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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Federal Postconviction Remedies and Relief Handbook for Practitioners: With Forms (2003 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.
Children and the Law: Cases and Materials (1st edition)

Anne Dupre and Martin R. Gardner

A casebook which presents materials for a general course in children and the law while at the same time providing sufficient attention to the juvenile justice system so as to be utilized as the vehicle for teaching a more narrow course in juvenile delinquency and status offenses.
Real Estate Transactions: Problems, Cases, and Materials (2nd edition)

Jim Smith and Robin Paul Malloy

A detailed text which explains the basic elements and market factors involved in each area of real estate law, and presents cases and problems to illustrate the key points, pinpointing the manner in which such issues arise in practice.
Employment Discrimination: Law and Practice (3rd edition)

Charles A. Sullivan, Michael J. Zimmer, and Rebecca White
Electronic Commerce and Multijurisdictional Taxation

Walter Hellerstein, Robert L. Doernberg, Luc Hinnekens, and Jinyan Li

The successor to Electronic Commerce and International Taxation (1999). This new edition provides a detailed and up-to-date analysis of VAT developments regarding e-commerce,and an exploration of the implications of e-commerce for the US state and local sales and use tax regime, and it also discusses developments in Europe and the United States while enlarging its focus to include the tax treatment of e-commerce in China, India, Canada, Australia, and throughout the world.
Evolution of Western Private Law

Alan Watson

Explores why legal systems continue to evolve in the Western world and the factors that promote change.
Society and Legal Change (2nd edition)

Alan Watson

Argues that law lags behind social change, using illustrative historical examples from Rome and England.

Excerpt reproduced with permission of Temple University Press.
State Postconviction Remedies and Relief: With Forms (2001 edition)

Donald E. Wilkes, Jr.

A comprehensive review of common law and statutory postconviction remedies available at the state level.
Law Out of Context

Alan Watson

Discloses flagrant inconsistencies in the interpretation of laws from ancient Roman edicts to the present-day crisis in legal education
Cases and Materials on Workers' Compensation (4th edition)

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

Covers occupational disease, vocational rehabilitation, stress claims, and reform efforts designed to stem the rising costs of the system. Early chapters explore the historical foundations of workers' compensation, its economic theory underpinnings, and its current relationship with FELA, Social Security, OSHA, and tort litigation.