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  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.

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  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.

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  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

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  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.

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  Criminal Law Drafting Manual

  Jean Mangan

  This textbook was created under a Round 19 Mini-Grant. It is hosted on the Open ALG (Affordable Learning Georgia) Projects platform.

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  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.

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  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.

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  The Law of Class Actions and Other Aggregate Litigation (Third Edition)

  Robert G. Bone, Elizabeth Chamblee Burch, Patrick Woolley, and Richard A. Nagareda

  The third edition of this casebook reflects the many developments that have occurred in aggregate litigation since 2013 while continuing to treat the subject as a coherent whole. This edition includes a short, systematic introduction to the range of different aggregation techniques and then pays detailed attention to class actions, multidistrict litigation (MDL), parens-patriae suits, bankruptcy, and arbitration. In particular, this edition features a new chapter devoted to MDL, in which topics range from selecting the transferee court, choosing what law should apply, and exploring the judicial role in examining MDL’s effect on settlement and leadership selection. As before, the casebook does more than just present the law—it considers multiple perspectives on policy, litigation strategy, judicial practice, financial considerations, and empirical findings.
  
  The book fills three gaps in the market for teaching materials on the U.S. civil justice system. First, it treats “aggregate litigation” as a cohesive field of law that encompasses all devices for processing claims en masse. Second, the book confronts forthrightly the reality of our civil justice system as one geared toward settlement, not trial. From this vantage point, the casebook sees the processes for aggregate litigation as vehicles through which to achieve comprehensive, or broadly encompassing, resolution of related civil claims. Third, the book frames the legitimacy of preclusion in aggregate litigation by drawing, among other things, on conceptions of legitimacy in other settings, such as private contract and public legislation. In so doing, the casebook encourages students to see cross-cutting connections with their other courses on such topics as contracts, corporations, and administrative law.

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  Carlsons' Guide to Evidence Authentication: Essential Foundations for Georgia Advocates

  Ronald Carlson and Michael Scott Carlson

  Shipping now, the new Carlsons’ Guide to Evidence Authentication is designed to go to court. The smaller counterpart to Carlson on Evidence features alphabetical organization, structure by key evidence terms, sample evidentiary foundations, and “Q&A’s”- for a host of evidence. It focuses on succinct analysis of crucial evidence concepts in “new” Georgia and Eleventh Circuit authority.

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  Cook's Field Guide to Prosecution in Georgia (Second Edition)

  Alan A. Cook

  Chapters cover topics ranging from the investigation and arrest of suspects to the questioning of suspects in custody, from the preliminary hearing to the drafting and presentation of indictments to the grand jury, from the arraignment and guilty plea to the sentencing hearing, and from discovery and motion hearings to the jury trial and appeal.

  Special chapters address Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, the Identification of Suspects, Crawford & The Confrontation Clause, Search Warrants, Search Warrant Attacks, Well-Recognized Exceptions to the Search Warrant Requirement, and Ethics & Professionalism.