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  International Business Transactions: Foreign Investment (Special Break-out edition)

  Ralph H. Folsom, Michael Wallace Gordon, John A. Spanogle Jr., Peter L. Fitzgerald, and Michael P. Van Alstine

  This special break-out edition is adapted from the authors' widely used International Business Transactions: A Problem-Oriented Coursebook, now in its 11th edition (2012). The purpose of this volume is to facilitate a focused study of issues arising out of planning, operating, and terminating foreign investments. After a brief introduction to the conduct of business in the world community, the book uses hypothetical problems to present some of the most typical and important issues arising out of the initiation of a foreign investment, as well as operational, financing, and termination issues. The primary focus is on lawyers as problem solvers .

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  International Trade and Economic Relations in a Nutshell, 5th edition

  Ralph H. Folsom, Michael Wallace Gordon, John A. Spanogle Jr., and Michael P. Van Alstine

  This guide on international trade and investment examines the legal rules governing international trade. Initial chapters deal with the legal and practical environment for multinational enterprises (MNEs) engaged in international trade and investment. The work then analyzes the principal international institutions involved in international trade: the World Trade Organization (WTO) and International Monetary Fund (IMF); the essential rules governing the regulation of international trade, including in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT); the system for dispute resolution within the WTO under its Dispute Settlement Body (DSB); restrictions on, and other regulation of, imports, including tariff rates, customs classification and valuation, and rules of origin; trade remedy responses to import competition; U.S. export controls; regional free trade agreements and customs unions; the governance structure and essential principles of the European Union; and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and free trade in the Americas.

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  International Business Transactions in a Nutshell, 9th edition

  Ralph H. Folsom, Michael Wallace Gordon, John A. Spanogle Jr., and Michael P. Van Alstine

  This guide examines the principal subjects involved in international business and commercial transactions. It includes chapters on the negotiation of business transactions; the international sale of goods; the role of documentary sales; the use of letters of credit; technology transfers; the initiation, operation, and termination of, as well as limitations imposed on, foreign investments; property takings, including remedies for and options for insuring against such actions; the European Union competition rules; and dispute settlement (both through litigation in state courts and through arbitration). It also addresses throughout the special challenges for business transactions in developing and nonmarket economies.

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  International Business Transactions: Trade and Economic Relations (Special Break-out edition)

  Ralph H. Folsom, Michael Wallace Gordon, John H. Spanogle Jr., Peter L. Fitzgerald, and Michael P. Van Alstine

  This is a special break-out edition adapted from the authors' widely used International Business Transactions: A Problem-Oriented Coursebook , 11th. The purpose of this volume is to facilitate a focused study of the law of international trade and economic relations. After a brief introduction to the conduct of business in the world community, the book uses hypothetical problems to present some of the most typical and important issues regarding imports, exports, technology transfers, and dispute settlement in conjunction with related readings and materials. The primary focus is on lawyers, public and private, as problem solvers.

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  International Business Transactions: Contracting Across Borders (Special Break-out edition)

  Ralph H. Folsom, Michael Wallace Gordon, John H. Spanogle Jr., Peter L. Fitzgerald, and Michael P. Van Alstine

  This special break-out edition is adapted from the authors' widely used International Business Transactions: A Problem-Oriented Coursebook , 11th. The purpose of this volume is to facilitate a focused study of the contractual issues arising out of international sales transactions. After a brief introduction to the conduct of business in the world community, the book uses hypothetical problems to present some of the most typical and important contract law issues arising out of international sales transactions and letters of credit in conjunction with related readings and materials. The primary focus is on lawyers, public and private, as problem solvers.

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  Young Thurgood: the Making of a Supreme Court Justice

  Larry S. Gibson

  Many regard Thurgood Marshall as the most important lawyer of the twentieth century. He changed the nation’s legal landscape by challenging the system of racial segregation that had relegated millions of Americans to second-class citizenship. He won twenty-nine of thirty-two arguments before the United States Supreme Court, was a federal appeals court judge, served as the Solicitor General of the United States, and, for twenty-four years, sat on the Supreme Court. In Young Thurgood, law professor Larry S. Gibson tells the story of Marshall’s early years, presenting fresh information about his youth and education and tracing his gradual rise to national prominence. Gibson describes Marshall’s key mentors before he went to law school, the special impact of his participation in competitive debating through high school and college, his struggles during the Great Depression to establish a law practice, and his first civil rights cases.

