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Summer Session (2008)

Required and Recommended Course Materials

Updated: 4/10/2008


Where can I purchase books?
Books will be available through the following vendors:
1. Georgia Book Store, 124 Edgewood Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, GA 30303 (404) 659-0959
2. Nuskule Inc., 401-3173 St. Laurent Blvd., Montreal, QC H2X 2V7
http://bookstore.johnmarshall.edu or 1-877-289-1151
3. Students registered for Mediation & Negotiations can purchase the required text directly from NITA. Identify yourself as a John Marshall Law School student to receive a discount on the purchase of your text.


FIRST YEAR REQUIRED (EVENING SESSION)
Criminal Law (A) - Professor(s): Fulcher
Required:
  1. Dressler, Criminal Law: Cases and Materials, (West 4th Ed. 2007), ISBN: 0-3141-7719-1 or ISBN13: 9780314177193
Recommended:
  1. Dressler & Strong, Understanding Criminal Law, (Lexis Nexis 4th Ed. 2006), ISBN: 0-8205-7001-X or ISBN13: 9780820570013
Criminal Law (B) - Professor(s): Mears
Required:
  1. Dressler, Criminal Law: Cases and Materials, (West 4th Ed. 2007), ISBN: 0-3141-7719-1 or ISBN13: 9780314177193
Recommended:
  1. N/A
THIRD YEAR REQUIRED (EVENING SESSION)
PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY (B) - Professor(s): Longan
Required:
  1. Gillers, Regulation of Lawyers, (Aspen 7th Ed.), ISBN: 0-7355-5256-8 and 9780735552562
  2. ABA Center for Professional Responsibility, 2007 ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, (2006 Ed.), ISBN: 1-5903-1873-0 and ISBN13: 9781590318904
Recommended:
  1. N/A
ELECTIVES
Accounting for Lawyers - Professor(s): Bernstein
Required:
  1. Cunningham, Introductory Accounting, Finance and Auditing for Lawyers, (West 4th Ed. 2004), ISBN: 0-3141-5165-6
Recommended:
  1. N/A
Client Interviewing & Counseling - Professor(s): Jaffe
Required:
  1. Binder, Bergman, Price, and Tremblay, Lawyers as Counselors, (West 2nd Ed.), ISBN: 0-314-23816-6 or 9780314238160
Recommended:
  1. Shaffer, Elkins, Legal Interviewing and Counseling in a Nutshell, (West 4th Ed.), ISBN: 0-314-15173-7
Externship - Professor(s): Turner
Required:
  1. N/A
Recommended:
  1. N/A
Immigration Law - Professor(s): Rosen
Required:
  1. Legomsky, Immigration and Refugee Law and Policy, (Foundation Press 4th Ed. 2005), ISBN:1-5877-8896-9 or ISBN13: 9781587788963
Recommended:
  1. Bender, Bender’s Immigration and Nationality Act Pamphlet, (Lexis Nexis 2007 Ed), ISBN: 1-4224-1149-4 or ISBN13: 9781422411490
International Business Transactions - Professor(s): Van Detta
Required:
  1. Chow, International Business Transactions: Problems, Cases, and Materials, (Aspen 5th Ed.), ISBN: 0-7355-3985-5 and 9780735539853
  2. Folsom, Gordon, Spanogle, & Fitzgerald, International Business Transactions – 2006 Documentary Supplement, (West 9th Ed. 2006), ISBN13: 9780314168139
  3. Burnham, Drafting and Analyzing Contracts, (Lexis Nexis 3rd Ed.), ISBN: 0-8205-5788-9 and 9780820557885
Recommended:
  1. Stark, Drafting Contracts: How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do, (Aspen 2007 Ed.), ISBN: 0-7355-6339-X or ISBN13: 9780735563391
Jurisprudence - Professor(s): Piar
Required:
  1. Hayman, Levit, & Delgado’s, Jurisprudence, Classical and Contemporary: From Natural Law to Postmodernism, (West 2nd Ed. 2002), ISBN: 0-3142-5207-X and ISBN13: 9780314252074
