Course Materials - Fall 2018 First Year Book List
Back- Michael Hunter Schwartz, Adrian J. Walters, Contracts: A Context and Practice Casebook, 2015, 2nd, Hardback, 978-1-61163-554-6, Carolina Academic Press, (link)
- Statutory Supplement including Restatement (2d) provisions and UCC provisions, such as: Farnsworth, Sanger, Cohen, Brooks, and Garvin, Selections for Contracts, 2015 Supplement, 9781634594653, Foundation Press, (link)
The 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 editions are all acceptable
- Calamari, Cases and Problems on Contracts, 2011, 6th ed., Hardback, 9780314202857, West Academic Publishing
- Farnsworth, Cases & Materials on Contracts, 2013, 8th ed., Hardback, 9781609300975, Foundation Press
- Farnsworth, Selections for Contracts, 2016 ed., 9781634602952, Foundation Press
- Maraist, Church, Corbett and Galligan, Torts Law: The American and Louisiana Perspectives, 2017, 3rd, Hardback, Vandeplas
- Maraist, Church, Corbett, Galligan, Richard & Flannagan, Tort Law: The American and Louisiana Perspectives, 2017, 3d ed., Hardback, 9781600422904, Vandeplas Publishing
- Maraist, Church, Corbett, Galligan, Richard & Flannagan, Tort Law—The American and Louisiana Perspectives, 2017, 3d ed., Hardback, 9781600422904, Vandeplas Publishing
- Clermont, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Selected Other Procedural Provisions, 2018, 9781640208834, West Academic Publishing
- Freer, Civil Procedure: Cases, Materials and Questions, 2016, 7th ed., Hardback, 9781611639117, Carolina Academic Press
- Clermont, Federal Rule of Civil Procedure and Selected Other Procedural Provisions, 2017, 9781683285083, Foundation Press
- Freer and Predue, Civil Procedure: Cases, Materials and Questions, 2016, 7th, 978-1611639117, Carolina Academic Press
Any Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 2014 or later (and of lower cost to the student) may be substituted
- Hazard, Cases and Materials on Pleading and Procedure, 2015, 11th ed., Hardback, 9781609301811, West Academic Publishing
- Baicker-McKee, A Student's Guide to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 2018 ed., 9781640208827, West Academic Publishing
- CHOOSE BETWEEN THESE FORMATS, Hazard, Fletcher, Bundy, and Bradt's Cases and Materials on Pleading and Procedure, 2015, 11th, Hardback, 9781609301811, West Academic Publishing, (link)
- Other necessary books:, Choose one Law Dictionary and One Federal Rule Book, not all!
- RECOMMENDED, Glannon Guide to Civil Procedure: Learning Civil Procedure Through Multiple-Choice Questions and Analysis, 2013, 3rd NOTE TO STUDENTS: Glannon's Civil Procedure Examples & Explanations, 7th Edition (2013) can be freely substituted. Older versions of both of Glannon's study guides are now out of date and should be avoided!, 978-1454827467, Aspen Publishers, (link)
OR
OPTIONAL ADD-ON Digital Content (for purchasers of used books only):,
9781634609852
Also available as CaseBook Plus 9781634608787
Law Dictionary your choice - Black's, Bouvier, or Gilbert's
old, used paperback or digital versions are OK
2018 Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
your choice of publisher -- just make sure it's a 2018 edition
The big legal publishers sell these for $40-50.
You don't need to spend that much.
Here are a few inexpensive options:
2018 Federal Civil Rule Booklet (I like this one because it's nicely formatted, slim and lightweight.)
9781934852354
http://legalpub.com/product-federal-rules-of-civil-procedure.html
Also available on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Federal-Booklet-Procedure-Evidence-Casebooks/dp/193485235X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1524718663&sr=8-2&keywords=federal+rules+of+civil+procedure+2018&dpID=41PXJdAvVPL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch
BHWCC Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
(fundraiser edition, from a student group at another law school)
https://www.amazon.com/Federal-Rules-Civil-Procedure-Collective/dp/1545422400/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1494885082&sr=8-3&keywords=federal+rules+of+civil+procedure+Women+of+Color
- Lee and Harris, Criminal Law, Cases and Materials, 3rd Edition, 2014, 3rd, 9780314282866, West
- Dressler and Garvey, CRIMINAL LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS, 7th, 978-1-62810-205-5, West Academic Publishing
The 7th edition of Dressler & Garvey may be acquired directly through West Academic Publishing, through the campus bookstore at Barnes & Noble, locally through Claitor’s Bookstore, or through booksellers available online and otherwise. At this point, the book has been used in courses around the country during all or part of three academic years, such that students who are interested in lowering their expenses by buying used book have ample numbers available.
