Blackacre

Blackacre
Author: Monica Youn
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2016-09-06
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1555979467

*Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award* *National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist* *Included in The New York Times Best Poetry of 2016* *Named one of The Washington Post's Best Poetry Collections of 2016* * Longlisted for the National Book Award* “Blackacre” is a centuries-old legal fiction—a placeholder name for a hypothetical estate. Treacherously lush or alluringly bleak, these poems reframe their subjects as landscape, as legacy—a bereavement, an intimacy, a racial identity, a pubescence, a culpability, a diagnosis. With a surveyor’s keenest tools, Youn marks the boundaries of the given, what we have been allotted: acreage that has been ruthlessly fenced, previously tenanted, ploughed and harvested, enriched and depleted. In the title sequence, the poet gleans a second crop from the field of Milton’s great sonnet on his blindness: a lyric meditation on her barrenness, on her own desire—her own struggle—to conceive a child. What happens when the transformative imagination comes up against the limits of unalterable fact?

The Humanity of Private Law

The Humanity of Private Law
Author: Nicholas McBride
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2018-12-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1509911960

The Humanity of Private Law presents a new way of thinking about English private law. Making a decisive break from earlier views of private law, which saw private law as concerned with wealth-maximisation or preserving relationships of mutual independence between its subjects, the author argues that English private law's core concern is the flourishing of its subjects. THIS VOLUME - presents a critique of alternative explanations of private law; - defines and sets out the key building blocks of private law; - sets out the vision of human flourishing (the RP) that English private law has in mind in seeking to promote its subjects' flourishing; - shows how various features of English private law are fine-tuned to ensure that its subjects enjoy a flourishing existence, according to the vision of human flourishing provided by the RP; - explains how other features of English private law are designed to preserve private law's legitimacy while it pursues its core concern of promoting human flourishing; - defends the view of English private law presented here against arguments that it does not adequately fit the rules and doctrines of private law, or that it is implausible to think that English private law is concerned with promoting human flourishing. A follow-up volume will question whether the RP is correct as an account of what human flourishing involves, and consider what private law would look like if it sought to give effect to a more authentic vision of human flourishing. The Humanity of Private Law is essential reading for students, academics and judges who are interested in understanding private law in common law jurisdictions, and for anyone interested in the nature and significance of human flourishing.

Property Law

Property Law
Author: D. Benjamin Barros
Publisher: Aspen Publishing
Total Pages: 1048
Release: 2024-02
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Buy a new version of this textbook and receive access to the Connected eBook with Study Center on Casebook Connect, including lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities. Access also includes practice questions, an outline tool, and other helpful resources. Connected eBooks provide what you need most to be successful in your law school classes. An innovative Property casebook that reimagines the law school casebook format. Covering all the major topics included in a basic 1L Property course, Property Law leverages resources more typicall to an undergraduate textbook than a traditional law school casebook, making use of sidebars, illustrations, and other design devices to present material more clearly. The authors present concepts simply, then move the discussion toward complexity in contrast to the approach taken by many current property texts. Clear yet sophisticated, the casebook is the perfect choice for all skill levels. Including problems that students can and should be able to do on their own, explanatory answers, and skills-based exercises, this casebook is both professor-friendly and student-friendly. Themes that run through the course are highlighted throughout the book, resulting in a casebook that clearly presents the fundamentals of property law. This allows students to develop an understanding of basic concepts on their own while allowing professors to assist their students in developing an advanced understanding of property law. Although Property Law goes far beyond bar tested topics, the authors are experts on the property coverage on the bar exam, and wrote the book to give students exposure to every topic they are likely to see on the bar exam. New to the 3rd Edition: ● Some cases have been eliminated or shortened to make coverage more manageable, especially for four-credit courses. Edits from Second Edition will be included in the teacher's manual. ● Chapter 9 revised to include Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, the Supreme Court's most recent takings case. ● Additional corrections, updates, and refinements throughout. Professors and students will benefit from: ● Property Law starts from simplicity and moves to complexity: The book first provides text that explains the basic doctrine, then presents a simple case example, and finally moves to more complex issues. ● Cases are introduced with explanatory text discussing the law and issues surrounding the case. This radically different approach from most other casebooks allows students to have a better grasp of the concepts and themes before they even read the case. ● Problems and exercises that students can complete on their own, with explanatory answers included in an appendix. ● Innovative design that aids student learning, with sidebars, diagrams, charts, and illustrations that make concepts clearer to students. ● Cases that are used as examples, not introductions to legal rules. Many topics in the book feature introductory text, illustrations, and problem sets before a single case is introduced, to aid in students' legal learning. ● The inclusion of sample documents, helping students to understand core concepts. ● Perfect for a four-credit course, the book also features a modular design that can be used in courses of varying credit size. ● More comprehensive bar exam topic coverage than any competing book.

Steve Emanuel's First Year Questions and Answers

Steve Emanuel's First Year Questions and Answers
Author: Steven L. Emanuel
Publisher: Aspen Publishing
Total Pages: 860
Release: 2011-12-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1454830174

Steve Emanuel's First Year Questions and Answers consists of 1,144 short-answer questions, covering the six subjects usually taken by first year law students. Each question gives you a fact pattern, and then asks you to make a conclusion, usually a yes/no conclusion (e.g., "Is there an enforceable contract?"). Within each subject, the questions are arranged in approximately the order that the topics they cover occur in the Emanuel Law Outlines for that subject. Thus the Civil Procedure questions begin with questions involving personal jurisdiction, proceed to subject matter jurisdiction, then to pleading, and so on.

Emanuel Law Outlines for Property

Emanuel Law Outlines for Property
Author: Steven L. Emanuel
Publisher: Aspen Publishing
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2023-12-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1543807542

Emanuel® Law Outlines for Property, Tenth Edition, by Steve Emanuel focuses on those topics that are important in today’s Property courses and includes an abundance of short-answer and multiple-choice questions and answers as well exam tips. New to the Tenth Edition: Greatly expanded discussion of the “fair use” defense in copyright law New and detailed coverage of the prohibition on unreasonable restraints on alienation when land is conveyed Treatment of “heirs property” and the enactment of the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act to redress the unfair impact of judicially supervised partition sales of heirs property (especially rural agricultural land fragmented into small tenancies-in-common as the result of multiple generations of intestate succession) Expanded coverage of the Fair Housing Act, including (a) the Act’s application to housing discrimination based on the sexual orientation of tenants and (b) the Act’s use in cases involving landlord liability for failing to combat tenant-on-tenant harassment against protected categories of tenants Coverage of recent Supreme Court cases on the Taking Clause of the Fifth Amendment, including a case on temporary physical occupation and a case on how the “denial of all economically viable use” doctrine is to be applied to scenarios involving multiple adjacent lots Students will benefit from: The detailed course Outlinewith black letter principles that supplements student’s casebook reading throughout the semester and gives structure to their own outlines The Capsule Summary that provides a quick reference summary of the key concepts covered in the full outline and will prove invaluable at exam time The Quiz Yourself feature that includes a series of short-answer questions and sample answers to help students test their knowledge of the chapter’s content Multiple-Choice Questions in the style of questions on the Multistate Bar Exam (with detailed answers) that will help build students’ exam taking skills and confidence Checklists that help students review key issues The Casebook Correlation Chart that correlates each section in the Outline with the pages covering that topic in major casebooks

Equity

Equity
Author: F. W. Maitland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2011-03-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780521176507

The lectures given in Cambridge between 1888 and 1906 by the Downing Professor of the Laws of England, F. W. Maitland.