Social Law 2017

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FAMILY LAW IN A NUTSHELL

Sixth Edition
John E.B. Myers & Harry D. Krause

Feb 2017 502pp
9781683282549 Paperback £48.50 / €56.00
Nutshell Series
Few areas of law practice cover as many issues as family law. The subject embraces marriage
and divorce, annulment, custody of children, spousal and child support, complex property
issues, paternity, domestic violence, adoption, and alternative means of reproduction. Each of
these topics itself is complex. This book provides a thorough introduction to this challenging
field of practice.
West Academic Publishing

SOCIAL MEDIA LAW IN A NUTSHELL

Ryan Garcia & Thaddeus Hoffmeister
May 2017 400pp
9781634593540 Paperback £48.50 / €56.00
Nutshell Series
Offers a wide-ranging look at how the social media transformation has impacted various
legal fields. By looking at high level concerns and example cases, this book gives practitioners
exposure to social media issues and concerns so they can better advise clients and approach
the new social media world with their legal eyes opened to new and old risks alike.
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DIGITAL JOURNALISM THERAPEUTIC JURISPRUDENCE AND
OVERCOMING VIOLENCE AGAINST
Rethinking Communications Law to Support WOMEN
Democracy and Viable Business Models
Rosa Maria Garcia Sanz Edited by Debarati Halder & K. Jaishankar
Jun 2017 287pp
Feb 2017 208pp 9781522524724 Hardback £225.00 / €260.00
9781680530230 Hardback £60.50 / €70.00 Advances in Public Policy and Administration

Investigates new business models for journalism on the Presents the latest scholarly research on the strategic role
Internet and how legal perspective can lead to new business of jurisprudential practices to benefit women and protect
models. Through the use of pertinent case law as a departure women’s rights. Highlighting a range of perspectives on
point, the different models of producing information and topics such as reproductive rights, workplace safety, and
news on the Internet are identified. The different legal victim-offender overlap, this book is designed for academics,
elements are then discussed. practitioners, policy makers, students, and practitioners.
W.B. Sheridan, Law Publishers
University of Massachusetts Press
Broadview Press

BIOETHICS LAW AND MOURNING

Legal and Clinical Case Studies Edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas &
Gary E. Jones & Joseph P. DeMarco Martha Merrill Umphrey

Apr 2017 400pp Aug 2017 184pp
9781554813575 Paperback £35.50 / €40.00
9781625342836 Paperback £32.95 / €38.00
Offers a case-based introduction to ethical issues in health
care. Through seventy-eight compelling scenarios, the 9781625342829 Hardback £98.95 / €115.00
authors demonstrate the practical importance of ethics,
showing how the concerns at issue bear on the lives of The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and
patients, health care providers, and others. Each chapter Social Thought
includes a selection of important legal cases as well as clinical
case studies for critical analysis. Brings together a distinguished group of scholars to explore
the many and complex ways that law both regulates and
Brookes Publishing Co. gives meaning to our experience of loss. The essays in this
volume illuminate how law helps us to absorb and contend
YOUR CLASSROOM GUIDE TO with loss and its reverberations, channelling the powerful
SPECIAL EDUCATION LAW emotions associated with death and protecting those
vulnerable to them.
Beverley H. Johns
Jun 2016 176pp
9781598579710 Paperback £29.50 / €35.00

Provides basic information that special educators and
administrators need to know to deliver special education
services to students in the most appropriate and law-
abiding way. Each chapter presents a different topic related
to special education law, including working with parents
and colleagues, supervising students, IEP development,
behavioural interventions, and teacher conduct.

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West Academic ENTERTAINMENT LAW, CASES AND
MATERIALS ON ESTABLISHED AND
CHILDREN AND THE LAW, DOCTRINE, EMERGING MEDIA
POLICY AND PRACTICE
Second Edition
Sixth Edition Sherri L. Burr
Douglas E. Abrams, Susan V. Mangold & Sarah H. Ramsey
Jun 2017 277pp
May 2017 277pp 9781683282587 Hardback £230.00 / €265.00
9781634604888 Hardback £250.00 / €285.00 American Casebook Series
American Casebook Series
Contains cases, unique interviews with celebrities and other
The authors have updated the popular casebook with materials that educates its readers about the complex
new cases and materials that capture rapid changes in entertainment business. To capture first-hand knowledge
child advocacy and juvenile justice. The book continues its of the entertainment business, the author has interviewed
interdisciplinary emphasis, practical approach, and in-depth widely throughout the world. The celebrities featured in this
coverage of lawyering, child abuse and neglect, foster care, book include Academy Award, Emmy and Grammy winners,
adoption, status offenses, and delinquency. as well as bestselling authors.
West Academic Publishing West Academic Publishing

