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Provides an up-to-date foundation for understanding environmental law. Expert text includes coverage of the full range of environmental issues, from climate change and air pollution, to waste disposal and wetlands. Surveys the many statutory and common-law regulations shaping the world in which we live.

Presents an introduction to basic concepts and techniques of estate planning. Subjects covered include transfers of property at death by will or intestacy; inter vivos gifts; survivor interests; revocable and irrevocable trusts; community property; retirement, disability and death benefits; and fiduciary administration.

Provides authoritative coverage of the legal rules that govern the development of privately owned mineral rights in the United States, which often also apply to government-owned resources. The book covers topics such as the nature, protection, and conveyance of oil and gas rights, leasing, and taxation.

Provides an explanation of the rules that govern the legal relations between landlords and tenants. The book describes the exceptions to these rules and explores the underlying reasons for them. It also reviews the creation, duration, and termination of tenancies; termination of leases before expiration; repairs and improvements; extensions, renewals, and purchase options; and rent and security.

Authors Michael Davis and Harvard professor Arthur Miller provide authoritative coverage on the foundations of patents, trademarks, and copyright laws. The text includes authoritative treatment of all relevant doctrines and the latest statutory and judicial changes. It further addresses relevant torts, property, antitrust, regulatory, and federalism intersections with intellectual property law.

Provides the leading in-depth summary of historic preservation law within its local, state, tribal, federal, and international contexts. This book covers the primary federal statutes, and many facets of state statutes, dealing with the protection and preservation of historic resources.

A people-skills book for new lawyers, law students, paralegals, and pre-law students. This Nutshell dentifies skills lawyers need; and addresses getting practical lawyering skills and help you need - on the job and in law school. It also includes chapters on emotional intelligence, diversity, meetings, managing research assignments, meeting with clients, and working with your supervisor.

Summarises the marital property laws dealing with creation, management and termination of community property in nine states (Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin). The book also includes coverage of community option states (Alaska and Tennessee).

The law of hazardous wastes and toxic substances is a specialized field involving the overlap of federal and state statutes, science, economics, and public policy. This text covers the regulation of the production, sale, use, and disposal of toxic substances, ranging from pesticides to chemicals to genetically-engineered animals.

Covers both the substantive and procedural law of capital cases, along with relevant history, jurisprudence and constitutional law. This volume addresses international issues, the complex role of defense counsel, systemic bias, and execution of the innocent. Statutory and case law, as well as all relevant data, are current as of mid-2016.

Provides a ten-step guide to clear, precise, and effective legal writing and analysis for both law students and experienced lawyers. This book gives the keys to writing legal memoranda and briefs, organising analysis, crafting clear and concise sentences, using legal language accurately, using grammar and punctuation properly, and writing persuasively using classical rhetorical techniques.

Written by experts in the field, this Nutshell offers insight on establishing professional relationships and examines negligence-based claims, intentional torts, causation, damages, affirmative defenses, limitations, immunities, and liabilities. It also provides an overview of medical care liability issues affecting hospitals and managed care organizations.

A short, funny, insightful, and occasionally philosophical guide to what you'll need to know when planning and conducting trials, interviewing and counselling clients, negotiating cases and drafting deals, writing briefs and making oral arguments, solving problems and telling stories, and using your computer to make you a better lawyer.

Briefly reviews the historical roots of privacy, and then examines each of these US privacy statutes and regulations. The US follows a sectoral approach to privacy, whereby Congress responds to each privacy "crisis" with a new statute and set of regulations. This Privacy Nutshell is an excellent introductory guide to the legal privacy world.