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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Trial Handbook for Georgia Lawyers, 2016-2017

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

Excerpt reproduced with permission of Thomson Reuters.

"[E]xamines 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."--From publisher
Inside Adjudicative Criminal Procedure: What Matters and Why

Julian A. Cook and Alan A. Cook

"[D]iscusses all the topics that are typically discussed in the aforementioned courses, including bail, grand jury and prosecutorial decision-making, discovery, speedy trial, jury selection, trial by jury, right to counsel, double jeopardy, guilty pleas and plea bargaining, sentencing, and post-verdict trials and strategies."--From publisher

Excerpt reproduced with permission of Wolters Kluwer
Learning from Practice: a Professional Development Text for Legal Education (3rd edition)

Alex Scherr, Leah Wortham, Nancy Maurer, and Susan L. Brooks

Excepted reproduced with permission of West Academic Publishing

"Covers topics relevant to law students working in real practice settings, including externships, in-house clinics, and other experiential courses. Intended for use in course seminars and tutorials, each chapter helps students succeed in their work, reflect on their development, and plan for their lives as lawyers."--From book jacket
Tax Procedure and Tax Fraud in a Nutshell (5th edition)

Camilla E. Watson

Excerpt reproduced with permission of West Academic Publishing

"[P]rovides a guide on tax procedures and tax fraud in the USA. This book summarizes the legal rules and provides a broad overview of the federal tax practice and procedure area in both the civil and the criminal context. The coverage includes IRS and treasury rulemaking, ethics issues of tax practice, confidentiality and disclosure, audits and administrative appeals, statute of limitations, litigations considerations, penalties and collection process, liability, investigation and tax crimes."--From publisher
Hip Hop and the Law

Andrea L. Dennis

What is important to understanding American law? What is important to understanding hip hop? Wide swaths of renowned academics, practitioners, commentators, and performance artists have answered these two questions independently. And although understanding both depends upon the same intellectual enterprise, textual analysis of narrative storytelling, somehow their intersection has escaped critical reflection. Hip Hop and the Law merges the two cultural giants of law and rap music and demonstrates their relationship at the convergence of Legal Consciousness, Politics, Hip Hop Studies, and American Law. No matter what your role or level of experience with law or hip hop, this book is a sound resource for learning, discussing, and teaching the nuances of their relationship. Topics include Critical Race Theory, Crime and Justice, Mass Incarceration, Gender, and American Law: including Corporate Law, Intellectual Property, Constitutional Law, and Real Property Law.
How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy

Mehrsa Baradaran

Excerpt reproduced with permission of Harvard University Press

"[E]xamines how a significant portion of the population, deserted by banks, is forced to wander through a Wild West of payday lenders and check-cashing services to cover emergency expenses and pay for necessities -- all thanks to deregulation that began in the 1970s and continues decades later."--From publisher
Patent Law: Cases & Materials ~ Version 2.0

Joseph S. Miller

The book contains edited cases, patent figures, and excerpts, along with brief introductions on patent law. This book is designed for use in close conjunction with a specific softcover hornbook published by Wolters Kluwer, Janice Mueller’s, Patent Law, Fourth Edition (Aspen Student Treatise Series 2013). If you decide to use this case collection to teach a course of your own — as I hope people will — please check back to ensure that you have the most up-to-date version. This version, which is 2.0, was posted in June 2015.

Reproduced and linked with permission of the author.
Constitutional Torts (4th edition)

Sheldon H. Nahmod, Michael Wells, Thomas A. Eaton, and Fred Smith

The fourth edition contains updated Supreme Court and circuit courts decisions.

Excerpt reproduced with permission of Carolina Academic Press.
Benchbook on International Law

Diane Marie Amann and American Society of International Law

Intended as an aid to judges and litigants when foreign or international law (including treaties and customary norms) forms a part of the case before them....

Begins with a primer on international law's sources and status in U.S. courts. Jurisdictional, preliminary, and procedural concerns, like immunities and evidence-gathering, next are treated. The Benchbook then provides discussions of concrete instances in which such issues may arise; for example, arbitration, child abduction, human rights, and the international sale of goods. It concludes with issues of interpretation and research resources.--Preface

Reproduced with permission of the American Association of International Law.
Corporate Governance in the Common-law World: the Political Foundations of Shareholder Power

Christopher Bruner

Excerpt reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press

"This book presents a new comparative theory to explain this divergence and explores the theory's ramifications for law and public policy. Bruner argues that regulatory structures affecting other stakeholders' interests - notably differing degrees of social welfare protection for employees - have decisively impacted the degree of political opposition to shareholder-centric policies across the common-law world. These dynamics remain powerful forces today, and understanding them will be vital as post-crisis reforms continue to take shape."--From publisher