Recommended Legal Treatises

Prior edition available in print.
Current e-book edition available on West Academic. Use title link.
Reliable source on property laws surveys estates in land-;present, future, and concurrent, comparable interests in personalty, landlord and tenant law, and rights against neighbors and other third persons. Also examines easements and profits, running covenants, governmental controls on land use, land contracts, conveyances, titles, and recording systems. Contains footnote citations to leading court decisions for easy location of primary authority.

Current edition also available on Westlaw.

Current edition available on Lexis.
Law Library's print copy not updated after Sept. 2013.

available on West Academic
This Hornbook is a comprehensive secondary source for the study of Securities Regulation. It also can serve as a lawyer's desk book. Coverage includes definition of "security," registration and disclosure obligations under the Securities Act of 1933, exemptions from registration, reporting obligations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the proxy rules, tender offer regulation, and civil liabilities. The book treats broker-dealer regulation, market regulation, and the administrative role of the SEC, as well as proxy rules, insider trading, the Investment Company Act and the Investment Advisers Act. This new edition reflects recent SEC rulemaking, including important amendments to exemptions from registration, new broker-dealer obligations, as well as recent Supreme Court and many other case law developments.

Current edition available on Westlaw

Available on Westlaw.

Available on Westlaw.

Also available on Westlaw. Note: Always check database currency and coverage. Westlaw version may not be as up-to-date as print for this title.

Library's print edition not up-to-date.
Current edition available on Westlaw.

Library's print copy not up-to-date.
Current edition available on Westlaw.

Available on West Academic.

Available on Westlaw.

Practitioner's current edition available on Westlaw.

Current e-book student edition available on West Academic. Prior edition (Title: The Law of Torts) available in print on Reserve.

Current edition available on Lexis

Current e-book edition available on Vital Law. Use title link.

Available only to Hofstra Law faculty, staff and students.

Current e-book edition available on West Academic

A comprehensive one-volume treatise on the law of trusts and estates written by leading experts. Among the topics covered are intestate succession, wills, nonprobate mechanisms, trusts, fiduciary administration, and choice of law. The book includes the very latest hot topics including electronic wills, trust decanting, directed trusts, asset protection trusts, and planning for modern families. The book incorporates the most recent provisions of the Uniform Probate Code, the Uniform Trust Code, and the many other uniform laws relating to the donative transfer of wealth. The book also includes an overview of the federal transfer tax laws.

Available on Westlaw.

Available on Lexis.

Available on Westlaw.

Available on Lexis.
Law Library's print copy not updated after September, 2013.

Law Library's print copy is updated.
Also available as e-book on Westlaw ProView as "White & Summers' Uniform Commercial Code."

Current edition available on Westlaw.
Print copy not updated after October 2014.

Current edition available on Lexis.
Library's print copy no longer updated after September 2012.

5th edition in print.
Also available on Westlaw.