Commercial letters of credit remain a rather arcane subject. International bankers and many experienced commercial lawyers understand them and understand the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits (UCP 600) that usually govern them; but many buyers, sellers, and lawyers, those new to international sales as well as many with experience in international sales, are sufficiently unfamiliar with the subject that they will benefit from a users’ handbook. The perceived need is for an introduction to international sales, international payments, and the commercial letter of credit. The Paris-based International Chamber of Commerce commissioned this users’ handbook to fill the need. |
Law students, perhaps more than the population at large, tend to be visual learners. Visualizing Secured Transactions takes the text of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (and related statutes) and puts them into the form of easily-understandable charts to facilitate comprehension of this technical commercial subject. |
American military women are increasingly exposed to combat risks, and opposition to Pentagon policy barring women from ground-combat specialties is becoming louder. Co-ed Combat examines assumptions underlying arguments for sexual integration of combat units in light of physical and psychological differences between the sexes. Differences in the functioning of all-male and mixed-sex groups – coupled with these physical and psychological sex differences – suggest that inclusion of women in combat units will lead to a weaker military. |
Value Added Tax is an important revenue source in all major industrialized countries except the U.S. and is widely used in developing countries as well. This unique comparative value added tax book provides comprehensive teaching tools – laws, cases, analytical exercises, and questions drawn from the experience of countries and organizations from around the world. It also serves as a resource for tax practitioners and government officials. Professor Schenk incorporated in this text the expertise he developed while drafting value added taxes for developing countries in Africa and the Caribbean. |
This book summarizes key legal and policy issues for 65 wide-ranging topics related to HIV/AIDS. The book shows how laws and regulations can either underpin or undermine good public health programs and responsible personal behaviors. It provides relevant “practice examples” (citing from actual laws and regulations) and offers selective lists of references. Laws relating to many areas of our lives--from intimate personal conduct to international travel--can contribute to stigma, discrimination, and exclusion, or can help remedy these inequities. In order to create a supportive legal framework for responding to HIV/AIDS, it is important that governments effectively address gaps and other problematic aspect in their legislation and regulatory systems. |
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The standby letter of credit is a commercial bank product critical to the financing of domestic commerce. The commercial letter of credit plays a critical role in trans-Pacific and North-South trade. The 4th edition of the often cited treatise, The Law of Letters of Credit, explains letters of credit and addresses comprehensively and with massive citation of authority all of the issues that have arisen in the marketplace, the banking house, and the courtroom. |
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Erica Beecher-Monas.
Evaluating Scientific Evidence: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Intellectual Due Process, Cambridge University Press, 1st edition (November 30, 2006), Paperback: 272 pages, ISBN: 052167655X. Publisher's Flyer.Scientific evidence is crucial in a burgeoning number of litigated cases, legislative enactments, regulatory decisions, and scholarly arguments. Yet the mechanisms for evaluating scientific evidence are often less than ideal. Evaluating Scientific Evidence explores the question of what counts as scientific knowledge, a question that has become a focus of heated courtroom and scholarly debate, not only in the United States, but in other common law countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. |
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William Burnham. Law and Legal System of the Russian
Federation, Juris Publishing, Inc., 3rd Edition, co-authored with
Peter B. Maggs and Gennady M. Danilenko (October 2004).This book is a detailed treatment of the substantive and procedural law, the legal profession and court systems of Russia written especially for English-speaking lawyers and law students. It has the basic characteristics of a casebook in that it sets out key decisions of the Russian Constitutional Court, Supreme Court and Supreme Arbitrazh (Commercial) Court, followed by notes and questions. But it also contains substantial analytical and explanatory text and other materials, thus making it ideal for use as a reference book.. |
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Stephen Calkins. Antitrust Law and Economics in a Nutshell,
Thomson-West, 5th edition, co-authored with Ernest Gellhorn and
William E. Kovacic (August 2004). This 600-page book provides a thorough introduction to all of antitrust law and economics. It looks both backward to history and forward to future developments, reviewing all of the major cases and issues. It provides context, doctrine, and analysis. The authors include a former and the current General Counsel to the Federal Trade Commission. |
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Diana V. Pratt. Legal Writing: A Systematic Approach,
Thomson-West, 4th edition, American Casebook Series (May 2004).
