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From Truth to Technique at Trial
A Discursive History of Advocacy Advice Texts
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
From Truth to Technique addresses key questions raised by the burgeoning literature in what Philip Gaines calls advocacy advice texts-manuals, handbooks, and other how-to guides-written by lawyers for lawyers, both practicing and aspiring, to help them be as effective as possible in trial advocacy....
The 1L Success Guide
Learning the Law, Acing Your Exams, and Getting to the Top of Your Class
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2014
GET THE INFORMATION YOU NEED TO GET TOP GRADES IN LAW SCHOOL.
For many, the road to law school success seems blocked by obstacles and filled with potholes. But learning the law and getting good grades on your law school exams is really not that difficult. You just need someone to show you...
by Gary Fidel, Linda Cantoni
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
THINK LIKE A LAWYER: THE ART OF ARGUMENT FOR LAW STUDENTS To succeed in law school, you have to construct solid legal arguments. THINK LIKE A LAWYER: THE ART OF ARGUMENT FOR LAW STUDENTS will teach you how to master this craft. This step-by-step approach, written by career prosecutors Gary Fidel and Linda Cantoni, is the indispensable guide for law students.
Evolution of the Judicial Opinion
Institutional and Individual Styles
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
In this sweeping study of the judicial opinion, William D. Popkin examines how judges' opinions have been presented from the early American Republic to the present. Throughout history, he maintains, judges have presented their opinions within political contexts that involve projecting judicial authority...
by Harvard Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The special Bicentennial Issue, Number 9, features these Essays as its contents:
* "Marking 200 Years of Legal Education: Traditions of Change, Reasoned Debate, and Finding Differences and Commonalities," by Martha Minow
* "Race Liberalism and the Deradicalization of Racial Reform,"...
Is Eating People Wrong?
Great Legal Cases and How they Shaped the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Great cases are those judicial decisions around which the common law develops. This book explores eight exemplary cases from the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia that show the law as a living, breathing and down-the-street experience. It explores the social circumstances in which the...
History of the Yale Law School
The Tercentennial Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The entity that became the Yale Law School started life early in the nineteenth century as a proprietary school, operated as a sideline by a couple of New Haven lawyers. The New Haven school affiliated with Yale in the 1820s, but it remained so frail that in 1845 and again in 1869 the University seriously...
The Prosecutor
An Inquiry into the Exercise of Discretion
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
Every day decisions made by prosecutors, before trial takes place, critically affect the rights of citizens; yet these decisions remain a grey area in the administration of criminal justice. In fact, there are considerable and important differences between what the prosecutor does and what the legal...
by Matthew Lippman
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
“This is a well-rounded book that seems more interesting to students than other books I have used. It provides information on some cutting-edge themes in law and society while staying well grounded in the theories used by law and society practitioners.”
—Lydia Brashear Tiede, Associate...
Trial and Error
The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2003
Trial and Error traces the coverage or lack thereof, of evolution in textbooks used in American public schools from the mid-1800s to the present. While the teaching of Darwinian evolution was common and not controversial in the late 19th century and into the early 20th century, the debates between...
An Indispensable Liberty
The Fight for Free Speech in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Most Americans today view freedom of speech as a bedrock of all other liberties, a defining feature of American citizenship. During the nineteenth century, the popular concept of American freedom of speech was still being formed. In An Indispensable Liberty: The Fight for Free Speech in Nineteenth-Century...
Arming and Disarming
A History of Gun Control in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
From the École Polytechnique shootings of 1989 to the political controversy surrounding the elimination of the federal long-gun registry, the issue of gun control has been a subject of fierce debate in Canada. But in fact, firearm regulation has been a sharply contested issue in the country since...
The Business of Identity
Jews, Muslims, and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
The Cairo Geniza is the largest and richest store of documentary evidence for the medieval Islamic world. This book seeks to revolutionize the way scholars use that treasure trove. Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman draws on legal documents from the Geniza to reconceive of life in the medieval Islamic...
by Nayab Naseer
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2017
This book is a summary of the Muslim Family Law in India, covering primary and secondary sources of Muslim Laws, rules regarding Marriage and Divorce, Maintenance of Wives and relatives, Guardianship of Children, and Adoption. It offers the legal perspective on several burning topics of the day, such...