continuous loss-making activities, and identification. The study also addresses international aspects of piercing the corporate veil, including developments at the European level, cases before the International Court of Justice, and developments at the United Nations and the International Labor Organization. Significant attention is also paid to conflict of laws. Distributed in North America by Aspen Publishers, Inc. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

A practical guide to national competition rules across Europe, 2d ed.

In May 2004, the European Commission lost its exclusive jurisdiction to deal with restrictive agreements and dominance, resulting in European Union Member States' national competition authorities acquiring the ability to implement European competition rules. Companies operating in several Member States must now be aware of each jurisdictions' competition rules to ensure full compliance. This publication, volume 13 of the International Competition Law series, addresses these issues by providing competition law information in each of the EU Member States as well as Norway and Switzerland, and by analyzing the civil procedure rules and each jurisdiction, considering the extent to which competition litigation is likely to increase in the future. In this second edition editors Holmes and Davey (both from Reed Smith Richards Butler LLP) include a comparative analysis of competition rules in Europe and other jurisdictions including Australia, Canada, Japan, and the United States. Distributed in North America by Aspen Publishers, Inc. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)