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American Law: An Introduction 3rd Edition

American Law: An Introduction 3rd Edition

Name: American Law: An Introduction 3rd Edition
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780190460587
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Author: Lawrence M. Friedman; Grant M. Hayden
ISBN: 9780190460587

Edited by Lawrence M. Friedman · Grant M. Hayden

Oxford University Press January 2017

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ISBN-13: 9780190460587
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: January 2017
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.S. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This book provides an introduction to the American legal system for a broad readership. Its focus is on law in practice, on the role of the law in American society; and how the social context affects the living law of the United States. It covers the institutions of law creation and application, law in American government, American legal culture and the legal profession, American criminal and civil justice, and civil rights.

Clearly written, the book has been widely used in both undergraduate and graduate courses as an introduction to the legal system; it will be useful, too, to a general audience interested in understanding how this vital social system works. This new edition follows the same basic structure as applied in the previous editions providing a thorough revision and reworking of the text. This edition reflects upon what has happened in the years since the second edition was published in 1998, and how these events and evolutions have shaped our fundamental comprehension of the workings of the American legal system today.

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. What Is a Legal System?

2. Law: Formal and Informal

3. The Background of American Law

4. The Structure of American Law: The Courts

5. The Structure of American Law: Statutes and Statute Makers

6. The Structure of American Law: Executing Policy

7. Federalism and American Legal Culture

8. Inside the Black Box: The Substance of Law

9. Crimes and Punishments

10. Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties