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  Feminist Judgments: Corporate Law Rewritten

  Anne Choike, Usha Rodrigues, and Kelli Alces Williams

  Corporate law has traditionally assumed that men organize business, men profit from it, and men bring cases in front of male judges when disputes arise. It overlooks or forgets that women are dealmakers, shareholders, stakeholders, and businesspeople too. This lack of inclusivity in corporate law has profound effects on all of society, not only on women's lives and livelihoods. This volume takes up the challenge to imagine how corporate law might look if we valued not only women and other marginalized groups, but also a feminist perspective emphasizing the importance of power dynamics, equity, community, and diversity in corporate law. Prominent lawyers and legal scholars rewrite foundational corporate law cases, and also provide accompanying commentary that situates each opinion in context, explains the feminist theories applied, and explores the impact the rewritten opinion might have had on the development of corporate law, business, and society.

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  A Research Agenda for Corporate Law

  Christopher Bruner and Marc Moore

  This timely Research Agenda explores key dynamics and cutting-edge developments within corporate law. Bringing together a diverse range of scholars hailing from different jurisdictions, ideological perspectives, and methodological backgrounds, it provides a roadmap for future research in the field.
  
  Through the investigation of different doctrinal and normative issues, leading scholars consider how evolving conceptual foundations, capital markets, social and cultural contexts, and technologies may impact corporate law and governance research. Ground-breaking contributions examine the increasingly global nature of corporate production and investment markets and the influence this has on the wider dynamics in the fields, suggesting new directions for navigating this complex and fascinating terrain.
  
  Students and scholars of corporate law, corporate governance, and law and business will value the innovative ideas unpacked in this state-of-the-art Research Agenda. Its forward looking and practical insights will also benefit practitioners and policymakers in corporate law, corporate governance, sustainability, business law, and economics.

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  Trial Handbook for Georgia Lawyers, 2023-2024 ed.

  Ronald Carlson, Julian A. Cook, and Michael Scott Carlson

  Trial Handbook for Georgia Lawyers examines Georgia-specific issues faced daily by trial attorneys, and analyzes the latest Georgia caselaw, rules, and statutes, with proper authorities cited. The work also reviews all critical aspects of Georgia trial practice, discussing substantive and procedural law in detail, with citation to controlling cases, statutes, and rules. Chapter topics include:

  • Conduct of trial
  • Motions during trial
  • Default and dismissal
  • Criminal trials
  • Competency of witnesses to testify

  The publication details every aspect of a trial sequentially, providing quick access to the basic principles of trial law and the proper application of those principles.

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  Law of Neighbors

  Donald Kochan and James Smith

  Law of Neighbors examines issues and new developments in neighboring property law, discussing land use, airspace, zoning, rights, and federal, state, and local regulations. It provides citations to leading authorities and analyzes important modern cases with footnotes suggesting further research materials.

  The authors discuss specialist areas affecting the field — as well as traditional doctrines of real property law — and examine how the modern legal system shapes and circumscribes the relative rights of landowners.

  Sections cover:

  • Nuisance
  • Trespass
  • Support of Land and Improvements
  • Airspace
  • Adverse Possession and Boundary Disputes
  • Agreements Among Neighbors
  • Private Enforcement of Zoning
  • State Environmental Legislation
  • Enforcement of Federal Environmental Statutes
  • Water Rights
  • Condominiums
  • Cooperatives
  • Timesharing

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  Intellectual Property Law: Cases & Materials (Eighth Edition)

  Lydia Pallas Loren and Joseph S. Miller

  Version 8.0 continues to provide engaging and challenging coverage of all the major types of intellectual property law: trade secret, patent, copyright, and trademark law. Covering cases and developments through Spring 2023, the Eighth Edition includes all the latest Supreme Court cases that are necessary to a survey course, including the Court's recent copyright fair use opinion Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith. Each chapter continues to optimize clear presentation of tightly edited cases and concise notes and questions.

  The book kicks off with an introductory chapter that explores the basic policies animating intellectual property law, and concludes with an overarching chapter on intellectual property limits with two sections, one on preemption and one on first sale, and a short chapter on remedies. This book is designed to guide student analysis, as well as to challenge students to make vital connections within and across doctrines and policies.

  The authors—both veteran teachers of the intellectual property law survey course—offer a comprehensive Teacher's Manual, keyed fully to the new edition, on request.

