This comprehensive and clearly written Understanding treatise is frequently cited by scholars and courts in their analysis of substantive criminal law. Understanding Criminal Law is designed to be taught in conjunction with any casebook. The topics covered are those most often raised in criminal law casebooks, and coverage of these subjects is meant to complement professors' classroom discussions. The text focuses on the basic elements of, and defenses to, specific crimes such as homicide, rape, and theft, group criminality, and inchoate liability. Understanding Criminal Law also covers theories of punishment, sources of the criminal law, and overarching principles such as legality and proportionality. The common law is emphasized with extensive comparisons to the Model Penal Code and thoughtful examination of the underpinnings of the utilitarian philosophies of substantive criminal law. The text of Understanding Criminal Law encourages students to consider the approach these philosophies would take to a particular matter under discussion, thus providing an excellent learning tool for gaining a firm understanding of how our criminal justice system works.

Understanding Criminal Law, 6th Edition

Dressler, Joshua

Criminal Law

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By Ships Alone: Churchill and the Dardanelles (Studies in Statesmanship of the Winston S. Churchill Association)

History

Wallin, Jeffrey D.

Americas

Coolidge and the Historians

Silver, Thomas B.

Historical Study & Educational Resources

This book is designed to introduce incoming law students to the U.S. legal system in order to prepare them to get the most out of law school from the day it begins. Authors Johns and Perschbacher do not assume a great deal of prior knowledge and begin by explaining what legal education is all about. There is then a chapter on the legal profession — who are all those lawyers, how are they regulated, and what are they doing? The book then covers the structure of our legal system, looking at the complex relationship between the states and the federal government as well as at the institutions of both. Finally, two important sources of law are considered: legislatures and courts. The book examines some of the ways that legislation is interpreted and some of the ways that the law evolves through the judicial process. 
This book not only can serve as a crucial introduction for all law students but would also work well in an undergraduate course geared to pre-law students or a more general course about our contemporary legal system. A teacher’s manual is available.

The United States Legal System: An Introduction

Johns, Margaret Z.

Pershbacher, Rex R.

Courses about nonprofits in graduate schools of law, management, and public administration have multiplied in recent years, as have programs directed to understanding philanthropy and civil society. The authors of this text designed it to be suitable for use in these multiple settings, by combining tightly edited social science, management and public policy readings with news accounts and traditional legal materials and methods. Enterprise alternatives, gifts, advocacy, fiduciary duties, tax treatment, immunities, fundraising, foundations, membership, accounting and other matters are explored in terms of the potential legal consequences facing decision makers in different settings. Readings are organized into hour-by-hour chapters and are not excessive in length.

Understanding Non Profit Organizations: Law, Policy, And Management

Business & Money

Silber, Norman I.

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Professional Responsibility for California Attorneys

Scheflin, Alan W.

Legal Education

This is the second updated edition of the premier book on animal law, a rapidly developing field that is increasing its presence in the public eye. Animal law is, in its simplest (and broadcast) sense, a combination of statutory and decisional law in which nature - legal, social, or biological - of non-human animals is an important factor. This book is a valuable resource for courses in animal law, as an adjunct to environmental or wildlife law courses, and as a reference book for attorneys whose practices may bring them in contact with the relevant issues. It brings together a cohesive format, which touches on most areas in which animals affect legal doctrines, case law, and legislative direction. Because this is not a traditional legal field, most of the book's chapters are framed in terms of familiar subsets of the law - such as tort, contract, criminal, and constitutional law. Each chapter sets out cases and commentary where animal law affects those broader areas. In the second edition, the text has been updated and several chapters reorganized and revised to provide even greater clarity of direction and organization for the reader. As in the first edition, animal law as presented in this book is not synonymous with "animal rights" or with any particular political, moral or ethical agenda. Rather, it is an objective and logical specialization of a challenging area - one with a growing number of cases and statutes, increasing public and practical interest, and significantly different historical, legal and philosophical foundations than most other areas of law.

Animal Law : Cases and Materials

Sonia S. Waisman

Law Practice

Structures of Judicial Decision-Making from Legal Formalism to Critical Theory

Brooks, Roy L.

Legal Theory & Systems

This book, a second updated edition, bridges the gap between typical legal research texts and the needs of beginning legal researchers for concise explanations of the sources they will use early in their careers. A unique feature of this book is its emphasis on the sources a Florida attorney would use to do state and federal research. Many research texts, in contrast, emphasize federal materials and include illustrations taken from a variety of federal and state jurisdictions. The book is not, however, a bibliography of Florida sources. Instead, it combines an overview of essential primary and secondary sources with an introduction to research methods that will enable a novice researcher to move beyond the sources described in the text. Moreover, its emphasis on developing a research process and analyzing the results of legal research makes it appropriate even for those who might not be practicing or working in Florida. 
The potential audience includes those who desire an introduction to finding and using the most important sources of Florida law, including practitioners from other jurisdictions. Portions of the materials have successfully been adapted for legal research courses for non-legal professionals, including legislative aides.

Florida Legal Research: Sources, Process, and Analysis

Suzanne E. Rowe

Barbara J. Busharis

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