Product Description: Restitution is the body of law concerned with taking away gains that someone has wrongfully obtained. The operator of a Ponzi scheme takes money from his victims by fraud and then invests it in stocks that rise in value. Or a company pays a shareholder excessive dividends or pays them to the wrong person...read more

In this casebook, Farnsworth (law, Boston University) and Grady (George Mason University School of Law) present pairs and clusters of cases that contain factual similarities but arrive at different outcomes. There are lead cases presented here, as in other books, but the notes afterward largely consist of other judicial decisions. The book will help students draw distinctions between cases that are superficially similar and analogies between cases that are superficially different. The presentation of cases is compatible with a course emphasis on economic logic, corrective justice, other questions of policy, or on doctrine alone. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Product Description: [This is the MP3CD audiobook format.] Masters of language can turn unassuming words into phrases that are beautiful, effective, and memorable. What are the secrets of this alchemy? Part of the answer lies in rhetorical figures: practical ways of applying great aesthetic principles--repetition and variety, suspense and relief, concealment and surprise--to a simple sentence or paragraph...read more

Product Description: There are two kinds of knowledge law school teaches: legal rules on the one hand, and tools for thinking about legal problems on the other. Although the tools are far more interesting and useful than the rules, they tend to be neglected in favor of other aspects of the curriculum...read more