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  Understanding Civil Procedure, The California Edition

  Charles G. Geyh, Gene R. Shreve, Walter W. Heiser, and Peter Raven Hansen

  The California edition expands the latest edition of the well-established treatise Understanding Civil Procedure to explore California's unique approach. Each chapter begins with the federal doctrine, followed by a section on how California approaches the topic. The book is primarily intended as a reference for law school civil procedure students in California. However, its treatment of recent developments may make it useful to some practitioners as well.

  The treatise is premised on the assumption that the key to understanding the principles of civil procedure is to know why: why the principles were created and why they are invoked. The treatise is written to answer these questions as it lays out the basic principles of civil procedure. It also reflects the authors' belief that students of civil procedure can understand and appreciate complex principles when they are clearly presented; teaching civil procedure does not require dumbing it down. Although they discuss important civil procedure cases in the text, thus supporting the most widely used civil procedure casebooks using these same cases, they also provide useful references to secondary sources and illustrative cases for the reader who wants to explore further.

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  Understanding Civil Procedure, 5th ed.

  Charles G. Geyh, Gene R. Shreve, and Peter Raven-Hansen

  This well-established treatise is premised on the assumption that the key to understanding the principles of civil procedure is to know why: why the principles were created and why they are invoked. The treatise is written to answer these questions as it lays out the basic principles of civil procedure. It also reflects the authors' belief that students of civil procedure can understand and appreciate complex principles when they are clearly presented; teaching civil procedure does not require dumbing it down.

  The authors use the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as a model, but they also refer to different state rules and doctrines where appropriate in order to present a representative cross-section of state models. Although they discuss important civil procedure cases in the text, thus supporting the most widely used civil procedure casebooks using these same cases, they also provide useful references to secondary sources and illustrative cases for the reader who wants to explore further.

  Part of the LexisNexis Understanding Series.

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  Trademark and Unfair Competition in a Nutshell

  Mark D. Janis

  This text provides a comprehensive treatment of trademark, unfair competition, and related areas, with international and Internet issues integrated throughout.

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  Exceptional or Not? An Examination of India's Special Courts in the National Security Context

  Jayanth K. Krishnan

  Professor Krishnan's contribution, co-written with Viplav Sharma, is titled "Exceptional or Not? An Examination of India's Special Courts in the National Security Context."

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  Quasi-Patents and Semi-Patens in Biobanking

  Michael Mattioli

  Professor Mattioli's contribution, co-written with Gideon Parchomovsky, is titled "Quasi-Patents and Semi-Patens in Biobanking."

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  From Seligman to Shoup: The Early Columbia School of Taxation and Development

  Ajay K. Mehrotra

  Professor Mehrotra's contribution, chapter 2, is entitled, "From Seligman to Shoup: The Early Columbia School of Taxation and Development."

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  Making the Modern American Fiscal State: Law, Politics, and the Rise of Progressive Taxation, 1877-1929

  Ajay K. Mehrotra

  At the turn of the twentieth century, the US system of public finance underwent a dramatic transformation. The late nineteenth-century regime of indirect, hidden, partisan, and regressive taxes was eclipsed in the early twentieth century by a direct, transparent, professionally administered, and progressive tax system. In Making the American Fiscal State, Ajay K. Mehrotra uncovers the contested roots and paradoxical consequences of this fundamental shift in American tax law and policy. He argues that the move toward a regime of direct and graduated taxation marked the emergence of a new fiscal polity - a new form of statecraft that was guided not simply by the functional need for greater revenue but by broader social concerns about economic justice, civic identity, bureaucratic capacity, and public power. Between the end of Reconstruction and the onset of the Great Depression, the intellectual, legal, and administrative foundations of the modern fiscal state first took shape. This book explains how and why this new fiscal polity came to be.

  First comprehensive history of the fundamental transformation in American public finance that has given us our current US tax system.

  Explores national, state and local efforts at fundamental tax reform at the turn of the twentieth century.

  Uses tax law and policy as a vehicle to understand the historical significance of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

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  Advancing Technology & Aging Democracy

  Joseph A. Tomain

  Professor Tomain's contribution is titled, "Advancing Technology & Aging Democracy."

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  Skills & Values: Administrative Law

  Alfred C. Aman

  Skills & Values: Administrative Law allows students to experience the connection among theory, doctrine, and practice in administrative law. The exercises provide an opportunity for studying concepts from the perspective of a practicing attorney who must not only know the law, but also employ lawyering skills and values - such as legal strategy, factual development, advocacy, counseling, drafting, problem solving, and ethical principles - in zealously representing a client.

  Each chapter in Skills & Values: Administrative Law addresses a specific topic covered in most administrative law school courses. The chapters begin with an introduction to help bridge the gap between the actual practice of law and the doctrine and theory studied in class. Students will then have the opportunity to engage in active, "hands-on" learning by working through a stand-alone exercise that simulates a real-life legal dilemma. The exercises are as authentic as possible, incorporating materials such as legal pleadings, motions, correspondence, judicial opinions, statutes, discovery materials, and deposition excerpts. The self-assessment tool included at the end of each chapter suggests ways that a practicing attorney might have approached each exercise. It is not meant to provide "the answer," but to identify issues and strategies students should have considered in order to effectively represent a client.

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  Jurisdiction and Choice of Law in International Antitrust Law – A US Perspective

  Hannah L. Buxbaum

  Professor Buxbaum's contribution, chapter 10, is titled "Jurisdiction and Choice of Law in International Antitrust Law – A US Perspective."

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  Government Data Mining

  Fred H. Cate

  Professor Cate's contribution, chapter 48, is titled "Government Data Mining."

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  "The Variety of Property Systems and Rights in Natural Resources" and "Property Creation by Regulation: Rights to Clean Air and Rights to Pollute"

  Daniel H. Cole

  Professor Cole (and Elinor Ostrom) co-authored the Introduction of the book, along with chapter 2, titled "The Variety of Property Systems and Rights in Natural Resources." Additionally, Professor Cole contributed chapter 5, titled "Property Creation by Regulation: Rights to Clean Air and Rights to Pollute."

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  Religion, Government, and Law in the Contemporary United States

  Daniel O. Conkle

  Professor Conkle's contribution, chapter 31 in Volume 3, is titled "Religion, Government, and Law in the Contemporary United States."

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  Legal Ethics in the Digital Age

  Susan David deMaine, Andrew R. Falk, Catherine A. Lemmer, and Cheryl L. Niemeier

  Ms. deMaine's contribution to the seminar is: "Legal Ethics in the Digital Age"

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  Adaptive Management

  Robert L. Fischman

  Professor Fischman's contribution, co-written with Jillian R. Roundtree, is titled "Adaptive Management."

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  Interfaces in Plant Intellectual Property

  Mark D. Janis

  Professor Janis's contribution, chapter 4, is titled "Interfaces in Plant Intellectual Property".