The book This book explains various areas of private public and criminal practice in the
United States as well as US legal research to the audience of practising civil lawyers who
may interact with US lawyers. Each chapter is written by a recognised specialist in his or her
respective field who has practiced and taught in that field. Further the first chapter is an
introduction to the foreign nature of US law for civil lawyers written by the editor Kirk W
Junker who holds the Chair in US Law at the University of Cologne who has been teaching US
law to law students in Germany and France for ten years and who previously practiced US law
for nine years. As a practitioner's guide a special feature of the book is that every term of
art regardless of which field of law is translated into both German and French in
accompanying footnotes on each page. In addition every chapter includes ?Practice Tips
?Checklists for Practice and illustrative ?Examples each of which is clearly marked in a
separate box. Some chapters offer tables example draft documents and templates to make the
book easy to use as a reference book and a handbook. Contents: Chapter 1: US Law as Foreign Law
(Kirk W. Junker) Chapter 2: Federal Civil Litigation (Steven F. Baicker-McKee) Chapter 3: Civil
Procedure Brief Drafting Strategy (Heidi K. Brown) Chapter 4: U.S. Arbitration Law and Practice
(Katherine M. Simpson) Chapter 5: Aspects of United States Application of International
Maritime Law: A Focus on Jurisdictional Procedural and Substantive Issues Unique to the US
System Chapter 6: Contracts-Drafting and Content (Keith E. Wilder) Chapter 7: The Back to Back
Contract. The Birth of a New Contract Type (Antonio Lordi) Chapter 8: Confidential Information
and Restrictive Covenants in Employment (Patrick Sorek) Chapter 9: Income Taxation and Audits
(P. Matthew Roy) Chapter 10: The U.S.' Charitable Sector: Nonprofit Organizations (Ryan Kraski)
Chapter 11: Intellectual Property Protection and Enforcement in the United States: An
Introduction (Jacob H. Rooksby) Chapter 12: Food Law: Implementing Food Sovereignty in Local
Sustainable Food Systems (Gabriela Steier) Chapter 13: Issues of United States Immigration Law
- A View from the Inside (Katherine M. Simpson) Chapter 14: Issues of US Environmental Law
Encountered from Abroad (Kirk W. Junker) Chapter 15: White Collar Crime (Barbara Carlin)
