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  Experiencing Trusts and Estates

  Deborah S. Gordon, Karen J. Sneddon, Carla Spivak, Allison A. Tate, and Alfred L. Brophy

  This textbook takes a learner-centered and experiential approach to trusts and estates law, which makes it well suited to teaching both online and face-to-face. The opening chapters introduce students to key concepts in intergenerational wealth transfer and planning for incapacity and death. The remainder of the book highlights inheritance law concepts from both a forward-looking (planning/drafting) and backward-looking (litigation) perspective.

  The second edition continues to feature some of the most teachable trusts and estates cases, to focus on issues of gender, race, class, and sexuality, and to offer online student resources. New features of this edition include learning outcomes at the beginning of each chapter to help with ABA compliance and student focus, a broad and varied array of formative assessments, a glossary of terms, highlight boxes containing practice notes, connection notes, and language notes, and final chapter take-aways to link topics together. Some examples of assessments include; role playing exercises; drafting client letters and testamentary instruments; writing policy papers, legislation, and judicial opinions; and preparing community and client presentations. Each chapter also features more traditional hypotheticals, fact patterns, and discussion questions, extensive notes designed to help lead students through the major issues, and an appendix of sample documents.

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  Georgia Law of Torts, 2021-2022 ed.

  David Hricik and Charles R. Adams III

  This title is a comprehensive treatise on substantive Georgia tort law. The first publication of its kind, it is intended both for the general practitioner who necessarily encounters a broad range of torts issues, as well as for the specialist who needs a basic familiarity with an area of tort law tangential to his field of expertise. The seasoned torts practitioner may also find this book to be a helpful ready reference work for location of pertinent statutory or case authority.

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  Remedies: A Practical Approach

  David Charles Hricik

  This new student-friendly remedies casebook is designed for use in the standard remedies elective and also in "capstone" or bar prep courses. The book addresses the policies underlying remedies while teaching students the rules they will need to apply on bar exams. Primary cases apply the "bar rule," and the notes that follow describe cases that adopt a different position. The book features abundant explanatory material and numerous practical lawyering problems and hypotheticals to help students test their understanding.

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  Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Employment Discrimination Opinions

  Pamela A. Wilkins

  Chapter 6 - Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination as Sex Discrimination

  [The chapter] concludes that discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression is sex discrimination under Title VII. In Etsitty v. Utah Transit Authority, the Tenth Circuit held that a bus company did not violate Title VII when it fired a transgender driver for using women’s restrooms along her route. The court concluded that discrimination based on transgender status does not violate Title VII’s prohibition of discrimination “because of sex,” and that the plaintiff was fired because of bathroom use, not discrimination. The rewritten opinion reverses course: the employer’s behavior violated both Title VII and the Equal Protection Clause. Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College held that discrimination based on sexual orientation is illegal sex discrimination. The rewritten opinion arrives at the same conclusion, but offers a more humanistic lens through which to view the legal question posed. The rewritten opinion relies on several legal theories to support its conclusion, including but-for causation, sex stereotyping, sex-plus, associational (or relationship) discrimination, and a unique use of the motivating factor provision in Title VII.

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  The Formation of Professional Identity: The Path From Student to Lawyer

  Daisy Hurst Floyd, Timothy W. Floyd, and Patrick Emery Longan

  Becoming a lawyer is about much more than acquiring knowledge and technique. As law students learn the law and acquire some basic skills, they are also inevitably forming a deep sense of themselves in their new roles as lawyers. That sense of self – the student’s nascent professional identity – needs to take a particular form if the students are to fulfil the public purposes of lawyers and find deep meaning and satisfaction in their work. In this book, Professors Patrick Longan, Daisy Floyd, and Timothy Floyd combine what they have learned in many years of teaching and research concerning the lawyer’s professional identity with lessons derived from legal ethics, moral psychology, and moral philosophy. They describe in depth the six virtues that every lawyer needs as part of his or her professional identity, and they explore both the obstacles to acquiring and deploying those virtues and strategies for overcoming those impediments. The result is a straightforward guide for law students on how to cultivate a professional identity that will allow them to make a meaningful difference in the lives of others and to flourish as individuals.

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  Legal Writing

  Suzianne Painter-Thorne, Richard K. Neumann, and Sheila Simon

  Written in a style that engages students, Legal Writing, Fourth Edition by Richard K. Neumann Jr., Sheila Simon, and Suzianne D. Painter-Thorne, includes outstanding coverage on organizing analysis according to the CREAC formula (also known as the paradigm), the writing process, storytelling techniques, rule analysis, statutory interpretation, and professionalism. In addition, the book has a dynamic website where student resources include Sheila Simon’s famed lasagna presentation, classroom and independent exercises, self-assessment checklists, and other learning tools.

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  Moot Court Workbook: Finding Educational Success and Competition Glory

  Suzianne Painter-Thorne and Karen J. Sneddon

  This workbook enhances the educational and practical experience of moot court. In addition to offering basic information that students need to perform well in moot court, it cultivates professional skills that will inform their success in the practice of law. Designed to be accessible to students regardless of the structure of the law school moot court program, it uses active learning techniques to engage students and to help them learn and retain core content.

