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Law Professors
"There is no nation in which the teachers of law play a more prominent role than in the United States. In this unique volume Stephen Presser, a law professor for four decades, explains how his colleagues have both furthered and frustrated the American ideals that ours is a government of laws not men, and that our legal system ought to promote justice for all. In a dazzling review of three centuries of teaching about American law, from Blackstone to Barack Obama, Presser shows how these extraordinary men and women shaped not only our law, but also our politics and culture"--Publisher's website.
Recapturing the Constitution
Presser makes a compelling case that the original understanding of the Constitution was that religion, morality, and law were inextricably connected.--Forrest McDonald
An Introduction to the Law of Business Organizations
The new edition will explore recent developments in the Delaware Corporate law that further define the fiduciary responsibility of officers and directors, the continuing academic controversy over for whose benefit corporations should be run, and the ongoing federal efforts to ameliorate perceived failings in the state law regarding corporations. The second edition will also include further materials to contribute toward bridging the longstanding gap between lawyers? understanding of the perspective of managers and managers uneasiness over the narrow perceptions of lawyers. It will continue to be the one casebook regarding business organizations specifically designed to meet the needs of both law students and management students.
Limited Liability
The modern corporation has become central to our society. The key feature of the corporation that makes it such an attractive form of human collaboration is its limited liability. This book explores how, by allowing those who form the corporation to limit their downside risk and personal liability to only the amount they invest, there is the opportunity for more risks taken at a lower cost.
An Introduction to the Law of Business Organizations
This edition continues to bridge the gap between lawyers' understanding of the perspective of managers and vice-versa. It continues to meet the needs of both law students and management students. This new edition incorporates additional material on the personalities involved in and the political and social issues raised by the cases studied, and now includes two anti-takeover cases (involving Time magazine and Paramount studios). In an era of re-examination of the basic assumptions of business regulation, this text is a good introduction to the field.
The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law
This book is the first to gather in a single volume concise biographies of the most eminent men and women in the history of American law. Encompassing a wide range of individuals who have devised, replenished, expounded, and explained law, The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law presents succinct and lively entries devoted to more than 700 subjects selected for their significant and lasting influence on American law. Casting a wide net, editor Roger K. Newman includes individuals from around the country, from colonial times to the present, encompassing the spectrum of ideologies from left-wing to right, and including a diversity of racial, ethnic, and religious groups. Entries are d...
The Creation of the Common Law
After Edward I became king, Chief Justice Bereford took charge of the legal system and created law in accord with his own sense of justice. Here the most important medieval cases are paraphrased and analyzed, making this interesting and entertaining litigation accessible to everyone.
The Hollow Core of Constitutional Theory
The first major scholarly defense of the centrality of the Framers' intentions in constitutional interpretation to appear in years.
