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Whose Monet? - (Academic Success) 2nd Edition by John A Humbach (Paperback)

Whose Monet? - (Academic Success) 2nd Edition by  John A Humbach (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This extraordinary paperback provides a highly accessible and appealing orientation to the American legal system and presents basic concepts of civil litigation to first-year law students. <b>Whose Monet? An Introduction to the American Legal System</b> focuses on a lengthy dispute over the ownership of a painting as a vehicle for introducing students to the basic law school tasks of reading analytically, understanding legal materials, and working with the common law.</p><p> <b>The author and his colleagues have used these materials successfully in their classrooms for many years, ensuring their teachability and effectiveness: </b> </p> <ul> <li> Whose Monet? can be used as primary course material in orientation courses or seminars, as well as collateral reading for in-semester Legal Process or Civil Procedure courses </li> <li> The organization is logical and straightforward and the accessible writing style--lucid, descriptive, and conversational--is ideal for incoming students </li> <li> The major events in a lawsuit are considered, and the text sheds light on how the law is applied in a civil dispute, introducing common law and statutory law and the various courts and their interrelationship (trial/appellate, state/federal) </li> <li> The author draws on judicial opinions, litigation papers, transcripts, and selections from commentators and various jurisprudential sources, thereby exposing the first-year student to as broad a spectrum of materials as possible </li> <li> Telling the story of a real lawsuit (DeWeerth v. Baldinger)--from client intake through trial and various appeals--draws students into the legal process by means of an engaging narrative and makes for a truly enjoying teaching experience for professors </li> <li> The lawyer's role is examined in both its functional and moral dimensions: What do lawyers do? What does society legitimately expect lawyers to do? </li> <li> This book is suitable for both classroom and stand-alone assigned reading </li> </ul>

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