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Cases and Materials on Workers' Compensation (3rd edition)
Thomas A. Eaton, Joseph W. Little, and Gary R. Smith
Explores the historical foundations of workers' compensation, its economic theory underpinnings, and its current relationship with FELA, Social Security, OSHA, and tort litigation. Also covers occupational disease, vocational rehabilitation, stress claims, and changes designed to stem the rising costs of the system.
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Legal Transplants: An Approach to Comparative Literature (2nd edition)
Alan Watson
Argues that laws are borrowed from pre-existing laws in other legal systems without any initial inherent relationship between these laws (transplants) and society. However, once brought over, the interpretation and impact of the law is adapted locally.
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Copyright Cases and Materials
David Shipley, Sheldon W. Halpern, and Howard B. Abvrams
A comprehensive treatment, which includes newly emerging matters and cutting edge opinions, as well as the guiding principles of copyright law.
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Joseph Story and the Comity of Errors
Alan Watson
Critical look at the writings of legal scholar Joseph Story, particularly his interpretation of Ulrich Huber's comity of nations, and Story's impact on the Dred Scott case.
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The State, Law and Religion: Pagan Rome
Alan Watson
Explores the interaction of law and religion in Rome from the founding of the republic, through the empire, and until Christianity was recognized legally.
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Federal and State Postconviction Remedies and Relief (1992 edition)
Donald E. Wilkes, Jr.
This book examines postconviction relief in U.S. federal and state courts, including postconviction remedies for federal convicts, federal habeas corpus remedies for state convicts, and state postconviction remedies and relief
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Family Law: Cases, Text, Problems (2nd edition)
Kurtz, Ira M. Ellman, and Katharine T. Bartlett
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.
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Legal Origins and Legal Change
Alan Watson
Essays in Roman law, with an emphasis on private law. Some essays relate to the making of law, studying aspects of the sources, legal change, legal culture, and law and society, and others deal with very early law or with the origins of legal ideas, and some of these are as much philological as legal.
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Roman Law & Comparative Law
Alan Watson
Provides a comprehensive description of the system of Roman law and the ways in which Roman law influenced later European legal systems.
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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