CrunchTime Series: Torts

Emanuel CrunchTime® for Torts, Sixth Edition, by Steve Emanuel focuses on those topics that are important in today’s courses on Torts and includes an abundance of short-answer questions and answers as well as exam tips.

This edition has been updated to reflect changes in the law, in casebooks, and topics tested on exams.

Students will benefit from:

Flowcharts illustrate principles and concepts
A capsule summary explains the major topics and issues covered in the course
Exam Tips teach you how to avoid common traps and pitfalls
Short-answer questions (with answers) provide an opportunity to test your knowledge
Multiple-choices questions in the style of questions on the Multistate Bar Exam (with detailed answers) build your exam-taking skills and confidence
Essay questionswith model answers help you review and prepare for exams

Included in The Sixth Edition of CrunchTime® for Torts

New coverage of the “value of a chance” issue: Can a medical-malpractice patient recover anything when there’s a less-than-50/50 chance that non-negligent treatment would have led to a better outcome? [Smith v. Providence Health & Services]
Expanded discussion of courts’ refusal to allow plaintiffs to recover for “pure economic loss,” including the California Supreme Court case holding that businesses whose profits were damaged by a toxic gas leak cannot recover anything if they did not also suffer some personal injury or property damage. [Southern California Gas Leak Cases]
Expanded coverage of the modern approach to the “both ways” rule for imputed contributory/comparative negligence, including the court’s refusal to apply the rule against owner-passengers of a vehicle who are injured due to the combined negligence of a third party and the driver of the owner’s vehicle. [Seaborne-Worsely v. Mintiens]
Expanded coverage of the duty to warn in prescription-drug product-liability suits, including whether a plaintiff can recover for inadequate labeling from the maker of the brand-name version of a drug, if the plaintiff actually took a generic version made by some other manufacturer. [T.H. v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp.]
New coverage of strict product-liability suits arising from Internet sales, including whether a company that merely supplies fulfillment services—and never takes title to the goods—can nonetheless be liable as a “seller” of the goods. [Oberdorf v. Amazon.com Inc.]

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Emanuel CrunchTime® for Torts, Sixth Edition, by Steve Emanuel focuses on those topics that are important in today’s courses on Torts and includes an abundance of short-answer questions and answers as well as exam tips.

This edition has been updated to reflect changes in the law, in casebooks, and topics tested on exams.

Students will benefit from:

Flowcharts illustrate principles and concepts
A capsule summary explains the major topics and issues covered in the course
Exam Tips teach you how to avoid common traps and pitfalls
Short-answer questions (with answers) provide an opportunity to test your knowledge
Multiple-choices questions in the style of questions on the Multistate Bar Exam (with detailed answers) build your exam-taking skills and confidence
Essay questionswith model answers help you review and prepare for exams

Included in The Sixth Edition of CrunchTime® for Torts

New coverage of the “value of a chance” issue: Can a medical-malpractice patient recover anything when there’s a less-than-50/50 chance that non-negligent treatment would have led to a better outcome? [Smith v. Providence Health & Services]
Expanded discussion of courts’ refusal to allow plaintiffs to recover for “pure economic loss,” including the California Supreme Court case holding that businesses whose profits were damaged by a toxic gas leak cannot recover anything if they did not also suffer some personal injury or property damage. [Southern California Gas Leak Cases]
Expanded coverage of the modern approach to the “both ways” rule for imputed contributory/comparative negligence, including the court’s refusal to apply the rule against owner-passengers of a vehicle who are injured due to the combined negligence of a third party and the driver of the owner’s vehicle. [Seaborne-Worsely v. Mintiens]
Expanded coverage of the duty to warn in prescription-drug product-liability suits, including whether a plaintiff can recover for inadequate labeling from the maker of the brand-name version of a drug, if the plaintiff actually took a generic version made by some other manufacturer. [T.H. v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp.]
New coverage of strict product-liability suits arising from Internet sales, including whether a company that merely supplies fulfillment services—and never takes title to the goods—can nonetheless be liable as a “seller” of the goods. [Oberdorf v. Amazon.com Inc.]

Our contemporary era has witnessed the remarkable development of China-ASEAN relations. Both sides have pledged to establish and develop a comprehensive cooperation. However, any development of international relations is governed by international legal principles, norms and rules, such as the Charter of the United Nations and general international law. There is no exception for China-ASEAN relations. The book discusses and explains China-ASEAN relations from an international law perspective and covers a wide range of legal topics and legal issues.

