Books from Thomson/West

  • California Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials
    By David I. Levine, William R. Slomanson, Rochelle J. Shapell

    The case selection reinforces the perspective of a practitioner choosing knowledgably between state and federal court. The casebook addresses procedures unique to California practice that are not generally presented in...

  • First Amendment Law in a Nutshell
    By Jerome A. Barron, C. Thomas Dienes

    This product provides a short and readable source for individuals interested in constitutional law, First Amendment law, and communications law. It is divided into four parts: the history, methodology, and...

  • Advanced Torts: Cases and Materials
    By George C. Christie

    This casebook is designed for instructors who want to cover business torts in some depth and also for instructors who want to cover in some detail subjects like products liability,...

  • Law and Religion, a Reader: Cases, Concepts, and Theory
    By Frank S. Ravitch

    This book explores the field of law and religion integrating cases, concepts, and theory in an accessible and balanced way. The second edition is incredibly up-to-date, including recent cases involving...

  • Treatise on the Law of Securities Regulation
    By Thomas Lee Hazen

    Treatise on the Law of Securities Regulation

  • Global Issues in Tort Law
    By Julie A. Davies, Paul T. Hayden

    This title covers several facets of tort law from a global perspective, including the tort law of other countries, as compared to U.S. law; U.S. statutes with an international tort...

  • Cases and Materials on Feminist Jurisprudence: Taking Women Seriously
    By Mary Becker

    Cases and Materials on Feminist Jurisprudence: Taking Women Seriously

  • Conflict of Laws
    By Eugene F. Scoles

    Authoritative text deals with interstate and international private litigation, business planning, estate planning, and administration. The text introduces the development and current state of approaches to choice of law. Provides...

  • Beyond the Basics: A Text for Advanced Legal Writing
    By Mary Barnard Ray, Barbara J. Cox

    A selected compilation of cases designed to illustrate advanced legal writing. Chapters cover statutes or rules, jury instructions, contracts, issues, objective statements of fact, and persuasive statements of fact. Other...

  • A Student's Guide to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
    By Steven Baicker-McKee, William M. Janssen, John Bernard Corr

    A Student's Guide to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

  • Principles of Alternative Dispute Resolution
    By Stephen J. Ware

    From the Preface: The term "Alternative Dispute Resolution" is still fairly new. Prior to the 1970's, lawyers did not talk about "ADR." They did, however, practice ADR. They negotiated settlement...

  • ADR in the Workplace
    By Richard A. Bales, Dennis R. Nolan, Laura J. Cooper

    Arbitration, mediation, and other forms of alternative dispute resolution now have largely replaced litigation as the means of resolving all kinds of employment disputes in a variety of workplaces. These...

  • Cases and Materials on Patent Law: Including Trade Secrets, Copyrights, Trademarks
    By William H. Francis

    The Sixth Edition has been completely updated and includes new Supreme Court decisions on claim construction, injunctions and plant patents. It also includes new en banc decisions of the CAFC....

  • Search and Seizure: A Treatise on the Fourth Amendment
    By Wayne R. LaFave

    Professor LaFave interprets and applies the Fourth Amendment in diverse factual situations for developing more effective arguments of search and seizure issues in plea bargaining, trial, and appeal phases of...

  • Mergers, Acquisitions and Other Business Combinations: Cases and Materials
    By Thomas Lee Hazen, Jerry W. Markham

    This law school casebook focuses on the corporate and securities laws relating to corporate combinations. Coverage also extends to tax, antitrust, and financial issues. Cases and other materials are followed...

  • Patent Litigation and Strategy
    By Kimberly A. Moore, Timothy R. Holbrook, Paul R. Michel

    This book sets out governing statutes and rules at the beginning of each chapter and includes sample litigation documents where possible. The casebook begins with discussions of who to sue,...

  • Principles of Criminal Procedure
    By Russell L. Weaver

    This book is written in a student-friendly style designed to facilitate learning and comprehension. In addition, the book is up-to-date and contains the latest decisions from the United States Supreme...

  • Criminal Procedure: Principles, Policies, and Perspectives
    By Joshua Dressler, George Conner Thomas

    The new Third Edition of Dressler & Thomas, Criminal Procedure: Principles, Policies and Perspectives is available for spring 2007 adoption. It contains the very latest cases, including the Court's attempt...

  • Political Dynamics of Constitutional Law
    By Louis Fisher, Neal Devins

    This course book contains 32 case studies that expose students to the interchange between the courts and the elected branches. Each case study begins with a detailed introductory essay followed...

  • The Law of Transnational Business Transactions
    By Ved P. Nanda, Ralph B. Lake

    The Law of Transnational Business Transactions