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Contemporary Trusts and Estates, 4th ed.
No full textThe fourth edition of Contemporary Trusts and Estates gives students a clear understanding of the laws governing inheritance and end-of-life planning, including major uniform acts like the Uniform Probate Code and the Uniform Trust Code.
Contemporary Trusts and Estates captures the rapid evolution of doctrine in trusts and estates law that has occurred over the past half-century in response to profound societal and demographic changes. Based on recent developments in legal education, this casebook integrates legal analysis, judgment and perspective, ethics, and practice skills. It focuses simultaneously on the theoretical foundations and practical applications of the material, teaching students by using traditional case analysis and, at the professor’s option, innovative exercises.
While the casebook covers the customary elements of a trust and estate course and focuses students on core trust and estate issues of intent and statutory analysis, it does so with three innovations: Early in the semester, it provides an overview of the status of all people involved in estate planning, addressing issues such as the meaning of “spouse” and “child” and the ethical obligations of lawyers who represent multiple clients. It includes exercises that are integrated into the more traditional casebook material and are designed to provide hands-on practical experience; these exercises involve skills ranging from counseling to drafting to litigation. It includes numerous problems, which drill down on a particular statute or common law doctrine and require students to apply what they have learned to a hypothetical fact pattern.https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/books/1132/thumbnail.jp
Learning Commercial Law: Core Concepts (2d ed.)
No full textThis book for a Uniform Commercial Code survey course makes key concepts from the UCC clear and understandable, and presents the material in a format that encourages students to take the course and teachers to teach it. The book is designed for coverage in a 2 or 3-hour survey course, and covers the most significant provisions of Uniform Commercial Code Article 2 (Sales), Article 9 (Secured Transactions), and Articles 3 and 4 (Payment Systems). The start of each chapter highlights key learning objectives to allow students to fully master the material. Salient provisions of the Code have been selected and excerpted, along with cogent textual explanations and examples that bring the provisions to life, and realistic problems that test the students’ understanding and provide the starting point for class discussion. The text is designed to give a high-level overview of critical concepts from the Uniform Commercial Code, without requiring students to take several more specialized courses.https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/books/1133/thumbnail.jp
Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc.: The Court’s New Definition of “Transformative” Expands the Fair Use Defense
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American Criminal Procedure: Cases and Commentary (12th ed.)
No full textThe 2022 edition of American Criminal Procedure incorporates substantial changes in both caselaw and the law enforcement landscape while maintaining the editorial voice that has earned accolades from generations of students and professors. This edition of the classic casebook contains detailed and authoritative commentary, extensive discussion of practical problems, highlighted treatment of selected recent lower-court cases, full consideration of Supreme Court cases, and questions that challenge the conceptions and analytical powers of law students. New features include the addition of historical materials; more headnotes; full case treatment of important new Supreme Court cases; and scholarly commentary on such topics as electronic searches, the exclusionary rule, Miranda, and the intersections between race and criminal justice. The authors have made a concerted attempt to arrange the material in a way that facilitates organized analysis of criminal procedure questions without sacrificing nuance.https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/books/1135/thumbnail.jp
Looking at the Text, History, and Tradition of the Second Amendment– “Steeped in Anti-Blackness”
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