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SUPREME COURT CASES ON GENDER AND SEXUAL EQUALITY, 1787-2001 by Christopher A. Anzalone (Editor). Armonk,
NY: M E. Sharpe, Inc., 2002. 640 pp. Cloth $124.95. ISBN: 0-7656-0683-6.
This volume reprints, with only a sentence of commentary at the beginning of each of its eight chapters and no
opinion headnotes, 300 United State Supreme
Court opinions on gender rights, gender and educational policies, gender and employment, sexual harassment, sexual
privacy, family and marriage, sexual ethics, and sexual orientation. Appendices include the Constitution, a table
of cases, a keyword index, and an extensive bibliography.
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW, 3d edition, by Steven J. Cann. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2002. 551 pp. Cloth
$74.95. ISBN: 0-7619-2164-8.
This new edition of an administrative law text and casebook opens with four chapters that discuss popular, executive,
legislative, and judicial controls on administrative action in the United States. Subsequent chapters discuss access
to agency information, informal agency actions, rulemaking and adjudication, the law of public employment, due
process, and suits against government. The texts of the Administrative Procedure Act and the Constitution are appended.
PROPERTY LAW: CASES, MATERIALS, AND QUESTIONS by Edward E. Chase. Cincinnati: Anderson Publishing Co., 2002.
1096 pp. Cloth $62.95. ISBN: 1-58360-767-6.
The author presents a property law casebook for law school students. It has chapters on the concept of property,
estates in land, concurrent interests, leases, sales of real estate, easements, promises running with land, and
zoning and takings.
THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION: CASES-COMMENTS-QUESTIONS by Jesse H. Choper, Richard H. Fallon, Jr., Yale Kamisar,
and Steven H. Shiffrin. St. Paul, MN: West Group, 2001. 1361pp. Cloth $75.00. ISBN: 0-314-24717-3.
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CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES: CASES-COMMENTS-QUESTIONS by Jesse H. Choper, Richard H. Fallon, Jr.,
Yale Kamisar, and Steven H. Shiffrin. St. Paul, MN: West Group, 2001. 1476 pp. Cloth $75.00. ISBN: 0-314-24718-1.
These new editions of popular law school casebooks update prior editions and make changes in the coverage of substantive
due process and Congressional
enforcement of civil liberties. Otherwise, the format remains much as in the most recent of prior editions.
THE QUESTION PRESENTED: MODEL APPELLATE BRIEFS by Maria L. Ciampi and William H. Manz. Cincinnati: Anderson
Publishing Co., 2000. 278 pp. Paper $25.00. ISBN: 0-87084-419-9.
This book contains examples of appellate briefs designed for law school courses in appellate advocacy.
THE LAWYER'S CRAFT: AN INTRODUCTION TO LEGAL ANALYSIS, WRITING, RESEARCH, AND ADVOCACY by Cathy Glaser,
Jethro K. Lieberman, Robert A. Ruescher, and Lynn Boepple Su. Cincinnati: Anderson Publishing Co., 2002. 477 pp.
Paper $29.95. ISBN: 1-58360-787-0.
Designed for legal writing classes in law school, this text provides instruction and examples legal analysis, research,
appellate advocacy, and the preparation of appellate memoranda and briefs.
AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: POWER AND POLITICS. VOLUME II CIVIL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES, by Gregg Ivers. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002. 803 pp. Paper. No price listed. ISBN: 0-395-88987-1.
This new undergraduate constitutional law casebook opens with chapters on constitutional structure, constitutional
interpretation, and the history of American rights and the incorporation issue. It then offers chapters on free
speech and association, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, search and seizure, Fifth and Sixth Amendment
rights, cruel and unusual punishment, privacy, equal protection, and voting rights. Cases are integrated--and marked
using bolder type--into the author's discussion of their historical and political implications and doctrinal importance.
