Course Books for Fall 2015

The information below is for the print editions of these titles. Students may select another format, such as an e-book, if they prefer. If selecting a non-print format, be careful in thinking ahead how you plan to read for your assignments and review for assessments. Beside the publishers’ online bookstore listed with each title, students may wish to review alternative online bookstores such as Amazon.com, Textbook.com, Abebooks.com, or untdallas-shop.com. These sites may have better pricing or used copies of the books.

There may be reading assignments for the first day of classes, so we recommend students order books no later than August 1, 2015 for the fall 2015 courses.

Administrative Law
Title: Administrative Procedure and Practice: Problems and Cases
Author: William F. Funk, Sidney A. Shapiro, and Russell L. Weaver
Edition: 5th
Publisher: West Academic
Publication Date: 2014
ISBN-13: 9780314286949
Price: $210 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Online Store: http://store.westacademic.com/

Advanced Legal Research: Business
Title: Strauss’s Handbook of Business Information: A Guide for Librarians, Students, and Researchers 
Author: Rita W. Moss and David Ernsthausen
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Edition: 3rd
Publication Date: 2012
ISBN-13: 9781598848076
Price: $100 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Online Store: http://www.abc-clio.com/LibrariesUnlimited.aspx

Advanced Legal Research: Texas
None

Business Associations
Title: Hamilton, Macey and Moll's The Law of Business Organizations, Cases, Materials, and Problems
Author: Robert Hamilton, et al.
Edition: 12th
Publisher: West Academic
Publication Date: 2014
ISBN-13: 9780314285638
Price: $225 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Online Store: http://store.westacademic.com/

Title: Hamilton, Macey, and Moll's Statutory Supplement to The Law of Business Organizations, Cases, Materials, and Problems
Author: Robert Hamilton, et al.
Edition: 12th
Publisher: West Academic
Publication Date: July 14, 2014
ISBN-13: 9780314288639
Price: $49 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Online Store: http://store.westacademic.com/

Civil Procedure
Title: Civil Procedure: A Coursebook
Author: Joseph W. Glannon, Andrew M. Perlman, and Peter Raven-Hansen
Publisher: Aspen Law
Edition: 2nd
Publication Date: 07/15/2014
ISBN-13: 9781454851332
Price: $210 (suggested retail)
Publisher's Online Bookstore: http://www.wklegaledu.com/

Title: Civil Procedure: Rules, Statutes, and Other Materials
Author: Joseph W. Glannon, Andrew M. Perlman, and Peter Raven-Hansen
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Edition: 2014 Edition
Publication Date: 2014
ISBN-13: 9781454841746
Price: $46 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Online Bookstore:  http://www.wklegaledu.com/

Commercial Law
Title: Problems and Cases on Secured Transactions
Author: James Brook
Publisher: Aspen Law
Edition: 2nd
Publication Date: 07/12/2012
ISBN-13: 9781454813590
Price: $202 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Online Bookstore: http://www.wklegaledu.com/

Constitutional Law
Title: Constitutional Law
Author: Erwin Chemerinsky
Publisher: Aspen Law
Edition: 4th
Publication Date: June 5, 2013
ISBN-13: 9781454817536
Price: $234 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Online Bookstore: http://www.wklegaledu.com/

Contracts
Title: Contracts: A Context and Practice Casebook
Author: Michael Hunter Schwartz and Adrian J. Waters
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Edition: 2nd
Publication Date: July 2015
ISBN-13: 9781611635546
Price: $99 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Online Store: http://www.caplaw.com/

Title: Selections from Restatement (Second) Contracts and Uniform Commercial Code for First Year Contracts: Statutory Supplement
Author: Tracey E. George and Russell Korobkin
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
Publication Date: 2015
ISBN-13: 9781454859178
Price: $40.00 (suggested retail)
Publisher's Online Store: http://www.wklegaledu.com

Criminal Law 
Title: Mastering Criminal Law
Author: Ellen S. Podgor, Peter J. Henning, Neil P. Cohen
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Publication Date: 2008
ISBN-13: 9781594603372
Price: $34 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Online Store: http://www.caplaw.com/

