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  Oklahoma Criminal Law and Procedure with Forms

  Stephen R. Galoob, David Dossman, and Brian Boeheim

  Oklahoma Criminal Law and Procedure with Forms covers both the entire process of a criminal trial and the substantive criminal law in Oklahoma.

  Each chapter combines authoritative legal analysis with an expert author’s practical insights, distilled from years of litigation practice. Additionally, Oklahoma Criminal Law and Procedure with Forms includes a multitude of sample forms to complement your practice.

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  Digital Development in East Africa: The Distribution, Diffusion, and Governance of Information Technology

  Warigia M. Bowman

  This book uses comparative case study methodology and extensive field work to examine and compare outcomes of four East African nations (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Rwanda) that implemented formal Information and Communications Technology policies in the 1990s. Based on extensive fieldwork, the book assesses the emergence of a new policy and technological arena from the turn of the millennium to the present. In addition to tracing the implementation and reception of these policies, Bowman considers to what extent the politics of infrastructure in four connected but distinct African nations have resulted in global participation and equitable distribution and access of infrastructure to all citizens, as well as the impact a recent history of war or peace have on the technological outcomes in these communities. The book provides us with invaluable new data on how policy and politics function in emerging democracies, and illuminates long-overlooked opportunities and conditions necessary for the distribution of new and potentially beneficial technologies in other developing countries.

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  Squatting and the State: Resilient Property in an Age of Crisis

  Marc L. Roark

  "We describe the 'wicked' global property problem of homeless squatting on empty land or in empty properties and outline some key themes explored in the book. We reflect on the nature of squatting as a property problem; and introduce the concept of 'scale', which we deploy throughout the book to describe the dynamic nature of state responses to squatting. We outline the importance of seeing 'the state' in the analyses of squatting and other property problems, through its interactions with individuals, interactions with other state-bodies, and interactions with its territory, and interactions with its own institutions. Finally, we set out the structure and approach followed in the book, including reference to five primary jurisdictions: the U.S., Ireland, Spain, South Africa and England and Wales"-- Provided by publisher.

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  Administrative Law: A Contemporary Approach

  Gwendolyn Savitz, Andrew F. Popper, Anthony E. Varona, and Mark C. Niles

  Administrative Law: A Contemporary Approach, 4th Edition is a comprehensive reorganization and updating of the 3rd edition, written just as administrative law was becoming the centerpiece in a national discourse on governance. From 2017 forward, nothing seemed settled. What are the metes and bounds of presidential power? Of congress? Of the courts? Judicial confirmation hearings made Chevron, separation of powers, and federalism everyday concerns, but somewhere, in the core of this challenge to governance, the fundamentals of the administrative law field proved up to the task. The 4th edition provides a current, comprehensive, and apolitical presentation of the substance and promise of administrative law.

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  Investigating College Student Misconduct: Understanding the Internal Investigation Process in Higher Education

  Oren R. Griffin

  All colleges and universities grapple with the complexities of student misconduct. How can these institutions conduct efficient fact-finding investigations and disciplinary proceedings? What best practices should administrators and legal counsel follow when student behavior interferes with a university’s mission or poses a campus safety threat? Oren R. Griffin answers these questions and more in Investigating College Student Misconduct, an essential resource for student affairs professionals and university administrators.

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  Food and Drug Regulation in an Era of Globalized Markets

  Sam Halabi

  From the publisher's website:

  Food and Drug Regulation in an Era of Globalized Markets provides a synthesized look at the pressures that are impacting today’s markets, including trade liberalization, harmonization initiatives between governments, increased aid activities to low-and middle-income countries, and developing pharmaceutical sectors in China and India.

  From the changing nature of packaged and processed food supply chains, to the reorientation of pharmaceutical research and funding coalesced to confront firms, regulators, and consumers are now faced with previously unknown challenges.

  Based on the 2014 O’Neill Institute Summer program, this book provides an international, cross-disciplinary look at the changing world of regulations and offers insights into requirements for successful implementation.

