tag:open.umn.edu,2005:/opentextbooks/subjects/law-civil-lawOpen Textbook Library - Civil Law Textbooks2022-12-19T15:05:45Zhttps://open.umn.edu/assets/common/favicon/favicon-1594c2156c95ca22b1a0d803d547e5892bb0e351f682be842d64927ecda092e7.icohttps://open.umn.edu/assets/library/otl_logo-f9161d5c999f5852b38260727d49b4e7d7142fc707ec9596a5256a778f957ffc.png13062022-12-19T15:05:45Z2024-01-22T14:52:37ZRules and Laws for Civil Actions - 2023<img alt="Read more about Rules and Laws for Civil Actions - 2023" title="Rules and Laws for Civil Actions - 2023 cover image" class="cover " width="150" height="200" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NDM4MywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--ba0af50823163f54243a0d68e7a55957fca59f17/9984321055802771.jpeg" />Rules and Laws for Civil Actions is an open-access resource for law students containing the U.S. Constitution, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, and selected federal and state statutes. The book was created by a team of faculty members at the University of Iowa College of Law to supplement the study of Civil Procedure, Evidence, Constitutional Law, and other law school courses. In addition to containing the official text, each legal source found in Rules and Laws for Civil Actions is accompanied by an introductory section written by an Iowa Law professor explaining its significance and background.12942022-12-12T14:26:41Z2024-01-22T14:52:35ZCivil Rights and Liberties<img alt="Read more about Civil Rights and Liberties" title="Civil Rights and Liberties cover image" class="cover " width="768" height="994" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NDM1NSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--845ccaf27624a5de7487d0f76b4092fb99469ef2/Title-Page-Civil-Rights-and-Liberties-1-768x994.png" />This volume focuses on the constitutional doctrine and law in the areas of civil rights and liberties. It contains excerpts of landmark cases covering the first amendment, second amendment, fourteenth amendment and the right to privacy. The excerpts include the constitutional issues in these cases that are related to civil rights and liberties with other questions of law and dicta omitted.12222022-08-02T13:33:34Z2024-01-22T14:52:34ZTort Law: Cases and Commentaries - 2nd Edition<img alt="Read more about Tort Law: Cases and Commentaries - 2nd Edition" title="Tort Law: Cases and Commentaries - 2nd Edition cover image" class="cover " width="1062" height="1326" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6Mzg4NCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--7e67076b200b23b560270c526abddb77cdd1bff0/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-02%20at%208.31.09%20AM-min.png" />The law of obligations concerns the legal rights and duties owed between people. Three primary categories make up the common law of obligations: tort, contract, and unjust enrichment. This casebook provides an introduction to tort law: the law that recognises and responds to civil wrongdoing. The material is arranged in two parts. Part I comprises §§1-11 and addresses intentional and dignitary torts and the overarching theories and goals of tort law. Part II comprises §§12-25 and addresses no-fault compensation schemes, negligence, nuisance, strict liability, and tort law’s place within our broader legal systems. This casebook was compiled and edited by Assistant Professor Samuel Beswick of the University of British Columbia Peter A. Allard School of Law. Maddison Zapach (J.D. expected 2023) provided research assistance on the first edition (published July 2021). We gratefully acknowledge the influence on our approach to this subject of Professor Joost Blom QC of the Allard School of Law, Professor John C.P. Goldberg of Harvard Law School, and Associate Professor Rosemary Tobin of the University of Auckland Faculty of Law. The support of Open UBC and the UBC Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund is also gratefully acknowledged.10632021-09-17T03:47:48Z2024-01-22T19:10:30ZReligion in the Law: An Open Access Casebook - First Edition<img alt="Read more about Religion in the Law: An Open Access Casebook - First Edition" title="Religion in the Law: An Open Access Casebook - First Edition cover image" class="cover " width="610" height="777" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6Mjg2NywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--bc7823e915bbbf201fdc072e050cc3411d8d5360/Rkewe.JPG" />This casebook features nearly sixty cases from American courts that involve, in some important way, religious belief and action. The book is divided into sections: First Principles, Establishment, Free Exercise, and Special Problems. Each section includes landmark or otherwise influential cases that have influenced American law and religious practice. Most cases come from the U.S. Supreme Court but the lower federal and state courts are also represented.In the contextual introductions to each section and subpart, I have tried to give the reader a basis for understanding how the cases came about and why I chose them for this book. I have tried to minimize editorial comment. I have cited some scholarship where I think it would be helpful, but please do not mistake this as an attempt to produce a comprehensive treatise on the subject of religion in the law. It is a casebook, and a short one, all things considered. At the end of each introductory part is a short “further reading” list. I chose those articles because I found each of them interesting and useful to under-standing the topics that precede them. Their selection is not necessarily an endorsement of each author’s arguments, though I do agree with some of them.I designed this casebook specifically for my own use in a 400-level undergraduate seminar called Law & Society. Class sessions using this book are intended to be student-led, roundtable talks with the professor acting as discussion prompter and neutral mediator. Generally, two cases are assigned for each class session. I selected, edited, and arranged the cases to complement each other thematically and chronologically to the best of my ability. Many of the cases include overlapping topics and could fit into multiple categories, so I took some liberties in their arrangement. Your mileage may vary.9092020-08-28T05:28:31Z2024-01-22T14:52:12ZOpen-Source Property: A Free Casebook<img alt="Read more about Open-Source Property: A Free Casebook" title="Open-Source Property: A Free Casebook cover image" class="cover " width="619" height="606" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTQ2MCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--f6f42220209af964e342d1812b306ea634366867/Capture.PNG" />Open Source Property: A Free Casebook is a free resource for