Research Catalog

Title

Before the law : an introduction to the legal process / John J. Bonsignore ... [et al.].

Publication

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., c2006.

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Additional Authors

Bonsignore, John J.

Description

xxi, 614 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Justice, Administration of > United States
• Judicial process > United States
• Law > United States > Methodology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Lawmaking and precedent: how judges and lawyers reason from prior cases -- Law and official discretion -- Law and values -- Law and conflicting interests -- Law, status, wealth, and power -- Law and popular will -- Feminist and racial perspectives on law and legal order -- Legal force -- Legal rights -- Law's techniques -- Profession of law -- Education of lawyers -- Lawyers and the adversary process -- Jury in a cultural context -- Jury as a political institution -- Jury selection in a pluralistic society : the problem of gender discrimination and the case of racial peremptories -- Decline of the jury : democracy at risk? -- Legal context of dispute resolution -- Dispute resolution and community justice -- Public disputes and dispute resolver -- Cyberspace and the future of law -- Settling disputes in cyberspace -- Protecting rights in cyberspace -- Protecting property in cyberspace.

ISBN

0618503455

LCCN

^^2005929167

OCLC

• 61324093
• SCSB-10450201

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library