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Book SynopsisIn spite of massive financial commitments to GreenTech made across the continent, Europe is currently behind when it comes to patenting green technologies. Based on first-hand experience, Christian KÃster provides practical tips and strategies for drafting, filing and litigating patents in green technologies.

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Book SynopsisLaw firms are important economic institutions in this country: they collect hundreds of millions of dollars annually in fees, they order the affairs of businesses and of many government agencies, and their members include some of the most influential Canadians. Some firms have a history stretching back nearly two hundred years, and many are over a century old. Yet the history of law firms in Canada has remained largely unknown. This collection of essays, Volume VII in the Osgoode Society's series of Essays in the History of Canadian Law, is the first focused study of a variety of law firms and how they have evolved over a century and a half, from the golden age of the sole practitioner in the pre-industrial era to the recent rise of the mega-firm. The volume as a whole is an exploration of the impact of economic and social change on law-firm culture and organization. The introduction by Carol Wilton provides a chronological overview of Canadian law-firm evolution and emphasizes

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Book SynopsisProposes groundbreaking, fundamental reform for the adversarial legal system to keep innocent people from going to prison We rely on the adversarial legal system to hold offenders accountable, ensure everyone is playing by the same rules, and keep our streets safe. Unfortunately, a grave condition lingers under the surface: at all times the imprisonment of possibly tens of thousands of innocent people. The Plea of Innocence offers a fundamental reform of the adversarial system: plausibly innocent people may now plead innocent and require the government to search for exonerating facts; in return, they will be required to waive their right to remain silent, speak to government agents, and participate in a search for truth. While almost all the participants within the system hope that only guilty people will be convicted, the unfortunate reality is that innocent people are convicted and imprisoned at an alarming rate. With the privatization of defense institutions, accused innocent peopleTrade Review"Featuring compelling analysis and exceptional scholarship, The Plea of Innocence illustrates how the justice system can be revised to protect innocent people from conviction. Few books could be more important or timely." -- Brian Levin, California State University, San Bernardino"Worthy of full consideration by legal scholars and anyone with an interest in justice for those who are innocent." -- Ros Burnett, University of Oxford"A timely and important contribution. As calls for reforming the justice system increasingly enter into the public sphere, Bakken offers a compelling path forward, one that is both possible and revolutionary." -- Marvin Zalman, Wayne State University"Remarkable and convincing. The book is well-written, thoroughly researched and enjoyable to read. It is a rethinking of the criminal law that everyone involved in the criminal justice system should read and contemplate." -- John Hill * The Lawyer's Daily *

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Book SynopsisExplores the critical role that American lawyers have played since the nation's founding and what the future holds for the professionThe American legal profession faces significant challenges: the changing nature of work in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic; calls for greater racial and gender justice; threats to democracy; the inaccessibility of legal services for the majority of Americans; the risk of obsolescence owing to the emergence of new technologies; and the disaffection many lawyers feel toward their work. Ambitious in its scope yet straightforward in its approach, Lawyer Nation seeks to address these crises by offering a path forward for the legal profession. Ray Brescia provides concrete ideas for transforming law into a field whose services are accessible, egalitarian, and viable in the long term. Further, he addresses how the profession can improve so that the health of its practitioners is not compromised in the process. If the legal profession does not respond to its cr

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Book SynopsisFundamentals of Investigative Report Writing teaches readers how to precisely construct investigative reports, whether for criminal, employment-policy, or employee-performance investigations. Dedicated to helping report-writers produce valuable extrinsic documentation, the book explains how to describe “what happened and why” in clear, concise terms.Topics include writing attitude and ethics, the “always” rules of writing, tips for conducting successful interviews, techniques for writing with precision, purposes and techniques for editing and proof-reading, and how to incorporate sketches, drawings, diagrams, and other visuals. The book also addresses considerations when writing United States Constitutional- based reports, as well as strategies involved in other forms of written communication such as e-mail, business letters, memoranda, and social media. This edition features a chapter devoted to performance evaluations that helps supervisors to be accurate, state things efficiently, insure the quality of the organization, and develop the employee.Each chapter includes learning objectives, chapter summaries, specific writing assignments, and a feature story related to the chapter's content-focus. Illustrations have been carefully selected to support the written text. Thoughtfully developed to set students and instructors up for success, Fundamentals of Investigative Report Writing is ideal for technical education programs in administration of justice, criminal justice, and law enforcement and courses on investigative and police report writing and report writing for criminal justice and law enforcement professionals.

