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Louisiana Law of Contracts and Quasi-Contracts: A Précis
Alain A. Levasseur and Nikolaos A. Davrados
This new Précis replaces the previous Louisiana Law of Conventional Obligations. With a sharpened focus and clear, concise language, Louisiana Law of Contracts and Quasi-Contracts makes the law and doctrine surrounding this complex legal concept easily accessible to legal practitioners and students alike. The reader is introduced to the civil law methodology through a straightforward analysis by preeminent legal scholars in the civil law, with illustrative examples that clarify both how the law works in a practical way, and why.
Features include a new section covering the area of quasi-contracts; appendices with all the pertinent articles from the Civil Code and Code of Civil Procedure; appendix of illustrative cases for each chapter covered; and a convenient and portable softbound format.
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Louisiana Law of Obligations in General: A Précis
Alain A. Levasseur and Nikolaos A. Davrados
The fifth edition of Louisiana Law of Obligations in General, A Précis is a student edition of a comprehensive treatise with the same title. The treatise and the student version are the only existing resources available on the market offering an all-inclusive, doctrinal, and practical explanation of this fundamental subject matter. In addition, the reader will be introduced to the civil law methodology in which, according to Roscoe Pound, "the civilian is at his best in interpreting, developing, and applying written texts."
Although written with students in mind, this Précis is also an ideal resource for legal professionals, judges, and lawyers. The language used is concise and straightforward, but technical where necessary, making this book an easily accessible and effective tool for quick study or as a reference.
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Louisiana Civil Jury Instruction Companion Handbook
Andrea B. Carroll
Louisiana Civil Jury Instruction Companion Handbook provides a convenient, portable, and substantive source of jury instructions for Louisiana civil cases. Designed to complement the Civil Law Treatise Series generally and volume 18 (Civil Jury Instructions) of that set specifically, it assists the practitioner in framing the issues at an early point in a case. This title includes comments on many instructions given in a broad array of cases, while offering valuable insight into why particular instructions are both appropriate and consistent with a client's theory of the case. This title also:
• Includes extensive author commentary
• Provides a balance of convenient accessibility and substantive content
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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 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. The authors provide details on:
• The distinction between unfair labor practice and economic strikes
• How to handle employer interference and discrimination
• Reinstatement rights of strikers
• Strike misconduct and violence
• Identifying the neutral employer
• New decisions of the NLRB
• Related issues that typically arise as a result of a strike
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Louisiana Children's Code Handbook
Jack Harrison
Louisiana Children's Code Handbook provides access to the entire Louisiana Children's Code in one convenient softbound volume. Written by the author of the Handbook on Louisiana Family Law and the primary drafters of the Children's Code, this title includes insightful commentary and information regarding federal and state constitutional decisions that override the Children's Code. Also included is an integrated discussion of procedures that can only be discerned by studying the entire Code, as well as authors' notes regarding:
- History and source of the provision
- Commentary on proper interpretation of the articles
- Caselaw
- Overriding constitutional decisions
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Intellectual Property: Cases and Materials
Lee Ann Lockridge, Mary LaFrance, and Gary Myers
This revised and thoroughly updated Sixth Edition covers significant legislative and judicial developments through August 2022. The authors include new material without overburdening the student or instructor with longer readings by streamlining certain case excerpts, being more selective in some instances, and making judicious use of notes in other areas. Organization follows the earlier pattern of introduction, trademark, right of publicity, trade secret, idea protection, patent, copyright law, and preemption. A combination of central coverage, optional extensions, and cross-references to related material and concepts throughout the book provides instructors the flexibility to use the book in connection with a variety of courses.
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Personal Genome Medicine: The Legal and Regulatory Transformation of US Medicine
Michael J. Malinowski
In the years following FDA approval of direct-to-consumer, genetic-health-risk testing, millions of people in the United States have sent their DNA to companies to receive personal genetic health risk information without physician or other learned medical professional involvement. In Personal Genome Medicine, Michael J. Malinowski examines the ethical, legal, and social implications of this development. Drawing from the past and present of medicine in the U.S., Malinowski applies law, policy, public and private sector practices, and governing norms to analyze the commercial personal genome sequencing and testing sectors and to assess their impact on the future of U.S. medicine. Written in relatable and accessible language, the book also proposes regulatory reforms for government and medical professionals that will enable technological advancements while maintaining personal and public health standards.
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Admiralty in a Nutshell
Thomas C. Galligan Jr., Frank L. Maraist, Dean A. Sutherland, and Sara B. Kuebel
Addresses maritime tort law, collision law, worker injury claims, wrongful death, and platform injuries. Explores maritime property liens and the seaman’s employment contract, wages, and compromise of claims. Discusses marine insurance, towage and pilotage, salvage, and general average. Also covers sovereign immunity; joint and several liability, indemnity, and contribution; liability limitations; and jurisdiction and procedure in maritime claims.