instructors and students of the first-year Property Law course at American law schools, and anyone else with an interest in the subject.8772020-07-07T18:53:10Z2024-01-22T19:01:22ZFundamentals of Business Law<img alt="Read more about Fundamentals of Business Law" title="Fundamentals of Business Law cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="525" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTIyMCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--03eae12db43fc55c3e05cc1aa571b8fd07db39d0/fundbuslaw.jpg" />Undergraduate business law textbook written by Melissa Randall and Community College of Denver Students in collaboration with lawyers and business professionals for use in required 200 level business law courses in the United States. This book is an introductory survey of the legal topics required in undergraduate business law classes.7892019-10-27T03:08:33Z2023-09-25T13:10:39ZBusiness Law I Essentials<img alt="Read more about Business Law I Essentials" title="Business Law I Essentials cover image" class="cover " width="571" height="739" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NzQ2LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--24147339ab2df9981a16a66d2d21fb1c04601f51/978-1-947172-78-4.jpg" />Business Law I Essentials is a brief introductory textbook designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of courses on Business Law or the Legal Environment of Business. The concepts are presented in a streamlined manner, and cover the key concepts necessary to establish a strong foundation in the subject. The textbook follows a traditional approach to the study of business law. Each chapter contains learning objectives, explanatory narrative and concepts, references for further reading, and end-of-chapter questions. Business Law I Essentials may need to be supplemented with additional content, cases, or related materials, and is offered as a foundational resource that focuses on the baseline concepts, issues, and approaches.6692019-02-13T17:26:36Z2024-01-22T14:52:03ZLaw 101: Fundamentals of the Law<img alt="Read more about Law 101: Fundamentals of the Law" title="Law 101: Fundamentals of the Law cover image" class="cover " width="626" height="812" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NjEzLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--55722156af7a06ab570418be2a0f706f1a8b2718/0000LawFunLaw.png" />Law 101: Fundamentals of Law, New York and Federal Law is an attempt to provide basic legal concepts of the law to undergraduates in easily understood plain English. Each chapter covers a different area of the law. Areas of law were selected based on what legal matters undergraduates may typically encounter in their daily lives. The textbook is introductory by nature and not meant as a legal treatise.Facebook4492018-09-07T17:22:02Z2024-01-22T14:52:16ZIntellectual Property: Law & the Information Society—Cases and Materials<img alt="Read more about Intellectual Property: Law & the Information Society—Cases and Materials" title="Intellectual Property: Law & the Information Society—Cases and Materials cover image" class="cover " width="420" height="600" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTkwNCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--56e2e8c8ef262f6019418a3922d76ea3d4ab0d46/ipcasebook2018_front-cover.jpg" />This book is an introduction to intellectual property law, the set of private legal rights that allows individuals and corporations to control intangible creations and marks—from logos to novels to drug formulae—and the exceptions and limitations that define those rights. It focuses on the three graphmain forms of US federal intellectual property—trademark, copyright and patent—but many of the ideas discussed here apply far beyond those legal areas and far beyond the law of the United States. The book is intended to be a textbook for the basic Intellectual Property class, but because it is an open coursebook, which can be freely edited and customized, it is also suitable for an undergraduate class, or for a business, library studies, communications or other graduate school class. Each chapter contains cases and secondary readings and a set of problems or role-playing exercises involving the material. The problems range from a video of the Napster oral argument to counseling clients about search engines and trademarks, applying the First Amendment to digital rights management and copyright or commenting on the Supreme Court's rulings on gene patents.4242018-09-07T17:22:01Z2024-01-22T14:51:54ZTorts: Cases and Contexts Volume 2<img alt="Read more about Torts: Cases and Contexts Volume 2" title="Torts: Cases and Contexts Volume 2 cover image" class="cover " width="861" height="1113" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MzUzLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--f3b19e6de0efc2c48d099e3ada0fb780e51cf15d/0000TorCasCo2.png" />Plain-spoken and convivial, this casebook makes a deliberate effort to explain the law, rather than to provide a mere compilation of readings and questions. Simple concepts are presented simply. Complex concepts are broken down and accompanied by examples and problems. By being clear and straightforward, the casebook aims to quickly get students to the point where they can navigate regions of gray and build nuanced arguments. The book is written from the conviction that when students stop to puzzle over something, it should be because the law itself puzzles, not because the book obfuscates. Students describe the book as easy to read. A key aim is context, with explanations of how pieces of doctrine fit into the bigger picture. There is also a continual effort to plug doctrine into the real world of practice, getting students to think about litigation strategy and tactics. Another key feature is a high-degree of organization. Doctrine is explained upfront, independent of and before the cases. After the cases, there is no notes-and-questions mishmash. Historical notes, check-your-understanding questions, questions to ponder, and problems are all separately labeled as such. The readings are rich with variety. The classic cases are here, of course. But there are also atypical readings that allow students to see tort law from different perspectives, including an opening statement, a closing argument, administrative-enforcement letters, an excerpt from a novel, and an opinion on tribal law from a Navajo court. Many selections are also startlingly modern, with facts involving texting-and-driving, alcoholic energy drinks, Facebook libel, suddenly accelerating Toyotas, and the misery of a six-hour tarmac delay. Please note that the publisher requires you to login to access and download the textbooks.
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