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  Westlands Law: A Course Source

  Stephen M. Johnson

  Revised 2021

  This is the revised, fourth edition of The Wetlands Law Course Source. It can be used as the primary text for a two credit seminar or as a supplemental text to cover wetlands material in an environmental law, natural resources law, or water law course. In addition, the administrative law chapter can be used as a supplement in a range of administrative law-related courses, such as environmental law, health law, labor law, immigration law, and others, to introduce basic administrative law concepts.

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  Issues and Perspectives in Conflict of Laws: Cases and Materials

  Gary J. Simson

  The new edition includes case law developments through January 2014. Its various new principal and note cases enhance the breadth and depth of coverage and promise to be lively and interesting to teach. The fifth edition also reflects the increasing importance of international conflicts in this country's courts.

  Like the earlier editions, the fifth offers comprehensive coverage of choice of law, jurisdiction, judgments, and federal-state conflicts. It features an innovative organization of the choice-of-law materials, highlighting in Chapter 1 the natural advantages of applying forum law and turning in Chapters 2–6 to choice-of-law policies that at times have led courts to reject those natural advantages. Other distinctive aspects of the book include its special attention to relevant constitutional law doctrines and its use of chapter introductions to provide special guidance to students.

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  Integrating State (Georgia) and National Legal History

  James L. Hunt

  Chapter in Teaching Legal History: Comparative Perspectives, edited by Robert M. Jarvis, Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publishing (2014).

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  Toward Human Flourishing: Character, Practical Wisdom, and Professional Formation

  Mark L. Jones, Paul A. Lewis, and Kelly E. Reffitt

  This collection of essays and other materials grows from a series of interdisciplinary projects involving more than 150 faculty and a significant number of students from Mercer University's 11 colleges and schools between 2005 and 2010. The book explores the relevance to contemporary education of a number of Aristotelian convictions. --Authentic human flourishing in community with others requires good character the acquisition of an ensemble of deeply ingrained knowledge, skills, and dispositions by which a person makes good decisions that promote the good. --The master virtue of practical wisdom (phronesis) lies at the heart of good character by conducting this ensemble in particular situations so that the agent does the right thing in the right way at the right time. --Notions of good character and practical wisdom are relevant for decision-making and action in personal, political, and professional contexts. --Qualities of character can be learned by intentional, guided imitation so that one s reasoning, passions, and actions more closely resemble those of moral experts. --The development of good character and practical wisdom is intimately linked to, and shaped by, a sense of life s meaning and purpose. --The development of good character, practical wisdom, and sense of identity occurs across all levels of education: preK 12, undergraduate, graduate, professional, and continuing education. In light of these investigations, this book calls educators whether teacher, scholar, or administrator to join together across disciplines and institutions to foster practical wisdom throughout the educational continuum.

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  Relationship Banker : Eugene W. Stetson, Wall Street, and American Business, 1916-1959

  James L. Hunt

  In 1916, Eugene W. Stetson, a thirty-five year old banker from Macon, Georgia, became a vice-president with the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, a 'Morgan Bank'. Although by this time Pierpont Morgan was dead, Guaranty still resided fully within the Morgan firm's orbit, its broader policies controlled by the votes of Morgan partners. Stetson took full advantage of the Guaranty-Morgan opportunity. Between 1916 and his death in 1959, he became president and chairman of Guaranty. He survived the booms and busts of World War I and its aftermath, the stock-crazed 1920s, the transformation of banking in the Depression, and the demands of total war in the 1940s. In 1958, Stetson spearheaded the merger of Guaranty and Morgan, beginning a long series of combinations that eventually produced JPMorgan Chase, currently the largest bank in the United States. Throughout these events, the key to Stetson's banking - as well as the key to the larger question of who got capital - was Stetson's skill at creating and sustaining personal relationships. His best clients and associates included Coca-Cola's Robert Woodruff, financier and railroad baron Averell Harriman, IBM's Tom Watson, Sr., and Morgan's Thomas Lamont. It is through these relationships that both Stetson and Wall Street banking in the middle decades of the twentieth century can be understood. By focusing on Stetson's career, this study offers a personalized portrait of the strategies and relationships that determined who received capital in twentieth-century America

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  The Centennial History of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, 1906-2006

  Charles Adams Jr., Suzanne Loyd Cassidy, James P. Fleissner, and Robert Tanner

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  Can a Good Christian Be a Good Lawyer?: Homilies, Witnesses, and Reflections

  Timothy W. Floyd and Thomas E. Baker

  Law professors Thomas E. Baker and Timothy W. Floyd asked some of their legal colleagues to respond to this provocative question: "Can a good Christian be a good lawyer?" Here are twenty-one highly personal narratives that answer the question of how each writer tries, sometimes but not always successfully, to be both a good Christian and a good lawyer. How does a lawyer called to live the Gospel of Jesus Christ reconcile his or her faith with the secular calling to the legal profession? The editors did not set out to provide some kind of final resolution or unified consensus. Instead, they have compiled a remarkable collection of reflections by lawyers, judges, and academics who represent many different branches of Christianity. The reader is likely to find many role models to emulate and the inspiration to continue to fight the good fight in these accounts grounded in legal and Christian thought. Reading about these real-life ethical dilemmas, conflicting loyalties, and personal difficulties offers the reassurance that others have shared their ongoing struggle to rhyme their career with their faith. Although every lawyer will find Can a Good Christian Be a Good Lawyer? especially meaningful, these essays speak to all persons of faith who strive to practice their beliefs in their work.