Professional Writing for Lawyers was originally designed to complement Richard Wydick's Plain English for Lawyers, but also can be used as a stand-alone legal writing text.
This book contends that the crises of well-being, distress, and dysfunction currently afflicting the legal profession, other professions, and our politics can best be addressed by encouraging people to pursue a flourishing life of meaning and purpose focused on achieving common goods in communities of excellence and virtue, especially in response to a calling.
Property Law and the Public Interest remains committed to its central claims, that the concept of property is never static, that property law is both public and private, that property rules perform the socially critical function of mediating between competing claimants to the same resource or object, and that the law of property has always represented a balance between the claims of individual rights and the needs of the larger public.
An innovative exam preparation tool, Property: Hypotheticals, Self-Assessment Rubrics, and Tools for Success addresses crucial problems students face as they approach exams.
This book serves as an anchor for law students and lawyers. It dismantles specific thought patterns that education fosters so that we can find happiness in and beyond the law, not tomorrow, but today.
This study guide uses 155 multiple choice, short-answer, and true/false questions spread over 15 topics to test students' knowledge of analytical skills related to employment discrimination law.
Race and Ethnicity in the Juvenile Justice System provides a comprehensive empirical examination of the role of race and ethnicity in the juvenile court.
Maintaining the easily readable style and tightly organized structure of the earlier editions, the fifth edition of Race Law provides an in-depth examination of the issue of race and values in the American legal process, from the formation of the United States Constitution in 1787 to the present.