  • Interdisciplinary approach allows readers to understand the varying perspectives involved in regulatory development
  • Includes case studies to highlight harmonization efforts and challenges, and to provide practical insights for application going forward
  • Provides a thorough assessment of supply chains, potential gaps, and means of anticipating and addressing issues
  • Presents a comprehensive snapshot of changes in the food safety law in the United States and under international standards, including academic, industry and regulatory perspectives
  • Addresses conflicts and cooperation between relevant US agencies including USDA, FDA, DEA, EPA, FTC and the Department of Commerce

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  Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain

  Robert Spoo

  Provides a thorough historical survey of the impact of U.S. copyright law on transatlantic modernist authors. Documents the growth and development across time of the American public domain, as shaped by the historically protectionist and formalistic U.S. copyright law. Gives fresh insights drawn from unpublished materials-letters by Joyce, John Quinn, Ezra Pound, Sylvia Beach, John M. Price, and others-and makes extensive use of hitherto unknown legal archives.

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  In the Light of Justice: The Rise of Human Rights in Native America & the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

  Walter Echo-Hawk

  This book examines the proposition that Native American rights are inalienable human rights. It urges Indian Country to stride toward the human rights framework created by the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ("UNDRIP"). Relying on atonement and forgiveness traditions, it asks the United States to heal wounds of the past and create a more just society by implementing the UNDRIP.

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  Mississippi Law of Damages

  Johnny Parker

  A must-have title for plaintiff and defense attorneys alike, Mississippi Law of Damages includes coverage of the full range of compensatory, punitive, and statutory damages available, as well as the evidentiary methods of proving them. It discusses the pleading and practice of actions for damages, and presents the law of damages in conjunction with major substantive legal subject areas.

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  Oklahoma Family Law - Statutes and Rules - Annotated (Divorce & Adoption) 2012-2013

  Marianne Blair, Robert Spector, and Carolyn Thompson

  Oklahoma Family Law—Statutes & Rules—Annotated is a compilation of statutes affecting the family law practice—divorce and adoption—providing leading case law annotations with direct quotes from the case capturing the holding. This book is designed to be a time-saving and cost effective research reference source for both the seasoned and novice family law practitioner. This book will provide you quick access to the statutes and controlling cases on most issues arising in divorce and adoption practices.

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  Fletcher's Essays on Criminal Law

  Russell Christopher

  The first volume of essays by George Fletcher. Each essay is followed by one or more new critical commentaries by a leading scholar. Contains a new essay by George Fletcher that replies to his critics, looks backward over his career of scholarship, and looks forward to the future of the field of criminal theory

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  Capital Punishment and the Judicial Process

  Lyn Entzeroth and Randall Coyne

  Capital Punishment and the Judicial Process provides comprehensive coverage of a number of issues, including the philosophical debate over the death penalty, constitutional challenges to the death penalty, the modern death penalty scheme, jury selection, capital sentencing, ineffective assistance of counsel, state appeals and post-conviction, federal habeas corpus, federal death penalty, and international law. The materials are kept up to date through annual supplements and letter updates.

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  An Introduction to Bankruptcy Law, 6th ed.

  Martin Frey and Sidney K. Swinson

  "INTRODUCTION TO BANKRUPTCY LAW, 6th edition is an excellent bankruptcy reference, whether the reader is a paralegal, a practicing attorney, or taking paralegal courses in bankruptcy law. Using a step-by-step approach, the text presents the reader with a clear and understandable explanation of each type of bankruptcy filing. Signature features include a brief history of bankruptcy law, research aids, alternatives to bankruptcy, a discussion of the role of the various parties involved in the bankruptcy process, and an overview concerning eligibility and the selection of the appropriate bankruptcy chapter under which the case should be filed. Also included are updated cases to detail bankruptcy legal procedures from initiation of the attorney/client relationship through the closing of the case. With its discussion of electronic filing,and updated changes in the Bankruptcy Code and the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure,the new edition of INTRODUCTION TO BANKRUPTCY LAW, 6th edition is a valuable bankruptcy law resource."

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  Brandishing the First Amendment: Commercial Expression in America

  Tamara Piety

  Over the past two decades, corporations and other commercial entities have used strategic litigation to win more expansive First Amendment protections for commercial speech—from the regulation of advertising to the role corporate interests play in the political process, most recently debated in the Supreme Court case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Tamara R. Piety, a nationally known critic of commercial and corporate speech, argues that such an expansion of First Amendment speech rights imperils public health, safety, and welfare; the reliability of commercial and consumer information; the stability of financial markets; and the global environment.

