Engineering Contracts and the Legal Environment - For Engineers and Architects - (Original 6th Edition)

Author: Joseph T. Blakely (USA)
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: This book has been revised and expanded to the 6th edition, providing a comprehensive and accessible discussion and analysis of contract legal issues that engineers, architects, and other design professionals commonly encounter in general situations and specific applications. It also introduces legal areas that engineers or architects may involve in outside of contract procedures, such as types of commercial entities, professional responsibility, intellectual property, and expert witnesses, etc. One chapter of the book is dedicated to the increasingly close relationship between design professionals and federal law. The introduction of each topic in the book is supplemented with numerous new case studies. This edition emphasizes a new concept: the development of law should "keep pace with the times" and adapt to rapidly changing technology.
Author Bio: Joseph T. Blakely is the R.G. Gordon Kean Professor of Law at the Louisiana State University Law Center, where he has been teaching since 1976, specializing in contracts, constitutional law, and some other subjects. Before joining Louisiana State University, he was an assistant professor at the Delaware Sea Grant College Program. He graduated from the Hastings College of Law at the University of California, San Francisco, and has written the monograph Basic Concepts in Environmental Law for Engineers, Scientists, and Managers, as well as the 3rd, 4th, and 5th editions of Dunham and Young's Contracts, Specifications, and Laws for Engineers, published by McGraw-Hill. He has also contributed numerous articles to academic journals. Professor Blakely is passionate about traveling, and his footsteps have taken him to over 60 countries around the world, particularly in South Asia. He has delivered lectures at universities in India and Sri Lanka.