DOMESTIC RELATIONS, CASES ENTERTAINMENT
AND MATERIALS LAW IN A
NUTSHELL
Eighth Edition
Walter Wadlington, Raymond C. O’Brien & Fourth Edition
Robin Fretwell Wilson Sherri L. Burr

Apr 2017 1178pp Apr 2017 277pp
9781634608855 Hardback £240.00 / €275.00 9781683285045 Paperback
University Casebook Series £48.50 / €56.00
Nutshell Series
Provides cases from state, federal and international
courts that integrate the scope and dynamism of family Gives a big picture overview
law. This volume incorporates problems to test students’ of the intellectual property,
understanding of the material. Familiar topics from past contract, publicity, estate
editions have been retained and the cases and materials planning, and First Amendment issues that contribute to
updated to include all of changes that have occurred. the field of entertainment law. Professor Burr also addresses
Foundation Press specific legal issues that arise in the film, music, and television
industries, including discussion of the rise of “reality”
Also available: television.
West Academic Publishing
STATUTORY AND DOCUMENTARY
SUPPLEMENT ON DOMESTIC FAMILY LAW IN A NUTSHELL
RELATIONS
Sixth Edition
Selected Uniform Laws, Model Legislation, John E.B. Myers & Harry D. Krause
Federal Statutes, State Statutes, and
International Treaties, 2017 Edition Feb 2017 502pp
Walter Wadlington, Raymond C. O’Brien & 9781683282549 Paperback £48.50 / €56.00
Robin Fretwell Wilson Nutshell Series

Apr 2017 277pp For full details of this title, see page 1.
9781628102000 Paperback £49.50 / €57.00 West Academic Publishing
University Casebook Series

In teaching and in practicing family law, the availability
of pertinent codified material and recent commentary is
indispensable. This compendium of statutory materials
supplements the casebook by these same authors.
Foundation Press

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LEGAL ISSUES IN EDUCATION SEXUAL ORIENTATION,
GENDER IDENTITY, AND THE
Rights and Responsibilities in U.S. Public LAW IN A NUTSHELL
Schools Today
Kevin Welner, Robert Kim & Stuart Biegel Ruth Colker
May 2017 277pp
Apr 2017 478pp 9781634608992 Paperback £46.50 / €54.00
Nutshell Series
9781683281641 Paperback £105.00 / €120.00
Presents a timely overview of legal topics relating to
Blends valuable excerpts from original court opinions with sexual orientation, gender identity and the law. Topics
policy and legal analysis to help build a deep understanding covered include regulation of sexuality, gender identity and
of the law and its meaning for education students. The core expression, parenthood, marriage, United States military,
of this book is focused on what education students would non-discrimination statutes and ordinances, freedom of
most care about and need to know about the law, with expression, freedom of association, and religious freedom.
supporting material and additional content specifically for West Academic Publishing
those students.
West Academic Publishing SOCIAL MEDIA LAW IN A NUTSHELL

MARIJUANA LAW IN A NUTSHELL Ryan Garcia & Thaddeus Hoffmeister
May 2017 277pp
Mark K. Osbeck & Howard Bromberg 9781634593540 Paperback £48.50 / €56.00
Apr 2017 532pp Nutshell Series

9781634599351 Paperback £48.50 / €56.00 For full details of this title, see page 1.
Nutshell Series West Academic Publishing

A concise yet comprehensive text that provides an overview SPORTS LAW IN A
of marijuana law. Discusses important issues pertaining NUTSHELL
to public policy, legal history, constitutional law, criminal
law, and jurisprudence, as well as practical legal issues that Fifth Edition
concern both marijuana-related businesses and individuals, Walter T. Champion, Jr.
in areas such as banking, employment, tax, bankruptcy, and
child custody. Apr 2017 751pp
West Academic Publishing 9781634605809 Paperback
£48.50 / €56.00
MEDICAL LIABILITY IN A NUTSHELL Nutshell Series

Fourth Edition Contains the elements of
Marcia Mobilia Boumil & Paul A. Hattis sports law explained in an
organised, coherent manner.
May 2017 277pp This book simplifies the
complex world of sports law and provides a road map to all
9781634603416 Paperback £48.50 / €56.00 of its intricacies from contracts, torts, antitrust, liabilities,
Nutshell Series constitutional implications, labour law, taxes. This Fifth
edition continues to update the material with a focus on
Written by experts in the field, this Nutshell offers insight important recent legal developments.
on establishing professional relationships and examines West Academic Publishing
negligence-based claims, intentional torts, causation,
damages, affirmative defenses, limitations, immunities, and
liabilities. It also provides an overview of medical care liability
issues affecting hospitals and managed care organisations.
West Academic Publishing

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