  Prof. Piety appeared on TU Public Radio's Studio Tulsa recently to discuss her book.

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  The Future of Indian and Federal Reserved Water Rights The Winter's Centennial

  Judith Royster and Barbara Cosens

  This volume grew out of a four-day conference to celebrate the centennial of the 1908 U.S. Supreme Court case that gave rise to the doctrine of Indian tribal water rights, Winters v. United States. The book includes transcribed remarkds from many of the conference's main speakers, supplement by additional essays prepared for the volume.

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  Oil and Gas in the Disputed Kurdish Territories: Jurisprudence, Regional Minorities and Natural Resources in a Federal System

  Rex Zedalis

  This book examines the historical and contextual background to the oil and gas resources in the Kurdish territories, placing particular emphasis on the reserves situated in the disputed provinces. The volume is singularly unique in focusing on an examination of the rules reflected in both the national and the regional constitutional, legislative, and contractual measures and documents relevant to the question of whether the central government in Baghdad or the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil has a stronger claim to legal control over the oil and gas resources in the disputed Kurdish territories.

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  Mastering Contract Law

  Irma Russell and Barbara K. Bucholtz

  Mastering Contract Law explores the basic principles and purposes of contract law, including a discussion of background principles and traditions of private ordering. The book explains contract formation, interpretation, and the requirement of written evidence for enforcement of certain types of promises. It explores the themes and doctrines of reliance, restitution, and the importance of public policy in contract law. Chapters include all of the areas of contract law typically covered in the first-year course, including the bargained-for exchange, unenforceable contracts, performance and breach, obstacles to performance, modification, pre-contractual obligation, remedies and damages, and stakeholders other than contracting parties, including the third-party beneficiary doctrine, delegation and assignment. The organization of the book reflects the five sequential questions that frame the thought processes of lawyers and judges dealing with contracts issues. For example, before considering whether a party's conduct amounts to a breach, a judge would answer the question whether the parties had indeed formed a contract. In addition to explaining the major cases traditionally covered in contracts classes, the authors present common-sense examples and hypotheticals in order to link student intuitions about fairness and competition to the law of contracting. This book is part of the Carolina Academic Press Mastering Series edited by Russell L. Weaver, University of Louisville School of Law.

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  Criminal Law: Model Problems and Outstanding Answers

  Russell Christopher and Kathryn Christopher

  Each question is separated into components so students can easily identify the key concepts in criminal law and learn how to apply those concepts in a sophisticated manner on law exams. Helps students identify the deficiencies in their own answers, allowing them to refine their writing and provide the answers law professors expect on criminal law exams. A self-evaluation section identifies which issues are most often missed on exams, allowing students to master the answers to challenging test questions.

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  Sports Law: Cases and Materials, (7th ed., Lexis 2011).

  Ray Yasser

  This popular casebook is divided into three parts: Part I focuses on legal issues arising out of amateur sports. Particular emphasis is placed on the roles, rules, and activities of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The issues addressed include amateur sports associations, gender equity in amateur athletics, and amateur sports and antitrust law. Part II addresses with legal issues in professional sports. The chapters in this part deal with professional sports leagues, labor relations and antitrust law, enforcement of sports contracts, representation of professional athletes, negotiation of sports contracts, and stadium and arena issues. Part III presents issues that arise in both professional and amateur sports. The subjects analyzed include criminal liability of sports participants, tort issues, intellectual property issues, health and disability issues, drug testing, and Olympic and international sports rules and regulations.

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  International Family Law: Conventions, Statutes, and Regulatory Materials

  Marianne Blair and Merle H. Weiner

  This paperback book was created to assist American law students and attorneys who are studying or practicing international family law. It was designed to supplement any U.S. law course on private or public international family law, whether the course utilizes the authors' own casebook or other materials. The book contains the principal global and regional multilateral conventions and human rights declarations pertinent to familial rights, obligations, and conflicts, edited for educational use. The book also includes selected U.S. federal statutes and regulations related to international family law matters, as well as the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act and the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement.

