Law Books

The book Civil Procedure Cases and Materials is written by Jack H. Friedenthal, Arthur R. Miller, John E. Sexton, and Helen Hershkoff. This Eleventh Edition offers an updated and accessible approach to the study of Civil Procedure. Students tend to find Civil Procedure the most mysterious of their law school courses. Our goal in this edition is to present the material in an environment that is clear and simple, but one that challenges and stimulates the student toward greater critical understanding. In that regard, we have incorporated short problems that test doctrinal understanding, foster case reading skills, and foster a sense of litigation strategy. In addition, because Civil Procedure courses vary widely in the hours assigned, the extent to which they are required or optional, and th...

The book John Marshall: Definer of a Nation is written by Jean Edward Smith. Oliver Wendell Holmes said that "if American law were represented by a single figure, skeptics and worshipers alike would agree that the figure could be one, and that, John Marshall." Felix Frankfurter stated that “John Marshall's decisive claim to distinction as a great statesman is as a judge. And he is the only judge who has that distinction.” Joseph Story said, "His proudest epitaph may be written in a single line: 'Here lies the exponent of the Constitution.'" It is my hope that this modest effort can bring to a new generation of Americans the wisdom and humanity of one of the nation's greatest statesmen. Biographers are prone to mold their subjects to fit their own predilections. As Cardinal Newman said, “b...

The book The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation in Latin America and Beyond: Actuality and Pertinence is written by Lorenzo Fusaro and Leinad Johan Alcalá Sandoval. In 1930, when the Great Depression was causing deep economic and social distress, leading to the questioning of the capitalist economic order, Keynes proposed taking wings into the future, asking: “What can we reasonably expect from the level of our economic life? in a hundred years? What are the economic possibilities for our grandchildren? (Keynes 1930). Furthermore, he responded to these questions by arguing that the pessimistic views he was up against should be discarded. Because thanks to the accumulation of capital and, along with it, technological improvements and compound interest rates, the future, according to the...

The book American Nero is written by Richard Painter and Peter Golenbock. Painter and Golenbock present a clear description of the rule of law, possibly the most important principle underlying our civilization. They also describe abuses of power that have occurred throughout our nation's history. Beginning in Puritan New England with the infamous Salem witch trials, American Nero makes vivid stops at The Red Scare of the 1920s, Japanese-American internment, the McCarthy era, and, much more recently, President Trump's attempted violating the First Amendment by prohibiting Muslims from entering the US.While Trump is not the first offender, he is arguably the most brazen, and this unflinchingly honest and insightful work lays out in devastating detail the ways our current president has trampl...

The book The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme is written by Jeffrey Toobin. Architect Cass Gilbert had grand ambitions for his design of a new home for the Supreme Court, which he called "the greatest court in the world, one of the three great elements of our national government." Gilbert knew that access to the Courthouse, as much as the structure itself, would define the experience of the building, but the site presented a challenge. Washington's other exalted buildings, the Capitol, the Washington Monument, and the Lincoln Memorial, inspired awe with their professional approaches. But in 1928, Congress had designated a narrow, asymmetrical lot for the Court, wedged tightly between the Capitol and the Library of Congress. How might Gilbert convey to visitors the magnitude and...

The book The Grammar and Writing Handbook for Lawyers is written by Lenne Eidson Espenschied. A disturbing trend has emerged in our American culture, and law firms are only beginning to feel its effects. In 1994, the National Council of Teachers of English made a hasty change by declining to include the study of the correct use of English as a subject matter. The unfortunate policy was adopted at all levels of education, both in public and private schools. It began to be implemented in 1995; This means that in 2009 and later law school graduates who matriculated without a gap had virtually no traditional training in the correct use of English during middle school, high school, or college. Although few Americans were aware of the NCTE policy change and even fewer had any idea of ​​the chang...

The book Constitutional Law for a Changing America is written by Lee J. Epstein, Kevin T. McGuire, and Thomas G. Walker. OVER THE PAST two decades, constitutional law texts for political science courses have undergone a sea change. At one time, relatively short volumes, containing excerpts from landmark cases or narratives from them, dominated the market. Big, almost gigantic books now abound, some in one volume, some in two volumes, but all designed for a two-semester sequence.This trend, while compatible with the needs of many instructors, bypassed others, including those who teach institutional powers, civil liberties, rights, and justice in a single term and those who prefer a shorter core text. Constitutional Law for a Changing America: A Short Course was designed as an alternative te...

The book Unlocking the Law of Evidence is written by Dr.Charanjit Singh. Lawyers understand that litigation is based on evidence; therefore, a thorough understanding of the law is of paramount importance. The rules on admissibility, relevance, and weight will help you realize very quickly that the tactical use of such rules can facilitate success. Many cases are won and lost solely on the basis of a lawyer's mastery of the evidence, and therefore whether or not and how they use it. The goal of this book is to provide you with a clear and comprehensive discussion of the law and to reinforce your learning with diagrams, summaries, and exercises. Evidence has a habit of presenting problems that often require immediate answers; for example, a witness may say something in his or her statement t...

The book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America is written by Richard Rothstein. WHEN, FROM 2014 TO 2016, riots in places like Ferguson, Baltimore, Milwaukee, or Charlotte captured our attention, most of us thought we knew how these segregated neighborhoods, with their crime, violence, anger, and poverty, came to be. We said they are "de facto segregated," resulting from private practices, not government laws or policies.De facto segregation, we tell ourselves, has several causes. When African Americans moved into a neighborhood like Ferguson, some racially biased white families decided to leave, and then as the number of black families grew, the neighborhood deteriorated, and "white flight" followed. Real estate agents kept whites away from black ne...

The book The Bluebook A Uniform System of Citation is written by Harvard Law Review, Columbia Law Review, and Yale Law Review.  Notable Changes in the 21st Edition THE BLUE PAGES? B6 now gives practitioners the option to close abbreviations on informant names to conserve the number of words used in court documents. ? Bluetable BT2 has been updated to reflect current local subpoena rules in federal and state courts. THE WHITE PAGES? Rule 1.4 no longer dictates an authority order within a signal. Instead, the authorities should be ordered logically, with the most relevant sources before the less relevant sources. ? Rule 1.5(b) has been revised to clarify the placement of the "henceforward" and "last visited" parentheses in Internet source citations. ? Rule 3.3(d) has been added to govern ci...

The book The Common Law is written by Gene Grossman. Peter Sharp's wife kicked him out of their home (which was actually her property), due to a conflict of their philosophies about legal representation: Peter as a defender of those poor and unfortunate people "wrongfully" accused of crimes, and his wife Myra as prosecutor. with the district attorney's office, which led to their conviction.Peter eventually ended up living on a dilapidated old boat in Marina del Rey, and when his former classmate/employer Melvin Braunstein was killed in a plane crash, Peter inherited a failed law firm, an office manager (the twelve-year-old stepdaughter of Melvin, Suzi, a Chinese computer genius) and their huge Saint Bernard. Peter was appointed legal guardian, and through a series of miraculously unraveled...

The book Traversing the Ethical Minefield: Problems, Law, and Professional Responsibility is written by Susan R. Martyn, Lawrence J. Fox. This book represents a unique collaboration between a law professor with extensive academic experience (Susan Martyn) and a long-time practitioner who teaches law students and has covered most of the topics in this book (Larry Fox). We begin your study by introducing you to our pedagogical goals, as well as several distinctive features of the book you are about to use.Overall, we intend these materials to (1) engage you in a fascinating and dynamic topic, (2) educate you on the rapidly expanding laws that govern lawyers, (3) remind you of the need to pay careful attention to facts and the context, and (4) invite you to recognize good advocacy, or the nee...