General Practice Law Books

The Montana Constitution in the State Constitutional Tradition is the first book to situate the state's constitution in the broad sweep of American constitutionalism.

No matter your role or level of experience, the Legal Writing Institute's Moot Court Advisor's Handbook is a resource of best practices for running moot court and other legal skills competitions. Drawing on the combined expertise of the Legal Writing Institute's Moot Court Committee, the handbook has chapters on administering a moot court program, running an internal moot court competition, coaching teams at external moot court competitions, and establishing your own external moot court competition.

Now in its second edition, this book addresses the organizational needs and challenges of modern lawyers and law students, and it includes fresh and useful tips for even the most seasoned practitioners.

First-year students nationwide benefit from this book because law schools require Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Real Property, and Torts. Students do not need to purchase 6 different supplements to practice their skills because The PPE includes 8 questions for each subject.

This handbook teaches the process of legal analysis by walking students through a series of repeatable steps they can apply to any legal scenario. By practicing and internalizing these analytic steps, students will experience a smoother writing process that translates into a better written product.

The public trust doctrine (PTD), an ancient anti-monopoly precept of property law inherited from Roman and civil law, exists in every United States jurisdiction and several international ones.

The Quotable Brandeis has three purposes: gather together Brandeis's quotes in a subject-related order; provide accurate information for the source of the quotes; attempt to set the matter straight on quotes misattributed to Brandeis.

This textbook provides a comprehensive, case and problem-based approach to studying the Reconstruction Amendments—the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.

The Reimagined Lawyer is the final book from the celebrated legal scholar and humanitarian Bruce Winick, who for decades taught at the intersection of law and mental health at the University of Miami School of Law.

What evidence exists to support the advice that legal writing professors offer their students? For example, do legal readers really prefer short sentences and the active voice? Is outlining the best way to start a memo or brief? Can a certain font type make a brief more persuasive? Is deductive reasoning the most effective form of legal reasoning? Will a legal writer view the use of the word “clearly” with skepticism? Are judges annoyed by minor grammatical errors or typos? These questions and many more are addressed in The Science Behind the Art of Legal Writing.