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  A Troubled Marriage: Domestic Violence and the Legal System

  Leigh S. Goodmark

  The development of a legal regime to combat domestic violence in the United States has been lauded as one of the feminist movement’s greatest triumphs. But, Leigh Goodmark argues, the resulting system is deeply flawed in ways that prevent it from assisting many women subjected to abuse. The current legal response to domestic violence is excessively focused on physical violence; this narrow definition of abuse fails to provide protection from behaviors that are profoundly damaging, including psychological, economic, and reproductive abuse. The system uses mandatory policies that deny women subjected to abuse autonomy and agency, substituting the state’s priorities for women’s goals.

  
  A Troubled Marriage is a provocative exploration of how the legal system’s response to domestic violence developed, why that response is flawed, and what we should do to change it. Goodmark argues for an anti-essentialist system, which would define abuse and allocate power in a manner attentive to the experiences, goals, needs and priorities of individual women. Theoretically rich yet conversational, A Troubled Marriage imagines a legal system based on anti-essentialist principles and suggests ways to look beyond the system to help women find justice and economic stability, engage men in the struggle to end abuse, and develop community accountability for abuse.

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  call number: KF9322 .G65 2012

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  Developing Professional Skills: Business Associations

  Michelle M. Harner

  Incorporating skills training into a traditional Business Associations 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 legal rules and doctrines so that the book can be used on its own or as a supplemental text with any doctrinal casebook. Students are required to spend a manageable one to two hours on such tasks as outlining discussion points for major meetings and negotiations, drafting advisory letters to clients, crafting a demand letter to a board of directors on behalf of shareholders, negotiating indemnification provisions, drafting a certificate of incorporation based on the clients' stated objectives, and developing strategies to manage delicate corporate client communications. 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.

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  Maryland State and County Administrative Law

  Diane O. Leasure and John F. Fader II

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  Environmental Law: Statutory and Case Supplement 2012-2013

  Robert V. Percival and Christopher H. Schroeder

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  Essential Concepts of Business for Lawyers

  Robert J. Rhee

  Accounting and finance cannot be taught through the dense text and format typical of legal casebooks. Mirroring textbooks used at business schools with significant quantities of visuals, Essential Concepts of Business for Lawyers uses many graphical elements, including pictures, charts, diagrams, and tables. Engaging hypotheticals are fun and engaging, but they also illustrate the application of important concepts in business situations. At the end of every chapter, there are three forms of review and summary: Essential Terms, Key Concepts, and Review Questions. The text uses many examples, specially set in example boxes, to illustrate and reinforce difficult concepts. Completely up to the minute, the book features material on important, recent events such as the financial crisis of 2008-2009, the collapse of investment banks, the Bernie Madoff fraud case, and Enron. While this book is not a casebook, it includes edited appellate cases at the end of every chapter. These cases provide essential contextualization, illustrating the legal application of the business concepts presented, and make more concrete the lawyer’s need to understand business. This makes Essential Concepts of Business for Lawyers unique among available books, as the cases connect the unfamiliar (business concepts) with the familiar (case law). Flexibility makes it stand out as well. It can be easily used as a primary text in an independent course on essential business concepts and is the only single book that adequately serves this function. Additionally, this book can be used as a required or recommended supplement in doctrinal business law courses such as business associations, securities regulations, corporate finance, taxation, banking law, financial regulation, and business planning. A Teacher’s Manual accompanies with PowerPoint slides.

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  Injustice on Appeal: the United States Courts of Appeals in Crisis

  William M. Richman and William L. Reynolds

  In Injustice on Appeal: The United States Courts of Appeals in Crisis, William M. Richman and William L. Reynolds chronicle the transformation of the United States Circuit Courts; consider the merits and dangers of continued truncating procedures; catalogue and respond to the array of specious arguments against increasing the size of the judiciary; and consider several ways of reorganizing the circuit courts so that they can dispense traditional high quality appellate justice even as their caseloads and the number of appellate judgeships increase. The work serves as an analytical capstone to the authors' thirty years of research on the issue and will constitute a powerful piece of advocacy for a more responsible and egalitarian approach to caseload glut facing the circuit courts

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  Patent Infringement Remedies, with 2012 Cumulative Supplement

  Lawrence M. Sung

  An accurate determination of patent infringement liability, whether during litigation or as part of pre-litigation risk management and business decision-making, depends not only on the probability of infringement, but also on the exposure to potential damages. Accordingly, a keen understanding of the applicable patent infringement remedies and their quantitative measure is critical to both patent owners and competitors alike to establish an informed calculus of prudent business options in the litigation settlement and litigation avoidance contexts.

