Purchasing Your Books
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A Top Hat subscription is required for all law students. It can be purchased at the campus bookstore in the fall (in person or on the bookstore website), and the cost for a four-year access code is $81.61. (For one year, the price is $55.17.)
Spring 2023 Textbook List
Winter 2023 Intensives
Legal Research Intensive (LAW 526-010 through -040) – Profs. Rost, Connors, Patrick, TBD
Required:
Researching the Law: Finding What You Need When You Need It, 2nd, by Amy Sloan (Aspen Casebook Series; Wolters Kluwer, 2017), ISBN 9781454886495
Basic Legal Research Workbook, REVISED 5th, by Amy Sloan, Steven D. Schwinn, & John D. Edwards (Aspen Casebook Series; Wolters Kluwer), ISBN 9781543804584
Statutory Interpretation (LAW 580-001) – Judge Spinden
Required:
Interpreting Law: A Primer on How to Read Statutes and the Constitution by William N. Eskridge, Jr. (West Academic, 2016), ISBN 9781634599122
First-Year Law Students
Contracts II (LAW 506-001, 506-002) – Prof. Lindevaldsen & Prof. Rice
No new texts required.
Torts II (LAW 512-001, 512-002) – Prof. Bell & Prof. Rost
No new texts required.
Property II (LAW 516-001, 516-002) – Prof. Lucas
No new texts required.
Legal Methods (LAW 520-001, 520-002) – Prof. Lindevaldsen & Prof. Moody
Required:
Legal Analysis: 100 Exercises for Mastery (Practice for Every Law Student), 2nd ed., by Cassandra L. Hill & Katherine T. Vukadin (Carolina Academic Press, 2017), ISBN 9781632849472
Civil Procedure II (LAW 522-001, 522-002) – Prof. Hesch
No new texts required.
Lawyering Skills II (LAW 526, sections 001 through 008) – Profs. Thompson, Schmid, Rhoads, Connors, Johnson, Vorberger, Patrick, Kontaxes
No new texts required.
Criminal Law (LAW 535-001, 535-002) – Judge Spinden
Required:
Criminal Law: Cases, Controversies, and Problems, 2nd ed., by Joseph E. Kennedy (American Casebook Series; West Academic), ISBN 9781636592794
Note: The required textbook listed above is for the book alone (the “plain” book, without online features). If you wish to purchase the Casebook Plus textbook that includes access to online quizzing, use the ISBN 9781636596815.
Second-Year Law Students
Constitutional Law II (LAW 532-001, 532-002) – Prof. Tuomala
No new texts required.
Criminal Procedure (LAW 541-001, 542-002) – Prof. Tompkins & Prof. Johnson
Required:
Criminal Procedure, 3rd ed., by Erwin Chemerinsky & Laurie L. Levenson (Aspen Casebook Series; Wolters Kluwer), ISBN 9781454876656
Criminal Procedure: 2022 Case and Statutory Supplement by Erwin Chemerinsky & Laurie L. Levenson (Wolters Kluwer), ISBN 9781543858839
Evidence (LAW 545-001) – Prof. Kline
Required:
Courtroom Evidence Handbook, 2022–23 Student Edition, by Steven J. Goode & Olin Guy Wellborn III (West Academic, 2022), ISBN 97816365992509781683287636 9781683287636 9781683287636
Evidence, 3rd ed., by George Fisher (University Casebook Series; Foundation Press, 2013),
ISBN 9781609300609
Professional Responsibility (LAW 565-001, 565-002) – Prof. Scott Thompson
Required:
Ethical Problems in the Practice of Law, 3rd ed., by Lisa G. Lerman & Philip G. Schrag (Aspen), ISBN 9781454803010
Lawyering Skills IV (LAW 572-001) – Prof. Hesch
Required:
Pretrial, 9th ed., by Thomas A. Mauet & David Marcus (Aspen), ISBN 9781454856337*
*Students may substitute any of the following editions: Pretrial, 8th ed.—Thomas A. Mauet (Aspen; ISBN 9781454803034); Pretrial, 7th ed.—Thomas A. Mauet (Aspen; ISBN 9780735572034); Pretrial, 10th ed.—Thomas A. Mauet (Aspen; ISBN 9781543805024)
Taxation of Individuals (LAW 591-001) – Prof. Chrisman/Dean Todd
Required:
Taxation of Individual Income, 12th ed., by J. Martin Burke & Michael K. Friel (LexisNexis, 2018), ISBN 9781531008727
Selected Federal Taxation Statutes and Regulations with Motro Tax Map, 2023 ed., by Daniel J. Lathrope (West Academic), ISBN 9781685614386
**No e-books allowed; computer/electronics-free classroom**
Third-Year Law Students
Lawyering Skills V: Trial Advocacy (LAW 595-001, -002, -003, -004) – Profs. Kline, Bell, Burnette, Krantz
Required:
Trial Techniques, custom 10th ed., by Thomas Mauet (Aspen Law/Wolters Kluwer), ISBN 9781454892236
Note: This is a custom book created for LUSOL; it contains the Mauet textbook (Trial Techniques and Trials, 10th ed.) plus selected exercises from Mauet, Wolfson, and Easton’s workbook, Materials in Trial Advocacy: Problems and Cases.
