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The Planning and Drafting of Wills & Trusts
Thomas L. Shaffer and Carol Ann Mooney
This text, prepared by recognized experts in the field, addresses questions and issues that arise during the drafting of wills and trusts, particularly by couples. In addition, the authors offer insightful commentary. Representative chapters include Planning Together, Rebuilding Together, Non-Estate Planning, and Planning for Disability.
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American Lawyers and Their Communities: Ethics in the Legal Profession
Thomas L. Shaffer and Mary M. Shaffer.
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"A" Level Law: Cases and Materials, 2nd ed.
Geoffrey 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 contracts. Now containing cases and materials.
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Landmarks in American Legal Publishing: A Bibliographic Catalog
Patti J. Ogden, Thomas A. Woxland, and Morris L. Cohen
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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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The Federal Republic of Germany at Forty
Donald P. Kommers
Book Chapter
Donald P. Kommers, The Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany: An Assessment After Forty Years, in The Federal Republic of Germany at Forty 133 (Peter H. Merkl ed., 1989)
On 23 May 1989, the Basic Law became forty years old. Designed as a political framework for a new experiment in constitutional democracy, it has survived the vagaries and vicissitudes of the postwar period as well as the buffeting of its critics both left and right. It may not have fulfilled all the promises of its founders -- what constitution has? -- but under the usual standards for measuring the success of a constitution it has stood the test of time.
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"A" Level Law, 2nd ed.
Geoffrey Bennett, Brian Hogan, and Peter Seago
From the Publisher: 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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Cases, Text and Problems on Federal Income Taxation, 2nd ed.
Alan Gunn and Larry D. Ward
As with the previous editions, the authors have tried to prepare materials that will help students cope with a confusing mass of legislation by seeing the minutiae of the Code as reflections of basic concepts and recurring problems of income taxation. The authors continue to treat the income and deduction aspects of particular kinds of payments–especially interest–together, a technique they see as essential if students are to understand what is at stake in particular controversies.
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Church-State Relationships in America
Gerard V. Bradley
Although the Supreme Court has stated that the framers of the Constitution erected a wall of separation between church and state, history shows that collective political activity in the United States has been and remains an intensely religious enterprise. Despite seemingly clear agreement on the principle of separation, what that principle entails in controversies involving not only the activities and demands of religious groups but the Court itself has proved contentious. Professor Bradley's book is the most comprehensive analysis of the subject attempted to date. It offers a detailed exploration of the historical meaning of the Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution and church-state relations from the founding period down to the controversies that are a feature of our modern political life.
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The Prediction of Criminal Violence
Tex Dutile and Cleon H. Foust
Predictions on the future behavior of an accused person are made by criminal justice officials at many points of criminal case processing: by the police at arrest, by the prosecutor in charging the crime, by the judge in sentencing, and by parole and corrections officials. Articles pertaining to the prediction of violence committed by adults consider such issues as the legal and ethical limits for prediction; statistical and clinical prediction techniques; prosecutorial diversion; pretrial release and sentencing predictions; and predictions in decisions pertaining to probation, parole, and minimum security. Articles on the prediction of violence committed by juveniles address prediction accuracy, diversion techniques, pretrial decisions, and case dispositions. The articles generally note the inevitability of behavioral predictions in criminal justice decisionmaking, the significant error rate in even the most scientific of predictions, the need for additional research to improve prediction techniques, and the need for guidelines which prevent an undue reliance on prediction when a person's liberty is at stake. Chapter footnotes.
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Nuclear Deterrence, Morality and Realism
John M. Finnis
A rigorous and objective ethical analysis of nuclear deterrence, this book provides a wide-ranging discussion of such important peace issues as possible holocaust, the Soviet menace, and strategic imperatives. The authors also unmask types of deterrence that they perceive as essentially moral evasions. Raising to a new level the moral, political, theological, and strategic debates surrounding deterrence, the volume ultimately concludes that it is an unjustifiable policy.
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Festschrift für Wolfgang Zeidler
Donald P. Kommers
Book Chapter
Donald P. Kommers, Marriage and the Family in American Constitutional Law, in Festschrift für Wolfgang Zeidler 805 (Dieter Umbach ed., 1987)
In the light of Justice Zeidler's professional interest in the subject of marriage and the family under the Bonn Constitution, it seems particularly fitting on this occasion to consider several leading decisions of the United States Supreme Court in this same field. As it is well known, however, the American Constitution, unlike the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany, contains no explicit reference to marriage or family. Yet the Supreme Court has long recognized that the right to marry and raise a family is a fundamental liberty protected by the United States Constitution. The purposes of this short essay are (1) to identify the constitutional basis of this liberty, (2) to consider some of its present-day applications, and (3) to assess the Supreme Court's jurisprudence in the realm of marriage and the family.
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The "Estate Planning" Interviewer
Thomas L. Shaffer
Book Introduction
Professor Shaffer's article The "Estate Planning" Interviewer is the Introduction: Part II, in J.K. Lasser's Estate Tax Techniques on pages INT-25 to INT-51
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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: Cases and Materials
Geoffrey 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 contracts. New cases and materials.
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The University of Notre Dame : A Contemporary Portrait
Robert Schmuhl
Table of Contents:
- Introductory Note ix
- Yesterday and Today 1
- Profile of Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.SC. 18
- Profile of Timothy O'Meara, Provost 28
- The College of Arts and Letters 34
- Profile of Michael J. Loux, Dean 62
- The College of Science 66
- Profile of Francis J. Castellino, Dean 78
- The College of Engineering 82
- Profile of Roger A. Schmitz, Dean 95
- The College of Business Administration 100
- Profile of Frank K. Reilly, Dean 113
- The Law School 116
- Profile of David T. Link, Dean 130
- The Graduate School 133
- Profile of Robert E. Gordon, Vice President 140
- Tomorrow 143
- Acknowledgments and Sources 147
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