Criminal Procedure, A Contemporary Approach (Interactive Casebook Series) - Hardcover

Weaver, Russell; Burkoff, John; Hancock, Catherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1685614604 ISBN 13: 9781685614607

Publisher: West Academic Publishing, 2024

Synopsis

This state-of the-art casebook is both easy and fun to use. It is designed to give you the basis for an enjoyable, comprehensive learning experience for your students, providing you with the sort of piquing materials that should prompt interested and insightful classroom discussion. The focus here is on teachability, rather than encyclopedic coverage of the field. Both the classic and the most recent, significant Supreme Court opinions are included, as well as numerous problem-style hypotheticals that are based on the facts of cutting-edge lower court rulings. The casebook also uses text boxes inside the judicial opinions to pose questions for class discussion, provide practice pointers, and share useful links to information about the history and impact of the decisions. This mixed presentation of traditional doctrines and debates about current legal issues allows your students to hone their analytical skills, as they learn to construct the arguments of today's prosecutors and defense counsel in criminal procedure litigation.

This new edition continues to reflect our primary goal―to create a "teacher's book"―a book that contains thought provoking problems (referred to as "hypos" or "Food for Thought" in the Interactive Casebook Series) designed to stimulate thought and pro(more...)

Edition details

• Publisher: West Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1685614604
• ISBN 13: 9781685614607
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 1549