Introduction to the Law and Legal System of the United States - Third Edition

William Burnham

West Group Publishing

2002

700 páginas

23h 20m

ISBN-10: 0314253939

This text provides an introduction to U.S. law. Intended for law students, lawyers, and legal scholars from foreign countries; U.S. graduate and undergraduate college students; and members of the general reading public in the United States. For use as the text of an introductory course on U.S. law, as a reference, or for self-study. the book has chapters on the essential basic history and governmental structure necessary to understand the legal system; the legal profession; the theory and practice of the adversary system of justice; and statutory interpretation and caselaw reasoning.