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Cases and Materials on Maritime Law
Thomas C. Galligan Jr., Frank L. Maraist, Dean Sutherland, and Sarah Kuebel
The fourth edition of this law school casebook, like the first three, focuses on modern admiralty practice. The selected cases and materials discuss current issues faced by a maritime lawyer, in addition to the historical bases and evolution of those issues. This fourth edition includes new and significant cases, including maritime contracts, seaman status, and punitive damages.
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The Law of Oil and Gas: Cases and Materials
Keith B. Hall, Patrick H. Martin, Bruce M. Kramer, Tara K. Righetti, and Joseph A. Schremmer
This is a detailed and informed casebook examining major aspects of property, contract, conservation, and environmental law governing oil and gas exploration and development. It provides original text and explanatory materials. The appendices include sample forms and a Glossary of Oil and Gas Terms new to this edition. Chapter titles discuss: A Brief Introduction to the Scientific and Engineering Background of Oil and Gas Law; The Nature and Protection of Interests in Oil and Gas; The Oil and Gas Lease—A Close Look at Its More Important Clauses; Covenants Implied in Oil and Gas Leases; Title and Conveyancing Problems Arising From Transfers by Fee Owners and Lessors; Transfers Subsequent to a Lease; Pooling and Unitization; Public Lands; Federal Environmental Regulation of The Oil and Gas Industry; and State and Local Oil and Gas Regulation.
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Louisiana Legislative Law and Procedure Companion Handbook
P. Raymond Lamonica and Jerry G. Jones
Revised annually, Louisiana Legislative Law and Procedure Companion Handbook is designed for judges, lawyers, and even nonlawyers who require an understanding of the legislative process in Louisiana. Lobbyists and others who seek to either promote or influence legislation will benefit from the treatment of topics such as:
• Critical constitutional requirements
• Filing requirements and deadlines
• Committee procedures
• Statutory construction
• Related matters that are part of the legislative process but not addressed in law school or any other publication
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Louisiana Criminal Jury Instructions and Procedures Companion Handbook
P. Raymond Lamonica and Cheney C. Joseph Jr.
This handbook is designed to coordinate with volume 17 of the Louisiana Civil Law Treatise Series, Criminal Jury Instructions and Procedures. While primarily intended as a quick reference or use at trial, it is equally useful as a legal research reference for lawyers preparing for litigation and trial. In addition, attorneys and others involved in drafting proposed legislation will find it invaluable. It includes extensive commentary and analysis and, where appropriate, references to the coordinating treatise volume. In also provides a useful guide for law enforcement officers when they need clarification regarding the elements of various offenses.
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Comparative Perspectives on Law and Language
Olivier Moreteau and Agustín Parise
Law finds its roots in human experience and its expression in language. It cannot be administered, studied or taught without the instrumentality of language. The focus on language enlarges and deepens comparative studies. This volume features a wide array of comparative perspectives encompassing Law and Language, inviting readers to deepen their understanding of their many interactions, casting new lights that benefit jurists and linguists alike. It invites to interdisciplinary collaboration, focusing on the centrality of language in law making, solving legal problems and making sense of the law. This volume displays a variety of approaches to Law and Language, moving from traditional to renewed doctrinal approaches, including case studies and empirical exercises. The chapters move across jurisdictions and time periods, from preconceived ideas to calls for change. This volume takes an innovative and interdisciplinary approach embracing a variety of prisms: translation studies, comparative law, legal history, jurilinguistics, and legal education, to name a few. It is an indispensable companion for anyone interested in these disciplines. About the Maastricht Law Series: Created in 2018 by Boom juridisch and Eleven in association with the Maastricht University Faculty of Law, the Maastricht Law Series publishes books on comparative, European and International law. The series builds upon the tradition of excellence in research at the Maastricht Faculty of Law, its research centers and the Ius Commune Research School. The Maastricht Law Series is a peer reviewed book series that allows researchers an excellent opportunity to showcase their work.
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Louisiana Law of Successions and Donations, A Precis
Elizabeth Carter
The latest volume of the Louisiana: A Précis series covers Titles I and II of Book III of the Louisiana Civil Code: Successions and Donations. The Précis format provides direct and practical explanations of the law in Professor Carter's characteristically user-friendly style. Coverage includes the division between probate and non-probate property, testate and intestate successions, and inter vivos donations. Attention is also given to applicable conflict of laws considerations and comparative law issues.
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Intellectual Property: Cases and Materials
Lee Ann Lockridge, Mary LaFrance, Gary Myers, and David L. Lange
This revised and thoroughly updated Fifth Edition (formerly Lange, LaFrance, Myers, and Lockridge's Intellectual Property casebook) includes all significant legislative and judicial developments through March 2018. The existing materials were streamlined (and in some areas restructured) to provide space for extensive updates on new topics and recent developments without notably lengthening the book. The book covers central issues with appropriate depth and breadth and contains optional extensions into additional topics; as a result, it gives professors the flexibility to use the book in connection with a variety of IP courses and to choose the areas they wish to emphasize.
