Law School

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.

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.

This book is designed to give students the background they need to start law school successfully.

Fueled by more than 2,000 exonerations of wrongfully convicted men and women, the "innocence revolution" is shaking the criminal justice system to its core.

These commentaries on the Constitution, the amendments proposed by state ratifying conventions and by anti-Federalist minorities in states whose conventions proposed none, and the twelve amendments proposed by the first Congress were produced in 1788–89.

To Form a More Perfect Union: An Anthology of American Values and the Debate on Wealth and Income Disparity addresses critical issues relevant to the 2016 U. S. presidential election.

Tort Law and Practice provides a rich context for the study of Tort Law.

The latest edition of this unique casebook has been dramatically revised. This new edition presents the important cases, statutes, empirical data, and competing tort theories in a problems-oriented format that is designed to help students acquire a sophisticated understanding of tort law through active learning.

This tort law workbook is an essential companion to every torts course.