The Jerome Hall Law Library attempts to obtain at least two copies of all books authored by the Maurer faculty, one for our general collection and one for the faculty writings collection in our Archives Room. Additionally we collect copies of books authored or edited by others, but containing chapters by Maurer faculty. This digital gallery is just a sample of some of the recent books produced by our faculty. If available, links to electronic versions of the book or chapter are included.
Arrangement is by publication year, then by the last name of the faculty member authoring the publication. Use the search box, in the upper left-hand corner, to find a specific author/title.
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Evidence Law: A Student's Guide to the Law of Evidence as Applied in American Trials, 4ed.
Aviva Orenstein, Roger C. Park, Dale A. Nance, Steven H. Goldberg, and David P. Leonard
In clear and engaging prose that makes concepts accessible without oversimplification, this Treatise explains the Federal Rules, selected state variations, major cases, essential doctrines, and important underlying policies. Frequent practical examples drawn from courtroom practice introduce students to courtroom procedure, provide a context in which evidence problems arise, and acquaint them with the language of the courtroom. This volume can serve as background for beginning students and as a one-stop refresher for those taking advanced courses. Professors can assign various sections to track the syllabus or simply recommend this book as useful background reading.
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Understanding Civil Procedure, 6th edition
Gene R. Shreve, Peter Raven-Hansen, and Charles G. Geyh
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. Finally, they also treat thoroughly the most recent developments in personal jurisdiction and electronic discovery, with special attention to the latest rule changes affecting such discovery.
The resulting treatise is sophisticated, clear, and current, equally accessible and useful to students and practitioners.
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Legal Ethics, Professional Responsibility, and the Legal Profession
Gregory C. Sisk, Susan Saab Fortney, Charles G. Geyh, Neil W. Hamilton, William D. Henderson, Vincent R. Johnson, Stephen L. Pepper, and Melissa H. Weresh
As the legal profession undergoes structural changes, longstanding principles of ethics still govern the day-to-day lives of practicing lawyers. This new Hornbook on professional responsibility provides both a snapshot of ongoing systemic changes and a thorough examination of the fundamentals of lawyer and judicial ethics. As a multi-dimensional work by scholarly experts in several fields, the Hornbook (1) begins with the changing environment in which legal services are provided in the modern economy; (2) continues with a theoretical grounding of legal ethics in moral philosophy; (3) offers empirical evidence and discussion about professional formation and moral development; (4) provides a comprehensive analysis of the law of lawyer ethics; (5) includes a rich discussion of the modern law of legal malpractice, and (6) concludes with exploration of the rules of judicial ethics.
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Ad Hoc Tribunals: Image, Origins, Pathways, Legacies
Timothy W. Waters
Professor Waters' contribution to this volume is chapter 10 "The Ad Hoc Tribunals: Image, Origins, Pathways, Legacies"
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Addressing the Workplace Effects of Intimate Partner Violence
Deborah A. Widiss
Professor Widiss' contribution is titled, "Addressing the Workplace Effects of Intimate Partner Violence."
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Penser le droit a partir de l'individu: Mélanges en l'honneur d'Élisabeth Zoller
Elisabeth Zoller
On the occasion of the retirement of Elisabeth Zoller, tribute must be paid to her talent. Author of remarkable books and articles, she has notably taught international law and comparative constitutional law in the law faculties of Nantes, Angers, Strasbourg, Paris 2 and the United States (Universities of Cornell, Rutgers, Tulane and Indiana-Bloomington).
She also acted as counsel and advocate for the United States Federal Government before the International Court of Justice (notably in the 1971 Interpretation and Application of the 1971 Montreal Convention Case arising from the Lockerbie Air Incident).
From Public International Law (Good Faith in Public International Law, Law of Foreign Relations) to US Law (From Nixon to Clinton, Transatlantic Legal Issues, Great Judgments of the United States Supreme Court, US Law, History presidential government in the United States to name a few), not to mention her textbook on Constitutional Law and that of Introduction to Public Law, her books are unavoidable and have marked generations of students and teacher-researchers .
Whether in her books or numerous articles and chronic, institutional creations(The American Law Center has become the Center of Comparative Public Law at Paris II University - Panthéon-Assas), comparative analysis has never left Elisabeth Zoller, who studies other systems first and foremost to get to know her better.
As has been the case since the teaching of public international law (more exactly, from its course in The Hague in 2002 on the "international aspects of constitutional law"), a very particular problem at a time when The focus was on the state: the right must be thought from the individual. Her colleagues, doctoral students, French and foreign friends offer her this book to show her admiration, respect, gratitude and affection. -
Transnational Law: Cases and Problems in an Interconnected World
Alfred C. Aman and Carol J. Greenhouse
This casebook analyzes legal questions arising from the tensions between global capitalism and national sovereignty. Today, these tensions are manifest across all spheres of law — national and international, as well as new forms of private ordering. We focus on the areas of trade, the environment, labor, human rights, corporate social responsibility, and separation of powers, especially executive power.
The book will be useful to students, scholars, and practitioners. It provides reviews of debates currently shaping the field, as well as extensive notes and references. It is distinctive in that each chapter offers critical and activist perspectives as well as those of the relevant courts or other legal institutions, both to remind readers that law and markets are indelibly interconnected, and that the character of those interconnections is not a given. Further, this is an interdisciplinary account, putting legal analysis in dialogue especially with anthropological studies of law, among other literatures.
