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, which keeps the same
basic structure of earlier editions, has been revised and brought up to date, reflecting the way the legal system has adapted to the complex new world of the twenty-first century.
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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.
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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
11. On Legal Behavior
12. Legal Culture: Legitimacy and Morality
13. The American Legal Profession
14. Law and Social Change
15. Epilogue: The Future of Law in the United States
Notes
Index
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In this compulsively readable book, Friedman and Hayden provide an insightful and occasionally irreverent introduction to law and the legal system. For anyone who wants to understand what law is and how it operates in America, this is a must read. * Chris Guthrie, Dean & John Wade-Kent Syverud, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University Law School *American Law is a wise and illuminating introduction to the joints and sinews of the American legal system. In a relaxed conversational voice, it delivers a complex and sophisticated view of the workings of our legal order. * Marc Galanter, Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Wisconsin Law School *
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780190460594
Publisert
2017
Utgave
3. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
512 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
159 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
05, UU, UP
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
376