Law in the United States: Cases and Commentaries, 3rd Edition

 

Law in the United States: Cases and Commentaries

3rd Edition

Charles F. Abernathy, Markus G. Puder

The third edition of Law in the United States introduces students to the unique American mix of common law, statutory materials, and constitutional law. Strongly emphasizing American legal methods and American legal history and culture, the book provides a rich array of teaching resources covering both public and private law.

The broader themes discussed in the eighteen chapters of this casebook include the nature and sources of American law, the division of government power and the protection of human rights under the U.S. Constitution, litigation in a federal framework, and the American enterprise system, with a focus on torts, contracts, corporations and eminent domain.

This book lends itself to being used for various target audiences. Over the years, it has proven a valuable learning resource for foreign-trained attorneys enrolled in American Master of Laws programs. Moreover, the range of subjects discussed in the book will assist students who may wish to sit for a state bar examination in a state with specific requirements for study of American legal methods. The book is also highly suitable for pre-law programs at the college level as well as law school seminars. Also, comparativists with an interest in American law may find this casebook a valuable resource in light of the rich commentaries it offers through expositions and notes.

PUBLICATION DATE: 05/03/2021 - ISBN: 9781647085520 - EXTENT: 890 PAGES

Scheduling the Juris Diversitas General Conference

The General Meeting of Juris Diversitas, originally scheduled for June 2020 in Catania (Sicily, Italy) will be organized online, on Zoom, June 9-11, 2021. The theme is The Dark Side of the Law (La face cachee du droit). It will feature over 70 presentations, 7 panels, and 3 keynotes, with over 100 presenters. The conference will be accessible to all members of  Juris Diversitas having paid their dues in 2021 (see our Membership page). No conference fees will be charged. 

We are planning the event taking into account that our presenters and participants will be distributed into three large geographic zones, covering many time zones:

Zone 1 The Americas

Zone 2 Europe, Africa, Middle East, including Arabic Peninsula and Iran

Zone 3 Asia, Oceania

We organize events in two blocks of four hours, Block A accessible to Zones 1 and 2, and Block B accessible to Zone 2 and 3.

Stay tuned, a draft schedule will be published soon! 

The Lost Translators of 1808 and the Birth of Civil Law in Louisiana

 In celebration of Vernon Valentine Palmer’s fifty years of teaching at Tulane and the publication of his latest book, Tulane Law School and the Eason Weinmann Center for Comparative and International Law invite you to a live virtual conversation between comparative-law experts, Dean David Meyer, and the author. Click here to register.

Tuesday April 27, 5:30--6:30 p.m. CT

Webinar on the French Influence on Louisiana Law

On March 24, 2021, LSU Professors Alain Levasseur and Olivier Moréteau, Tulane Professor Vernon Palmer, and Dan Stigall (U.S. Department of Justice and LSU alum) discussed the French linguistic and juridical influence on the legal system of Louisiana at a Zoom roundtable organized by the French Embassy to the United States and the French Consulate General in New Orleans. Click here to view the webinar (in French).

Journal of Civil Law Studies, Volume 13

 

Volume 13, Number 2, was published online on March 25, 2021.

Articles: Luigi Montefusco discusses new law in France (2016) and Belgium (2019 draft) making provision allowing for revision of contracts in case of hardship (imprévision) making performance excessively onerous for one of the parties. Maria Victoria Mayor del Hoyo suggests ways to improve the situation of the biological mother in expressing her assent to the adoption of her child, under Spanish and European laws.

Civil Law Translations: Book IV of the Louisiana Civil Code appears for the first time in a trilingual version, with the text in English, French and Spanish. The publication of Book I in English and Spanish is continued with Titles IV-X, concluding the publication of Book I in our volume 13. The Spanish translation of Book II will appear in Volume 14.

Civil Law in the World features a report by Julieta Marotta and Agustín Parise on changes in family and property law in Argentina, brought by the new Civil and Commercial Code of 2015 and subsequent legislative and doctrinal developments.

Rediscovered Treasures of Louisiana Law publishes a memorandum by Robert A. Pascal discussing the organization of the Louisiana Civil Code and commenting on additional material, with an introduction by Olivier Moréteau. Two case notes are published in the Civil Law in Louisiana feature, and two book reviews complete the volume.

Click here to access the Journal of Civil Law Studies.

The Journal of Civil Law Studies welcomes submissions for volume 14: email moreteau@lsu.edu.

 

The Law of Investment Treaties

Third Edition

Jeswald W. Salacuse

Oxford International Law Library

• Provides a complete and systematic overview of the field of investment treaty law, from one of its leading scholars and practitioners
• Examines issues which are common across virtually all investment treaties, including the scope of application, conditions for the entry of foreign investment, and general standards of treatment of foreign investments
• Includes analysis of all major developments in investment treaty law since the previous edition, such as the conclusion of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTTP), and the replacement of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)

New to this Edition:

• Incorporates new sections on treaty entry into force, provisional application of investment treaties, investment facilitation, and monetary transfers
• Assesses the impact of important developments in the field since the previous edition, including the termination of over 100 intra-EU BITs in 2020
• PUBLICATION DATE: 18 April 2021- ISBN: 9780198850953 - EXTENT: 640 PAGES

 

The Oxford Handbook of the International Law of Global Security

Edited by Robin Geiß and Nils Melzer

Oxford Handbooks

• A comprehensive and systematic overview of the relationship between international law and global security challenges
• Addresses recent debates about the relationship between public international law and global security, evaluating the effectiveness of the law in contributing to sustainable global security governance
• Major areas of coverage include armed conflict, human rights, the environment, and technology
• Assesses the role of international organizations and other institutional actors in the global security architecture
• PUBLICATION DATE: 16 April 2021 - ISBN: 9780198827276 - EXTENT: 2200 PAGES 

 

The Right to a Fair Trial in International Law

Amal Clooney and Philippa Webb

• Provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of international jurisprudence relating to the right to a fair trial
• Distils international standards on the basis of a diverse range of sources, including international and regional treaties, case law of international courts and tribunals, and decisions of international human rights bodies
• Considers the practical scenarios that arise in trials that implicate this fundamental right
• PUBLICATION DATE: 11 April 2021 - ISBN: 9780198808398 - EXTENT: 1056 PAGES 

The Justification of War and International Order: From Past to Present

 

The Justification of War and International Order: From Past to Present 

Edited by Lothar Brock and Hendrik Simon

The History and Theory of International Law

• Offers a broad historical and geographical perspective to explore the justification of war on a global scale
• Brings together leading scholars from international political and legal history, international law, international relations/peace and conflict studies, philosophy, and international political theory
• PUBLICATION DATE: 11 April 2021 - ISBN: 9780198865308 - EXTENT: 560 PAGES 

Investment Treaties and the Legal Imagination: How Foreign Investors Play By Their Own Rules

 

Investment Treaties and the Legal Imagination

How Foreign Investors Play By Their Own Rules

Nicolás M. Perrone

• An innovative contribution to the debate on international investment law, one of the most controversial areas of the global economic order
• Explores the contribution that business leaders, bankers, and international lawyers made to international investment law in the 1950s and 1960s, showing the continuity between their legal imagination and present investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) practice
• Analyzes foreign investor rights using a transnational and socio-legal approach to property rights and contracts
• Provides a new perspective on influential ISDS awards, including recent cases involving local communities
• PUBLICATION DATE: 11 April 2021 - ISBN: 9780198862147 - EXTENT: 272 PAGES