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Postconviction Remedies is designed for a one-semester survey course on federal and state habeas corpus, postconviction, and sentence correction procedures, with additional focus on innocence cases. It is also intended to give students a legal foundation for clinical advocacy work for people who are unjustly imprisoned. Although there is an exoneration somewhere in America every other day, courts and legislatures are moving to restrict avenues of relief against unjust convictions and sentences.

Legal Argumentation: Reasoning & Writing About the Law is suitable for a two- or three-semester introduction to legal analysis, reasoning, research, and writing. It covers theories underlying legal reasoning and analysis, contexts in which reasoning and analysis occur, and many common textual and oral genres, such as memos, briefs, letters, emails, contracts, and oral communication. The book’s appendices provide extensive supplemental information and examples, including writing resources, sample student work, and annotated documents.

This is an Interactive Casebook

The online Lawbooks version offers embedded interactive questions to help students understand and apply the material as they learn it.

This casebook is also available as a PDF and in print. The PDF version includes direct links to the interactive questions on the Lawbooks website. 

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This casebook, along with the accompanying volume of principal cases, introduces students to the law of contracts. It covers enough core common law concepts to offer a rich four-credit first-year course including a selection of UCC topics that will enrich students’ understanding of courts’ doctrinal choices.

This is the revised, Second Edition of the Statutory Law Course Source. Unlike traditional casebooks or coursebooks, a “course source” includes resources to train students in all three apprenticeships identified by the Carnegie Foundation in its influential report on legal education, Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law.

This is the second edition of Constitutional Rights, designed for a one-semester survey course on federal constitutional rights. In a time of significant doctrinal fluidity, the casebook aims to provide students with historical and conceptual tools to critically evaluate how and why the Supreme Court has shaped the landscape of rights jurisprudence.

This is an Interactive Book

The online Lawbooks version offers embedded interactive questions to help students understand and apply the material as they learn it. 

This book is also available as a PDF, in Word, and in print. The PDF and Word versions include direct links to the interactive questions on the Lawbooks website.

Description

This handbook is for upper-level students enrolled in a clinic, who are expected to draft legal memorandums, briefs, client letters, and pleadings with minimal supervision. Each chapter focuses on a single writing skill. The exercises and examples consistently and cogently employ the techniques and devices advocated in the book.

Clinical students learn by doing. Still, their legal writing experience is limited, so guiding them through written assignments is challenging. They simultaneously need specific feedback on legal writing from their professors, and the opportunity to do as much as possible on their own. I wrote this handbook with that challenge in mind.