Criminal Law: Cases and Materials [Connected Casebook] (Aspen Casebook) - Hardcover

John Kaplan; Robert Weisberg; Guyora Binder

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 145486821X ISBN 13: 9781454868217

Publisher: Wolters Kluwer, 2016

Synopsis

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Criminal Law: Cases and Materials, Eighth Edition is written by a well-respected authorship team that provides comprehensive examination of criminal law under both the Model Penal Code and common law. Interspersed with thoughtful excerpts that provide social, political, and criminological background the black letter law, this casebook focuses on an interdisciplinary approach that provides a useful starting point for classroom discussion. The eighth edition has been updated to provide coverage of recent changes in the law, especially in the areas of sentencing and the Eighth Amendment, and includes notes and questions, making the book more useful for exam preparation.

Features: 

• Improvements in the Teacher’s Manual designed to make casebook accessible and useful for new professors
• Updated to provide coverage of recent changes in the law, especially in the areas of sentencing and the Eighth Amendment
• Updated notes and questions making book more useful for exam preparation

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About this title

About the Author:

Guyora Binder, Professor of Law at the State University of New York at Buffalo, is the author of "Treaty Conflict and Political Contradiction" and a coauthor of "Criminal Law." Robert Weisberg, Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr., Professor of Law at Stanford University, is a coauthor of "Criminal Law."

GUYORA BINDER, Professor of Law at the State University of New York at Buffalo, is a graduate of Princeton University and the Yale Law School. Formerly Dana Fellow in Comparative Jurisprudence and Law Clerk to Judge Jack B. Weinstein, Binder has written on jurisprudence and comparative legal history for the University of Chicago Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, the Buffalo Law Review and Reviews in American History.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 145486821X
• ISBN 13: 9781454868217
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1115