Law in the United States: Cases and Commentaries

Charles F. Abernathy, Georgetown

Markus G. Puder, Loyola University-New Orleans College of Law

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The fourth edition of Law the United States significantly updates the prior editions while retaining the overall didactic design that made the previous editions successful. Principal cases continue to focus on the canon learned by students in J.D. programs in U.S. law schools so that LL.M. students and students studying in foreign law schools will learn the same foundational materials as American students. In the course of this update, the casebook offers several innovations, including:

• Additional/updated writing tasks for students to practice what they have learned in each chapter.
• New featured cases with extensive commentary in the Notes for:
  • federal common law;
  • judicial control of executive lawmaking, including an expanded focus on administrative law;
  • electoral qualifications as regulated by state and federal governments;
  • presidential immunity;
  • disqualification for federal office under the insurrection clause;
  • local regulation and interstate commerce;
  • reproductive rights;
  • affirmative action;
  • free speech methodology;
  • speech and religion, with expanded discussion of religion cases;
  • general jurisdiction and consent by registration;
  • online sales practices, with an introduction to economic analysis of law;
  • state conditioning of arbitration agreements and the ABA; and
  • right-to-access takings as developed in recent Supreme Court cases.
• Revised and expanded notes capturing recent developments in jurisprudence and scholarship: independent legislature theory, standing, the major question doctrine, appointment and removal of executive branch officers, the rise of Environmental, Social and Governance, and takings through local impact fees.

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