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Book SynopsisEpistemic Forces in International Law presents a comprehensive examination of the methodological choices made by international lawyers and provides a discerning insight into the ways in which lawyers shape their arguments to secure validation within the international legal community.International law is defined in this book as an argumentative practice, articulated around a set of foundational doctrines and deployed through rhetorical techniques. Taking an original approach, Jean d'Aspremont focuses on five key foundational doctrines of international legal theory and five key techniques deployed in international legal argumentation. He argues that mastering these foundational principles and argumentative procedures shapes the discourse of international lawyers as much as these discourses shape these foundational doctrines and techniques of legal argumentation. This book is a pertinent contribution to the methodology and theory of international law, illustrating the rationale of the choices made by lawyers in the doctrines of statehood, sources, law-making, international organisations and effectivity.This accessible reflection on the conceptual, theoretical and methodological perspectives of international law will be a salient point of reference for legal academics, researchers and practitioners alike.Trade ReviewTo whom does international law belong? International lawyers have shaped our understanding of the nature as well as of the content of the discipline to an unusually high degree. This book explores this phenomena, probing the nature of the community of international lawyers that engage in this practice, its causes, consequences and the means through which it is accomplished. It is replete with thought-provoking insights into why we understand international law in the way that we do and, as a result, seeks to open the space for new understandings to emerge. --Malcolm D. Evans, University of Bristol, UKLaw does not have the seamless consistency of mathematics or moral philosophy; and lawyers need to be aware of its limitations. Many lawyers have quoted Emerson's great dictum that 'foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds', but few have had the courage to act on it. Here, d'Aspremont offers a principled defence of a position that is not only the unavoidable fate of the international lawyer but also the best hope for the rational development of international law. --Vaughan Lowe, Oxford University, UKJean d'Aspremont is one of the more thoughtful and creative international legal academics of his generation. In this volume of essays, he aims to explore how the 'invisible college of international lawyers' (to use a famous phrase) works, based on the idea that insight into the way international lawyers work will also tell us something of great value about international law itself. The result is sometimes compelling, sometimes controversial, and invariably thought-provoking: a must-read for the self-reflective international lawyer. --Jan Klabbers, University of Helsinki, FinlandTable of ContentsContents: PART I THE FOUNDATIONAL DOCTRINES 1. Subjects 2. Sources 3. Law-making 4. Institutions 5. Effectivity PART II THE ARGUMENTATIVE TECHNIQUES 6. Methodology 7. Interpretation 8. Academic Writing 9. Dissemination 10. Expert Blogging Index

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Book Synopsis‘'Rethinking’' legal reasoning seems a bold aim given the large amount of literature devoted to this topic. In this thought-provoking book, Geoffrey Samuel proposes a different way of approaching legal reasoning by examining the topic through the context of legal knowledge (epistemology). What is it to have knowledge of legal reasoning? At a more specific level the pursuit of this understanding is conducted through posing a number of questions that are founded on different approaches. What has legal reasoning been? What are the institutional and conceptual legacies of this history? What is the literature and textual heritage? How does it compare with medical reasoning and with reasoning in the humanities? Can it be demystified? In exploring these questions Samuel suggests a number of frameworks that offer some new insights into the nature of legal reasoning. The author also puts forward two key ideas. First, that the legal notion of an '‘interest’' might perhaps be a very suitable artefact for rethinking legal reasoning; and, secondly, that fiction theory might be the most viable ‘'epistemological attitude’' for understanding, if not rethinking, reasoning in law. This book will be of great interest to academics who are researching legal method and legal reasoning, as well as epistemology of the social sciences and aspects of comparative law. It will also be an insightful text for those interested in legal history and historical perspectives on legal reasoning.Trade Review'This excellent book pursues the author's relentless ontological and epistemological project of thinking (and rethinking) legal reasoning, with a view to showing the relevance of law for the social sciences and the humanities: there is more indeed to law as a discipline than description of, and reasoning about, rules!' --Horatia Muir Watt, Ecole de Droit, Sciences-po, FranceTable of ContentsContents: Preface General introduction 1. What was the contribution of the medieval civilians? 