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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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
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.
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.
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.
Legal Writing Manual (3d ed.)

Jean Mangan, Dylan Cohen, Brittany Goad, Gabrielle Gravel, Chase Lyndale, and George "Max" Miseyko

This text provides an overview of first-year legal writing topics and provides checkpoints during your writing process. This manual does not answer every question on every legal writing concept; it is certainly not a spell book that will make you instantly awesome at legal writing. Writing as a skill is a lifelong development process. Everyone can be an effective legal writer. Put in the time to study the concepts and then to practice using those concepts in your writing. Seek feedback on your writing and then implement the feedback you receive. Writing takes practice, and this manual can help guide you.
Tort Law: Cases & Critique

Thomas E. Kadri

My goal in creating this casebook is to do my part to make legal education more affordable, accessible, and adaptable. That’s why I’m making the book available to all for free. By using a CC BY-NC license, I’m also inviting others to adapt these materials for their own use, so long as they adhere to the non-commerciality and attribution terms. (Anyone interested in “remixing” this book for their own purposes should feel free to contact me, including if you’d like a more adaptable non-PDF version.)

You’re welcome to print any part of this casebook if you want a hard copy to accompany the digital version. If you do print it, I ask that you please be environmentally conscious by using double-sided pages. Because the digital version can be easily searched, it contains no index or other finding aids that are conventional for printed books. You should also be able to enhance your experience with the digital version by highlighting text, adding comments, and annotating it in other ways you find helpful.

To see the syllabus accompanying this casebook, please visit www.thomaskadri.com/torts.
Intellectual Property: Cases & Materials (Seventh Edition)

Lydia Pallas Loren and Joseph S. Miller

A bracing blend of foundational principles and core doctrines.• Immerse students in the world of intellectual property law and provide essential perspectives to practice in this area.• The Seventh Edition of Loren & Miller’s Intellectual Property Law 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 2021, the book continues optimize clear presentation of tightly edited cases and concise notes and questions.• The book kicks off with an introduction that explores the basic policies animating i.p. law and concludes with two overarching chapters—one on i.p. limits (preemption and first sale), and one on remedies (to redress past harm and prevent future harm). This book will both guide student analysis and challenge students to make vital connections within and across doctrines and policies.
A Prosecutor's Story: Truth, Honor, and Justice are More Than Just Words

Alan A. Cook

Did a 4-year-old boy witness the brutal stabbing and near decapitation of his young, beautiful mother? Did a cheating wife hire someone to kill her husband and then have to marry her lover to keep his mouth shut? How was a schoolteacher able to molest students at three different elementary schools before finally being stopped? Who shot an elderly man multiple times, drug his body into the bushes, and bashed in his skull with the butt of the gun? And why did it take 23 years to achieve justice for this man’s family?

These and other questions are answered in A Prosecutor’s Story – the real-life stories of a Georgia District Attorney.

In A Prosecutor's Story, Cook provides the reader with an insider's view of the Criminal Justice System. The reader will be treated to previously undisclosed details relating to over 40 of Cook’s most challenging cases (including murder, kidnapping, armed robbery, child molestation, and voter fraud).
Legal Writing Manual (2nd Edition)

Jean Mangan, Brittany Blanchard, Gabrielle Gravel, Chase Lyndale, and Connely Doizé

This manual provides you with an overview of first-year legal writing topics and provides checkpoints during your writing process. On the other hand, this manual does not answer every question you have ever had on any legal writing concept and it is certainly not a spellbook that will make you instantly awesome at legal writing. Writing as a skill is a lifelong development process. Everyone can be an effective legal writer. Put in the time to study the concepts and then to practice using those concepts in your writing. Seek feedback on your writing and implement the feedback you receive. Writing takes practice, and this manual can help guide you through.

The first edition of the Legal Writing Manual was made possible with funding from the University of Georgia’s Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost’s Affordable Materials Course Grant. The second edition of this manual was made possible with funding from an Affordable Learning Georgia Round 18 Continuous Improvement Grant.
International Law as Behavior

Harlan G. Cohen and Timothy L. Meyer

This book's goal is break down some of these barriers and provide a glimpse of what an international law more focused on behavior and more engaged with these other fields might look like. Part I of this chapter sets the scene, describing international law's long interest in behavior and past attempts to explore that relationship. Parts II and III describe the book's approach and lays out the contributions in each chapter. Part IV starts the process of bringing these insights together, outlining a series of takeaways for future study of international law as behavior.