Title: O’Connor’s Texas Criminal Codes Plus 2014-15
Author: George McCall Secrest, Jr.
Publisher: Jones McClure Publishing
Edition: 2014-15 annual
Publication Date: 2014
ISBN-13: 9781598391961
Price: $112.05 (suggested retail)
Publisher's Toll Free Line: 888-626-6667 (students may receive a discount)
Publisher’s Online Store: http://store.jonesmcclure.com/

Effective Oral Communications
Title: Speaking with Power and Style: A Guide for Lawyers and Law Students
Author: Steven Wisotsky
Publisher: NITA
Publication Date: 2013
ISBN-13: 9781601561596
Price: $30 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Online Store: http://www.lexisnexis.com/store/

Title: Foolproof: An Attorney’s Guide to Oral Communication
Author: Rebecca Diaz-Bonilla
Publisher: NITA
Publication Date: 2014
ISBN-13: 9781601563446
Price: $45 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Online Store: http://www.lexisnexis.com/store/

Evidence
Title: Learning Evidence: From the Federal Rules to the Courtroom
Author: Deborah Jones Merritt and Ric Simmons
Edition: 3rd
Publisher: West Academic
Publication Date: 2015
ISBN-13: 9781628101003
Price: $215 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Online Store: http://store.westacademic.com/

Externships
Title: Learning from Practice: A Professional Development Text for Legal Externs
Author: L. Wortham, J. Ogilivy, et al.
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: West Academic
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN-13: 9780314152848
Price: $101 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Online Store: http://store.westacademic.com/

Title: In Chambers: A Guide for Judicial Clerks and Externs
Author: Jennifer Sheppard
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
Publication Date: March 12, 2012
ISBN-13: 9781454802891
Price: $47.00 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Online Store: http://www.wklegaledu.com/

Family Law
Title: O’Connor’s Family Code Plus 2015-16
Author: Joan Foote Jenkins and Randall B. White
Publisher: Jones McClure Publishing
Edition: 2015-16
Publication Date: 2015
ISBN: 9781598392197
Price: $128.25 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Toll Free Line: 800-626-6667 (students may receive a discount)
Publisher’s Online Bookstore:  http://store.jonesmcclure.com/

Fundamentals of Being a Lawyer
None

Legal Methods
Title: What Every Student Really Needs to Know: An Introduction to the Study of Law
Author: Tracey E. George and Suzanna Sherry
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
Publication Date: March 27, 2009
ISBN-13: 9780735582361
Price: $32.95 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Online Store: http://www.wklegaledu.com/

Title: Think Like a Lawyer: Legal Reasoning for Law Students and Business Professionals
Author: Scott Fruehwald
Publisher: American Bar Association
Publication Date: 2013
ISBN-13: 9781627221412
Price: $59.95 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Online Store: http://shop.americanbar.org/eBus/publications.aspx

Legal Research and Writing
Title: A Lawyer Writes: A Practical Guide to Legal Analysis
Author: Christine Coughlin, Joan Malmud Rocklin, and Sandy Patrick
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Edition: Second Edition
Publication Date: 2013
Price $45
ISBN-13: 9781611633979
Publisher's Online Store: http://www.cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781611633979/A-Lawyer-Writes-Second-Edition 

Title: Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation
Author: Harvard Law Review, et al.
Publisher: Harvard Law Review Association
Edition: 20^th
Publication Date: 2015
ISBN-13: 9780692400197
Price: $36
Publisher’s Online Store: https://www.legalbluebook.com/

Title: Greenbook: Texas Rules of Form
Author: Texas Law Review
Publisher: Texas Law Review
Edition: 13^th
Publication Date: 2015
ISBN-13: 9781878674099
Price: $11
Publisher’s Online Store: http://www.utexas.edu/law/publications/isbn/trof13_info.html

Title: Manual on Usage & Style
Author: Texas Law Review
Publisher: Texas Law Review
Edition: 12th
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 1878674560
Price: $12 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Online Store: http://www.utexas.edu/law/publications/isbn/mous12_info.html

Title: The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style
Author: Bryan A. Garner
Publisher: West Academic Publishing
Edition: 3rd
Publication Date: 2013
ISBN-13: 9780314289018
Price: $50 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Online Store: http://store.westacademic.com/

Practice Foundation I: Interviewing and Counseling
Title: Essential Lawyering Skills: Interviewing, Counseling, Negotiation, and Persuasive Fact Analysis
Author: Stefan H. Krieger, Richard K. Neumann, Jr.
Publisher: Aspen Publishers
Edition: 5^th
Publication Date: 02/04/15
ISBN-13: 9781454830986
Price: $103 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Online Bookstore:  http://www.aspenlaw.com/

Title: Client Science: Advice for Lawyers on Counseling Clients Through Bad News and Other Legal Realities
Author: Marjorie Corman Aaron
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: May 4, 2012
ISBN-13: 9780199891900
Price: $39.95 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Online Store: http://global.oup.com/academic/?cc=&lang=en&

Practice Foundation II: Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Title: Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Author: Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, and Bruce Patton
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN-13: 9780143118756
Price: $17 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Online Store: http://www.penguin.com/

Title: Negotiation (Harvard Business Essentials Series)
Author: Michael Wheeler
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN-13: 9781591391111
Price: $22 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Online Store: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/pages/home

Title: Changing the Conversation: The 17 Principles of Conflict Resolution
Author: Dana Caspersen
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication Date: 01/27/2015
ISBN-13: 9780143126867
Price: $18 (suggested retail)
Publisher's Online Bookstore: http://www.penguin.com

Principles of Accounting and Finance for Lawyers
Title: Essential Concepts of Business for Lawyers
Author: Robert J. Rhee
Publisher: Aspen Publishers
Edition: 1st
Publication Date: May 7, 2012
ISBN-13: 9781454813194
Price: $77.00 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Online Bookstore: http://www.aspenlaw.com/

Professional Responsibility
Title: Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility
Author: Thomas D. Morgan and Ronald D. Rotunda
Publisher: West Academic 
Publication Date: 2015
ISBN: 9781634592086
Price: $47 (suggested retail)
Publisher's Online Bookstore: http://store.westacademic.com
Note: Any edition of the book published since 2013 is acceptable

Texas Civil Procedure
Title: O'Connor's Texas Rules - Civil Trials 2015
Author: Michol O'Connor
Publisher: Jones McClure Publishing
Edition: 2015
ISBN: 9781598392081
Price: $143.10 (suggested retail)
Publisher's Toll Free Line: 800-626-6667 (students may receive a discount)
Publisher's Online Bookstore: http://store.jonesmcclure.com/

Texas Criminal Procedure
Title: O’Connor’s Texas Criminal Codes Plus 2014-15
Author: George McCall Secrest, Jr.
Publisher: Jones McClure Publishing
Edition: 2014-15
Publication Date: 2014
ISBN-13: 9781598391961
Price: $112.05 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Toll Free Line: 800-626-6667 (students may receive a discount)
Publisher’s Online Bookstore:  http://store.jonesmcclure.com/

Title: Texas Criminal Procedure
Author: Gerald S. Reamey and Charles P. Bubany
Publisher: Academia Press
Edition: 11th Edition
Publication Date: 2013
ISBN: 978-1467575713

Torts
Title: Prosser, Wade & Schwartz, Kelley and Partlett's Torts Cases and Materials
Author: Victor E. Schwartz, Kathryn Kelly and David F. Partlett
Publisher: West Academic Publisher
Edition:12th
Publication Date: 6/29/2010
ISBN-13: 9781599417042
Price: $225 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Online Bookstore: http://store.westacademic.com

Wills, Trusts, and Estates
Title: Wills, Trusts, and Estates
Author: Jesse Dukeminier and Robert H. Sitoff
Edition: 9th
Publisher: Aspen Publishers
Publication Date: July 2013
ISBN-13: 9781454824572
Price: $230 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Online Store: http://www.wklegaledu.com/

Title: Texas Estate Planning Statutes with Commentary 2013-15
Author: Gerry W. Beyer
Edition: 2013-15
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Publication Date: 2013
ISBN-13: 9781491844342
Price: $43.95 (suggested retail)
Publisher’s Online Store: http://www.authorhouse.com/

USING EARLIER EDITIONS OF REQUIRED BOOKS

Please note that the book list specifies the required edition of each book. We recognize that, for cost reasons, students sometimes wish to use an earlier edition of a book. Please keep in mind, however, that the class texts are the specified editions and that students are responsible for the material in the specified editions. 

The reserve desk at the library will maintain a limited number of copies of all required books, which, when available, can be checked out for intervals as specified by the library.