This book combines theory with practical techniques for resolving difficult legal disputes, including: mediating effectively between hostile lawyers and parties; dealing with insulting first offers and reneging; predicting litigation outcomes without alienating disputants; effective impasse-breaking tips; and, for litigators, utilizing a mediator’s special powers to achieve better outcomes for clients. Includes a DVD that demonstrates conducting an opening session, eliciting offers, delivering an evaluation, applying impasse tactics, and other essential skills.
This legal research exercise book helps students master efficient legal research skills through challenging in-depth problems. The 10th edition contains all new problems and a new format covering both print and electronic resources. Assignments have two variations using print materials, one variation for Westlaw, and one variation for LexisNexis. This format provides instructors more flexibility in what exercises they assign and when they assign them. The assignments cover basic legal research, including reporters, digests, citators, statutes, and advanced materials including federal legislative history and federal administrative law. There are also review problems, appropriate for basic and advanced legal research classes.
This DOCUMENTS SUPPLEMENT contains the basic international agreements on trade in goods and services and the principal U.S. statutes regulating international trade, as well as the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund. The authors have divided the Documents Supplement into four parts, on the basis of whether the documents are international, multilateral or national in scope. Each part has its own introduction that explains the organization of that part.
From early in his career Jacques Derrida was intrigued by law. Over time, this fascination with law grew more manifest and he published a number of highly influential analyses of ethics, justice, violence and law. This book brings together leading scholars in a variety of disciplines to assess Derrida’s importance for and impact upon legal studies.
Back pain and back injury is an extremely common problem, producing chronic, debilitating symptoms for sufferers, and resulting in millions of pounds of lost revenue in absence from work and paid in compensation for spinal injuries. The Medico-Legal Back is the first book to address all aspects of the problem for a legal readership, in a clear, concise and reader-friendly style. It does away with the need to search for and then extract complex information from many different sources, and as such will be an indispensable guide to the problem for all lawyers, judges and medico-legal experts, as well as being of value to the orthopaedic surgeon with an interest in the spine. Of particular value is the use throughout the book of analogies drawn on anatomical technicalities and common movements, situations and incidents of everyday life. Fully illustrated throughout, with real scans using imaging modalities, and line diagrams generated especially for this title, The Medico-Legal Back should be on the shelves of all medico-legal personnel at all levels of expertise and experience.
