The American legal system : perspectives, politics, processes, and policies
"Firmly anchored in social science concepts, the second edition of The American Legal System demonstrates the relationships among private law, the business legal environment, and public law issues, as well as related subjects of interest. This fifteen-chapter book is divided into three parts. Part I places the legal system in a political perspective centering on the origins of the law, schools of jurisprudence, branches and functions of law, legitimacy of law, how the judiciary functions in the federal system of government, and judicial interpretation and decision making. Part II contrasts legal processes: civil suits for money damages, criminal processes, equity justice, administrative processes, and alternative dispute resolution. Part III centers on the legal norms or rules governing both civil and criminal conduct, property law, family law, contract law, and government regulation of business."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, ©2008
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, MD, ©2008
Legal treatises
xxxii, 685 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780742547537, 0742547531
156891996
Law in perspective
Legitimacy and the limits of authority
The judiciary and the federal system
Judicial interpretation and decision-making
Civil suits for money damages
Equity processes
Criminal processes
Administrative processes
Alternative dispute resolution
Torts
Property
Family law
Criminal law
Contracts
Government regulation of business