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...
This textbook is intended as an introduction to the kinds of business research that lawyers often need to do, but for which they are rarely trained. It begins with a brief review of general legal research, and branches out to cover such topics as business formation, transaction precedents, and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The purpose of bioethics is to put forth ethically acceptable solutions to the problems posed by modern medicine. The actions of healthcare providers are governed by the four principles of bioethics: autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice. The principles of bioethics are directly...
This Casebook is designed for the “investigations” criminal procedure class commonly taught at American law schools. It focuses on the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Fourth Amendment topics include definitions of “search” and “seizure,” probable cause...
This book is designed to provide guidance to law students as they prepare to embark upon bar study. It covers topics such as how to make a study plan, strategies for successful bar study, tips for attacking each portion of the exam, taking care of your mental health, and preparing your loved ones...
This is the Second Edition of A Treatise of Wyoming Workers’ Compensation Law, which seeks both to introduce Wyoming workers’ compensation students to the law of their own jurisdiction, and to provide a continuing resource to those same students as they embark on workers’ compensation legal practice...