The first book which attempts to discuss and explain China-ASEAN relations in an international law perspective
Covers a wide range of legal topics and issues significantly existing in the development of China-ASEAN relations
Unique in the sense that it specifically deals with the relationship between one country and one international/regional organization

A provocative new approach to race in the workplace What role should racial difference play in the American workplace? As a nation, we rely on civil rights law to address this question, and the monumental Civil Rights Act of 1964 seemingly answered it: race must not be a factor in workplace decisions. In After Civil Rights, John Skrentny contends that after decades of mass immigration, many employers, Democratic and Republican political leaders, and advocates have adopted a new strategy to manage race and work. Race is now relevant not only in negative cases of discrimination, but in more positive ways as well. In today's workplace, employers routinely practice "racial realism," where they view race as real—as a job qualification. Many believe employee racial differences, and sometimes immigrant status, correspond to unique abilities or evoke desirable reactions from clients or citizens. They also see racial diversity as a way to increase workplace dynamism. The problem is that when employers see race as useful for organizational effectiveness, they are often in violation of civil rights law. After Civil Rights examines this emerging strategy in a wide range of employment situations, including the low-skilled sector, professional and white-collar jobs, and entertainment and media. In this important book, Skrentny urges us to acknowledge the racial realism already occurring, and lays out a series of reforms that, if enacted, would bring the law and lived experience more in line, yet still remain respectful of the need to protect the civil rights of all workers.

Based on the well-received 2011 publication Constitutional Law and American Democracy, this concise work focuses on the elucidation and protection of rights and liberties under the U.S. Constitution. A new approach to constitutional law that ties cases to the most salient and controversial debates in our polity today, this volume, like its parent volume, Constitutional Law and American Democracy, presents a wide selection of carefully selected readings and cases that create a compelling, nuanced view of current key political and constitutional issues and interpretive approaches and problems through engaging topics of especially high interest to students.

The book takes account of the key fact that to maximize their potential, people must have lifelong access to the information and services offered through books and libraries. Whether to address concerns of an ageing population or to enable all citizens to contribute fully through meaningful education and work opportunities, more emphasis is being given to promoting library services to people who have disabilities. This book is a compendium of articles focused on serving adults with disabilities in an international setting. From this book, librarians, policy makers and constituents will understand the importance of serving all potential patrons, will be exposed to best practices and model programs, and will learn techniques and strategies for improving the services their libraries offer.

Pragmatic approach gives librarians tools they can use immediately to improve their services
Policy overviews help librarians understand advocacy issues
Emphasis on universal access helps librarians and decision-makers understand how improving services for people with disabilities improves services for all patrons

The book explores the current role of nationality from the point of view of international law, reassessing the validity of the ‘classical’, state-centered, approach to nationality in light of the ‘new’ role the human being is gradually acquiring within the international legal order. In this framework, the collection assesses the impact of international human rights rules on the international discourse on nationality and explores the significance international (including private international) law attaches to the links individuals may establish with states other than that of nationality. The book weighs the significance of the bond of nationality in the context of regional integration systems, and explores the fields of international law in which nationality still plays a pivotal role, such as diplomatic protection and dispute settlement in international investment law. The collection includes contributions from legal scholars of different nationalities and academic backgrounds, and offers an excellent resource for academics, practitioners and students undertaking advanced studies in international law.

Health and safety issues now impose upon almost every part of business life. The system of enforcement is managed and implemented in the UK by The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) – but at times it can be difficult to know exactly which bits of this elaborate spider’s web should be applied in a given instance, and which are most important. This Quick Guide puts the subject into context, providing a rational overview and a valid starting point to applying health and safety in the workplace, and offers a concise and readily accessible interpretation of what health and safety legislation means in practice.

