Product DescriptionMassachusetts Legal Research is a concise guide to researching Massachusetts law and to the general process of legal research.  Its intended audience includes law students as well as practitioners and paralegals. Extensive treatment of the research process–with Massachusetts and federal examples–makes this book suitable as a stand-alone text for an introductory legal research course.Chapters discussing how to locate and use specific Massachusetts sou… More >>
Massachusetts Legal Research
Product DescriptionNow in its Second Edition, JUST MEMOS continues to offer students a solid guide to successful legal memo writing. Authored by well-known pioneers in the field, this text is designed for first-year law students, providing the information they need to successfully write objective memos, opinion letters and e-mails.<p class=copymedium> This brief text retains the excellent features that earned it great success in its first edition: <li class=copymedium>Helps st… More >>
Just Memos
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Product DescriptionThis casebook serves a course in introduction to legal reasoning. It is designed to initiate students in the legal methods of case law analysis and statutory interpretation. In a course of this kind, students should acquire or refine the techniques of close reading, analogizing, distinguishing, positing related fact patterns, and criticizing judicial and legislative exposition and logic. Law students introduction to law can be unsettling: the sink or swim approach f… More >>
Legal Methods: Cases and Materials
Product DescriptionAn authoritative introduction to the law, the Foundation Press Concepts and Insights Series offers law students concise, conceptual overviews of important areas of law, as written by leading scholars. Students reap the benefit of the authors expert opinions, insight, and experience, with illustrative case studies, case notes, and examples. The paperback texts also contain thought-provoking questions designed to generate classroom discussion and hone students’ legal … More >>
Business Organization and Finance, Legal and Economic Principles
Criminal Justice, it is the latest hot destination, for millions of offenders, in fact some feat that the prison population may become so large that we may face a real problem in the near future.
In fact, if the trends stay the way they are there will be more people in jail, than are paying taxes.
If criminal law is your passion, and definitely understand that it is nothing like law and order, which is based on holly wood, political leftism and not real life.
However if that does not deter you may well be suited for the this type of law and that it enforces.
Those who are looking for a major, it is wise to study this area of the law.
In criminal law, The People can punish the criminal based on what he or she has done against the state. There are often less indications of victims here, but more of rules being broken. Because in criminal law, the individual has broken the governing body’s law, he or she is required to face punishment from the government. There is no need to consent with the victim, should there be one.
Is criminal law the type of law you will pursue? If so, there is little doubt that you have many outstanding opportunities in the universities that you can attend to get your law degree. You will find that many of the schools will provide you with the most outstanding abilities to gain the knowledge that you need so long as you apply yourself. Criminal law is complex, detailed and very challenging. Yet, it can be passionate, profound and life changing as well. Criminal law is an amazing element in itself.
The first choice that you may want to consider is if you should choose criminal law in the first place, second is which school you will attend.
Because you will be studying much of your spare time will not even exist in the first place, you will want to choose carefully, considering what and how good the school would be as far as a place to live since you will be spending the next few years, in this one town, you really need to know where your going to live, and how your going to pay for your school.
In order to succeed, you have to be willing to put in long long long long long hours,
Most law students who are successful will tell you that they often put in more than 70 hours per week on average,
Criminal law school is likely one of the most difficult areas of the law and if you have the tolerance for this type of work more power to you because for the most part it is the most difficult area of practice you will ever find yourself involved in.
Product DescriptionWith more than 45,000 entries covering all areas of law, plus relevant terms in related spheres of expertise, this new Essential Edition is based on the popular Third Edition of the English/Spanish and Spanish/English Legal Dictionary. These are the dictionaries that lawyers, law students, translators, and those working in English and Spanish in law and associated fields have been trusting since the First Edition was published in 1993. Because of its straightforw… More >>
Essential English/Spanish and Spanish/English Legal Dictionary
Product DescriptionIn 1983 Harvard law professor Duncan Kennedy self-published a biting critique of the law school system called Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy. This controversial booklet was reviewed in several major law journals—unprecedented for a self-published work—and influenced a generation of law students and teachers. In this well-known critique, Duncan Kennedy argues that legal education reinforces class, race, and gender inequality in our socie… More >>
Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic Against the System
Effective Legal Writing: For Law Students and Lawyers
Product DescriptionWydick s Plain English for Lawyers–now in its fifth edition–has been a favorite of law students, legal writing teachers, lawyers, and judges for over 25 years.
In January 2005, the Legal Writing Institute gave Wydick its Golden Pen Award for having written Plain English for Lawyers. The Legal Writing Institute is a non-profit organization that provides a forum for discussion and scholarship about legal writing, analysis, and research. The Institute has over… More >>
Plain English for Lawyers
This seems like a common sense thing, I mean if you cant think like your a professional then how can you do your job, but you might be surprised at how easy it can be to get off track…
is it really all about how you think…
Seems logical but it is really? This primer on legal reasoning is aimed at law students and upper-level undergraduates, however, you might find that it would be of benefit to read this book.
But it is also an original exposition of basic legal concepts that scholars and lawyers will find stimulating. It covers such topics as rules, precedent, authority, analogical reasoning, the common law, statutory interpretation, legal realism, judicial opinions, legal facts, and burden of proof. In addressing the question whether legal reasoning is distinctive, Frederick Schaue… More >>
Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning
