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Securities Litigation: Law, Policy, and Practice (Second Edition)

Wendy Gerwick Couture

Securities Litigation provides an analytical and practical framework addressing the key subjects in the field, complemented by problems and exercises to enhance students’ lawyering skills. U.S. Supreme Court and lower court cases that cover the key remedial provisions are highlighted, including Sections 11 and 12 of the Securities Act and Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act, as well as alternative federal remedial statutes and secondary liability provisions. Integral to this discussion is a thorough treatment of class and derivative actions. Government enforcement is also analyzed, with particular focus on SEC and criminal enforcement.

In addition, state securities litigation is covered in depth, along with professional liability exposure. The new edition also adds coverage of cutting-edge issues, including the regulation of digital assets, new forms of market manipulation, the rise of state securities class actions, recent insider trading cases analyzing tipper-tippee liability, and unsettled questions about the fraud-on-the-market presumption of reliance.
The Legislative Process, Statutory Interpretation, and Administrative Agencies, Second Edition

Linda Jellum

This updated casebook is designed for an introductory class on legislation and regulation. It is practice oriented and uses a combination of highly edited cases and targeted problems to teach students the tools and methods for interpreting legal texts and navigating the administrative state. The text aims to familiarize students with the techniques lawyers use to craft statutory and regulatory arguments, while also giving students a sense of the importance of the government actors. After working through this text, students should understand how statutes and regulations are enacted and interpreted; the role that legislatures, courts, and agencies play in interpretation and regulation; and the breadth of arguments that lawyers can make to advocate for their clients.

This edition was revised significantly to make it even more accessible for first-year law students. Each chapter begins and ends with learning objectives. Text boxes define important terms and canons. New problems are added, and targeted questions now follow all problems to take students step-by-step through them.
Idaho Land Use Law: Cases and Resources

Stephen R. Miller

Idaho Land Use Law: Cases and Resources is a casebook for those seeking a better understanding of land use and urban development in Idaho. Items covered include: national origins of land use planning; origins of land use planning in Idaho; all major sections of Idaho's Local Land Use Planning Act; statewide and local subdivision regulations; common law subdivision dedications; nuisance; due process; equal protection; takings; Dillon's Rule as it operates in Idaho; development agreements; ethics; state preemption of local police power authority; the scope of the police power in Idaho; special districts that affect land use decision making; and a number of special topics including short-term rentals, home occupations, and signs and billboards.
Mastering Legislation, Regulation, and Statutory Interpretation

Linda Jellum

Formerly Mastering Statutory Interpretation, this third edition has been updated and expanded to reflect the growing number of Leg-Reg classes in the law school curriculum. The text explains the legislative process; describes the difference between bills, acts, statutes, regulations, and guidance documents; explores the sources of meaning and the theories of interpretation; explains the linguistic and policy-based canons of interpretation; and introduces the administrative state. The book's organization starts with the enactment of an act, turns to codification, moves to interpretation, and concludes with agencies.

The interpretation section begins with the most relevant sources of meaning—intrinsic sources, such as text—before moving to the next most relevant—extrinsic sources, such as legislative history—and concluding with the policy-based sources, such as the rule of lenity. Throughout, the text refers to the major cases in each area of study to coordinate with the major textbooks in the field. The book also includes a running hypothetical to help students better implement what they are learning. Finally, each chapter provides a concise roadmap and summary to introduce and encapsulate the most important material in that chapter.
Administrative Law: A Context and Practice Casebook (2d Ed.)

Richard Henry Seamon

The second edition of Administrative Law helps students prepare for the practice of administrative law. It uses a broad problem-solving framework to explore agency rulemaking, agency adjudication, and judicial review of agency action. Most of the book's chapters are framed by chapter problems and include multiple exercises for in-class discussion. The text also provides learning tools such as checklists and graphics for the purpose of building practice-oriented knowledge and skills
American Conflicts Law: Cases and Materials, 7th Ed.

Richard Henry Seamon

The seventh edition of American Conflicts Law: Cases and Materials continues the organizational pattern of the sixth edition, along with the problem approach adopted there. This new edition updates all material, including the ongoing Restatement (Third) of Conflicts of Law and, in Chapter 3, the Supreme Court's overruling of Nevada v. Hall in its latest decision in California Franchise Tax Board v. Hyatt.
Examples & Explanations for Administrative Law, 6th Ed.

Richard Henry Seamon

Provides students with comprehensive coverage and discussion on administrative law in the time-tested Examples and Explanations format. A favorite among successful students, and often recommended by professors, the unique Examples & Explanations series gives you extremely clear introductions to concepts followed by realistic examples that mirror those presented in the classroom throughout the semester.
Updates in Securities Regulation

Wendy Gerwick Couture

The Securities Regulation Annual reviews the legislative, regulatory, and litigation developments in the dynamic area of securities regulation during the past year and previews issues that will likely arise in the year ahead. Securities regulation is evolving in response to recent changes in technology, presidential administrations, Securities and Exchange Commission leadership, and composition of the Supreme Court. The Annual provides concise and pithy updates across a variety of topics, contextualizes those developments, and predicts their future impacts, drawing from commentary by practitioners, scholars, and regulators. The Annual is intended for an audience of securities law scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and students.
Wildlife Law: A Primer

Dale Goble

Wildlife is an important and cherished element of our natural heritage in the United States. But state and federal laws governing the ways we interact with wildlife can be complex to interpret and apply. Ten years ago, Wildlife Law: A Primer was the first book to lucidly explain wildlife law for readers with little or no legal training who needed to understand its intricacies. Today, navigating this legal terrain is trickier than ever as habitat for wildlife shrinks, technology gives us new ways to seek out wildlife, and unwanted human-wildlife interactions occur more frequently, sometimes with alarming and tragic outcomes.

This revised and expanded second edition retains key sections from the first edition, describing basic legal concepts while offering important updates that address recent legal topics. New chapters cover timely issues such as private wildlife reserves and game ranches, and the increased prominence of nuisance species as well as an expanded discussion of the Endangered Species Act, now more than 40 years old. Chapter sidebars showcase pertinent legal cases illustrating real-world application of the legal concepts covered in the main text.
Supreme Court Ethics Reform

Johanna Kalb

Today, the nine justices on the Supreme Court are the only U.S. judges - state or federal - not governed by a code of ethical conduct. But that may be about to change.
Problems and Solutions for Federal Income Taxation, 2d Ed.

John A. Miller

The second edition of Problems and Solutions for Federal Income Taxation reflects the many significant changes made by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act for years 2018 and beyond. This edition includes more than 400 problems with solutions. Each problem set is introduced with a concise overview. The book contains 42 chapters that are accessible by topic, code section, case name or keyword. No matter the main text assigned, this comprehensive problem set will aid students in assessing and refining their knowledge of the federal income tax and its application to typical fact patterns. Coverage includes treatments of individual and family income tax principles, business taxation, intellectual property taxation, deferred compensation, and tax procedure. The final chapters include introductions to corporate and partnership taxation, international taxation, and federal transfer taxation.
Child Protection Bench Cards for Idaho Judges

Elizabeth Brandt

Summaries of child protection laws to assist Idaho judges. Covers numerous topics: aggravated circumstances determination, adjudicatory hearing, adoption - CPA related, advisement of rights, amended disposition hearing, case plan hearing, ICWA, ICPC, permanency hearing - no aggravated circumstances, permanency hearing - aggravated circumstances, psychotropic medications for children in care, review hearings, Rule 16 expansion for CP judges, Rule 16 expansion for juvenile judges, shelter care hearing, termination of parental rights, transition to successful adulthood, trauma informed judge.
Practical Panarchy for Adaptive Water Governance: Linking Law to Social-Ecological Resilience

Barbara Cosens

This book presents the results of an interdisciplinary project that examined how law, policy and ecological dynamics influence the governance of regional scale water based social-ecological systems in the United States and Australia. The volume explores the obstacles and opportunities for governance that is capable of management, adaptation, and transformation in these regional social-ecological systems as they respond to accelerating environmental change.
Acing Administrative Law

Linda Jellum

Acing Administrative Law will be useful to students preparing for exams in both Administrative Law and Leg/Reg courses. The book uses flowchart-style checklists to show students how to analyze administrative law exam questions—in ways that are both efficient and effective (and which do not generally match the sequencing of topics in most admin law courses). For example, students should always begin with a single baseline query when answering an admin law exam question: “Does this agency action involve rulemaking or adjudication?” As with all the Acing books, each chapter begins with a brief review of the important rules and concepts that govern a particular area of administrative law. The review material is followed by a flowchart that provides students with a clear roadmap for answering exam questions. Each chapter includes practice problems with solutions illustrating how to use the flowchart to analyze specific issues. The book concludes with a comprehensive flowchart and a practice problem, so that students can see how all the parts fit together.
Mastering Administrative Law, Second Edition

Linda Jellum

Mastering Administrative Law is designed as a supplement to law school courses in Administrative Law or as an introduction to the subject for lawyers trained in other legal systems. The book explicitly and in plain language identifies the functions of the various principles of administrative law. To facilitate the mastery of topics, this book includes a Roadmap at the beginning of each chapter that provides readers with an overview of the material that will be covered; Checkpoints at the end of each chapter that reiterate what has been learned; and a Master Checklist at the end of the book that reinforces what has been covered and helps readers identify any areas that need review or further study.
Human Rights Advocacy in the United States

Johanna Kalb

This pedagogically innovative book is the only law school casebook focused on human rights advocacy in the United States. It illuminates a range of both hot topics and persistent theoretical and doctrinal issues while equipping students to thoughtfully engage these tools in their own practice of law. Readings and case studies expose students to the history, tools, and critiques of the U.S. human rights movement and the legal and practical challenges of human rights implementation in the United States. Skills exercises introduce practice-oriented approaches to engaging human rights-based strategies, including practice before international treaty bodies as well as domestic policymakers. Additionally, the appendices offer the text of relevant human rights treaties.

