Game Theory and the Law promises to be the definitive guide to the field. It provides a highly sophisticated yet exceptionally clear explanation of game theory, with a host of applications to legal issues. The authors have not only synthesized the existing scholarship, but also created the foundation for the next generation of research in law and economics." --Daniel A. Farber (University of Minnesota Law School)

Game Theory and the Law

Science & Math

Baird, Douglas

Picker, Randal

Gertner, Robert

Mathematics

Harvard University Press

In this offering, the editors are joined by other leading contracts scholars in placing the major cases in contract law in their historical and cultural context. Each of the 11 short and readily accessible chapters provides newly uncovered facts about and insights into the cases that lie at the core of the first-year contracts class. Long-standing puzzles are answered and these answers in turn are linked to the larger political and social forces at work, demonstrating how these forces have shaped the evolution of contract law.

Contracts Stories- An In-Depth Look at The Leading Contract Cases (Law Stories)

Business

Foundation Press

This easy-to-teach casebook offers a clear explanation of the bankruptcy process. The text challenges the student with commentary and questions that explore both new and classical bankruptcy themes. The book is fully updated and addresses the 2005 amendments to the Bankruptcy Code, including means testing for consumer debtors, and the recent trend toward creditor control of the Chapter 11 reorganization process.

Bankruptcy: Cases, Problems, and Materials (University Casebook Series)

Adler, Barry

Jackson, Thomas

With the appearance of the Ninth Edition, this book begins its forty-ninth year. Throughout its long history, this casebook has relied on classic cases to capture the fundamental principles of contract law, and this edition reinforces this tradition.This new edition preserves and builds upon the book’s distinctive character, especially its use of canonical cases, its sensitivity to the history and evolution of doctrine, and its close attention to the legal consequences of breach. As before, this edition eschews any distinctive take on the law of contracts and thus allows each teacher using the book a broad range of choice on what to bring in to channel or expand classroom discussion.The most visible alteration in this edition is a restructuring and reordering of some material both to underscore basic themes and put in clearer perspective the developments of the twentieth century.An effort has been made to deal with the “coverage” problem in an increasingly cro

Contracts (University Casebook Series)

Dawson, John

HARVEY, William

Henderson, Stanley

This statutory supplement updates the main casebook.

Appendix to Contracts, Cases and Comment (Selected Statutes)

This authoritative and widely cited introduction to bankruptcy will generate lively classroom discussion and hone students’ legal reasoning. New areas covered include Section 363(b) going-concern sales, Ponzi schemes in bankruptcy, debtor-in-possession financing, intercreditor agreements, carve-outs, credit-bidding, and first-day orders.

Elements of Bankruptcy (Concepts and Insights)

Widely cited and authoritative, Elements of Bankruptcy provides a comprehensive introduction to the basic principles of bankruptcy law. In addition to covering foundational questions such as the fresh start for individuals, property of the estate, executory contracts, adequate protection, preferences, and fraudulent conveyances, this book also covers such cutting-edge issues such as debtor-in-possession financing, plan support agreements, carve-outs, credit-bidding, and first-day orders. The sixth edition also takes stock of the developments in bankruptcy in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, including the rise of municipal bankruptcies in Detroit and elsewhere, as well as developments from the Supreme Court, including the fallout from Stern v. Marshall and Executive Benefits Insurance Agency v. Arkison.

Elements of Bankruptcy, 6th (Concepts and Insights)

This statutory supplement combines the most useful statutes for courses in contracts, commercial law, secured transactions, commercial paper, sales, bankruptcy, debtor-creditor law, and corporate reorganizations.

Commercial and Debtor-Creditor Law Selected Statutes 2013

Eisenberg, Theodore

This supplement brings the main casebook up to date with recent changes in the law.

Bankruptcy, Cases, Problems, and Materials, 2013 Supplement (University Casebook Series)

Commercial and Debtor-Creditor Law Selected Statutes, 2014

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