2. What was the contribution of the Roman lawyers? 3. What was the contribution of the later civilians and the common lawyers? 4. What is the institutional legacy? 5. What is the legal literature legacy? 6. How do legal reasoners treat facts? 7. Is legal reasoning like medical reasoning? 8. Is legal reasoning like reasoning in film studies? 9. Is legal reasoning based on fictions? 10. Can legal reasoning be rethought? 11. Rethinking legal reasoning: should jurists take interests more seriously? 12. Should jurists take interests more seriously (continued)? Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis‘'Rethinking’' legal reasoning seems a bold aim given the large amount of literature devoted to this topic. In this thought-provoking book, Geoffrey Samuel proposes a different way of approaching legal reasoning by examining the topic through the context of legal knowledge (epistemology). What is it to have knowledge of legal reasoning? At a more specific level the pursuit of this understanding is conducted through posing a number of questions that are founded on different approaches. What has legal reasoning been? What are the institutional and conceptual legacies of this history? What is the literature and textual heritage? How does it compare with medical reasoning and with reasoning in the humanities? Can it be demystified? In exploring these questions Samuel suggests a number of frameworks that offer some new insights into the nature of legal reasoning. The author also puts forward two key ideas. First, that the legal notion of an '‘interest’' might perhaps be a very suitable artefact for rethinking legal reasoning; and, secondly, that fiction theory might be the most viable ‘'epistemological attitude’' for understanding, if not rethinking, reasoning in law. This book will be of great interest to academics who are researching legal method and legal reasoning, as well as epistemology of the social sciences and aspects of comparative law. It will also be an insightful text for those interested in legal history and historical perspectives on legal reasoning.Trade Review'This excellent book pursues the author's relentless ontological and epistemological project of thinking (and rethinking) legal reasoning, with a view to showing the relevance of law for the social sciences and the humanities: there is more indeed to law as a discipline than description of, and reasoning about, rules!' --Horatia Muir Watt, Ecole de Droit, Sciences-po, FranceTable of ContentsContents: Preface General introduction 1. What was the contribution of the medieval civilians? 2. What was the contribution of the Roman lawyers? 3. What was the contribution of the later civilians and the common lawyers? 4. What is the institutional legacy? 5. What is the legal literature legacy? 6. How do legal reasoners treat facts? 7. Is legal reasoning like medical reasoning? 8. Is legal reasoning like reasoning in film studies? 9. Is legal reasoning based on fictions? 10. Can legal reasoning be rethought? 11. Rethinking legal reasoning: should jurists take interests more seriously? 12. Should jurists take interests more seriously (continued)? Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHarvard Law-graduate authors Yussuf Aleem and Jake Slowik built a multi-million dollar law practice before they were 30 years old using a novel strategy of business niche specialization. They have now written the story behind their success so that other attorneys can learn from their methods and grow their own successful practices. Drawing on the authors'? own experiences and lessons with illustrative examples and real-life applications, the book teaches how they used a novel strategy of business niche specialization to quickly grow their law practice amidst a rapidly changing global economy. The book illustrates why business niche specialization worked for the authors, the characteristics of a business niche that make it right for a law practice, and how the authors adopted specific business tactics that aligned with their strategy and maximized their chances for success. Its innovative, tried and true methods have been broken down into applicable steps so that a strategy can be developed and executed in a way that works for the reader and their specific skill set. From new lawyers who are looking to jumpstart their legal career to established attorneys who need to revitalize their practice and boost their marketability, this book presents an opportunity to anyone who is struggling to succeed in the legal marketplace.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction 2. Our Myths of the BigLaw System 3. Business Niche Specialization 4. Small Law Business Development 5. Small Law; Smart Billing 6. Staffing a Small Firm 7. Is Partnership Right for Me? 8. An Argument for Ethics 9. Building a Sustainable Practice Index