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The Law of Oil and Gas: Cases and Materials
Keith B. Hall, Patrick H. Martin, Bruce M. Kramer, and Alex Ritchie
This is a detailed and informed casebook examining major aspects of property, contract, conservation, and environmental law governing oil and gas exploration and development. It provides original text and explanatory materials. The appendices include sample forms.
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Louisiana Civil Code with Official Legislative Commentary: 2016 Student Edition
Melissa T. Lonegrass
This statutory compilation is an essential text for any course on the Louisiana civil law. The Louisiana Civil Code: Student Edition contains the official text of the Louisiana Civil Code of 1870, complete with revisions and amendments through the 2015 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature, as well as the official legislative commentary.
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Handbook on Biotechnology Law, Business, and Policy: Human Health Products from the Laboratory Bench to Market Approvals
Michael J. Malinowski
This book offers readers access to a baseline of ‘critical mass’ knowledge in commercial biotech research and development (“R&D”). The clear, concise coverage spans from laboratory bench research to regulatory market approvals for a range of the primary biotech human health products. The discussion includes coverage of the advent of biologics, products derived from living organisms to treat life-threatening and otherwise seriously debilitating diseases, including a range of cancers and Hepatitis C, but at tremendous costs in both development and the delivery of care.
This book is an invaluable reference resource for law, business, and medical school educators and students; biopharmaceutical executives; investors in the field; university and other research institution professionals, such as technology transfer administrators; research scientists; regulators; and the general public with interest in the enormous economic and human health impact of biotechnology. -
Cases and Materials on Maritime Law
Frank L. Maraist, Thomas C. Galligan Jr., Catherine M. Maraist, and Dean A. Sutherland
The third edition of this law school casebook, like the first two, focuses on modern admiralty practice. The selected cases and materials discuss current issues faced by a maritime law yer, in addition to the historical bases of those issues. This third edition includes new and significant cases decided since the second edition was published, including cases affecting vessel status, maritime contracts and punitive damages. Pedagogically, all relevant materials are included in this one volume. The relevant statutes are placed along with the key cases in the text, so the students need only flip a page or so to get to the relevant statute. For context, a conversion chart of Title 46 is provided in an appendix. The order of the materials in this edition have been rearranged to facilitate its use either in a shorter maritime personal injury/wrongful death course or in a full admiralty law survey course. The first ten chapters focus on admiralty jurisdiction as well as maritime personal injury and wrongful death law. The following chapters cover other aspects of maritime law, including charter parties, cargo law, maritime liens, collision, tugs, towage and pilotage, marine insurance, limitation of liability, sovereign immunity, salvage, choice of law, as well as maritime jurisdiction and procedure.
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Natural Resources Law: Private Rights and Public Interest
Blake Hudson, Eric Freyfogle, and Michael Blumm
This casebook offers a view of natural resources law rich in history, yet exposing students to the complexities of practicing natural resources law in the 21st century. Given that the focus of most Natural Resources Law casebooks is public lands and public law (often at the federal level), this casebook is unique in its primary focus on natural resource conflicts on private lands and its significant focus on private law (though public law is also a focus). While we include chapters on federal public lands and areas of federal primacy like wetlands regulation and endangered species protection, our focus is largely on natural resources law in states that are not dominated by federal public lands, since sixty percent of the land in the United States is privately owned. We therefore think the book is especially appropriate for students in states east of the 100th meridian.
Although we address particular resources separately -- including private and public rights in waterways (including the public trust doctrine), wetlands, wildlife, water, minerals, forests, grazing, recreation, and renewable resources -- we draw frequent comparisons of the law's treatment of natural resources to allow students to analyze the consistency or inconsistency of natural resources law across diverse subject areas. For example, with some regularity we offer comparisons of those natural resources that are allocated on a first-in-time principle as opposed to those dispensed according to notions of reasonable use. We also compare management regimes throughout, including non-governmental decision making.
We make an effort to build on the students' studies of common law doctrines like trespass, nuisance, and servitude law to show how they influence the use, development, and preservation of natural resources. The question of development vs. preservation is a persistent issue, and the constitutional takings issue is another repeated theme. -
Speeches
Paul R. Baier
The book tells the story of Eldon Fallon's invitation to Professor Baier to become the first Scholar-in-Residence of the LBF. Thereafter, the reader listens anew to our first Scholar-in-Residence's oration unveiling the Rosenthal Portrait of Chief Justice Edward Douglas White and to his speech "Time and the Court," on the occasion of the Bicentennial of the Supreme Court of the United States. Vibrant verbal portraits of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Judge Albert Tate, Jr., and other jurists fill the book. Stage appearances at the Library of Congress and the Social Law Library, Boston, add teasing drama to the book. Of these speeches, Justice Blackmun writes "They range from intense verbal portraits of jurists the author has admired-with fine and peppery doses of Holmes and Scalia-to serious detailed reviews of the work of the Supreme Court at critical points." Judge Eldon Fallon adds: "Professor Baier knows his history. He has a way with words. His speeches, like Holmes's before him, touch hearts."
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