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Playing in the Sandbox is a practical guide for the soon-to-be and new lawyer, outlining the situations they will likely encounter during their legal career. Charles J. Goldman is an experienced attorney who presents each topic in an easy-to-read and engaging manner. The information that he provides...

This study is not written from the narrow perspective of “Who gets the oil?” It is a thoughtful probing of an issue—the ownership and control of the submerged soils of the marginal sea—the outcome of which may go far to determine the division of powers between states and nation under the American...

This collection presents and analyzes inquest records that tell the stories of ordinary Korean people under the Choson court (1392-1910). Extending the study of this period, usually limited to elites, into the realm of everyday life, each inquest record includes a detailed postmortem examination and...

“How much is this going to cost me” — a question every client asks and every lawyer answers during the course of every litigated matter. Yet one of law’s persistent mysteries is how to accurately estimate the attorneys’ fees necessary to resolve a particular dispute.But accurate estimates...

This book is an easy-to-understand guide to the personal injury process in the United States for anyone injured through the action, or failure to act, of another, or anyone simply interested in PI cases. It contains a wealth of information about personal injury claims, including medical malpractice...

Exam Board: OCR Level: A-level Subject: Law First Teaching: September 2017 First Exam: June 2018 This student book is an OCR endorsed textbook. Accurately cover the breadth of content in the new 2017 OCR AS and A Level specifications with this textbook written by leading A Level Law...

Torts--personal injury law--is a fundamental yet controversial part of our legal system. The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Torts provides a clear and comprehensive account of what tort law is, how it works, what it stands to accomplish, and why it is now much-disputed. Goldberg and Zipursky--two...

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JOIN OVER HALF A MILLION STUDENTS WHO CHOSE TO REVISE WITH LAW EXPRESS   Revise with the help of the UK’s bestselling law revision series.     Features: ·    Review essential cases, statutes, and legal terms before exams. ·    Assess and...

Robert Dingwall and Philip Lewis’s renowned compilation of diverse studies—written by internationally recognized theorists and empirical researchers into the sociology of the professions—was groundbreaking when first published in 1983 and has influenced scholars, practitioners, and professionals...

Universally considered to be pathbreaking, landmark, original, and provocative since its first edition was published three decades ago, WOMEN IN LAW continues to provide a sociological and historical analysis of the overt and subtle ceilings placed on women in the legal profession in their various...

In a pioneering study of childhood in colonial Spanish America, Bianca Premo examines the lives of youths in the homes, schools, and institutions of the capital city of Lima, Peru. Situating these young lives within the framework of law and intellectual history from 1650 to 1820, Premo brings to light...

Until very recently, U.S. manufacturing had been in decline for more than a generation. The great manufacturing juggernaut that defined the country from around the middle of the 19th century until the last quarter of the 20th became a dim memory.But that’s changing. Manufacturing is on the rebound,...

The organized theft of fine art by Nazi Germany has captivated worldwide attention in the last twenty years. As much as any other topic arising out of World War Two, stolen art has proven to be an issue that simply will not go away. Newly found works of art pit survivors and their heirs against museums,...