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Property
Joyce Palomar, Roger Bernhardt, and Patrick Randolph
2009
This new first-year casebook is a unique blend of cases and real-world problems. The authors — nationally known for bridging the gap between theory and practice and collectively possessing more than 150 semesters of teaching first-year property — have created a book using thoughtful decisions by judges wrestling with contemporary problems.
This casebook concentrates on issues that are meaningful to students today as learners and will be vital to them later as attorneys. The authors have selected opinions that are intelligible as well as concise, so as to be quickly ... Read More
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The Foundations of Federal Indian Law and Its Application in the Twentieth Century
Taiawagi Helton and Lindsay Robertson
2008
How do we explain not just the survival of Indian people in the United States against very long odds but their growing visibility and political power at the opening of the twenty-first century? Within this one story of indigenous persistence are many stories of local, regional, national, and international activism that require a nuanced understanding of what it means to be an activist or to act in politically purposeful ways. Even the nearly universal demand for sovereignty encompasses multiple definitions that derive from factors both external and internal to Indian ... Read More
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Recovering Self-Evident Truths: Catholic Perspectives on American Law
Michael A. Scaperlanda and Teresa Stanton Collett
2007
This book presents an engaging collection of essays exploring "catholic" and "Catholic" perspectives on American law—catholic in their claims of universal truths, and Catholic in their grounding in the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. What emerges is a model of human freedom and flourishing that has its foundation in the transcendent vocation of each and every human person.
The 2000-year-old Catholic Church played a pivotal role in the formation of the western legal culture. Does it have anything of relevance left to offer that culture in the 21st century? ... Read More
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Immigration and the Constitution
Gabriel J. Chin, Victor C. Romero, and Michael A. Scaperlanda
2001
Following an original essay, key primary and secondary materials are reprinted. The volume contains major cases as well as important briefs; secondary articles include classics which helped define the field, as well as up to date discussions of issues, from both legal and non-legal sources. 1. The Origins of Constitutional Immigration Law (0-8153-40591) 2. Discrimination and Equality in Contemporary Immigration Law (0-8153-40605) 3. Shark Infested Waters: Procedural Due Process in Constitutional Immigration Law (0-8153-40613)
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