This text is designed to introduce students to both private and public law and to the nature of the judicial system. Anchored in social science concepts, The American Legal System demonstrates the relationships between private law and public law issues, the business legal environment, as well as related subjects of interest. Part I introduces students to terms and concepts necessary for understanding the legal system, the jurisdiction and authority of courts, the organization of courts in the United States, judicial interpretation and decision-making, and the U.S. constitutional system. Part II centers on legal processes--the world of civil and criminal procedure, explained in ordinary language. Subjects include civil suits for money damages; criminal, equity, and administrative processes; and the various modes of alternative dispute resolution. Along the way, students gain a working knowledge of process and procedural rights. Part III provides chapters on the substantive legal topics of criminal law, torts, property, and family law. Part IV treats the law governing the world of business: contracts, business regulation by government, and taxation. All of these substantive law chapters include a section tracing modern substantive law to its common law roots. We also include sections on evolving legal issues including product liability, tort reform, copyright infringement, victimless crimes, youthful offenders, artificial conception of human life, and same-sex marriages. Every chapter features edited court opinions illustrating many lively and interesting controversies that will capture the interest of students regardless of their academic major. At the beginning of each chapter, students will find chapter objectives designed to guide their reading. A glossary of selected legal and Latin terms will also prove useful to the reader, as will the end-of-chapter discussion questions, lists of key names, terms, and concepts, and listings of selected books and articles for further reading. A table of cases as well as name and subject indices provides even greater detail, so that readers may also use the book as a reference. A comprehensive Instructor's Manual/Testing Program (which includes complete lecture outlines, suggested answers to the discussion questions at the end of each chapter, briefs of court opinions, and suggested films for classroom use) is available, either in book or electronic form. A Student Study Guide, written by Bradley Best (Buena Vista University), is also available.

The American Legal System: Foundations, Processes, and Norms

MELONE, ALBERT P.

Karnes, Allan

Criminal Law

Oxford University Press

Researching Constitutional Law

Law Practice

Scott, Foresman Co.

CREATING PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT: THE TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY IN BULGARIA (PARLIAMENTS & LEGISLATURES)

Creating Parliamentary Government is an in-depth account of events in Bulgaria since the November 1989 bloodless coup that brought down the strongman dictatorship of Todor Zhivkov. Albert P. Melone shows that Bulgaria is a striking example of a state that is successful in creating and maintaining democratic institutions without fulfilling the so-called preconditions: a strong economy, a middle class, a competitive party system, and a civic culture. In the case of Bulgaria, the people were able to break their tragic historical cycle of violence when the principal elites decided that it was in their mutual interest to set the wheels in motion to bring about the transformation of the society.The heart of this book is Melone's lively interviews with many key players in Bulgaria's historic transition to democracy. Prime ministers, the head of the secret police, parliamentarians, jurists, and intellectuals -- all founders of the new democratic regime -- provide firsthand accounts about what it takes to create a parliamentary democracy from the scrap heap of a discredited Communist dictatorship. The book also focuses on the difficulties of democratic consolidation when there is a struggle for power among competing institutions with a bipolar party structure.

Legal Theory & Systems

Ohio State University Press

Creating Parliamentary Government is an in-depth account of events in Bulgaria since the November 1989 bloodless coup that brought down the strongman dictatorship of Todor Zhivkov. Albert P. Melone shows that Bulgaria is a striking example of a state that is successful in creating and maintaining democratic institutions without fulfilling the so-called preconditions: a strong economy, a middle class, a competitive party system, and a civic culture.The heart of this book is Melone's lively interviews with many key players in Bulgaria's historic transition to democracy.

Primer on constitutional law

Palisades Publishers

Knowledge of how to conduct research in constitutional law is valuable not only for legal professionals, but for anyone interested in the political and legal systems of the United States. Melone introduces the process of legal research with clear, understandable writing aimed at the lay reader.This practical, convenient reference work guides students on every aspect of writing a quality research paper, from showing how to brief a legal case to explaining elementary quantitative analysis techniques. Also included are extensive lists of primary and secondary sources and summaries of leading Supreme Court decisions.

Waveland Pr Inc.

Knowledge of how to conduct research in constitutional law is valuable not only for legal professionals but for anyone interested in the political and legal systems of the United States. Melone introduces the process of legal research with clear, understandable writing aimed at the lay reader. This practical, convenient reference work guides students on every aspect of writing a quality research paper, from showing how to brief a legal case to explaining elementary quantitative analysis techniques. Also included are extensive lists of primary and secondary sources, summaries of leading Supreme Court decisions, and a sample student research design. Melone references the most up-to-date print and electronic legal research materials throughout the thoroughly revised Third Edition.

