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Federal and State Postconviction Remedies and Relief (2nd 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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State and Local Taxation of Natural Resources in the Federal System: Legal, Economic and Political Perspectives
Walter Hellerstein
Examines the legal, economic and political issues spawned by state and local taxation of national resources.
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Family Law: Cases, Text, Problems (1st edition)
Paul M. Kurtz, Ira M. Ellman, and Ann M. Stanton
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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Louisiana Probate and Succession Procedures
Sarajane N. Love
A guide to Louisiana probate and successions procedures designed for practicing lawyers.
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Evolution of Law
Alan Watson
A general view of the nature of legal change which is independent of a particular time and place. The book explains why and how law changes in mature systems, in underdeveloped systems, and in legal systems, even of different levels of sophistication and from different societal roots, that come into powerful contact.
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The Digest of Justinian
Alan Watson, Theodor Mommsen, and Paul Krueger
The Digest was assembled by a team of sixteen academic lawyers commissioned by Justinian in 533 to collect everything of importance from earlier Roman law. Alan Watson's English translation is published here with Theodor Mommsen's Latin text of 1878 on facing pages.
Excerpt reproduced with permission of University of Pennsylvania Press
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Sources of Law, Legal Change, and Ambiguity
Alan Watson
Analyzes the history of the lawmaking process from ancient Rome to the present day in a sweeping history of law.
Excerpt reproduced with the permission of University of Pennsylvania Press.
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Federal and State Postconviction Remedies and Relief
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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Making of the Civil Law
Alan Watson
Explores why laws change: when they do, how they do, and in response to which types of pressures. Focuses on civil law in the legal systems of western Europe and Latin America.
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Criminal Offenses in Georgia
Paul M. Kurtz
A digest of the statute laws of Georgia. All crimes and defenses are outlined and the relevant case law interpreting them is presented in as clear and straight-forward a manner as possible.
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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