Transnational Law is arranged in three parts. Part I (“Governance through treaties and agreements”) considers situations in which states act as parties in treaties and multinational agreements on trade and the environment. Part II (“Governance through codes and contracts”) takes up outsourcing, privatization, and corporate social responsibility as situations in which corporate self-regulation confronts core governmental functions and human rights issues. Part III (“Governance through government”) considers the implications of transnational law for contemporary debates over separation of powers, culminating in a discussion of what we call the transnational executive.
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The Essence of African-American Culture is Resistance Against our Racial Oppression
Kevin D. Brown and Vidya Bhushan Rawat
Professor Brown's contribution to this volume is chapter 21 "The Essence of African-American Culture is Resistance Against our Racial Oppression" as interviewed by volume editor and interviewer Vidya Bhushan Rawat
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Forum Selection in International Contract Litigation: The Role of Judicial Discretion
Hannah L. Buxbaum
Professor Buxbaum's contribution is her 2004 article, originally published in the Willamette Journal of International Law and Dispute Resolution, titled "Forum Selection in International Contract Litigation: The Role of Judicial Discretion"
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Bulk Collection: Systematic Government Access to Private-Sector Data
Fred H. Cate and James X. Dempsey
This book is the culmination of nearly six years of research initiated by Fred Cate and Jim Dempsey to examine national practices and laws regarding systematic government access to personal information held by private-sector companies. Leading an effort sponsored by The Privacy Projects, they commissioned a series of country reports, asking national experts to uncover what they could about government demands on telecommunications providers and other private-sector companies to disclose bulk information about their customers. Their initial research found disturbing indications of systematic access in countries around the world. These data collection programs, often undertaken in the name of national security, were cloaked in secrecy and largely immune from oversight, posing serious threats to personal privacy. After the Snowden leaks confirmed these initial findings, the project morphed into something more ambitious: an effort to explore what should be the rules for government access to private-sector data, and how companies should respond to government demands for access.
This book contains twelve updated country reports plus eleven analytic chapters that present descriptive and normative frameworks for assessing national surveillance laws, survey evolving international law and human rights principles applicable to government surveillance, and describe oversight mechanisms. It also explores the concept of accountability and the role of encryption in shaping the surveillance debate. Cate and Dempsey conclude by offering recommendations for both governments and industry. -
Trade, Commerce, and Employment: the Evolution of the Form and Regulation of the Employment Relationship in Response to the New Information Technology
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt
Professor Dau-Schmidt's contribution is Chapter 43: "Trade, Commerce, and Employment: the Evolution of the Form and Regulation of the Employment Relationship in Response to the New Information Technology."
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The Changing Legal Landscape of Judicial Elections
Charles G. Geyh
Professor Geyh's contribution, chapter 2, is titled "The Changing Legal Landscape of Judicial Elections." It is co-written with Katherine Thrapp.
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A Short & Happy Guide to the Rule: The Little Book on Perpetuities
Donald H. Gjerdingen
Most students view the Rule against Perpetuities as the most difficult rule in law school. Moreover, the Rule is still covered on MBE for Property and MEE for Wills and Trusts and yet few student-centered resources exist. The Little Book on Perpetuities fills this gap. An ideal subject for self-study, this guide covers all key parts of the Rule, including problems for self-testing. It presents the Rule in its historical context but in a fun, engaging, and accessible way that is simple and clear for students to use. It can be used for Property classes, as well as Wills & Trusts and can supplement a casebook or be used as a separate, self-continued unit. Coverage includes: the common-law Rule and all the famous classics traps; modern statutory reforms, including the new generations-based rule by the Restatement Third of Property; recent efforts by some states to abolish the Rule; and the history and policies of the Rule.
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Defining Crimes, 3rd edition
Joseph L. Hoffmann and William J. Stuntz
Defining Crimes, by the distinguished author team of William J. Stuntz (late of Harvard) and Joseph L. Hoffmann (Indiana), breaks from the tradition of Model Penal Code-centric casebooks and focuses instead on the rich intellectual and theoretical issues that arise from how crimes actually get defined and applied today by state and federal legislatures, trial and appellate courts, police, prosecutors, defense lawyers, and juries. The innovative approach of Defining Crimes enables the in-depth study of the problems and issues that affect the day-to-day contemporary practice of criminal law.
New Features:
- New coverage of the controversial issue of police use of deadly force, which—together with the existing section on “stand your ground” laws—facilitates class discussion of the “Black Lives Matter” movement and the shootings of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Eric Garner, among others.
- New chapter on Gun Crimes, including the Supreme Court’s 2016 decision upholding the criminalization of gun ownership for those convicted of domestic violence crimes.
- Updated chapter on Federal Criminal Law, including the Court’s 2016 Elonis decision.
- Updated coverage of criminal cases involving the over-prescription of opoid painkillers and other kinds of prescription medications.
- Updated materials on Rape, incorporating coverage of “yes means yes” laws and policies.
- New and comprehensive student assessment questions, written by the casebook authors, that will be posted to the companion website.
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Non-Obvious Plants
Mark D. Janis
Professor Janis' contribution, chapter 9, is titled, "Non-Obvious Plants."
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Trademark and Unfair Competition in a Nutshell, 2nd edtion
Mark D. Janis
This text provides a comprehensive treatment of the law of trademark, unfair competition, false advertising, and the right of publicity.