David G. Epstein

Bruce A. Markell

Lawrence Ponoroff

This efficient and exceedingly effective guide to Contracts will help you see the big picture. The authors focus on making the key concepts of contract law, and the relationship among those concepts, easier to understand and retain. The authors have also infused the book with humor, believing there is nothing inconsistent between a rigorous academic experience and having a little fun. Each of the authors is nationally-renowned law teacher who has taught Contracts for decades. Based on that experience, in this book they have set forth understandable techniques for mastering the law governing each critical aspect of the contract relationship, including, contract formation (offer and acceptance), enforcement (consideration and defenses), interpretation, performance, breach, and remedies.

A Short and Happy Guide to Contracts

Contracts in Context

Making and Doing Deals

A popular and highly-adaptable casebook for use in either a three-credit or four-credit course on business organizations or corporations. The second edition continues the traits that made the original so popular. The book is intended for all law students, whether they will practice on Wall Street or Main Street. It is aimed not only at those who were finance majors and know that they will take advanced corporate courses. It's also for the poetry majors who assume that they are going to dislike the course. Students who use the book are often shocked at how much they enjoy the subject and class. The book best meets law students' need to understand not only the legal issues that arise in battling for control of a large, mature public corporation, but also the legal and business issues that arise in starting and growing a new business. The book is student-friendly; it speaks to the student and conveys much meaningful information, much like a text book in other fields. It features problems and questions that integrate and develop doctrine. Unlike many other casebooks that merely cobble together a series of cases and open-ended questions, the book carefully teaches, in an enjoyable but organized way. During class, the professor can focus on the fun material; the book has already taught students the nuts and bolts. The book has a unique structure, as students follow a business (Bubba's Burritos) through every phase of each of the business structures. The course builds with the same cast of characters, as they explore how to form a business, how to make it grow, how to raise capital, how to transfer ownership, how to assess liability issues, and how the business may come to an end. This same business life cycle is experienced for the sole proprietorship, general partnership, close corporation, public corporation, limited partnership, and LLC. Students will compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of each business structure. The book draws on special resources. The contributions of Mike Roberts, of the Harvard Business School, are especially obvious. Students benefit from B-School materials, excerpts from periodicals, problems, and lots of original text to focus on both business and legal issues. Likewise, new co-author George Shepherd, a legal scholar and economist, offers economic theory-made-easy: he translates important economic concepts into simple language that all can enjoy. And it's SHORT. It provides a comprehensive view of business organizations in fewer than 850 pages, including some light-hearted (and light-headed) efforts at humor. We don't force the professor to spend hours trying to determine what parts of a bloated book are important enough to assign. We have done the distilling for you. The book features the innovation of asking questions before most cases (as well as after), to focus the students' reading. The combination of cases is compelling - the old classics plus new teaching vehicles that will become classics. In addition, the second edition features up-to-the minute discussion of new developments such as CEO compensation and Sarbanes-Oxley. These materials can be adapted to almost any need. For those desiring full coverage of publicly traded corporations, no problem, as the book treats Section 16b, proxy fights, and takeovers. Those desiring to leave those materials out will find plenty for a full three- or four-credit course on the variety of business structures.

Business Structures

Cases and Materials on Contracts

Making and Doing Deals is a book that your students will learn from long after they graduate. It is also a book that should be fun for you to teach from. It's a book that students will enjoy, and, therefore, a book that they will read. Since the First Edition, students have been reading Making and Doing Deals because the cases, problems, and text not only help them learn what they need to know as first-year law students, but also address the real-world problems and situations they will encounter after their final exam.

A masterful account of Brasilia, the city of the future, where Brazil's continental destiny was to be fulfilled, where government would be efficient and functional, without the interference of radical students and labor leaders. The building of the city was a gigantic public-works program, reflecting the various ties that existed between the planners on one hand and the contractors and suppliers on the other. Epstein gives a detailed account of the pilot plan and the rise of satellite towns between 1957 and 1967. The planners dreamed of a city that would transcend the frustrations of urban life in the underdeveloped world, but they failed to provide a sector where the actual builders of the dream city would live. Shacktowns soon developed, and have expanded to accommodate migrants--often displaced, landless cultivators--who continue to be attracted to the city. The conclusion Epstein comes to is that urban squatting will remain a prominent feature of Brasilia, a part of a system deeply rooted in local, national, and global structure and ideology. Until there are revolutionary changes in society, squatting and shantytowns will be a fact of life in the underdeveloped world.

A Study of Planned and Spontaneous Urban Development

Brasília, Plan and Reality

Steve H. Nickles

This book focuses on the material covered in a typical law school course on Bankruptcy. It covers both business and consumer bankruptcy. The book explains basic bankruptcy concepts and then uses those concepts to make code provisions understandable.

Principles of Bankruptcy Law

Professor David Epstein explains the important business organizations concepts, the relationship among those concepts, and how a student can use the concepts to answer any question a professor might ask in class or on the exam.

Law School Legends Audio on Business Organizations

Bankruptcy in the 90's

The tropes and themes of J. K. Rowling's massively popular series are interpreted within the context of its audience.

David G. Epstein

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