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Louisiana Matrimonial Regimes: Cases and Materials
Andrea B. Carroll and Katherin Shaw Spaht
Louisiana Matrimonial Regimes is designed to explore the features of the community property regime, often lauded as one of the most beautiful and significant achievements of the civil law tradition. The community property regime is widely accepted as the marital property regime of choice for an astonishing number of countries, including France, Germany, Spain, Brazil, and countless others. Even on American soil, where the common law tradition has generally been favored over that of the civil law, the community regime has gained significant sway. Nine of our states have rejected the English-inspired marital property regime in favor of the community. This book invites the reader to study the details of Louisiana's regime of patrimonial rights and duties between husband and wife, and also to consider comparisons with the matrimonial regimes of other civilian and Anglo-American systems.
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Moreau Lislet: The Man Behind the Digest of 1808
Alain A. Levasseur and Vicenç Feliú
The Louisiana legal system is unique in the United States and legal scholars have been interested in learning how this situation came to pass. Most assume that the origin of this system is the Code Napoleon and even legal scholars steeped in Louisiana law have a hard time answering the question of the roots of the Louisiana legal system. This book solves the riddle through painstaking research into the life of Lois Moreau Lislet, the driving force behind the Digest of 1808.
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Law and Popular Culture: Text, Notes, and Questions
Christine Corcos, David Ray Papke, Melissa Cole Essig, Peter H. Huang, Lenora P. Ledwon, Diane H. Mazur, Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Philip N. Meyer, and Binny Miller
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The Law of the European Union: Economic Law and Common Policies
Alain A. Levasseur, Richard F. Scott, Arnaud Raynouard, and Melchoir Wathelet
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Labor-Management Relations: Strikes, Lockouts and Boycotts
William Corbett, Douglas E. Ray, and Christopher David Ruiz Cameron
Labor-Management Relations: Strikes, Lockouts and Boycotts, now in a convenient softbound format, covers major labor regulations such as the Labor Management Relations Act and the Norris-LaGuardia Act, as well as the legal prerequisites of a strike. It helps you quickly develop expertise you can bring to the bargaining table in labor/management confrontations.
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Theater Law: Cases and Materials
Christine Corcos, Robert M. Jarvis, Steven E. Chaikelson, Edmund P. Edmonds, Jon M. Garon, Shubha Ghosh, William D. Henslee, Mark S. Kende, Charles A. Palmer, Nancy L. Schultz, Marin R. Scordato, and Libby A. White
Although normally thought of in terms of its creative and artistic values, staging a play or musical involves numerous legal relationships and obligations. Accordingly, this casebook provides the first comprehensive overview of the law governing the theater industry. Among the subjects examined are the history of the theater; the practice of theater law; the creative rights of playwrights; the financial rights of producers and investors; the employment rights of directors, performers, and crew members; and the attendance rights of audiences. While principally concerned with Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, the final two chapters focus on road tours and amateur theater groups.
The casebook's 104 principal readings use the battles fought over some of Broadway's biggest shows to spark student interest and promote classroom discussion. The line-up includes such hits as Annie, Bus Stop, Cats, Guys and Dolls, Jekyll & Hyde, Jesus Christ Superstar, Miss Saigon, My Fair Lady, Rent, South Pacific, The King and I, The Music Man, The Phantom of the Opera, The Producers, The Sound of Music, and Urinetown. Also taking turns are such notable figures as Jackie Mason, Ann Miller, Rosie O'Donnell, Eugene O'Neill, Lynn Redgrave, Neil Simon, Cicely Tyson, and Tennessee Williams.
Supplementing the principal readings are 145 notes, 28 problems, and nine appendices. While the notes and problems help students sharpen their grasp of the underlying concepts, the appendices reproduce the essential contracts used by theater lawyers. Because the chapters have been written in "stand-alone" fashion, instructors are able to rearrange them to fit their interests and time requirements.
Jarvis, Chaikelson, Corcos, Edmonds, Garon, Ghosh, Henslee, Kende, Palmer, Schultz, Scordato, and White have avoided "squib" cases, used both legal and non-legal materials, and included numerous references to secondary sources. The result is a highly-engaging work that supports both survey courses and seminars and fills the gap left by entertainment law casebooks, which tend to focus on movies and television. At the same time, it provides instructors with an opportunity to bolster their students' understanding of such fields as anti-trust law, arbitration, contracts, First Amendment law, labor and employment law, professional responsibility, and torts.
A 168-page teacher's manual walks both new and experienced instructors through the materials, offering detailed analyses, questions to be asked in class, and suggestions for field trips, outside speakers, and extra credit assignments.
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Brown v. Board of Education: Caste, Culture, and the Constitution
Raymond T. Diamond, Robert J. Cottrol, and Leland B. Ware
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Louisiana Civil Law Treatise: Louisiana Criminal Jury Instructions and Procedures
Cheney C. Joseph Jr. and P. Raymond Lamonica
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