Appropriate for introductory and advanced seminars, as well as clinical and other experiential offerings, the materials engage students on a remarkable range of issues, including immigration, rights of indigenous peoples, racially discriminatory policing, and right to housing. Chapters also explore fundamental issues of federalism, sovereignty, judicial review, and legal ethics.
The Fundamentals of Federal Taxation: Problems and Materials, 5th Edition

John A. Miller

The fifth edition of Miller & Maine’s The Fundamentals of Federal Taxation is a problem-based, transaction-oriented treatment of the basics of federal taxation. It features a balanced approach toward tax planning and tax policy and is structured for easy accessibility through the use of forty-one chapters, each of which can readily be covered in one, or occasionally two, class sessions. This edition incorporates developments in the law through January of 2018, including the far-reaching Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Key developments since the fourth edition include changes to the ordinary income rate structure, depreciation and capitalization, itemized deductions, personal exemptions, alimony, the child tax credit, and casualty losses. This edition also further engages students by noting how tax law intersects with diverse and hot topics such as the sharing economy, the legalized marijuana industry, Silicon Valley job perks, wrongful incarceration, virtual currency, and human egg donation.
Wildlife Law: Cases and Materials, Third Edition

Dale D. Goble

This edition draws liberally upon the subject’s rich history, in law and culture. Without that history there can be no firm understanding of the subject. Animals are living entities, organized into shifting, complex ecological systems; from the first page, biology plays a critical role in our story. Moral sentiments and ethical values have expanded to attend to the plight of particular animals, to species, and to the healthy functioning of communities. Ethical concerns, too, appear in this edition as a key issue.
The Fundamentals of Federal Taxation: Problems and Materials, 4th Edition

John A. Miller

The fourth edition of The Fundamentals of Federal Taxation is a problem-based, transaction-oriented treatment of the basics of federal taxation. It features a balanced approach toward tax planning and tax policy and is structured for easy accessibility through the use of forty-two chapters, each of which can readily be covered in one, or occasionally two, class sessions. This edition incorporates developments in the law through January of 2017. Key developments since the third edition include changes to depreciation and capitalization, the tax treatment of same-sex marriage, and emerging trends in the tax treatment of personal injuries. This edition also further engages students by noting how tax law intersects with diverse and hot topics such as the sharing economy, the legalized marijuana industry, Silicon Valley job perks, wrongful incarceration, virtual currency, and human egg donation.
Securities Litigation Law: Law, Policy, and Practice

Wendy Gerwick Couture

Securities Litigation provides an analytical and practical framework addressing the key subjects in the field. In this text, U.S. Supreme Court and lower court cases that cover the key remedial provisions are highlighted, including Sections 11 and 12 of the Securities Act and Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act, as well as alternative federal remedial statutes (such as Sections 14(a) and 18(a) of the 1934 Act) and secondary liability provisions. Integral to this discussion is a thorough treatment of class and derivative actions, with applicable cases and statutes. Government enforcement is also analyzed, with particular focus being given to the SEC and criminal enforcement. In addition, state securities litigation is covered in depth along with professional liability exposure. The text provides a practical and insightful learning experience, complemented by problems and exercises that will enhance students' lawyering skills.
State Documents Bibliography: West Virginia

Stacy Etheredge

Bibliography of state-specific documents and resources for legal research.
The Legislative Process, Statutory Interpretation, and Administrative Agencies

Linda Jellum

The book begins by introducing the legislative process, moves to explore in detail statutory interpretation, and ends with an introduction to the administrative state. After reading this text, students should understand how statutes are enacted and interpreted, the role that agencies play both in regulating and in interpreting statutes, and the breadth of arguments that are available to lawyers.
Summary of Idaho Employment Termination Law

Monique C. Lillard

This book is divided into five sections. The first addresses the preliminary and definitional questions of whether an employment relationship exists and whether a termination has occurred. Then the author moves to the meat of the question, namely, whether the employer is acting within its legal rights to terminate the relationship. The book canvases other causes of action that often arise in conjunction with termination, then turns to procedural and practical matters, including wage payment, unemployment hearing, arbitration agreements, remedies and attorney fees. At the end the author transitions to more of an essay style, musing on how to prove or refute suspect motivations, practical concerns for both sides, and the limits of the law.
Problems and Solutions for Federal Income Taxation

John A. Miller
Contemporary Issues in Climate Change Law and Policy, Essays Inspired by the IPCC

Stephen R. Miller

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s most recent set of reports, generally referred to collectively as the Fifth Assessment Report, present significant data and findings about climate change. But what role does law play in addressing and responding to these findings? This book, the second by the Environmental Law Collaborative, an affiliation of environmental law professors, focuses on the relationship between law and the Fifth Assessment Report in hopes of bridging this gap. This book’s chapters are illustrative of the overwhelming number of legal issues that climate change creates. Some of the contributions remain directly tied to the text of the IPCC’s reports, while others focus on climate change more generally. Together, this volume contributes to a constructive and helpful discussion about how to address the climate change challenge.