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Book SynopsisHarvard Law-graduate authors Yussuf Aleem and Jake Slowik built a multi-million dollar law practice before they were 30 years old using a novel strategy of business niche specialization. They have now written the story behind their success so that other attorneys can learn from their methods and grow their own successful practices. Drawing on the authors'? own experiences and lessons with illustrative examples and real-life applications, the book teaches how they used a novel strategy of business niche specialization to quickly grow their law practice amidst a rapidly changing global economy. The book illustrates why business niche specialization worked for the authors, the characteristics of a business niche that make it right for a law practice, and how the authors adopted specific business tactics that aligned with their strategy and maximized their chances for success. Its innovative, tried and true methods have been broken down into applicable steps so that a strategy can be developed and executed in a way that works for the reader and their specific skill set. From new lawyers who are looking to jumpstart their legal career to established attorneys who need to revitalize their practice and boost their marketability, this book presents an opportunity to anyone who is struggling to succeed in the legal marketplace.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction 2. Our Myths of the BigLaw System 3. Business Niche Specialization 4. Small Law Business Development 5. Small Law; Smart Billing 6. Staffing a Small Firm 7. Is Partnership Right for Me? 8. An Argument for Ethics 9. Building a Sustainable Practice Index

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Book SynopsisExpertly combining negotiation theory and practice, Negotiation and Dispute Resolution for Lawyers demonstrates how lawyers can deliver enhanced levels of service to their clients. Comprehensive and engaging, the book is a lawyer’s guide to resolving conflict, negotiating deals, preserving important client relationships, and ultimately becoming truly effective problem solvers.Key features: Accessible explanation of key concepts relating to negotiation, as well as less familiar ideas such as planned early dispute resolution and guided mediation Introduction to the strategies, tactics and core skills required for effective negotiation and conflict resolution, including how to overcome cultural and technological barriers Learning and unlearning processes facilitated by relevant examples, figures, and practical tools such as checklists With its broad scope and emphasis on practical application, this richly detailed book is an essential resource for lawyers in private practice and in-house corporate counsel. Lawyers in training will benefit from its nuanced approach to negotiation within a legal context, helping to broaden their repertoire of advisory, advocacy, counselling, and process design skills.Trade Review‘In creating this book, Professor Jordaan has meticulously laid out his analysises and approaches, backed by cross-discipline research and data. This approach is intended to enable lawyers to advance their client's best interests outside of a traditional legal framework but with all of the expertise and problem-solving skills that being a lawyer entails, and it does it incredibly well. This book’s clean format and easy-to-follow layout allow it to be both a volume to “read” and a book to keep near to hand as a reference volume. Professor Jordaan's work here is as essential to lawyers now as Getting to Yes was forty years ago.’ -- Denise Ereka Peterson, FCIArb (Chartered Institute of Arbitrators)‘Barney Jordaan has written a text for the times. It is a classic text on international negotiation and dispute resolution, balancing theory with practice, law with behaviourism, analysis with opinion. This is a grand narrative, written with authority, poise and elan.’ -- Laurence Boulle, University of Newcastle, Australia‘The scope of the book and depth of analysis is ambitious, delivering valuable insights, ideas and tools on a wide range of topics crucial to modern legal practice. It is difficult to conceive of future-oriented lawyers operating successfully without embracing and putting into practice the negotiation skills covered in it. What really stands out for me in this comprehensive treatment is the infusion of psychology and neuroscience and their application to traditional processes of dispute prevention and resolution. Hugely valuable for anyone serious about the practice of law.’ -- Chris Todd, Bowmans, South Africa‘I highly recommend this outstanding treatise. With a focus on the role of lawyers, the treatise outlines crucial strategic decisions throughout a dispute. Bringing in the most up-to-date understanding of human behavior and weaving interdisciplinary expertise throughout, this well-organized and straightforward book makes it easy for lawyers to comprehend both the theory and practice of negotiation and dispute resolution.’ -- Andrea Kupfer Schneider, Marquette University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Preface PART I THE CHANGING WORLD OF LEGAL PRACTICE – CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES 1. Changes affecting the practice of law 2. The lawyer as problem solver 3. A different mindset and approach PART II HANDLING CONFLICT 4. Understanding conflict 5. Biases in decision-making PART III NEGOTIATION 6. Understanding negotiation 7. Negotiation preparation and planning 8. Negotiation planning 9. Developing a Negotiation Strategy 10. Executing the negotiation 11. Ethics in negotiation PART IV SKILLS AND COMPLICATING FACTORS 12. Essential skills for problem solving 13. Complicating factors PART V THE LAWYER AS PROCESS ARCHITECT AND ADVISER 14. Dispute resolution processes 15. Representing a client in mediation 16. Dispute process design 17. Legal fee arrangements Annexure A: Negotiation Preparation Template Annexure B: mediation checklist Annexure C: checklist for mixed-mode processes Annexure D: planned early dispute resolution system Annexure E: guided mediation draft clause Annexure F: Joan Ollins and Billy Branson Index

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Book SynopsisExpertly combining negotiation theory and practice, Negotiation and Dispute Resolution for Lawyers demonstrates how lawyers can deliver enhanced levels of service to their clients. Comprehensive and engaging, the book is a lawyer’s guide to resolving conflict, negotiating deals, preserving important client relationships, and ultimately becoming truly effective problem solvers.Key features: Accessible explanation of key concepts relating to negotiation, as well as less familiar ideas such as planned early dispute resolution and guided mediation Introduction to the strategies, tactics and core skills required for effective negotiation and conflict resolution, including how to overcome cultural and technological barriers Learning and unlearning processes facilitated by relevant examples, figures, and practical tools such as checklists With its broad scope and emphasis on practical application, this richly detailed book is an essential resource for lawyers in private practice and in-house corporate counsel. Lawyers in training will benefit from its nuanced approach to negotiation within a legal context, helping to broaden their repertoire of advisory, advocacy, counselling, and process design skills.Trade Review‘In creating this book, Professor Jordaan has meticulously laid out his analysises and approaches, backed by cross-discipline research and data. This approach is intended to enable lawyers to advance their client's best interests outside of a traditional legal framework but with all of the expertise and problem-solving skills that being a lawyer entails, and it does it incredibly well. This book’s clean format and easy-to-follow layout allow it to be both a volume to “read” and a book to keep near to hand as a reference volume. Professor Jordaan's work here is as essential to lawyers now as Getting to Yes was forty years ago.’ -- Denise Ereka Peterson, FCIArb (Chartered Institute of Arbitrators)‘Barney Jordaan has written a text for the times. It is a classic text on international negotiation and dispute resolution, balancing theory with practice, law with behaviourism, analysis with opinion. This is a grand narrative, written with authority, poise and elan.’ -- Laurence Boulle, University of Newcastle, Australia‘The scope of the book and depth of analysis is ambitious, delivering valuable insights, ideas and tools on a wide range of topics crucial to modern legal practice. It is difficult to conceive of future-oriented lawyers operating successfully without embracing and putting into practice the negotiation skills covered in it. What really stands out for me in this comprehensive treatment is the infusion of psychology and neuroscience and their application to traditional processes of dispute prevention and resolution. Hugely valuable for anyone serious about the practice of law.’ -- Chris Todd, Bowmans, South Africa‘I highly recommend this outstanding treatise. With a focus on the role of lawyers, the treatise outlines crucial strategic decisions throughout a dispute. Bringing in the most up-to-date understanding of human behavior and weaving interdisciplinary expertise throughout, this well-organized and straightforward book makes it easy for lawyers to comprehend both the theory and practice of negotiation and dispute resolution.’ -- Andrea Kupfer Schneider, Marquette University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Preface PART I THE CHANGING WORLD OF LEGAL PRACTICE – CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES 1. Changes affecting the practice of law 2. The lawyer as problem solver 3. A different mindset and approach PART II HANDLING CONFLICT 4. Understanding conflict 5. Biases in decision-making PART III NEGOTIATION 6. Understanding negotiation 7. Negotiation preparation and planning 8. Negotiation planning 9. Developing a Negotiation Strategy 10. Executing the negotiation 11. Ethics in negotiation PART IV SKILLS AND COMPLICATING FACTORS 12. Essential skills for problem solving 13. Complicating factors PART V THE LAWYER AS PROCESS ARCHITECT AND ADVISER 14. Dispute resolution processes 15. Representing a client in mediation 16. Dispute process design 17. Legal fee arrangements Annexure A: Negotiation Preparation Template Annexure B: mediation checklist Annexure C: checklist for mixed-mode processes Annexure D: planned early dispute resolution system Annexure E: guided mediation draft clause Annexure F: Joan Ollins and Billy Branson Index