Researching Constitutional Law, Third Edition

Legal Education

Waveland Press. Inc.

In Donald J. Trump and the Politics of Mass Society, Albert P. Melone studies Trump's behavioral patterns in the fourth year of his presidential term and the three tumultuous years leading to the 2024 presidential election. Melone analyzes the leading explanatory paradigm of American government and politics by utilizing the democratic and aristocratic criticisms of mass society theory to better describe and explain the behavior of Donald Trump and his followers. The initial chapters outline the theoretical framework, the mass movement characteristics, and its membership's cult-like behavior. Two significant events of the last year of Trump's administration-- the pandemic and the politics surrounding the Black Lives Matter demonstrations-- illustrate Trump's leadership style and the behavioral patterns of the MAGA mass movement. The 2020 election and the attempt to reverse its outcome is a central topic throughout the text, including a discussion of Trump's second impeachment, the efforts of the House Select Committee on January 6th, voter reactions in the 2022 midterm elections, and the various political and legal attempts to make Trump accountable for his role in the so-called insurrection at the nation's Capitol. In the final chapter, Melone critically analyzes alternative prescriptions to right the ship of state with a steely eye focused on the realities and possibilities to salvage the democratic republic from an autocratic future.

Donald J. Trump and the Politics of Mass Society

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Lexington Books

The Trump presidency alone is a topic of considerable public discussion and debate. Yet, Donald Trump signals much more than the behavior of a single person. He is a symptom and not the sole cause a greater malaise gripping the republic. Albert P. Melone argues that the Trump phenomenon is an instance of the rise of mass society and the decline of pluralist democracy. He points out that yesteryear's Madisonian pluralist paradigm of democracy no longer aptly describes and explains the American political world as it now exists. By substituting the conceptual framework of mass society for the pluralism model, the author points the way to a more powerful and convincing explanation of the Trump phenomenon.

Political Culture in the Age of Trump

This text is designed to introduce students to both private and public law and to the nature of the judicial system. Anchored in social science concepts,The American Legal System demonstrates the relationships between private law and public law issues, the business legal environment, as well as related subjects of interest. Part I introduces students to terms and concepts necessary for understanding the legal system, the jurisdiction and authority of courts, the organization of courts in the United States, judicial interpretation and decision-making, and the U.S. constitutional system. Part II centers on legal processes--the world of civil and criminal procedure, explained in ordinary language. Subjects include civil suits for money damages; criminal, equity, and administrative processes; and the various modes of alternative dispute resolution. Along the way, students gain a working knowledge of process and procedural rights. Part III provides chapters on the substantive legal topics of criminal law, torts, property, and family law. Part IV treats the law governing the world of business: contracts, business regulation by government, and taxation. All of these substantive law chapters include a section tracing modern substantive law to its common law roots. We also include sections on evolving legal issues including product liability, tort reform, copyright infringement, victimless crimes, youthful offenders, artificial conception of human life, and same-sex marriages. Every chapter features edited court opinions illustrating many lively and interesting controversies that will capture the interest of students regardless of their academic major. At the beginning of each chapter, students will find chapter objectives designed to guide their reading. A glossary of selected legal and Latin terms will also prove useful to the reader, as will the end-of-chapter discussion questions, lists of key names, terms, and concepts, and listings of selected books and articles for further reading. A table of cases as well as name and subject indices provides even greater detail, so that readers may also use the book as a reference. A comprehensive Instructor's Manual/Testing Program (which includes complete lecture outlines, suggested answers to the discussion questions at the end of each chapter, briefs of court opinions, and suggested films for classroom use) is available, either in book or electronic form. A Student Study Guide, written by Bradley Best (Buena Vista University), is also available.

Roxbury Pub. Co

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The American Legal System: Foundations, Processes, and Norms

Researching Constitutional Law

CREATING PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT: THE TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY IN BULGARIA (PARLIAMENTS & LEGISLATURES)

CREATING PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT: THE TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY IN BULGARIA (PARLIAMENTS & LEGISLATURES)

Primer on constitutional law

Researching Constitutional Law

Researching Constitutional Law, Third Edition

Donald J. Trump and the Politics of Mass Society

Political Culture in the Age of Trump

The American Legal System: Foundations, Processes, and Norms