Books

School of Law faculty at the University of Georgia author some of our country's leading legal scholarship. The following is a collection of books published by our past and current faculty members. Several faculty members have also created open educational resources made available through open textbook platforms. View a list of our faculty's open educational resource materials.

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The Shame of American Legal Education

Alan Watson

Critique of the state of education in U.S. law schools and of the law review system.
Federal Tax Practice and Procedure: Cases, Materials, and Problems

Camilla Watson and Brookes D. Billman

This book serves as an introductory or supplemental teaching tool on the federal tax system. It introduces students to both the civil and criminal components of a tax practice, with emphasis on the changes mandated by the IRS Reconstruction and Reform Act of 1998.
State Postconviction Remedies and Relief Handbook with Forms

Donald E. Wilkes Jr.

A comprehensive review of common law and statutory postconviction remedies available at the state level.
Constitutional Law: The Commerce Clause

Dan T. Coenen

Discusses the scope of the commerce power, federalism-based restrictions on that power, and limitations imposed by the "dormant Commerce Clause" principle on both state regulatory and state taxing measures
Cases and Materials on Workers' Compensation (5th edition)

Thomas A. Eaton, Joseph W. Little, and Gary R. Smith

A casebook which covers the basic principles of workers' compensation law as well as recent legislation and developing judicial trends.
Streamlined Sales and Use Tax

Walter Hellerstein and John A. Swain

Seeks to provide a detailed analysis of the Streamlined Tax Use Agreement, including historical background and critical summary of future challenges and implications.

Excerpt reproduced with permission of Thomson Reuters.
Family Law: Cases, Text, Problems (4th edition)

Kurtz, Ira M. Ellman, Lois A. Weithorn, Brian Bix, and Elizabeth S. Scott

Family law is an interdisciplinary area, and the materials in this work reflect the numerous disciplines influencing this field of law. This book is policy-oriented, with non-legal social science featured in the extensive note materials to provide a rich and varied learning experience and a practice resource tool.
Property: Cases and Materials

James C. Smith, Edward J. Larson, John Copeland Nagle, and John A. Kidwell

A casebook which contains an overview of traditional property law topics with an integrated approach to subjects of current interest, such as intellectual property, rights in a person's persona and property rights in living things.
Constitutional Torts (2nd edition)

Michael Wells, Thomas A. Eaton, and Sheldon H. Nahmod

A casebook which focuses exclusively on constitutional tort damages against governments and their officials under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and the United States Constitution.
Federal Postconviction Remedies and Relief Handbook for Practitioners: With Forms (2004 edition)

Donald E. Wilkes, Jr.

This book contains the basic federal statutes and related reference sources that are essential to the preparation, legal research, and litigation of a federal postconviction remedy proceeding.