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View or download the free 2016 Online Supplement for this product here. This book offers a comprehensive survey of the major concepts and doctrines in criminal law, describing both the common law and the Model Penal Code approaches to each issue. A unique feature of this book is that the cases used to illustrate major concepts are designed to be provocative and teachable. The facts of virtually every case lend themselves to creative teaching and lively class discussion and will stick in the memories of both instructor and students. Meanwhile, the lucidly organized notes following the cases deliver both doctrine and interesting highlights clearly and concisely. Criminal Law: Cases and Materials is also accompanied by a comprehensive Teacher's Manual. This book also is available in a three-hole punched, alternative loose-leaf version printed on 8.5 x 11 inch paper with wider margins and with the same pagination as the hardbound book.
This comparatively short, readable treatise is written especially for students. First published in 1978, this text examines all topics typically covered in a three-or four-hour course in evidence. Emphasis is on the Federal Rules of Evidence, now adopted in most states. Should the reader desire additional material, ample footnotes provide easy access to leading cases, articles, and standard reference works. The Fifth Edition contains an in-depth treatment of the important amendments to the Federal Rules of Evidence, including the most recent addition of Rule 502.
In 2012, the American Bar Association published Trying Cases to Win: In One Volume, one of the most highly praised trial advocacy books ever published. Now a student edition is available. The authors have studied transcripts of some of the most famous English and American trial lawyers, and have received input from great American trial lawyers currently trying cases all over the country. They now offer in one volume the lessons, maxims, and suggestions that should enable law students to leave law school with confidence that for the first time they have been exposed to the most sophisticated, understandable, and intellectually appealing trial advocacy teachings.
This book offers a comprehensive survey of the major concepts and doctrines in criminal law, describing both the common law and the Model Penal Code approaches to each issue. Cases used to illustrate major concepts are designed to be teachable.
"The purpose of this book is to provide sample sources and court cases on the legal responses to terrorism both nationally and internationally." - p. vii.
Military Rules of Evidence Manual, Fourth Edition is the only publication of its kind available to both military & civilian attorneys that analyzes what the Rules say & mean to judges & counsel in the military justice system. It also serves as an authoritative case finder. Since the Rules became effective in 1980, this book has been cited hundreds of times by the military courts. This Fourth Edition provides notes to virtually every military case that has interpreted or applied the Rules.
This is a valuable guide to help understand effective voir dire and jury selection strategies, and then to adapt these strategies to the unique circumstances faced in trial jurisdictions.