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Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory
John M. Finnis
This launch volume in the Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought series presents a critical examination of Aquinas's thought, combining an accessible, historically-informed account of his work with an assessment of his central ideas and arguments. John Finnis presents a richly-documented critical review of Aquinas's thought on morality, politics, law, and method in social science. Unique in his coverage of both primary and secondary texts and his vigorous argumentation on many themes, the author focuses on the philosophy in Aquinas's texts, and demonstrates how this interconnects with the theological elements. Finnis shows how Aquinas, despite some medieval limitations, makes clear and profound contributions to present debates
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Cases, Text and Problems on Federal Income Taxation, 4th ed.
Alan Gunn and Larry D. Ward
Early in the book the students encounter fundamental tax concepts such as basis, case-method, and accrual-method accounting; depreciation; and gain from the sale of property. Later chapters apply these principles in more difficult settings. This organization allows students to develop their understanding of key concepts in simple settings, and then to review and reinforce these concepts. Contains a large number of purposely brief problems and textual notes on tax policy, progressive taxation, preferences for capital gains, the exclusion of gifts and bequests from income, the taxation of life insurance, and the relevance of state law determinations to federal tax disputes.
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American Constitutional Law: Essays, Cases, and Comparative Notes, 1st ed.
Donald P. Kommers
American Constitutional Law: Essays, Cases, and Comparative Notes is a unique casebook that encourages citizens and students of the Constitution to think critically about the fundamental principles and policies of the American constitutional order. In addition to its distinguished authorship, the book has two prominent features that set it apart from other books in the field: an emphasis on the social, political, and moral theory that provides meaning to constitutional law and interpretation, and a comparative perspective that situates the American experience within a world context that serves as an invaluable prism through which to illuminate the special features of our own constitutional order. While the focus of the book is entirely on American constitutional law, the book asks students to consider what, if anything, is unique in American constitutional life and what we share with other constitutional democracies. Each chapter is preceded by an introductory essay that highlights these major themes and also situates the cases in their proper historical and political contexts. This new edition offers updated and expanded treatment of a number of important and timely topics including, the death penalty, privacy, affirmative action, and school segregation.
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Pilgrim Law
Robert E. Rodes Jr.
This text presents a general theory of law based on the principles of liberation theology. Robert Rodes also points out the compatibility of this theology with traditional doctrines of natural law and traditional Catholic social teaching.
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Evidence in Context: A Trial Evidence Workbook
James H. Seckinger, Robert P. Burns, and Steven Lubet
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Property Law: Cases, Materials, and Problems
Thomas L. Shaffer, Sandra H. Johnson, Peter W. Salsich Jr., and Michael Braunstein
Materials cover property law concepts and doctrine that will lead students to appreciate the challenges of property law practice and public policy issues. Both the materials on professional responsibility and ADR are focused toward allowing the teacher to use them to reinforce substantive legal principles while introducing students to important questions in law practice. The chapter on easements, covenants, and servitudes, as in the past, is organized around the principle that these relationships are variations on a common theme. Provides effective, teachable materials and gives professors emphasis and coverage flexibility.
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Complex Litigation and the Adversary System
Jay Tidmarsh and Roger H. Trangsrud
A law school level coursebook on complex litigation and the adversary system. The book examines the four ways in which cases can be complex: joinder issues, pretrial issues, trial issues, and remedial issues. The book challenges the reader to consider whether the prevailing doctrines in these areas are consistent with modern adversarial theory, with the aspirations of our system of justice, and with a democratic system’s constraints on judicial power. One volume.
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Materials on Accounting for Lawyers, 2nd ed.
Matthew J. Barrett and David R. Herwitz
Uses a "learn by doing" approach. Its Teacher’s Manual augments the casebook with alternative problems for each chapter, additional materials and references to accounting promulgations. Its four suggested syllabi make it a tool for adapting the casebook to two- and three-credit hour basic courses or a two-credit hour advanced course.
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American Bar Association Guide to Workplace Law
Barbara Fick
The law affects just about every aspect of work, from hiring to firing to retiring. Now, as they've done with wills and estates, home ownership, family law, and consumer law, the American Bar Association has written this clear and compact guide to all the law that one needs to know, whether employee or employer. As in all ABA books, the advice is dependable and in plain English--not "legalese." Online promo.
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Introduction to Comparative Government
Donald P. Kommers
Book Chapter
Donald P. Kommers, The Government of Germany, in Introduction to Comparative Government 159 (Michael Curtis et al. eds., 1997)
Examines the politics of several industrialized democratic countries and three Third World countries. The authors propose a number of classifications of political systems and a general context that allows the nine systems to be compared in varying ways.