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Book SynopsisEffective Communication for Lawyers is an essential guide to communicating in the radically and rapidly changing environment of professional law today. The book offers a deep dive into understanding communication as behaviour, as well as practical tools and insights. It connects theory to practice in order to improve client communication, support the current transformation of legal work and prepare readers for future developments and disruptions in the legal profession. Key Features: Introduces ‘The Dialogue Box’ and explains how to use this foundational communication tool in everyday legal work Provides a solid grounding in the theoretical context and expands the horizons of the relationship between law and communication Offers the reader a clear understanding of why they are communicating and enables effective use of various channels, tools and skills of communication This book will be crucial reading for all practising lawyers, as well as arbitrators, mediators and negotiators. It will also be helpful for law students looking to develop their communication skills ahead of going into practice.Trade Review‘This is a highly useful, clear and interesting read. David Cowan guides us through why great communication is such a vital skill for legal professionals but then, most importantly, he gives the tools which enable us to do this ourselves - impactfully and simply. An excellent contribution.’ -- Christina Blacklaws, entrepreneur and innovator, Chair of LawTech UK and former President of the Law Society of England and Wales‘If communication, as David suggests, is better understood as the activity of sharing, then I think we are all fortunate that he has shared with us his insights into effective communication in this invaluable book. As a practising lawyer, I would rank effective communication as the most valuable skill a lawyer can possess; one that we must continually develop. The Dialogue Box is an excellent practical tool which aids that development for everyone from the first year law student to the most seasoned practitioner.’ -- Tara Doyle, Matheson, Dublin, Ireland‘This book does much more than it says on the tin. As well as being a first-rate practical guide, it offers a deeply informed analysis of the changing nature of legal communications in a digital society. Wide-ranging, well-researched, and ambitious, it should be mandatory reading across the world of law.’ -- Richard Susskind, President, Society for Computers and LawTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Dialogue and law – new horizons 2. Law as communication, communication as law PART I THE COMMUNICATING LAWYER 3. Emotional lawyering 4. Collaborative lawyering 5. Changing channel 6. Changing paradigms – confront or collaborate? PART II THE DIALOGUE BOX FOR LAWYERS 7. Introducing the Dialogue Box 8. The Intelligence Zon 9. The Emotion Zone 10. The Interpretation Zone 11. The Narrative Zone 12. Ready to dialogue? Index

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Book SynopsisDas UN-Kaufrecht (engl.: United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, CISG) ist maßgeblich für den internationalen Warenkauf. Seit dem Erscheinen der 1. Auflage des Bandes im Jahr 1996 hat sich die Zahl der Vertragsstaaten von 45 auf 71 erhöht. Dies zeigt die wachsende Bedeutung des internationalen Abkommens. Der Band bietet eine übersichtliche, verständliche und fundierte Kommentierung des Wiener UN-Kaufrechts für Wissenschaft und Praxis – aus der Feder eines ausgewiesenen Expertenteams.Trade ReviewAus den Rezensionen: “... Garantiert ist jedoch: der Blick lohnt sich! Auf über 1200 Seiten hat ein vierzehnköpfiges Expertenteam ... das 101 Artikel starke Übereinkommen fundiert, aber mit der notwendigen Übersicht und Überschaubarkeit ausführlich kommentiert. ... Für den schnellen Blick bei der täglichen Arbeit mit dem Kommentar ergänzen ... hervorragend das umso umfassendere Literaturverzeichnis in der Einleitung des Kommentars. ... Weiterhin sehr hilfreich ist das ausführliche Abkürzungsverzeichnis ... Schließlich erhält der Leser einen sehr aktuellen und systematischen Überblick zum Geltungsbereich des Übereinkommens … ein hervorragendes Nachschlagewerk …“ (http://www.studjur-online.de/stud_rl/studium/stud_lit_0310.lasso)Table of Contents#x00DC;bereinkommen der Vereinten Nationen #x00FC;ber Vertr#x00E4;ge #x00FC;ber den internationalen Warenkauf.- Anwendungsbereich und allgemeine Bestimmungen.- Abschluss des Vertrages.- Warenkauf.- Schlussbestimmungen.- Gesetz vom 5.7.1989 zu dem #x00DC;bereinkommen der Vereinten Nationen vom 11. April 1980 #x00F6;ber Vertr#x00E4;ge #x00F6;ber den internationalen Warenkauf sowie zur #x00E4;nderung des Gesetzes zu dem #x00DC;bereinkommen vom 19. Mai 1956 #x00F6;ber.- Geltungsbereich des #x00DC;bereinkommens.