This text provides first-year law students with an approach to legal analysis and writing in both the objective and persuasive modes. The first six chapters introduce students to the precedent system, the court structure, the civil procedure of a typical civil case, the anatomy of a case, the anatomy of a statute, and the common modes of legal analysis. These introductory chapters enable first-year students to prepare for their first-year law school classes |
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John F. Dolan. Core Concepts of Commercial Law: Past,
Present and Future, Cases and Materials, Thomson-West, co-authored
with Professors Bruce A. Markell and Lawrence Ponoroff (April 2004).
This book introduces students to commercial law and provides a modicum of Uniform Commercial Code learning. Much of the text emphasizes principles rather than the rules of commercial law. This emphasis is appropriate because the principles endure, whereas the rules change from state to state and time to time. The book, nevertheless, is full of rules, with lots of practical applications. |
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Peter J. Hammer. Uncertain Times: Kenneth Arrow and the
Changing Economics of Health Care, Duke University Press, co-edited
with Deborah Haas-Wilson, Mark A. Peterson, and William M. Sage
(November 2003). This collection revisits Nobel Prize-Winning economist Kenneth Arrow's classic 1963 essay "Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care" in light of the many changes in American health care since its publication. Coming from diverse backgrounds — economics, law, political science and the health care industry -- the contributors use Arrow's article to address an array of present-day health policy questions, ranging from insurance and technological innovation, to the role of charity, self-regulation and non-profit status. |
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Peter J. Henning. White Collar Crime: Law and Practice,
2d Edition, West Group (American Casebook Series), co-authored with
Jerold H. Israel, Ellen S. Podgor, and Paul D. Borman (July 2003).
This book exposes students to how legal transactions involved in a single white collar crime case can require consideration of substantive criminal law, criminal procedure, administrative procedure, corporate law, evidence, civil procedure, sentencing law, and highly specialized regulatory law. It provides a unique combination of traditional materials (cases and statutes) and not-so-traditional materials (e.g., newspaper articles, forms, and practice manuals). Coverage includes traditional mail fraud, RICO (Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations), and computer fraud legislation. |
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John F. Dolan. Secured Transactions and Payment Systems:
Problems and Answers, 2d Edition, Aspen Publishers, co-authored
with Professors Leo L. Clarke, Larry Garvin, Allen R. Kamp, Kerry
Macintosh (February 2003). This student text provides a completely up-to-date treatment of the Uniform Commercial Code, including the recent revisions in Article 9. The material is presented in a problem and answer format. The first edition of this book was based on problems that Professor Dolan had been using with his students for a number of years. Last year, the publisher asked him to update the work, and Professor Dolan invited four commercial law teachers across the country to join him in the effort. |
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Professor John F. Dolan. Users' Handbook for Documentary Credits Under UCP 600. 
Professor Laura B. Bartell. Visualizing Secured Transactions (December 2007)
Professor Kingsley R. Browne. Co-ed Combat: The New Evidence that Women Shouldn’t Fight the Nation’s Wars, Sentinel (Penguin USA) (November 2007).
Professor Alan Schenk and his co-author, Professor Oliver Oldman of Harvard Law School, Value Added Tax: A Comparative Approach, Cambridge University Press (2007).
Professor Lance Gable, Legal Aspects of HIV/AIDS: A Guide for Policy and Law Reform, The World Bank Group (2007) (with co-authors Katrina Gamharter, Lawrence O. Gostin, James G. Hodge Jr., and Rudolf V. van Puymbroeck). 
Professor John F. Dolan. The Law of Letters of Credit: Commercial and Standby Credits, A.S. Pratt & Sons, 4th edition (2007).
Professor John A. Rothchild. Internet Commerce: The Emerging Legal Framework (Foundation Press 2d ed. 2006) (with co-authors Radin, Reese, and Silverman).