Recommended:
  1. Bix, Jurisprudence: Theory and Context, (Carolina Academic Press 4th Ed. 2006 or earlier editions are acceptable), ISBN: 1-5946-0309-X and ISBN13: 9781594603099
Mediation - Professor(s): Powell
Required:
  1. Fisher, Patton, and Ury, Getting To Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, (Houghton Mifflin 2nd Ed. 1991), ISBN: 0-3956-3124-6 or ISBN13: 9780395631249
  2. Bennett, and Hughes, The Art of Mediation, (NITA – National Institute for Trial Advocacy 2005 2nd Ed.), ISBN13: 9781556818653
    *********Students order online only!!! To receive discount. Contact NITA directly through the website to purchase a copy. Under the contact field, please put student and the under the school name put John Marshall Law School.*********
Recommended:
  1. N/A
Trial Advocacy - Professor(s): Sigman
Required:
  1. Mauet, Trial Techniques, (Aspen 7th Ed. 2007), ISBN: 0-7355-5559-1 or ISBN13: 9780735555594
Recommended:
  1. Fisher, Federal Rules of Evidence – Statutory and Case Supplement 2007-2008 Edition, (Foundation Press), ISBN: 1-5994-1345-0 or ISBN: 13 9781599413457
Wills, Trusts, and Estates - Professor(s): Kent
Required:
  1. Dobris, Joel, Sterk, Stewart, and Leslie, Estates and Trusts: Cases and Materials (University Casebook Series), (Foundation Press 3rd Ed. 2007), ISBN: 1-5994-1148-2 or ISBN13: 9781599411484
Recommended:
  1. Leslie, and Sterk, Trusts and Estates: (Concepts and Insights Series), (Foundation Press 2006), ISBN:1-5994-1022-2 or ISBN13: 9781599410227
ONE WEEK SESSION - MAY 12-16, 2008
Micronesian Externship - Professor(s): Associate Dean Burch
Required:
  1. N/A
Recommended:
  1. N/A
TWO WEEK SESSIONS - MAY 19-31, 2008
Client Interviewing & Counseling - Professor(s): Jewel
Required:
  1. Cochran, DiPippa, & Peters, The Counselor – At-Law: A Collaborative Approach to Client Interviewing and Counseling, (LexisNexis 2nd Ed.), ISBN: 0-8205-6473-7 or ISBN13: 9780820564739
Recommended:
  1. Binder, Bergman, Price, and Tremblay, Lawyers as Counselors, (West 2nd Ed.), ISBN: 0-314-23816-6 or 9780314238160
Depositions - Professor(s): Jaffe
Required:
  1. Martiniak, How to Take & Defend Depositions, (Aspen 3rd Ed.), ISBN: 0-7355-2987-6 or ISBN13: 9780735529878
Recommended:
  1. N/A
Mediation - Professor(s): Ellin, Powell
Required:
  1. Fisher, Patton, and Ury, Getting To Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, (Houghton Mifflin 2nd Ed. 1991), ISBN: 0-3956-3124-6 or ISBN13: 9780395631249
  2. Bennett, and Hughes, The Art of Mediation, (NITA – National Institute for Trial Advocacy 2005 2nd Ed.), ISBN13: 9781556818653
    *********Students order online only!!! To receive discount. Contact NITA directly through the website to purchase a copy. Under the contact field, please put student and the under the school name put John Marshall Law School.*********
Recommended:
  1. N/A
Negotiations - Professor(s): Butts
Required:
  1. Guernsey, Zwier, Advanced Negotiation and Mediation Theory and Practice, (Nita), ISBN: 978-1-55681-950-6
Recommended:
  1. N/A
Trial Advocacy - Professor(s): de Haven, Associate Dean Burch
Required:
  1. Mauet, Trial Techniques, (Aspen 7th Ed. 2007), ISBN: 0-7355-5559-1 or ISBN13: 9780735555594
Recommended:
  1. N/A

 
 

 

 

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