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Book SynopsisThis book gives legal practitioners, academics, and law students a comprehensive look at the main impacts of artificial intelligence use in legal practice. Contributors identify the main challenges surrounding a legally compliant and ethical development of AI and craft a framework for analyzing the costs and benefits of new technology.Table of Contents1. Lawyering in the Digital Age Pietro Ortolani and Larry A. DiMatteo; Part I. Effects of Technology on Legal Practice: 2. Disruptive effects of legal tech Larry A. DiMatteo, Jiang Christine Jiaying and Robert Thomas; 3. The effects of technology on legal practice: from punch card to artificial intelligence? Andrė Janssen and Tom J. Vennmanns; 4. Legal drafting and automation Benjamin Werthmann; 5. Emerging rules on artificial intelligence: Trojan horses of ethics in the realm of law? Florian Möslein and Maximilian Horn; Part II. Legal Tech and ADR: 6. Legal tech in ADR Mateja Durovic and Franciszek Lech; 7. A blockchain-based smart dispute resolution method Alessandro Palombo, Raffaele Battaglini and Luigi Cantisani; 8. Digital dispute resolution: blurring the boundaries of ADR Pietro Ortolani; Part III. Legal Tech in Consumer Relations and Small Claims 9. Legal tech in consumer relations and small-value claims: a survey Francisco de Elizalde; 10. Regulation of legal services and access to justice in the digital age: a war report Jin-Ho Verdonschot and Max Houben; 11. Legal tech and EU consumer law Martin Ebers; 12. The two faces of legal tech in B2C relations Eric Tjong Tjin Tai; Part IV. Legal Tech and Public Law: 13. Blockchain's heterotopia: technological infrastructures and lawyering in the public sector Georgios Dimitropoulos; 14. Fundamental rights and the use of artificial intelligence in court Jean-Marc van Gyseghem; 15. Legal tech in public administration: prospects and challenges Antonios Kouroutakis; Part V. Legal Ethics and Societal Values Confront Technology: 16. Ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI Michel Cannarsa; 17. Ethical digital lawyering: technical and philosophical insights Mathieu Guillermin, Arnaud Billion, Carine Copain-Héritier and Emmanuel de Vaujany; 18. Law, disintermediation, and the future of trust Christoph Kletzer; Part VI. Fate of the Legal Professions: 19. Lawyering somewhere between computation and the will to act: a digital age reflection Jeffrey M. Lipshaw; 20. Surviving the digital transformation – a method for lawyers to approach legal tech Paw Fruerlund and Sebastian Peters; 21. Road forward: promise and danger Larry A. DiMatteo and Pietro Ortolani.

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Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking book, Randall Kiser presents a multi-disciplinary, practice-based introduction to the major soft skills for lawyers: self-awareness, self-development, social proficiency, wisdom, leadership, and professionalism. The work serves as both a map and a vehicle for developing the skills essential to self-knowledge and fulfillment, organizational respect and accomplishment, client satisfaction and appreciation, and professional improvement and distinction. It identifies the most important soft skills for attorneys, describes and applies hundreds of studies regarding psychology, law, and soft skills, and provides concrete steps and methods to improve soft skills. The book should be read by law students, attorneys, and anyone else interested in how lawyers should practice law.Trade Review'Any objective reading of this book would conclude that legal education has been scooped by Randall Kiser. Building upon his prior research on why some trial lawyers consistently outperform others, Kiser has delved deeper into the component parts of lawyer success. Soft Skills for the Effective Lawyer creates a simplifying and unifying framework that ties together research from a wide array of disciplines, and then places these insights into a practical format for lifetime self-improvement. In addition to applying Soft Skills to my own professional life, I am building a curriculum around this book. History will judge Kiser and Soft Skills as part of a major breakthrough in changing legal education for the better.' William Henderson, Professor and Stephen F. Burns Chair on the Legal Profession, Indiana University Maurer School of Law'A remarkable achievement, this book has the power to change how the profession thinks about the skills required for excellence. Marshalling the best available research and packed with insights, Soft Skills for Effective Lawyers will help aspiring lawyers acquire the skills required for successful practice, lasting client relations, and a fulfilling career. I know of no other book on lawyering with the scope and depth of this masterly work.' Sverre Blandhol, Universitetet i Oslo and founder of Palatin AS'Recent empirical evidence establishes that 'soft' skills are essential for effective lawyering and many lawyers come up short. Good news, though - soft skills can be learned and here is a book that teaches lawyers how to master these skills. Randall Kiser succeeds in demystifying what distinguishes top performing attorneys from those who are merely technically competent. Reading this book is sure to enhance your performance as a lawyer and equip you to fill the needs for which clients seek our counsel. It builds chapter by chapter to the real payoff of providing insight into wisdom, leadership, and professionalism. This book helps lawyers who have the intellectual hardware develop the software necessary to become legal counselors.' Jay Folberg, Professor and Dean Emeritus, University of San Francisco School of Law'Just as the legal profession is beginning to understand the critical need for soft skills, along comes Randall Kiser with an engaging and well-researched book that not only explains key soft skills such as emotional intelligence, professionalism, perspective taking, and decision making, but provides practical information on how to increase skills. Full of interesting examples, studies, interviews, and expert tips, this is a book that should