  Patent Infringement Remedies is a groundbreaking resource on recovery for patent infringement that includes topical consideration of lost profit determinations; reasonable royalty damages determinations, including the Georgia-Pacific factors to be considered in calculating reasonable royalty; preliminary and permanent injunctions; willful infringement and exceptional case findings; the award of enhanced damages and attorneys' fees; the award of interest and costs; limitations on damages recovery, including the §286 bar and marking; and special remedial provisions.

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  Contemporary Approaches to Trusts and Estates

  Susan N. Gary, Jerome Borison, Naomi R. Cahn, and Paula A. Monopoli

  This book uses cases and statutory materials along with exercises and problems to integrate legal analysis and practice skills. The book can be used in a three- or four-credit course with or without the exercises, and sample syllabi are included in the Teacher’s Manual.

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  Maryland Evidence Courtroom Manual, 2011 edition

  Alan D. Hornstein, Glen Weissenberger, and Andrew D. Levy

  Maryland Evidence Courtroom Manual is the only publication of its kind in Maryland. Written by Alan D. Hornstein and Glen Weissenberger, two of the nation's most respected evidence scholars, and Andrew D. Levy, a partner at Brown, Goldstein & Levy, LLP, handling civil and criminal litigation, this manual incorporates complete coverage of the Maryland Rules of Evidence and Maryland evidence case law.

  Maryland Evidence Courtroom Manual is designed to provide fast, authoritative answers to the evidentiary questions that arise in the course of trials and hearings.

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  Housing and Community Development: Cases and Materials, 4th edition

  James A. Kushner, Charles E. Daye, Peter W. Salsich Jr., Henry W. McGee Jr., W. Dennis Keating, Barbara L. Bezdek, Otto J. Hetzel, Daniel R. Mandelker, and Robert M. Washburn

  The fourth edition of Housing and Community Development presents a fresh and comprehensive look at housing law and policy with full coverage of the foreclosure crisis and its aftermath, exploring housing policies and neighborhood revitalization policies to address the new urban reality. It also discusses the issue of sustainability and the relationship between community development, housing, and climate change. The book contains materials covering housing policy and litigation; tenants’ rights in the private and public spheres; urban redevelopment, including a comprehensive look at Kelo v. New London, including its setting and aftermath; and a completely revised section of the book on neighborhood revitalization and investment. The materials on fair housing and discrimination reflect many recent debates, including school desegregation, affirmative action, subprime and other variations of predatory lending, and other issues touching on race, class, disability, and familial bias.

  The materials are being published at the perfect time to debate the exciting current urban, suburban, and rural issues of housing, transportation, and community development.

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  Environmental Law: Statutory & Case Supplement with Internet Guide, 2011-2012

  Robert V. Percival and Christopher H. Schroeder

  The 2011-2012 Edition:

  • includes the new Supreme Court decision in American Electric Power v. Connecticut.
  • is organized by subject matter, rather than their location in the U.S. Code, this supplement introduces the statutes with detailed outlines that highlight their most important provisions.
  • includes legislative history timelines that trace the evolution of the statutes by explaining when they were enacted and when their most significant amendments were added.
  • explains how to access the rich resources available on the internet for obtaining additional information about various aspects of environmental law and policy.
  • also includes excerpts from judicial decisions in important environmental cases that have been decided during the past several years. This feature enables professors to supplement reading assignments from environmental law casebooks without requiring students to purchase a separate case supplement.

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  Constitutional Limitations on Land Use Controls, Environmental Regulations and Governmental Exactions (2011 edition)

  Garrett Power

  This electronic book is published in a searchable PDF format as a part of the E-scholarship Repository of the University of Maryland School of Law. It is an “open content” casebook intended for classroom use in courses in Land Use Control, Environmental Law and Constitutional Law. It consists of cases carefully selected from the two hundred years of American constitutional history which address the clash between public sovereignty and private property. It considers both the personal right to liberty and the personal right in property. The text consists of non-copyrighted material and readers are free to use it or re-mix it in whole or part. No rights are reserved.

  The readings provide an historical context, and an up-to-date focus on many of the constitutional issues facing today’s Supreme Court: imperium versus dominium; the public trust, inverse condemnation, the navigation servitude, the “regulatory taking” issue; the “navigability” boundary on federal power; the “public use” limitation on eminent domain; the balance between property rights and First Amendment liberties; the “essential nexus” between government prohibition and purpose, and; the fine line between taxation and expropriation.

