Books from Thomson/West

  • Local Government Law
    By David J. Barron, Gerald E. Frug, Richard Thompson Ford

    The legal issues facing city government change rapidly in the United States, and Cases and Materials on Local Government Law, Fourth Edition updates material throughout the book to reflect the...

  • The Modern Law of Contracts
    By Bruce W. Frier, James J. White

    This contracts casebook includes introductions that quickly orient students within unfamiliar territories. Cases present both the doctrine applied and, in some instances, the shortcomings of that doctrine. the authors express...

  • Legal Drafting: Process, Techniques, and Exercises
    By Thomas R. Haggard, George W. Kuney

    This text provides a comprehensive and flexible teaching instrument for any course in legal drafting. It contains text, examples, and exercises that deal with both contract and statutory drafting-making the...

  • Legal Drafting in a Nutshell
    By Thomas R. Haggard, George W. Kuney

    This product provides guidance on producing transactional documents, contracts, instruments, legislation, and regulations that solve existing problems and prevent future problems. It provides both a large-scale, macro overview of the...

  • Cases and Materials on Advanced Torts: Economic and Dignitary Torts : Business, Commercial, and Intangible Harms
    By Dan B. Dobbs, Ellen M. Bublick

    This advanced torts casebook covers all the major business and dignitary torts, including defamation, privacy invasions, disparagement, bad faith breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, conversion of economic values,...

  • E-commerce, the Internet and the Law: Cases and Materials
    By Richard Warner, Graeme B. Dinwoodie, Harold J. Krent

    Cases and Materials on E-Commerce, The Internet, and the Law offers comprehensive coverage of Internet and e-commerce law. Combining the knowledge of four expert authors, it covers contracting, jurisdiction, copyright,...

  • West's Business Law: Alternate Edition : Text Summarized Cases Legal, Ethical, International, and E-commerce Environment
    By Roger LeRoy Miller, Frank B. Cross, Gaylord A. Jentz

    West's Business Law: Alternate Edition : Text Summarized Cases Legal, Ethical, International, and E-commerce Environment

  • Entertainment Law in a Nutshell
    By Sherri Burr

    Entertainment Law in a Nutshell

  • Federal Estate and Gift Taxation
    By Boris I. Bittker, Elias Clark, Grayson M. P. McCouch

    This book is a leader in the field, and as the new publisher we can assure loyal adopters that the basic structure, style and approach of the book remains essentially...

  • Black's Law Dictionary
    By Bryan A. Garner, Henry Campbell Black

    How the City of London Works presents a simple, straightforward explanation of the City, how it works and how it is regulated. Diagrams, maps and illustrations have been included throughout...

  • Cases and Materials on Admiralty
    By Nicholas J. Healy, David J. Sharpe, David B. Sharpe

    Although designed to work with Healy, Sharpe, and Sharpe's Cases on Admiralty, Handbook of Maritime Laws and Forms can be used with any admiralty casebook. This handbook reprints portions of:...

  • Intellectual Property: The Law of Copyrights, Patents, and Trademarks
    By Roger E. Schechter, John R. Thomas

    This work provides a comprehensive treatment of all three major branches of intellectual property law, surveying basic principles and emerging issues. The book summarizes what is clear, identifies what is...

  • Anti-terrorism and Criminal Enforcement
    By Norman Abrams

    This abridged edition addresses the developing body of anti-terrorism law, with emphasis on the criminal enforcement process and how that process is affected by the government's concept of a "war"...

  • Disability, Civil Rights Law, and Policy: Cases and Materials
    By Peter David Blanck

    This casebook examines the development of disability rights law and policy in the United States and abroad and can be used as either a law or graduate school teaching tool....

  • Basic Contract Law
    By Melvin Aron Eisenberg, Lon Luvois Fuller

    The Eighth Edition continues the approach of earlier editions in emphasizing rich, full-bodied versions of the principal cases, and a functionalist approach to the problems of contract law. The new...

  • Taxation of S Corporations in a Nutshell
    By Douglas A. Kahn, Jeffrey H. Kahn, Terrence G. Perris

    This book covers the following topics: the qualification requirements for a subchapter S election, the allocation of tax items among the shareholders, the effect of those allocations on a shareholder's...

  • Trial Advocacy in a Nutshell
    By Paul Bergman

    Trial Advocacy in a Nutshell

  • Advocacy on Appeal
    By Bradley G. Clary, Sharon Reich Paulsen, Michael J. Vanselow

    This text may be used in a variety of ways: as an introduction to appellate advocacy for first-year students, as a self-contained upper-level course for second- and third-year students, for...

  • Criminal Law: Cases and Materials
    By Cynthia Lee, Angela P. Harris

    This text, the only criminal law casebook authored by two progressive female law professors of color, provides the reader with both critical race and critical feminist theory perspectives on criminal...

  • Legal Malpractice Law: Problems and Prevention
    By Vincent R. Johnson, Susan Saab Fortney

    Legal Malpractice Law is a practical, problem-oriented text designed for use in elective courses on Legal Malpractice, Professional Liability, Advanced Legal Ethics, or Advanced Torts, or in required Professional Responsibility...