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  Principles of Constitutional Structure

  Dan T. Coenen and Michael Coenen

  This book offers an overview of federalism, the separation of powers, and related matters of constitutional structure. It covers such topics as: the lawmaking powers of the national government (including those powers conferred by the Commerce Clause, the Taxing and Spending Clause, the Necessary and Proper Clause, the Enforcement Clauses of the Reconstruction Amendments, and other sources of federal legislative authority); federalism-based "external" constraints on congressional power (including those provided by the anti-commandeering principle, the "equal sovereignty" principle, and principles of state-sovereign immunity); federalism-based limits on state authority (including those imposed by the dormant Commerce Clause, the Article IV Privileges and Immunities Clause, and statutory preemption doctrine); structural constitutional principles concerning governmental entities other than the states (including Native nations, overseas territories, and the District of Columbia); and the horizontal allocation of power across the three branches of the federal government (including with respect to foreign and military affairs, the federal administrative state, the appointment and removal of executive-branch officials, impeachment, presidential and legislative immunities from judicial process, and the powers of the federal courts).

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  International Civil Litigation in United States Courts (Seventh Edition)

  Gary B. Born and Peter B. Rutledge

  International Civil Litigation in United States Courts, by Gary B. Born and Peter B. Rutledge, is the essential, comprehensive law school text for the current and future international litigator, whether based in the United States, Europe, or elsewhere.

  Examining every topic discussed in competing texts with extensive narrative, unparalleled notes, and detailed citations, this book covers the gamut of international dispute resolution, whether judicial jurisdiction, sovereign immunity, extraterritoriality, conflicts of law, parallel proceedings, discovery disputes, service, judgment enforcement, and international arbitration. This Seventh Edition includes excerpts and updated discussions of recent U.S. court decisions and legislation relating to a wide range of private and public international law topics.

  New to the Seventh Edition:

  • Latest developments in litigation under the Alien Tort Statute and the Torture Victim Protection Act
  • Latest developments in sovereign immunity law following several landmark Supreme Court decisions
  • Latest developments regarding the extraterritorial application of federal law following several landmark Supreme Court decisions
  • Critical examination of the new Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations of the United States
  • Up-to-date citation and review of the most current academic legal scholarship in the field

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  Carlsons' Guide to Evidence Authentication: Essential Foundations for Georgia Advocates (Second Edition)

  Ronald Carlson and Michael Scott Carlson

  This publication is targeted to Georgia lawyers and judges. It is of particular use by Georgia attorneys who are commanded by state appellate court decisions to consult federal decisions along with Georgia cases under Georgia's "new" Evidence Code when arguing evidentiary principles. The book provides critical information for resolving evidence disputes in Georgia's trial and appellate courts.

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  The Corporation as Technology: Re-Calibrating Corporate Governance for a Sustainable Future

  Christopher Bruner

  Recent decades have witnessed environmental, social, and economic upheaval, with major corporations contributing to a host of interconnected crises. The Corporation as Technology examines the dynamics of the corporate form and corporate law that incentivize harmful excesses and presents an alternative vision to render corporate activities more sustainable.
  
  The corporate form is commonly described as a set of fixed characteristics that strongly prioritize shareholders' interests. This book subverts this widely held belief, suggesting that such rigid depictions reinforce harmful corporate pathologies, including excessive risk-taking and lack of regard for environmental and social impacts. Instead, corporations are presented as a dynamic legal technology that policymakers can re-calibrate over time in response to changing landscapes.
  
  This book explores the theoretical and practical ramifications of this alternative vision, focusing on how the corporate form can help secure an environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable future.

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  Property: Cases and Materials (Fifth Edition)

  James Smith, Edward J. Larsen, and Alejandro Camacho

  The fifth edition of Property: Cases and Materials by Jim Smith, Ed Larson, and new author Alejandro Camacho brings current topics and recent cases including the Public Trust Doctrine and Race and the Law to the basic property course without sacrificing coverage of established material.

  Property: Cases and Materials features sweeping coverage in a single volume, from “old property,” including the basics of estates in land and servitudes to “new property,” including intellectual property, cultural property, and property in living things. The text provokes debate on fundamental questions such as the creation of property, information as property, collective v. individual rights, and property as related to other bodies of law. Its coverage of intellectual property shows how the law grows and responds to social and technological change

  Principal cases include Marshall v. ESPN Inc. (student athletes’ publicity rights), Bonnichsen v. United States (Native American human remains), Glass v. Goeckel (public trust doctrine), Friends of Danny DeVito v. Wolf (COVID-19 takings dispute), and Dred Scott v. Sandford.

  New to the Fifth Edition:

  • A new chapter, “Race and Exclusion in the Property System,” explores how status and power have fundamentally shaped rights in property rights in the United States.
  • Enhanced coverage of public trust doctrine, which has emerged as a critical tool for environmental protection in many states.
  • More cases from the twenty-first century than any other major property casebook.