Restorative Justice: Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice provides students, practitioners, and criminal justice professionals with a comprehensive introduction to restorative justice that combines theoretical foundations, guiding principles, empirical evidence, and real-world implementations of various restorative processes and practices.
The perspective of this text is that offender reentry is not a static, isolated event, but a process that occurs over time. The second edition presents a comprehensive account of the reentry process, detailing the individual and social barriers to reentry along with promising practices.
Rules to Speak By is a science-backed guide offering practical, persuasive speaking techniques for lawyers. It provides actionable tips for capturing and retaining audience attention, framing arguments, using effective language and visual aids, and managing nerves—essential for success in trials, client pitches, and other high-stakes legal contexts.
This book tells a colorful tale of religion, politics, and filthy lucre to present a spellbinding picture of canons and curiosities as well as a sobering examination of the limitations of law, the vagaries of religious disputes, and the verities of business ethics.
This book uses samples of sales contracts and problems drawn from actual case files to engage students in the role of a lawyer involved in a sales transaction.
In addition to a standard first-year legal writing curriculum, most law schools now require upper-level students to write a sophisticated legal research paper on a topic of their choice.
This text, co-authored by an experienced professor and a distinguished practitioner, uses plain English explanations, samples of security agreements, numerous visual aids, and problems drawn from actual cases to teach the law of personal property secured transactions.