Real Property, Real Estate Law, Real Estate & Housing Law, Business Reference - General & Miscellaneous

Real Estate Law

Name: Real Estate Law
Author: Michael Diamond
ISBN: 9780314126153

by Michael Diamond

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Overview

This is an up-to-date practical guide to real property. It's clear easy-to-understand writing style makes complex legal issues practical and accessible to beginners. It offers many theoretical and practical assignments in each chapter that assist in self-learning and provide a platform for class discussion. It also covers a wide variety of law, such as ethics and computers, not found in other similar texts. ALSO AVAILABLE Study Guide, ISBN: 0-314-13020-9 INSTRUCTOR SUPPLEMENTS CALL CUSTOMER SUPPORT TO ORDER Instructor's Manual, ISBN: 0-314-13019-5

About the Author, Michael Diamond

Michael A. Diamond serves as Vice President and Executive Vice Provost of the University of Southern California. Prior to that, Dr. Diamond served as Vice Provost for Planning and Budget, as dean of the Leventhal School of Accounting, and director of the school's SEC and Financial Reporting Institute. During that period, the Leventhal School of Accounting was consistently ranked as one of the top five accounting programs in the country.

Dr. Diamond is a leader in the accounting education reform movement. He has lectured throughout the United States, Europe and Asia on business and accounting education innovation. His articles have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Accounting Horizons and the Journal of Accounting. Over the last five years, Dr. Diamond has turned his attention to issues of academic leadership and change. He has published in Change and co-authored two monographs on academic leadership.

Dr. Diamond has served as president of the American Accounting Association, taught at California State University, Los Angeles, and has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles. He also has taught in executive education programs for a number of international accounting firms as well as Fortune 500 companies. Dr. Diamond is the recipient of the California Society of CPAs Faculty Excellence Award for 1993 and was named as one of the "Top100 Most Influential People in Accounting" in both the fall 1997 and 1998 issues of Accounting Today.

With Michael Moore, Dr. Diamond developed the Strategic Planning Partnership, an initiative of the Ernst & Young Foundation. This programassists selected business schools and other academic organizations in strategic planning and change management processes.

Dr. Diamond received his BA degree at the University of California, Berkeley, and his MS and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles.