With dynamic learning features and visual aids, the Inside Series helps you make the most of your study time, throughout the semester and as you prepare for the final. Unlike heavily abridged treatises, the Inside Series is carefully written in a concise, straightforward style that clearly identifies the essential components of the law and how they fit together. You can quickly learn what is important and why. Overviews and Tables of Contents in each chapter act as a roadmap to guide you through topics, showing you how each relates to the larger legal framework. FAQs clarify points of law and help you avoid common mistakes and misconceptions. Sidebars give fascinating additional detail from legal history, policy, famous cases and more. The graphic design supports your visual learning, and features such as bolded key terms, summaries, and Connections help reinforce your understanding while giving you ample opportunity for self-review.
Surprisingly concise, visually compelling, the Inside Series is extremely useful throughout the semester to help you identify the essential components of the law and how they fit together.
Comprehensive coverage of the essential topics emphasizes what you need to know and why.
Clear, straightforward, informal writing explains every topic for you without over-simplifying the concepts.
Overviews and Tables of Contents in each chapter act as a roadmap to guide you through topics, showing you why each matters and how it fits into the larger framework of the law.
FAQs clarify points of law and help you avoid common mistakes and misconceptions.
Sidebars enrich the text with fascinating detail from legal history, policy, famous cases and more.
Bolded key terms, Connections and summaries reinforce your understanding and give you ample opportunity for self-review.
The overall graphical design of the series supports your visual learning.
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Professor Utz teaches Federal Income Taxation, Federal Taxation of Partners and Partnerships, Tax Policy, Federal Taxation of Corporations, and Property at University of Connecticut School of Law. He received a bachelors degree in philosophy from Louisiana State University (1967), a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge (1977), and a J.D. from the University of Texas (1979), where he graduated with High Honors and was an Articles Editor of the Texas Law Review. After clerking for Judge Joseph T. Sneed of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1979-1980), he practiced law an associate attorney at Caplin Drysdale, Chartered, in Washington, D.C. (1980-1983). He has taught at this law school since 1983, with visiting professorships at Trinity College, Hartford (1988, 1990, 1992), the Law Faculty of the University of Aix-Marseille (1995, 2007), New York University School of Law (1996), and the Free University of Berlin (2006-2010, 2012). Professor Utzs writings include the books Federal Income Taxation (Interactive Coursebook)(forthcoming 2013), Inside Tax Law: What Matters and Why (2011), Federal Income Taxation of Partners and Partnerships (1995), and Tax Policy: A Survey and Introduction to the Principal Debates (1993). He has published articles in a variety of law school and professional journals on tax and philosophical topics.