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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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.
Administrative Law (Fifth Edition)

John Rogers, Michael Healy, Ronald J. Krotoszynski, and Kent H. Barnett

For instructors who prefer a case-oriented approach, the Fifth Edition of Administrative Law is a case-rich text that focuses on the core issues in administrative law. Lightly-edited cases preserve the feel of reading entire opinions and include facts, content, full analyses, and citations. Keystone cases introduce important themes and topics. Introductory material and questions following the cases focus students’ reading and stimulate class discussion, while helpful notes facilitate keen understanding of legal doctrines, introduce students to academic responses to judicial decisions and agency practices, and identify recent developments in doctrine and academic study. “Theory Applied” sections at the conclusion of major parts offer teachers an opportunity to evaluate students’ grasp of the materials in new factual and legal contexts. This flexible, easily teachable text is designed for a 3-unit course, and its self-contained parts can be taught in any order.

New to the Fifth Edition:
- Addition of important, recent U.S. Supreme Court and Circuit Court decisions throughout
- Extended discussion of “informal” agency adjudication
- Updated discussion of the nondelegation doctrine and its possible future
- Recent developments in judicial review, including with Kisor and Chevron deference and standing
Georgia Legal Research

Amy Taylor

This open source textbook authored by Amy Taylor was designed to provide University of Georgia School of Law students with a comprehensive guide to Georgia legal research. Using this text in combination with appropriate assignments, student objectives include the ability to select, evaluate, and use appropriate legal research tools with an emphasis on cost-effective research and proficiency in the following topics:
- Developing an efficient and cost effective research strategy
- Advanced searching skills in legal research databases
- Case law, including docket research, court rules, and verdicts & settlements
- Statutory law, including legislative materials and legislative history
- Administrative regulations, rules, and related materials
- Practice materials, including litigation and transactional tools
- Competitive Intelligence & business information
- Local & municipal law
- Legal ethics
- Free and low cost internet legal resources
Attorneys use primary and secondary sources to research the law as it applies to a client’s legal situation in order to give accurate legal advice. A careful legal researcher asks critical questions of these sources and acknowledges the potential strengths and weaknesses of a client’s legal situation before giving legal advice.
Constitutional Law: A Context and Practice Casebook (Third Edition)

David J. Schwartz and Lori A. Ringhand

The third edition of Constitutional Law: A Context and Practice Casebookreflects important recent developments in constitutional law and highlights newly contested areas, including issues involving freedom of speech and religion, executive powers and immunities, and the scope of congressional authority. As in prior editions, this unique casebook offers comprehensive coverage and allows you to teach constitutional law your own way, without having to fight the book. Using its unique electronic "Expansion Pack" system of supplemental modules available via a supplementary website maintained by the authors, you can customize your course while still following the book's structure.

That structure is streamlined into five parts of two chapters each, which cover all the essential doctrines of constitutional law. The book can be used for any general constitutional law course, whether offered in the first semester or later, and whether it covers governmental structure, individual rights, or both.

This book is part of the Context and Practice Series, edited by Michael Hunter Schwartz, Professor of Law and Dean of the McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific.
Carlson and Imwinkelried's Dynamics of Trial Practice, Problems and Materials (Sixth Edition

Ronald Carlson and Edward J. Imwinkelried

This trial practice book devotes an entire chapter to the concept of strategic case evaluation and integrates that concept into the discussion of every stage of the case. The text contains a large number of casefiles. In addition to the workplace sexual harassment, elder abuse, Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, and civil rights/jail suicide contained in the fifth edition, the sixth edition includes casefiles for a Second Amendment civil rights case, a burglary prosecution, a dispute over the ownership of a dating website, and a homicide resulting from an encounter between a private citizen and a police officer. Each chapter now includes a PREVIEW and a REMINDER as pedagogic aids. At the beginning of each chapter, the PREVIEW alerts the students to the most important and challenging material in the chapter. Near the end of the chapter, the REMINDER poses questions to the students to enable them to determine whether they have grasped the key material in the chapter. The voir dire chapter has been reorganized to make it easier for students to use, and the chapters on direct and cross-examination on expert witnesses have been updated to reflect the most recent developments in expert testimony law, notably the growing importance of the PCAST concept of Validity as Applied.