Legal Skills & Practice

In its sixty-year existence, the Stikeman Elliott firm has played a role in many of the most significant transactions in Canadian business history,...

According to masculinities theory, masculinity is not a biological imperative but a social construction. Men engage in a constant struggle with oth...

Anthony Kronman describes a spiritual crisis affecting the American legal profession, and attributes it to the collapse of what he calls the ideal ...

An argument for the constitutional responsibility to participate in jury duty It’s easy to forget how important the jury really is to America. The ...

American political and legal culture is uncomfortable with children's sexuality. While aware that sexual expression is a necessary part of human de...

Over the past several decades, the number of lawyers in large cities has doubled, women have entered the bar at an unprecedented rate, and the scal...

There are two kinds of knowledge law school teaches: legal rules on the one hand and tools for thinking about legal problems on the other. Although...

Lopeman examines the impact advocacy of intentional judicial activism by a justice of a state supreme court can have on establishing the court as a...

The 1984 explosion of the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India was undisputedly one of the world's worst industrial disasters. Some have a...

This volume provides an authoritative, evenhanded overview of the Trump administration's family separation and child detention policies at the U.S....

This account of six families whose children were wrongly seized by child protection services vividly illustrates the constitutional balancing act w...

“'What About Law?' succeeds where so many legal guidebooks fail ... [it] skilfully demystifies the law and ably proves its argument. The law is, in...

From a corporate lawyer in private practice comes a detailed analysis of, and guide to, the conventions of language and structure in drafting corpo...

Attorneys must develop many skills in order to benefit fully from their collaborations with forensic document examiners in cases involving question...

The use of microcomputers as decision aids in law practice is increasing rapidly. Nagel here shows how developments in software over the last few y...

Court reporters--those who record courtroom legal proceedings and then transcribe them into writing--are a growing subspecialty in the field of leg...

Flint, Michigan's water crisis, the New Jersey "Bridgegate" scandal, Enron: all these incidents are examples of various forms of leadership failure...

This primer on legal reasoning is aimed at law students and upper-level undergraduates. But it is also an original exposition of basic legal concep...

Proposes groundbreaking, fundamental reform for the adversarial legal system to keep innocent people from going to prison We rely on the adversari...

According to masculinities theory, masculinity is not a biological imperative but a social construction. Men engage in a constant struggle with oth...

Your career as a top-notch paralegal starts here The demand for paralegal professionals is exploding, and Paralegal Career For Dummies, 2nd Edition...

In the summer of 2008 Kimberley Motley quit her job as a public defender in Milwaukee to join a program that helped train lawyers in war-torn Afgha...

Shines a light on the emerging field of law dedicated to responding to and resolving the crises of the twenty-first century In an increasingly glob...

Archbishop Wulfstan of York (d. 1023) was a powerful clergyman and the most influential political thinker of pre-Conquest England. An advocate for ...

What makes a great law professor? The first study of its kind, What the Best Law Teachers Do identifies the methods, strategies, and personal trait...

An argument for the constitutional responsibility to participate in jury duty It’s easy to forget how important the jury really is to America. The ...

"...the uber-manual of all legislative drafting manuals" Statute Law Review, 2023, 44 If you’re involved in drafting or amending legislation in th...