Law, Policy and Higher Education fills a gap in the market for casebooks on higher education law, as the materials presented lend themselves to timely and important discussions of both law and policy issues.
While expert witnesses and forensic evidence increasingly have taken a dominant role in both criminal and civil litigation, lawyers remain largely untrained in the scientific method.
Organized around the criminal court process, the second edition of Law, Social Science, and the Criminal Courts is substantially updated and includes new court decisions and scholarly works that explore legal and social science issues arising in pretrial, trial, and sentencing proceedings.
This volume is a companion to Lawlemmas: In Search of Principled Choices in Law, Justice, and Life, and lays bare the law at the foundation of the plot lines and major issues explored therein.
This book offers a series of interrelated narrative essays that rely on fictional characters to confront readers with challenging issues of law and justice, issues that demand careful analysis and lend themselves to elegant, although disputable, resolution.
Lawyers and the Legal Profession thrusts students into the middle of the debate over current ethical issues and the ethical realities of everyday practice.
This book is a new primary text for use in clinical, externship, legal writing, interviewing, negotiation, counseling, trial/appellate advocacy, and doctrinal courses. This text centers narrative theory as an effective way to teach law school courses and to practice the full range of lawyering skills.