Economic Sanctions highlights the leading legal scholarship of the past 12 years on the theory and practice of international economic sanctions. Michael P. Malloy, an internationally recognized specialist in the subject, discusses current challenges concerning the use of sanctions as tools of anti-terrorism policy and human rights enforcement as well as the controversy over the effectiveness of sanctions. He also explores horizon issues like the use of sanctions in support of environmental policy, health and safety, and cyber-safety.

Contemporary Payment Systems responds to the new demands of law and practice in the payments field. While the mainstays remain drafts, notes and bank collections, contemporary practice embraces the continuing developments in electronic funds transfers, new bodies of law and practice under the revised UCC Articles 4A (wire transfers) and 5 (letters of credit), and the explosive emergence of as yet untamed "crypto-currencies" such as Bitcoin and the like. Contemporary conditions call for a more nimble pedagogy to bring the law of payment systems to a new generation of law students. The book offers a leaner, more systemic approach to the law of payment systems. It develops, within each chapter and across all chapters, a continuous narrative arc of problems and hypotheticals to avoid the hyper-compartmentalizing of payment methods that makes it harder for students to grasp the systemic characteristics of payments law. The new edition makes extensive use of graphics as an integral part of both the conceptual analysis and the narrative developing across the chapters, and it includes new developments in crypto-currency (such as proposed UCC Article 12), discussion of Australia's misspelled banknotes, and even a reference to Irving Berlin's analysis of the signature requirement applicable to drafts.

The 8th edition of this popular casebook continues to use both the problem and case methods. Cases have been tightly edited and well-integrated with problems to provide maximum accessibility for students. Case excerpts are carefully linked to the Contracts Hornbook, as well as to the Restatements and the UCC, giving students an opportunity to integrate their analysis in real-world terms. Sample exam questions are provided throughout the book, and model exam answers appear in an appendix—so students can gauge their mastery of the subject. The authors have also made more use of graphics to illustrate and explain concepts, which should excite the interest of the current generation of visual learners. Extensive new materials—cases, problems, and other readings—address important recent developments in contract law such as digital contracting, non-compete agreements, and service contracts.

The 8th edition of this popular casebook continues to use both the problem and case methods. Cases have been tightly edited and well-integrated with problems to provide maximum accessibility for students. Case excerpts are carefully linked to the Contracts Hornbook, as well as to the Restatements and the UCC, giving students an opportunity to integrate their analysis in real-world terms. Sample exam questions are provided throughout the book, and model exam answers appear in an appendix—so students can gauge their mastery of the subject. The authors have also made more use of graphics to illustrate and explain concepts, which should excite the interest of the current generation of visual learners. Extensive new materials—cases, problems, and other readings—address important recent developments in contract law such as digital contracting, non-compete agreements, and service contracts.

This book brings contract law to life through contemporary problems to help students build a skill set they can use in practice. In the real world of practice, abstract contract principles are applied to specific factual settings. Facts don't arrive pre-digested and regurgitated for baby birds or law associates. This book pickpockets life for real-world documents and contemporary situations, like the pandemic, to help students learn how contract law works in practice. Each chapter provides concise discussion of a specific topic or issue in contract law and a realistic, documented problem that provides a base for students and enough material for traditional Socratic method teaching. Imperfect but real contracts will give students the chance to see how client counseling, fact-gathering and careful crafting of contract language can help clients avoid disputes. Stories from art, sports and Internet games make the contract concepts vivid and memorable to facilitate student engagement and productive classroom discussion.

This Nutshell provides a comprehensive guide to the law of contracts. It contains detailed explanations of contract concepts under both the common law and Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code, as well as the basics of restitution law. It also provides an extensive introduction to contracts in the digital age.

Authoritative coverage provides a foundation for understanding core concepts and recent developments in banking and financial institutions. This Nutshell title covers subjects such as the history and structure of the financial services industry and its regulators, interaction of law with monetary and economic policy, increased competition, bank and thrift failures, large-scale bailouts, and deregulation and restructuring efforts. Unresolved challenges include budget stimulus, treatment of deficits, and new questions about the appropriate role of supervision by regulators.

Malloy's Contemporary Payment Systems brings the edgy excitement back to drafts, notes and bank collections, with contemporary practice embracing electronic funds transfers, wire transfers, digital letters of credit, and the explosive emergence of "crypto-currencies" such as Bitcoins and the like. The book employs a nimble pedagogy to bring payment systems to new generations of law students facing fresh demands of practice in this area. It offers a leaner, more systemic approach, with appropriate topical cross-references among the chapters in an effort to avoid the "hyper-compartmentalizing" that typically prevents students from grasping the systemic characteristics of this area of law and practice. This new book develops, within each chapter and across all chapters, a continuous narrative arc of problems and hypotheticals involving the continuing adventures of BayerCorp, SallerCo, and their respective executives, employees, banks, and other supporting characters. This arc helps students learn more effectively and retain what they learn more securely, because their understanding of concepts, rules, and procedures is anchored to the story line. The book uses a building-block approach with its problems-they start out relatively simple and gradually take on sophistication and complexity as the narrative arc cumulates. The book also makes extensive use of graphics as an integral part of both the conceptual analysis and the narrative arc, making the book particularly good for the many contemporary students who are visual learners.

The growing use of U.S. and multilateral economic sanctions -- and the increasing and controversial attention such measures are attracting internationally -- create a need for a detailed legal analysis of the subject and its policy implications for both U.S. practitioners and their counterparts in other countries. The expanding field of sanctions is especially worthy of close scrutiny as it generates significant (and often inadvertent) influence on finance and trade. Increasingly, lawyers and business people involved in international transactions must take account of the risks, both actual and potential, inherent in compliance with economic sanctions on trading partners. This major new work, a completely revised successor edition to the author's much-cited Economic Sanctions and U.S. Trade, shifts the main emphasis from the mechanics of applying foreign policy objectives to a careful and complete articulation of what those goals are or ought to be -- an approach that leads inevitably to a concrete methodology for assessing the effectiveness of sanctions. In the process the book examines such salient characteristics of the current and developing sanctions regime as the following: + the growing prominence of U.S. Congressionally-mandated sanctions programs; + the complex interaction of economic sanctions and trade policy; and + the marked increase in multilateral sanctions programs in which the U.S. is a participant. In-depth analysis of major U.S. sanctions programs (those imposed on Cuba, Libya, and Iraq, as well as several other lesser programs) presents numerous hypothetical but realistic international scenarios, demonstrating their working-out under the practical application of specific elements of each sanctions program. In this way U.S. Economic Sanctions: Theory and Practice provides the clearest, most explicit view of the legal contours and effects of this enormously significant aspect of international relations today.