The faculty at the Columbus School of Law have published books in a wide variety of legal and non-legal disciplines. This repository collection includes a selection of some of the many books authored by our faculty.
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Consumer Law: Cases and Materials (3rd ed.)
Ralph J. Rohner, John A. Spanogle, Mary Dee Pridgen, and Jeffrey Sovern
The Third Edition has been completely updated to include current and emerging issues in Consumer Law. The text covers a range of topics, including advertising and marketing, consumer credit regulation, consumer privacy, payment systems, warranty law, debt collection, remedies and predatory lending (a capstone chapter). This text contains a balance of cases, problems (updated to reflect modern situations) and notes (discussion questions and references to the latest consumer protection scholarship), allowing the professor the maximum flexibility in choice of topics, and pedagogical methods.
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Introduction to Design for Law and Other Academic Libraries: Reflection and Change (2nd ed.)
Stephen G. Margeton
This work is a must-have resource for all academic libraries. This in-depth work covers needs assessments, design development, construction documents, mechanical, electrical and acoustical needs, furniture, displays and exhibits, security, patron amenities, and more! This book’s format sets it apart from others dealing with similar subject matter. Margeton provides readers with comments from five librarians with experience in specific design features, as well as an annotated bibliography of books and articles he himself found useful.
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Learning from Practice: A Professional Development Text for Legal Externs (2nd ed.)
Lisa G. Lerman, Leah Wortham, and J.P. "Sandy" Ogilvy
The new edition of this popular textbook for externship seminars has been revised and updated. It now includes several additional chapters written by contributing authors new to this edition, including a chapter on judicial externships, expanded material on ethical issues in externships, a chapter on creative problem solving, and a chapter on learning practical judgment. Chapters are designed for convenient use in a single class session, and the book offers a menu of topics among which teachers can choose to match the objectives for their particular externship course.
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Mass Communication Law in a Nutshell (6th ed.)
Harvey L. Zuckman, T. Barton Carter, and Juliet Lushbough Dee
Expert authors discuss the First Amendment in detail, as well as defamation and mass communication in Carter, Dee and Zuckman’s Mass Communication Law in a Nutshell. It covers: Internet law Indecency Websites with bomb recipes Defamation and anonymous postings Blocking cookies Encryption Spamming Copyright infringement Domain names and convergence The role of the FCC Cable and news technologies Further highlights include Supreme Court rulings on “ride-along” cases, nude dancing, and commercial speech, covering issues such as banning advertising for lawful but harmful products such as tobacco. There is also an expanded discussion of journalists’ access to courtroom proceeding and judicial documents.
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Wiretapping & Eavesdropping: Surveillance in the Internet Age (3rd ed.)
Clifford S. Fishman and Anne T. McKenna
Wiretapping and Eavesdropping: Surveillance in the Internet Age provides information and tactics for criminal and civil practitioners in situations where Internet, computer, phone (analog, digital, and cellular), or other monitored and recorded evidence issues arise. Special attention is given to problems commonly arising in matrimonial, employment, and other civil litigation; criminal proceedings; and criminal and civil statutes, penalties, and remedies.
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In Search of Schopenhauer's Cat: Arthur Schopenhauer's Quantum-Mystical Theory of Justice
Raymond B. Marcin
Arthur Schopenhauer's theory of justice is radical. Justice, in Schopenhauer's system of thought, is not an epistemological construct. It is neither rights based nor process based. It rejects the concept of individual moral duty as vehemently as it embraces the concept of collective moral guilt. For Schopenhauer, justice is not a way of assessing reality. It is a facet of reality itself. Schopenhauer's theory of justice is ontology--a study of being itself.
In this book Raymond B. Marcin offers several reasons why a review and a reevaluation of Schopenhauer's theory of justice are worthwhile now, almost two hundred years after it was first formulated. One is that his theory of justice, based squarely on his philosophy of being (or ontology), seems remarkably consistent with the view of reality that is taking shape in the minds of contemporary quantum physicists. Albert Einstein called Schopenhauer's writings "wonderful," and Erwin Schrödinger called them "beautiful." Another reason is that the metaphysical basis of Schopenhauer's theory of justice bridges a gap that has long existed between Western and Eastern approaches to philosophy and may well have had an influence on the thought of Mohandas K. Gandhi. Yet another reason is that some contemporary jurisprudential movements with a strong social orientation have of late taken an interest in the concept of "community." The idea of "comm-unity" in its most basic and most literal sense is at the heart of Schopenhauer's deep ontology of justice. Finally, the concept of justice has almost always been examined from an epistemological vantage point. Seldom have we seen, outside the natural law tradition, a metaphysical or ontological examination of justice, and that is exactly what Schopenhauer gives.
Readers will learn of Schopenhauer's thought, life, and importance in the history of philosophy. A multi-disciplinary approach combined with the author's inviting style will make this book worth the consideration of a broad range of scholars.
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Sexuality and the U.S. Catholic Church: Crisis and Renewal
John H. Garvey, Lisa Sowle Cahill, and T. Frank Kennedy S.J.
In Sexuality and the U.S. Catholic Church, Lisa Sowle Cahill, John Garvey, and T. Frank Kennedy, S.J. bring together leading Catholic theologians to discuss sexuality in the context of Church tradition, identifying modern-day challenges and pointing to resources for the future.
No issue in the contemporary Church evokes more controversy than sexuality. In the wake of the clerical abuse scandals, the Catholic Church, criticized for being either too repressive or too lenient in its approach to human sexuality, has come under intense scrutiny.
Sexuality and the U.S. Catholic Church explores the issue of sexuality from many angles, opening up a lively and informative exchange on a subject of primary importance in the life of the Church.
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Finding the Law (12th ed.)
Elizabeth A. Edinger and Robert C. Berring
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of print and digital sources of legal information, concentrating on the basics of legal research covered by most law school courses. The book serves as both a text and a reference guide for legal researchers. It covers the context of legal research and includes information on state legal research guides; bibliographies; court reports; case verification and updating; case finding; and sources of federal regulatory agency rules, regulations, and adjudications. It offers guidance on how to read a case and deal with legal authority and provides up-to-date information via a corresponding Web site.
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Religion and Political Structures: From Fundamentalism to Public Service
Robert A. Destro, John T. Ford, and C. R. Dechert
The issue of religion in contemporary life is marked by three major related problems, one is the perennial struggle to choose between God and Mammon, another is the struggle to broaden the horizons of one’s concerns beyond self to God, a third is the manner of relating one’s own religious commitment to that of others. As foundational decisions for life, they must be faced in every effort at modernization and indeed in all deeply human accomplishments.
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The Christian Religion and Biotechnology: a Search for Principled Decision-Making
George P. Smith II
Religion is a dominant force in the lives of many Americans. It animates, challenges, directs and shapes, as well, the legal, political, and scientific agendas of the new Age of Biotechnology. In a very real way, religion, biomedical technology and law are - epistemologically - different. Yet, they are equal vectors of force in defining reality and approaching an understanding of it. Indeed, all three share a synergetic relationship, for they seek to understand and improve the human condition.
This book strikes a rich balance between thorough analysis (in the body), anchored in sound references to religion, law and medical scientific analysis, and a strong scholarly direction in the end notes. It presents new insights into the decision-making processes of the new Age of Biotechnology and shows how religion, law and medical science interact in shaping, directing and informing the political processes.
This volume will be of interest to both scholars and practitioners in the fields of religion and theology, philosophy, ethics, (family) law, science, medicine, political science and public policy, and gender studies. It will serve as a reference source and can be used in graduate and undergraduate courses in law, medicine and religion.