Most chapters offer a few "sidebars" or sections of a few pages with special information on a specific
case. The book comes with a CD-ROM of oral arguments and website with hypothetical problems and appendices containing
the Constitution, information on case briefing, and a guide to legal materials on the Internet.
UNDERSTANDING NEGOTIATION by Melissa L. Nelken. Cincinnati: Anderson Publishing Co., 2001. 462 pp. Paper
$36.95. ISBN: 1-58360-765-X.
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This book, designed for use in law schools, brings together instruction on negotiation, distributive and integrative
bargaining, and the psychology and ethics of negotiation with selections from 53 articles on negotiation, several
of which were written by social scientists.
CIVIL PROCEDURE FOR FEDERAL AND STATE COURTS by Jeffrey A. Parness. Cincinnati: Anderson Publishing Co.,
2001. 839 pp. Cloth $68.95. ISBN: 1-58360-769-2.
The author presents a comprehensive casebook on civil procedure designed for law school use. Chapters cover jurisdiction
and venue, alternatives to trial
courts, choice of law, affirmative pleadings, provisional remedies, pleadings, joinder, discovery, summary judgment,
pretrial conferences, settlement, trial proceedings, judgments, and appeals.
THE ECONOMICS OF PUBLIC LAW: THE COLLECTED ECONOMIC ESSAYS OF RICHARD A. POSNER, VOLUME 3 by Richard A.
Posner, edited by Francesco Parisi. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2001. 408 pp. Cloth $110.00.
ISBN: 1-85898-643-5.
This volume reprints 17 articles published between 1970 and 1995 by the federal Court of Appeals judge on the topics
of legislation and constitutional law, criminal law, labor law and employment discrimination, and regulation and
antitrust. The editor supplies a 26-page introduction and bibliography. A name index is appended.
PREJUDICIAL APPEARANCES: THE LOGIC OF ANTIDISCRIMINATION Law by Robert C. Post with K. Anthony Appiah; Judith
Butler; Thomas C. Grey; and Reva B. Siegel. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. 170 pp. Cloth $54.50. ISBN:
0-8223-2702-3. Paper $18.95. ISBN: 0-8223-2713-0.
This volume reprints a series of articles form the CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW, vol. 88 (January 2000). Post's article
presents the thesis that antidiscrimination law should transform potentially oppressive categories or practices
rather than protect the transcendental dignity of individuals. The four other authors respond to and critique Post's
argument.
BEST-KEPT SECRETS OF EVIDENCE LAW: 101 PRINCIPLES, PRACTICES, AND PITFALLS by Paul R. Rice. Cincinnati:
Anderson Publishing Co., 2001. 233 pp. Cloth $29.95. ISBN: 1-58360- 777-3.
The author provides advice for lawyers about the Federal Rules of Evidence together with examples and diagrams
that illustrate his points about the relevance of evidence, the hearsay rule, the best evidence rules, scientific
evidence, cross-examination, and attorney-client privilege.
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CASE AND MATERIALS IN JUVENILE LAW by J. Eric Smithburn. Cincinnati: Anderson Publishing Co., 2002. 902
pp. Cloth $68.95. ISBN: 1-58360-318-4.
This law school casebook contains chapters on the origins of juvenile justice, jurisdiction, intake processes,
children's rights in schools, charging a juvenile as an adult, juvenile court procedures and dispositions, children
as victims, state protection of children, child welfare procedures and advocacy, foster parents, termination of
parental rights, and child mental health issues.
THE POLICE IN AMERICA: AN INTRODUCTION, 4th ed. by Samuel Walker and Charles M. Katz. Boston: McGraw Hill,
2002. 514 pp. Paper. Price not listed. ISBN: 0-07-241491-X.
A much expanded and updated version of previous editions, this edition of the authors' well-regarded textbook on
police retains the same number and
organization of chapters. It especially adds new information on innovations in police tactics. The book features
several learning devices, sidebars, discussion questions, and Internet exercises in each chapter. Separate supplements
for instructors, test bank, online learning center, and power point slides are available.