This Quick Review explains the legal concepts and terms of criminal law. Text provides an analytical and exam approach to common law and the Model Penal Code. Presents the typical questions found on criminal law examinations. Reviews the purposes and general requirements of criminal law. Identifies the components of crimes such as vicarious liability and their defenses. Includes multiple-choice questions and answers, practice essay questions and model answers, and Case Squibs.

Sum and Substance Quick Review on Criminal Law (Sum & Substnace Quick Review)

Friedland, Steven

Criminal Law

West Academic

When time is critical and a complete and comprehensive analysis of the law is needed, rely on Quick Review. Because of its unique features, Quick Review is an excellent tool to use in class or when preparing for final exams. Each Quick Review is designed to make the study of law simple, clear and convenient. All Quick Reviews contain: A Capsule Summary, which is a main outline section with clear and concise explanations of legal concepts and terms along with exam hints, strategies, mnemonics, charts, tables and study tips. Self-testing and diagnostic review questions enhance memory retention and facilitate the application of legal concepts; Case Squibs, which are capsule summaries of significant cases identifying important facts, primary issues and relevant law; a Casebook Table, which keys the Quick Review Outline to relevant pages of leading casebooks, allowing you to maximize all Quick Review features alongside your casebook; and Numerous essay and multiple choice questions with model answers and detailed explanations. All answers are cross-referenced to the relevant outline sections. All Quick Review features are designed to help save time and increase performance. Quick Review pages come perforated and 3-hole punched for easy integration with class notes. Quick Reviews even contain a 10-5-2 Hour Study Guide which offers study suggestions in the critical hours before an exam. Quick Review has all the necessary tools for success in the classroom and at examination time!

Sum & Substance

This new guide combines expert academic advice with candid observations and survival tips based upon The Princeton Review's national student surveys, the largest annual campus surveys in the country. This unique blend of practical advice and peer insights provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and useful information on the market.

Law School Companion (Princeton Review)

Lisnek, Paul M.

Reference

Princeton Review

This new book on teaching law draws upon the wisdom of hundreds of legal educators to provide ideas, materials, and alternatives for teaching a variety of law school courses. The book offers guidance for new and experienced law teachers to plan and deliver effective courses. From Business Associations to Family Law, Federal Income Taxation to Torts, each chapter addresses one of the fifteen courses most students take during their legal education. 
Each chapter has five sections: (1) Approach, encompassing global issues about a course, such as goals, organizational scheme, general philosophy, syllabi, and coverage; (2) Materials, evaluating what kinds of materials enhance a course; (3) Class Exercises, evaluating what teaching and learning activities work well in a course and suggesting in- and out-of-class projects that promote learning; (4) Brief Gems, in which teachers share devices and ideas that have proven effective in their classes; and (5) Evaluation of Students, assessing when and how students should be evaluated and discussing teachers' thoughts on feedback and assessment both during and at the end of the course.

Teaching the Law School Curriculum

Hess, Gerald

Ethics & Professional Responsibility

Carolina Academic Press

Designed for law teachers who want to improve their teaching and students' learning, this book offers general teaching principles and dozens of concrete ideas. The first two chapters present foundational principles of learning and instruction as well as insights from students. The next 12 chapters address classroom dynamics, technology, questioning, discussion, collaborative learning, experiential learning, feedback, assessment, and continued development for teachers. Each of these 12 chapters introduces the topic based on educational research and then offers classroom-tested exercises, approaches, material, and methods contributed by veteran teachers. The co-authors/editors are experts in legal education pedagogy. Techniques for Teaching Law 2 retains the format of the first volume, but inroduces new content and new ideas that instructors of any level and background will find useful.

Techniques for Teaching Law

Legal Education

Criminal law (Sum & Substance quick review)

Sum & Substance, a division of American Professional Testing Service

Skills and Values: Constitutional Law brings practical context to what is possibly the most abstract and thus, for many students, frustrating course in the basic law school curriculum. The heart of the book are problems which pose constitutional law issues in the context of situations a lawyer is likely actually to encounter in her practice. As practical problems they require the student to perform functions required of a practicing lawyer, ranging from deposition preparation to letter-drafting to presentation of legal concepts to lay audiences. The problems thus require students to demonstrate mastery of doctrine in the context of real-world problems that call for practical lawyering skills. Each chapter begins with a summary of the underlying doctrine the student will be expected to know and apply in the problem. (Links to Lexis versions of the full texts of the cases and materials cited in each introductory summary, as well as links to additional helpful sources, are provided online, in a manner the professor can make accessible to her students if she chooses.) It then presents the problem, which usually includes significant primary materials the student will be expected to mine for legally relevant content. The assignments are explained clearly, and time expectations (based on the assignment's difficulty) are provided. 
Two aspects of these problems stand out for professors seeking to prepare their students for modern practice realities. First, the assignments require students to work in groups of varying size. This feature responds to the reality that legal work is usually done collegially. Too often law school downplays the role of group work; these problems encourage it.
Second, several assignments include ethics components, which require students to consider how their choices about performing the assigned tasks implicate ethical issues. This feature reflects the authors' focus on ensuring that students get this sort of ethical training, and that they get it in the context of substantive learning rather than solely as a stand-alone class in legal ethics.
The real-world nature of the problems presented, the requirement of collegial problem-solving, and the focus on ethics that together characterize this book respond to recent critiques of legal education, such as those in the 2007 Carnegie Report. They also respond to student concerns and desires to learn law in a manner relevant to their career goals, through group-learning activities of the sort that likely marked their undergraduate education, and with a consistent focus on the ethical practice of law.

Skills & Values: Constitutional Law (Skills & Values Series)

Duhart, Olympia

Baker, Thomas

Araiza, William

Law Practice

This book breaks with tradition to provide both a theoretical and practical understanding of the Federal Rules of Evidence. Under the principle that learning is most effective when it is both challenging and fun, the book includes numerous courtroom-based problems, both to facilitate the students' theoretical understanding of the rules and to develop their ability to apply evidence rules in practice. A number of problems are based on scenarios drawn from films and TV shows, so instructors can show video clips in conjunction with the problems. Evidence Law and Practice consistently provides examples, practice hints, explanations, and illustrations in the form of mini-transcripts. Each chapter begins with a checklist of important questions to be addressed for each subject area, followed by the pertinent provisions of the Federal Rules of Evidence, a subject overview, illustrations, examples, and problems. While appellate court opinions are not the primary text of this book, the ways that judges discuss evidence rules are important and a useful basis for classroom discussions. Consequently, many chapters provide summarized versions of relevant opinions. Features of the Seventh Edition include: An expanded Appendix 2, which sets forth California Evidence Code provisions that differ in significant ways from the Federal Rules of Evidence and provide comparative approaches to evidence rule-making; An expansion of Chapter 19, which consists primarily of multiple-choice questions (and answers). Because many Evidence examinations include multiple-choice questions, the revised version of Chapter 19 will be especially helpful to students; Chapter 5 (Character Evidence), Chapter 8 (Lay Witness Opinions), and Chapter 9 (Expert Witnesses) have been completely rewritten under the leadership of Dustin Benham, the books new co-author; A brand new Chapter 20, which presents evidentiary review exercises in the form of excerpts from actual historically significant trials. The cases from which the excerpts are taken include the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the O.J. Simpson trial, the Menendez Brothers trial, and the trial of Anderson v. W.R. Grace, the subject of the film A Civil Action. Analyses of the questions embedded in these transcripts are in the Teachers Manual.

Evidence Law and Practice

BERGMAN, PAUL

Benham, Dustin

The sixth edition of Evidence Problems and Materials is an even better learning by doing book than before. It includes a broader variety of context to help promote deeper learning, such as practical tips and background box components. Further, given that the major context of evidence law is the trial, students are given sample objections with which to apply the rules they are learning. The book continues to offer students various structures to help frame the major areas of evidence law, such as outlines at the beginning of each chapter and reviews at the end. These bookends guide students to better organize and synthesize the material. This edition also reworks the ever growing material of the Confrontation Clause, while continuing to be distinctive in highlighting ethical considerations concerning lawyers and the use of evidence.

Evidence Problems and Materials

Sahl, John

The new edition of this criminal law book benefits from both use and experience after using the first edition and seeking feedback from students and professors alike, the authors set about creating an even more interactive and engaging experience for the modern law student. The book has dual goals (1) to help students understand the processes and elements of the criminal law and (2) to improve the critical reading, thinking and writing skills of students through problems, real examples, and hypotheticals. The book offers structures within major components of the subject matter, from starting each chapter with an outline and key points and ending chapters with reviews, to utilizing a wide variety of tools to enhance learning. It includes well-known events, such as the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin homicide case, background boxes highlighting contextual points, and different kinds of exercises covering a panoply of lawyering skills. The book also steps back and provides broader perspectives of the criminal law from questions about justice to theories of punishment. This book is part of the Context and Practice Series, edited by Michael Hunter Schwartz, Professor of Law and Dean of the McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific.

Criminal Law: A Context and Practice Casebook (Context and Practice Series)

Carpenter, Catherine

Chavis, Kami

Arcabascio, Catherine

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