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Product Description: The 2008 eighth edition of Cases and Comments on Criminal Law continues the format of subject-matter structure that was introduced several editions before and has proven successful and eminently workable in the classroom. At the same time, the eighth edition strikes several new themes designed to modernize the book and make it more meaningful in today's justice system as well as more accessible to the students...read more

Product Description: Like the law school casebook that this supplement updates, it facilitates the development of advocacy skills in criminal cases. Helps encourage students to think about how to handle such situations, while emphasizing intellectual content...read more

Product Description: This supplement brings the principal text up to date with recent developments in the law.

Product Description: The third edition contains thought provoking problems, and is designed to encourage classroom discussion, and help students effectively learn criminal procedure principles. Ideally suited for a one semester course, this casebook contains all the essential decisions without being overwritten or so massive as to be unwieldy...read more

Product Description: This supplement brings the principal text current with recent developments in the law.

Product Description: Criminal Law affords a beginning student insight into the criminal justice process as an introduction to casework on substantive criminal law. Examines the conceptual battles that surround crimes; "intent to cause death" in case of an AIDS sufferer who seeks to transmit the disease; the assisted suicide issue; right to die cases; and retention of the "born alive" rule...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Judge Merhige has emerged as the most prominent example of a new breed of activist, problem-solving federal trial judges who aggressively impact upon American society and its institutions. May It Please the Court examines the federal judiciary at its most direct (and least analyzed) level by addressing Judge Merhige's two decades of experience in dealing with some of the most significant and complex legal and social issues in our society...read more