Also required: Students will also need the Federal Rules of Evidence book used in Evidence class and the Federal Rules of Evidence Summary Trial Guide (to purchase, visit www.elexpublishers.com).
Electives
Jurisprudence (LAW 581-001) – Prof. Tuomala
Required:
Jurisprudence: Text and Readings on the Philosophy of Law, 4th ed., by George C. Christie, Patrick H. Martin, & Adam J. MacLeod (West Academic, 2020), ISBN 9781684674732
Law and Economics (LAW 582-001) – Prof. Chrisman
Required:
Economic Analysis of Law, 9th ed., by Richard A. Posner (Aspen Casebook Series; Wolters Kluwer),
ISBN 9781454833888
Law & Economics: A Christian Perspective, 1st ed., by Rodney D. Chrisman (Logia Press, LLC, 2016), ISBN 9781937479060
Legal History (LAW 585-001) – Prof. Mantilla
Required:
Harold J. Berman, Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition (Harvard University Press, 1983) ISBN 9780674517769
Harold J. Berman, Law and Revolution II: The Impact of the Protestant Reformations on the Western Legal Tradition (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003). ISBN: 9780674022300
Family Law (LAW 601-001) – Prof. Rhoads
Required:
Contemporary Family Law, 5th ed., by Douglas Abrams, Naomi Cahn, et al. (American Casebook Series; West Academic, 2019), ISBN 9781640205918
Adoption Law (LAW 608-001) – Prof. Rachel Thompson
Required:
Adoption Law: Theory, Policy, and Practice, 2nd ed., by Cynthia R. Mabry & Lisa Kelly (William S. Hein & Co., 2010), ISBN 9780837738444
Child Abuse and the Law (LAW 610-001) – Prof. Beale
Required:
Investigation and Prosecution of Child Abuse, 3rd ed., by APRI National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse (SAGE Publications, 2004), ISBN 9780761930907
Predators, Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders by Anna C. Salter (Basic Books, 2003),
ISBN 9780465071739
This Little Light: Beyond a Baptist Preacher Predator and His Gang by Christa Brown (Foremost Press.com), ISBN 9780981841830
On This Rock by Victor Vieth (Wipf and Stock, 2018), ISBN 9781532649998
Handouts: Various materials from State v. Stigall 95-941 CFAWS
Recommended:
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. (Penguin Books, 2015), ISBN 9780143127741
In God’s House by Ray Mouton (Head of Zeus, 2013), ISBN 9781908800510
Estate Planning (LAW 621-001) – Dean Todd
Required:
Estate Planning: Principles and Problems, 4th ed., by Wayne M. Gazur & Robert M. Phillips (Aspen Casebook Series; Wolters Kluwer), ISBN 9781454849483
Financial Planning Survey (LAW 632-001) – Dean Todd
Required:
Fundamentals of Financial Planning, 7th ed., by Michael A. Dalton (Money Education, 2021), ISBN 9781946711397
Taxation of Businesses (LAW 641-001) – Prof. Chrisman & Dean Todd
Required:
Fundamentals of Business Enterprise Taxation: Cases and Materials, 7th ed., by Stephen Schwarz, Daniel J. Lathrope, & Brant J. Hellwig (Foundation Press/West Academic, 2020), ISBN 9781642428797
Note: Students will also use the tax code and regulations supplement from their income tax course.
Mergers and Acquisitions (LAW 643) – Prof. Rice
Required:
Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2nd ed., by William Sjostrom (Carolina Academic Press), ISBN 9781531016883
Business Planning (LAW 645-001) – Dean Todd
Required:
Business Planning: Closely Held Enterprises, 5th ed., by Dwight J. Drake (West Academic),
ISBN 9781640209701
Note: Students will also need a recent version of the Internal Revenue Code, such as Daniel J. Lathrope’s Selected Federal Taxation Statutes and Regulations. The one used in tax classes should be fine.
Intellectual Property Clinic II (LAW 663-001) – Prof. Connors
No textbook required.
Real Estate Transactions (LAW 651-001) – Prof. Light
Required:
Real Estate Development Law, 2nd ed., by Richard C. Daley (West Academic, 2017), ISBN 9781683281269
Federal Jurisdiction (LAW 711-001) – Prof. Lucas
Required:
Federal Courts: Context, Cases, and Problems, 3rd ed., by Michael Finch, Caprice L. Roberts, & Michael P. Allen (Aspen Casebook Series; Wolters Kluwer, 2020), ISBN 9781543809039
Race and the Law (LAW 732-001) – Prof. Tompkins
No textbook required.
International Human Rights (LAW 743-001) – Prof. Mantilla
Required:
International Human Rights: Problems of Law, Policy and Practice, 6th ed., by Hurst Hannum et al. (Wolters Kluwer), ISBN 9781454876663
International Business Transactions (LAW 745-001) – Prof. Mantilla
Required:
International Business Transactions: A Problem-Oriented Coursebook, 13th ed., by Ralph H. Folsom et al. (West Academic), ISBN 9781640202566
Administrative Law (LAW 771-001) – Judge Spinden
Required:
Administrative Law: A Context and Practice Casebook, 2nd ed., by Richard Henry Seamon (Carolina Academic Press, 2020), ISBN 9781531007386
Land Use and Zoning (LAW 785) – Prof. Light
Required:
Land Use Regulation, 2nd ed., by Stewart E. Sterk, Eduardo M. Penalver, & Sara C. Bronin (Foundation Press, 2016), ISBN 9781628101294
Remedies (LAW 801-001) – Professor Mouly
Required:
Modern American Remedies: Cases & Materials, concise 5th ed., by Douglas Laycock (Aspen Casebook Series; Wolters Kluwer, 2018), ISBN 9781454891260
Recommended:
Remedies: Examples and Explanations, 4th ed., by Richard Hasen (Wolters Kluwer, 2017), ISBN 9781454881292
Virginia Practice (LAW 802-001) – Prof. Smith
No textbook required.Virginia Civil Procedure (LAW 803-001) – Judge Yeatts
Required:
Bryson on Virginia Civil Procedure, 5th ed., by W. Hamilton Bryson (LexisNexis, 2017), ISBN 9781522139263
Insurance Law (LAW 805-001) – Prof. Light
Required:
Insurance Law and Regulation: Cases and Materials, 7th ed., by Kenneth S. Abraham & Daniel Schwarcz (Foundation Press/West Academic, 2020), ISBN 9781683289517
Virginia Legal Aid Clinic II (LAW 811) – Prof. Smith
No textbook required.
Mediation (LAW 821-001) – Professor Connors
Required:
Mediation: The Roles of Advocate and Neutral, 4th ed., by Dwight Golann & Jay Folberg (Aspen Publishers, 2021), ISBN 9781543809091
Advanced Trial Advocacy (LAW 825-001, 825-002) – Profs. Kline and Rost
(Required books differ by section)
Section 1 (Kline)
Required:
McElhaney’ s Trial Notebook, 4th ed., by James W. McElhaney (American Bar Association, 2005),
ISBN 9781590315033
Section 2 (Rost)
Required:
McElhaney’ s Trial Notebook, 4th ed., by James W. McElhaney (American Bar Association, 2005),
ISBN 9781590315033
Recommended:
Evidentiary Foundations, 8th ed., by Edward Imwinkelried (LexisNexis), ISBN 9780769848990 (9th edition is also acceptable: ISBN 9781632815460)
Advanced Appellate Advocacy (LAW 832-001 through -004) – Prof. Scott Thompson
No textbook required.
Trial Team (LAW 833-001) – Prof. Bell
No textbook required.
Constitutional Litigation Clinic (LAW 851-001) – TBD
No textbook required.
Advanced Bar Studies (LAW 901-001) – Prof. Lindevaldsen
No textbook required.