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The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Federal Republic of Germany
Donald P. Kommers
Kommers’s comprehensive work surveys the development of German constitutional doctrine between 1949, when the Federal Constitutional Court was founded, and 1996. Extensively revised and expanded to take into account recent developments since German unification, this second edition describes the background, structure, and functions of the Court and provides extensive commentary on German constitutional interpretation, and includes translations of seventy-eight landmark decisions. These cases include the highly controversial religious liberty and free speech cases handed down in 1995.
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Politics, Values and Functions: International Law in the 21st Century: Essays in Honor of Professor Louis Henkin
Mary Ellen O'Connell, Jonathan I. Charney, and Donald K. Anton
The editors and contributors have formed this collection to honour Louis Henkin in his 80th year. He has contributed greatly to the fields of international and constitutional law, to teaching and scholarship, to the international community and to each of the contributors and editors personally. The work sets out to highlight the impact of Henkin's contribution to international and constitutional scholarship.
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Premises and Conclusions: Symbolic Logic for Legal Analysis
Robert E. Rodes Jr. and Howard Pospesel
This solidly written book explains the elements of contemporary symbolic logic, and examines the ways in which it illuminates the structure of legal reasoning and clarifies various legal problems. Offering a clear and succinct presentation of standard propositional and predicate logic, it presents the elements of standard logic and applies those techniques to legal materials. It covers the use of standard logic in legal argument, including the denial or distinguishing of premises and the rules of pleading, and makes extensive use of legal materials, cases and statutes, in both examples and exercises. Readers are also given strategies for handling major legal problems in standard logic, including ways for treating conditions contrary to fact, necessary and sufficient conditions, result within the risk, and intent. For logicians and philosophers of law.
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Legal Interviewing and Counseling in a Nutshell
Thomas L. Shaffer and James R. Elkins
Solving Problems and Telling Stories; Lawyer Persona and Feelings it Disguises; Establishing a Working Relationship; Getting the Facts (Interviewing); Theories and Models for Helping Relationships; Interventions and Skills; Place, Space and Territory; Sharing Authority and Collaborative Decision Making; Moral Dimension; Understanding Ourselves
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"A" Level Law, 4th ed.
Geoffrey J. Bennett, Brian Hogan, and Peter Seago
Offering a straightforward approach to the subjects required for "A" Level law, this textbook has been divided into extensive sections on the English legal system, criminal law and contract. It is specifically aimed at syllabus requirements of the Oxford and Joint Matriculation Examining Boards.
Series: Concise College Texts
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International Criminal Law: Cases and Materials
Jimmy Gurule, M. Cherif Bassiouni, Sharon A. Williams, Michael Scharf, Bruce Zagaris, and Jordan J. Paust
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The Protection of Fundamental Rights by the Constitutional Court
Donald P. Kommers
Book Chapter
Donald P. Kommers, Procedures for the Protection of Human Rights in Diffuse Systems of Judicial Review, in The Protection of Fundamental Rights by the Constitutional Court 96 (Council of Europe: Proceedings of the European Commission for Democracy Through Law, 1996).
Common-law systems throughout the world, as they have evolved, use a variety of practices in order to protect fundamental human rights. Among those practices are systems of diffuse judicial review, which is characterized by the power of courts at various levels of a judicial hierarchy to review cases that raise issues involving fundamental rights. The legal system of the United States is typical of diffuse systems of judicial review in the common law world. In the interest of economy, this paper is limited to the United States, although some attention is also given to Canada. It describes those procedures which either advance or implicate the protection of fundamental rights.
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Problems in Trial Advocacy
James H. Seckinger, Anthony J. Bocchino, Donald H. Beskind, and Kenneth S. Broun
Problems in Trial Advocacy provides the subject matter for realistic courtroom simulations, and many of the problems are based on actual trials--both civil and criminal. Hands-on problems cover opening statements, direct and cross examination of lay and expert witnesses, introduction of exhibits, witness impeachment, and closing arguments. Many popular NITA problems and fact patterns are included and have been updated with current date references and many new and enhanced exhibits. A CD-ROM containing electronic copies of all the exhibits is included. These concise exercises give students the opportunity to learn quickly without having to memorize a full case file of facts.
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Catholicism, Liberalism and Communitarianism: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition and the Moral Foundations of Democracy
Gerard V. Bradley, Kenneth L. Grasso, and Robert P. Hunt
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La Corte Suprema de Justicia y la seguridad jurídica = "Seguridad jurídica" and the Supreme Court of Argentina. Spanish.
Paolo G. Carozza and William D. Rogers
The “Books” section of the Notre Dame Law School Scholarship Repository is a large digital bibliography and archive of books, casebooks, edited volumes, and monographs authored or edited by Notre Dame Law School faculty. It represents decades of faculty scholarship across many areas of legal study–reflecting both scholarly and instructional publishing. Recurring themes include comparative and international law and interdisciplinary scholarship. Natural law and moral philosophy emphasize Notre Dame’s longstanding engagement with Catholic intellectual traditions and jurisprudence.
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