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  Claims Against Iraqi Oil and Gas: Legal Considerations and Lessons Learned

  Rex Zedalis

  This volume presents the first comprehensive examination of the legal issues surrounding international debt recovery on claims against Iraqi oil and gas. In addition to presenting a snapshot view of Iraq's outstanding debt obligations and an analysis of the significance of the theory of odious debt in the context of the Iraqi situation, the list of legal issues examined includes relevant provisions of the Iraqi Constitution of 2005, controlling Security Council resolutions, pertinent articles of the KRG oil and gas law (No. 22) of 2007 and the many nuanced and technical questions raised thereby, legal pronouncements aimed at protecting Iraqi oil and gas and those adopted in selected other nations, and general problems associated with recognition and enforcement of awards or judgments that may involve such oil and gas or revenues from the sale thereof. Also discussed are the lessons learned by the handling of the Iraq debt experience and the transferability of those lessons to future situations.

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  Goldwasser, Arnold, & Eickmeyer, Accountant's Liability

  Tom Arnold

  PLI’s Accountants’ Liability has been the reliable and readable resource that accountants have turned to for guidance on how they can meet their professional responsibilities, comply with relevant rules, and avoid the increased number of legal land mines. Accountants see clearly the trouble they can get into when they deal with financial statements, fail to perform contracted services, fail to uncover clients’ wrongful actions, act as business consultants, offer tax-related services, misstate material facts, and fail to follow professional standards.

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  Family Law in the World Community

  Marianne Blair, Merle H. Weiner, Barbara Stark, and Solangel Maldonado

  The second edition of this casebook has been updated and trimmed, although it retains a wide range of topics and materials. It covers a variety of private international law issues, including child abduction, child custody, adoption, child support enforcement, and recognition of marriages and divorces. The book also explores the impact of public international law on both domestic and international regulation of the family, using topics such as family violence and the rights of the child. Finally, the book uses comparative law materials to examine traditional family law topics, such as the regulation of marriage, the rights of same-sex couples, adoption, reproductive freedom, and more.

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  The Legal Dimensions of Oil and Gas Law in Iraq: Current Realities and Future Prospects

  Rex Zedalis

  This book is the first and only comprehensive examination of current and future legal principles designed to govern oil and gas activity in Iraq. This study provides a thorough-going review of every conceivable angle on Iraqi oil and gas law, from relevant provisions of the Iraqi Constitution of 2005; to legislative measures comprising the oil and gas framework law, the revenue sharing law, and the laws to reconstitute the Iraq National Oil Company and reorganize the Ministry of Oil; to the Kurdistan Regional Government's 2007 Oil and Gas Law No. (22) and its accompanying Model Production Sharing Contract; and to the apposite rules of international law distilled from both controlling UN resolutions addressing Iraq and more generally applicable principles of international law.

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  Introduction to the Law of Contracts (4th ed)

  Martin Frey and Phyllis Hurley Frey

  An Introduction to the Law of Contracts is now out in it's fourth edition. It is still carefully organized around a comprehensive road map that takes the student through the 6 steps of contract law, but the new edition includes added benefits. There are updated cases and examples, and each chapter ends with review questions to help reinforce the theories addressed in each chapter. The chapters also end with a checklist that helps to highlight the key concepts for the paralegal student. The first of 6 steps investigates what body of law applies to the transaction. The next step addresses the formation of a contract, offer and acceptance. Step 3 develops limitations on the party's freedom to contract, and concepts such as infancy, illegality, duress, and unconscionability are explored. The next step looks at the plaintiff's allegation of the defendant's breach. Step 5 organizes the defendant's responses to the plaintiff's allegation of breach, categorizing it into one of two basic types that is then further explored. The final step develops the plaintiff's remedies for the defendant's breach of contract. With this step both the Common Law and UCC Article 2 remedies are explored. The text also makes reference to international arbitration based on the fact that over 90% of international contract disputes are resolved through international arbitration rather than litigation. Paralegal students will benefit from this thorough and highly readable text that is completely current and has a focus on retention.