  The court cases in this work have been grouped into unique individualized "sessions." Most sessions consist of four or five tightly-edited cases, and the related statutes, if any. The materials are intended to be economically, politically and legally evocative and to provide an assignment appropriate for a class hour of discussion.

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  Guardianship and Its Alternatives: a Handbook on Maryland Law

  Virginia Rowthorn and Ellen A. Callegary

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  Medical Device Patents, 2011 edition

  Lawrence M. Sung

  This product addresses the unique aspects of U.S. medical device patents, specifically durable medical equipment, and examines their grant and enforcement. Coverage includes information on prosecution, transfer, and litigation, including settlement. Patents for specific types of devices are addressed. The comprehensive treatment of patents in the medical specialties of orthopedics, cardiovascular disease, dentistry, ophthalmology, radiology, and surgery, among others, is a useful resource for readers, whether they seek competitive business insight or are curious about the history of medical technology development

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  Patent Law Handbook, 2011-2012 edition

  Lawrence M. Sung and Jeff E. Schwartz

  Helps attorneys discern what the courts may find, while providing immediate access to current law. Also alerts attorneys to new developments in the law and how they may impact an individual practice. Easy access to information on validity; inequitable conduct; defenses and counterclaims; infringement; willful infringement; remedies; appeal; pretrial and trial issues; Patent Office proceedings; licensing; patent proceedings in other forms, including ITC proceedings and claims court. Also analyzes Federal Circuit’s approach to statutory subject matter as it relates to computer software, its decision clarifying the role of judges and juries in interpreting claims, and its holdings in other opinions.

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  Teacher's Manual to Problems in Tax Ethics

  Donald B. Tobin, Richard Lavoie, and Richard Trogolo

  Teacher's Manual to accompany Problems in Tax Ethics.

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  United Nations Reform and the New Collective Security

  Peter G. Danchin and Horst Fischer

  In 2004, the Report of the Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change emphasised the linkages between economic development, security and human rights, and the imperative in the twenty-first century of collective action and cooperation between States. In a world deeply divided by differences of power, wealth, culture and ideology, central questions today in international law and organisation are whether reaffirmation of the concept of collective security and a workable consensus on the means of its realisation are possible. In addressing these questions, this book considers the three key documents in the recent UN reform process: the High-Level Panel report, the Secretary-General's In Larger Freedom report and the 2005 World Summit Outcome document. The chapters examine the responsibilities, commitments, strategies and institutions necessary for collective security to function both in practice and as a normative ideal in international law and relations between state and non-state actors alike.

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  Family Law: Cases, Text, Problems, 5th edition

  Ira Mark Ellman, Paul M. Kurtz, Lois A. Weithorn, Brian Bix, Karen Czapanskiy, and Maxine Eichner

  Family law is an interdisciplinary area, and the materials in this work reflect the numerous disciplines influencing this field of law. This book is policy-oriented, with non-legal social science featured in the extensive note materials to provide a rich and varied learning experience and a practice resource tool. Notes do more than call attention to difficult questions of legal doctrine and policy; they illuminate them.

  The authors use a problem approach throughout, in addition to comprehensive case law sources. Problems provide an ideal mechanism for students to acquire the ability to apply legal rules to concrete fact patterns.

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  Suing the Tobacco and Lead Pigment Industries: Government Litigation as Public Health Prescription

  Donald G. Gifford

  In Suing the Tobacco and Lead Pigment Industries, legal scholar Donald G. Gifford recounts the transformation of tort litigation in response to the challenge posed by victims of 21st-century public health crises who seek compensation from the product manufacturers. Class action litigation promised a strategy for documenting collective harm, but an increasingly conservative judicial and political climate limited this strategy. Then, in 1995, Mississippi attorney general Mike Moore initiated a parens patriae action on behalf of the state against cigarette manufacturers. Forty-five other states soon filed public product liability actions, seeking both compensation for the funds spent on public health crises and the regulation of harmful products.

  Gifford finds that courts, through their refusal to expand traditional tort claims, have resisted litigation as a solution to product-caused public health problems. Even if the government were to prevail, the remedy in such litigation is unlikely to be effective. Gifford warns, furthermore, that by shifting the powers to regulate products and to remediate public health problems from the legislature to the state attorney general, parens patriae litigation raises concerns about the appropriate allocation of powers among the branches of government.