be on the shelf of any lawyer interested in excelling in an increasingly competitive market.' Teresa Frisbie, Director, Dispute Resolution Program, Loyola University Chicago School of Law​'Based on hundreds of empirical studies, Soft Skills for the Effective Lawyer is at the leading edge of the future of the legal profession. Contrary to conventional legal training, which puts the emphasis quasi-exclusively on logical and rational legal reasoning, Randall Kiser demonstrates in a persuasive manner that lawyers' effectiveness is largely influenced by their mastery of 'soft skills': self-awareness, self-development, social proficiency, wisdom, leadership, and professionalism. With this convincing evidence, the time is ripe for law schools to introduce soft skills training into their course curriculums. Kiser provides a variety of tools and techniques to assist lawyers to improve, recover, and enhance their long forgotten soft skills.' Véronique Fraser, Professor, Dispute Resolution Program, Faculty of Law, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada'This book is onto something crucial to attorneys, and we should all listen very carefully. Time and time again, I've seen the thoughtful use of soft skills help produce the best results in resolving civil disputes as well as managing through crisis events. We can all benefit from Randall Kiser's well-researched work and practical advice in this critical area.' Mark LeHocky, former public company general counsel, and Adjunct Professor of Mediation Advocacy, University of California, Davis'Pretty much everything that Randy Kiser publishes is simply brilliant. I can't wait to read this new book.' Donna Shestowsky, Indisputably (www.indisputably.org)'The book synthesizes a great deal of research on psychology and lawyers, citing numerous empirical studies. It would be useful as a recommended reading for law students who want to get a head-start on honing skills that they will really need after graduation.' John Lande, Best Practices for Legal Education (www.bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org)'Soft Skills for the Effective Lawyer lives up to its title with a studious examination of invaluable 'soft skills' for the legal profession - vital abilities that not traditionally studied in law school, including communication skills, resilience, leadership, and empathy. Chapters discuss the most essential soft skills, and effective ways to cultivate and maintain them, with particular emphasis on Wisdom, Self-Awareness, Self-Development, Social Proficiency, Leadership, and Professionalism. An index rounds out this invaluable supplementary resource for self- improvement, highly recommended especially for college library collections and the personal reading lists of legal professionals.' James A. Cox, Library Bookwatch'This is a great book for lawyers. It explains skills that help lawyers do a better job for their clients. Some of these skills are patience, trust, and optimism. People can develop these skills and make them stronger. For example, the book lists seven ideas for lawyers to help them be more creative … It should be mandatory reading for every lawyer, law student, law professor, and CLE provider.' Lainey Feingold, Disability Rights LawyerTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Essential soft skills; 3. Self-awareness; 4. Self-development; 5. Social proficiency; 6. Wisdom; 7. Leadership; 8. Professionalism; 9. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThe field of artificial intelligence (AI) and the law is on the cusp of a revolution that began with text analytic programs like IBM''s Watson and Debater and the open-source information management architectures on which they are based. Today, new legal applications are beginning to appear and this book - designed to explain computational processes to non-programmers - describes how they will change the practice of law, specifically by connecting computational models of legal reasoning directly with legal text, generating arguments for and against particular outcomes, predicting outcomes and explaining these predictions with reasons that legal professionals will be able to evaluate for themselves. These legal applications will support conceptual legal information retrieval and allow cognitive computing, enabling a collaboration between humans and computers in which each does what it can do best. Anyone interested in how AI is changing the practice of law should read this illuminating wTrade Review'In relation to the composition of this book, it provides a comprehensive and user-friendly description of this interdisciplinary area, focusing on the suitability of developing legal devices based on artificial intelligence. The structure of the work allows users to analyse how representation of legal logic knowledge occurs, and its suitability for computational implementations … On this matter, the author provides relevant and understandable illustrations that facilitate the linkage between theory and the development of the techno legal implementations. … Artificial Intelligence and Legal Analytics: New Tools for Law Practice in the Digital Age is a fundamental work for those of us who are interested in the intersection between intelligent technology and the legal field, and its promising future.' Jesus Manuel Niebla Zatarain, SCRIPTedTable of ContentsPart I. Computational Models of Legal Reasoning: 1. Introducing AI and Law and its role in future legal practice; 2. Modeling statutory reasoning; 3. Modeling case-based legal reasoning; 4. Models for predicting legal outcomes; 5. Computational models of legal argument; Part II. Legal Text Analytics: 6. Representing legal concepts in ontologies and type systems; 7. Making legal informational retrieval smarter; 8. Machine learning with legal texts; 9. Extracting information from statutory and regulatory texts; 10. Extracting argument-related information from legal case texts; Part III. Connecting Computational Reasoning Models and Legal Texts: 11. Conceptual legal information retrieval for cognitive computing; 12. Cognitive computing legal apps.

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