Puts health and safety in to context
Provides a rational overview and starting point to applying health and safety in the workplace
Offers a concise interpretation of health and safety legislation in practice

Sexual Abuse in Residential Treatment provides comprehensive information on behavioral manifestations of sexual abuse in residential settings and the safety and developmental needs, staff training, and management strategies necessary to protect both residents and staff. Chapters containing vivid case studies that describe problematic episodes, discussions of research projects, and proposals for agency sexuality policies, safe facility management, and staff training contribute to a balanced presentation of the framework in which sexual manifestations are embedded.Professionals in residential treatment will learn how to identify the most common sexual, sexualized, and sexually abusive behaviors and from whence they derive. Sexual Abuse in Residential Treatment provides specific suggestions for policy and program design, recommends operational framework for safe management of treatment facilities, and describes practical staff supervision and training modules. With an emphasis on clinical practice, descriptions of common problems and proposed solutions together with a broad philosophical basis to guide policy setting will benefit professionals in agencies interested in developing customized organizational and treatment plans. Practitioners, policymakers, and decision makers in residential programs, inpatient psychiatric units, community-based group homes, court-related youth shelters, and correctional facilities for the rehabilitation of behaviorally disturbed youth presenting sexual problems will find a wealth of information on a wide range of topics such as: normal, pathological, and abusive sexual behavior in residential treatment staff responses to sexual behavior, training, and supervision needs frequency and quality of sexual behaviors of latency-aged children safe management to prevent toxic manifestations of sexuality management of sex abuse allegations in the residential program recommendations for agency sexuality policies selection criteria and program features for specialized offender treatment the heterogeneity of phenomena classified as “sex abuse” values conflicts involved in the design of programs and policiesSexual Abuse in Residential Treatment provides descriptive commentary concerning sexual behavior of youth in residential treatment from various points of view including development, values, therapeutic milieu, safety, training, and clinical experience. Such a diverse approach makes this a valuable guide for practitioners, as well as program directors, unit supervisors, case managers, staff trainers, faculty in child care studies, and child protective services staff.

Digital Rights Management examines the social context of new digital rights management (DRM) technologies in a lively and accessible style. It sets out the scope of DRMs in non-technical terms and then explores the shifts that DRM has produced within the regime of protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs). Focusing on the social norms around the protection of IPRs, it examines the music industry and software development sector to ask whether the protections established by DRM are legitimate and socially beneficial. Using these key examples to establish a more general argument, the books central conclusion is that rather than merely re-establishing threatened rights, the development of DRM has extended the rights of intellectual property owners, and that such an extension violates previous carefully balanced political compromises as regards the maintenance of the public domain.

Places DRM in its political context
Sets out the social impact of a new and important technology
Accessible and clearly written for a non-technical audience

Written by former law clerks, legal scholars, biographers, historians, and political scientists, the essays in In Chambers tell the fascinating story of clerking at the Supreme Court. In addition to reflecting the personal experiences of the law clerks with their justices, the essays reveal how clerks are chosen, what tasks are assigned to them, and how the institution of clerking has evolved over time, from the first clerks in the late 1800s to the clerks of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Chief Justice William Rehnquist. In Chambers offers a variety of perspectives on the unique experience of Supreme Court clerks. Former law clerks—including Alan M. Dershowitz, Charles A. Reich, and J. Harvie Wilkinson III—write about their own clerkships, painting vivid and detailed pictures of their relationships with the justices, while other authors write about the various clerkships for a single justice, putting a justice's practice into a broader context. The book also includes essays about the first African American and first woman to hold clerkships. Sharing their insights, anecdotes, and experiences in a clear, accessible style, the contributors provide readers with a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the Supreme Court.

This book brings together many of the worlds leading open access experts to provide an analysis of the key strategic, technical and economic aspects on the topic of open access. Open access to research papers is perhaps a defining debate for publishers, librarians, university managers and many researchers within the international academic community. Starting with a description of the current situation and its shortcomings, this book then defines the varieties of open access and addresses some of the many misunderstandings to which the term sometimes gives rise. There are chapters on the technologies involved, researchers, perspectives, and the business models of key players. These issues are then illustrated in a series of case studies from around the world, including the USA, UK, Netherlands, Australia and India. Open access is a far-reaching shift in scholarly communication, and the book concludes by going beyond todays debate and looking at the kind of research world that would be possible with open access to research outputs.

Chapters by leading experts in the field, including Professor Jean-Claude Gué¤¯n, Clifford Lynch, Stevan Harnad, Peter Suber, Charles Bailey, Jr., Alma Swan, Fred Friend, John Shipp and Leo Waaijers
Discussion of open access from a wide range of perspectives
Country case studies, summarising open access in the USA, UK Netherlands, Australia and India

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