I do not recommend using a used copy of the 6th edition, of which there are still copies floating around. The assignments will be geared to the 7th edition and not the 6th, and when I make references to the book in class, they will be to the newer edition. Moreover, students who choose to buy the older edition are responsible to be sure that what they read in the older edition corresponds to the newer edition, and to read new material in the 7th edition not available in the 6th edition.
Students should be aware of what West Academic Publishing calls its “casebook plus” option. Students can buy a digital copy of the 7th edition in addition to or instead of the print edition, along with digital learning aids (see http://home.westacademic.com/casebookPlus/students) .
Students can also buy the digital learning aids separate and apart from the digital copy, something those who choose a used book might wish to do. (See https://system.na1.netsuite.com/core/media/media.nl?id=610229&c=3668083&h=703f49a196c995617292&_xt=.pdf.) The assessment tools available as part of the set of digital learning aids are not required, but may be highly useful.
- Kadish, Schulhofer & Barkow, Criminal Law & Its Processes: Cases and Materials, 2017, 10th, 978-1-4548-7380-8, Wolters Kluwer Law and Business
- Mary Ann Glendon; Paolo G. Carozza; Colin B. Picker, Glendon, Carozza, and Picker's Comparative Legal Traditions, Text, Materials and Cases on Western Law, 2015, 4th, Hardback, 9780314917508, West Academic Publishing, (link)
- Edgar Bodenheimer, John B Oakley, Jean C Love, Readings and Cases on an Introduction to the Anglo-American Legal System, 2004, 9780314150875, West Academic Publishing, (link)
- Melissa T Lonegrass, Lonegrass' Louisiana Civil Code with Official Legislative Commentary: 2018 Student Edition, 2018, 9781640200692, West Academic Publishing, (link)
- Levasseur, Louisiana Pocket Civil Code, 2018, 978-1-5310-0903-8, Carolina Academic Press
- Levasseur, Deciphering a Civil Code, 2015, 978-1-61163-634-5, Carolina Academic Press
- Levasseur, Legal Traditions and Systems, 2017, LAW PUB
- Levasseur, Louisiana Law of Obligations in General: a Precis, 2015, 4th, Carolina Academic Press
- Levasseur, Moreau Lislet: The Man Behand the Digest 1808, 2008, Claitor's Publishing Division
Required
**RECOMMENDED
**RECOMMENDED
- Moréteau, Legal Traditions & Systems packet, 2018, LSU Pubs
- Levasseur, Louisiana Pocket Civil Code, 2018, 9781531009038
older editions of the code are acceptable as well as other editions of the Louisiana Civil Code
- Mary Ann Glendon; Paolo G. Carozza; Colin B. Picker, Glendon, Carozza, and Picker's Comparative Legal Traditions, Text, Materials and Cases on Western Law, 2015, 4th, Hardback, 9780314917508, West Academic Publishing, (link)
- Edgar Bodenheimer, John B Oakley, Jean C Love, Readings and Cases on an Introduction to the Anglo-American Legal System, 2004, 9780314150875, West Academic Publishing, (link)
- Melissa T Lonegrass, Lonegrass' Louisiana Civil Code with Official Legislative Commentary: 2018 Student Edition, 2018, 9781640200692, West Academic Publishing, (link)
- The Bluebook- A Uniform System of Citation, 2015, 20th, The Harvard Law Review Association
- Shapo, Writing and Analysis in the Law, 2013, 6th ed, 978-1609302726, Foundation Press
- Core Grammar for Lawyers
Online subscription purchase - will be explained in class