Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780960851461 Format: Student Edition ISBN: 0960851461 Label: John Delaney Publications Manufacturer: John Delaney Publications Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 445 Publication Date: May 01, 2004 Publisher: John Delaney Publications Sales Rank: 549588 Studio: John Delaney Publications
Product DescriptionThe theme of Learning Criminal Law as Advocacy Argument -- Complete with Exam Problems and Answers springs from a comment made to Professor John Delaney by the late Kellis Parker, a brilliant professor (and musician) at the Columbia University Law School. Kellis said: 'Students should know the issues that will be raised before they go into the exam room.' What he meant was that the set of issues that your teacher typically raises on her exam can be identified before the exam. Decoding and answering these issues with lawyerly arguments can then be practiced and perfected throughout the semester.
Learning Criminal Law as Advocacy Argument shows you, step-by-step and from basics to complexities with building-block problems, how, over the course of the semester, to decode and resolve the set of commonly raised issues in each topic presented by criminal law professors.
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Rating: - Top Notch
I can not say enough good things about Delaney's books, especially this one. Learning Criminal Law is an amazing tool by itself, but the thing that makes it really special is the way that it ties together all of the material in the previous two books in this series. Learning Criminal Law applies the concepts presented in Learning Legal Reasoning and How to Succeed on Law School Exams to substantive criminal law. Not only will this book help you learn criminal law, but it will also cement the Legal ... Read More
Rating: - Very Helpful Book
This book did not just teach me criminal law by presenting legal arguments, which I find to be a more engaging way of learning. It also taught me how to answer law school exams. The author arranges questions so one starts with easier questions and progress to harder ones - the ones you may see on a real law school exams or the bar exam - with model answers given and explained. I can feel that the author wants the readers to understand his material and do well in law school. It is a very helpful book and ... Read More
Rating: - absolutely great. combine with PLS.
This book is essential to your first year criminal law course. As another reviewer, Childers, notes: you need to learn not only the substantive criminal law, but how to write like a lawyer.
The E&Es are close but they won't get you there. You need to practice advocacy argument from both sides for every issue. You need to know how to quickly drop in a comment about policy for extra points. You need to practice interweaving facts with their respective elements, and when to devote a lot ... Read More
Rating: - excellent book
I really like the advocacy argument learning style. It's much more interactive and learning through advocacy arguments will definitely prep me for a good advocacy answer come exam time.
Rating: - Unique among law school study aids!
Every law student will recognize the series Examples & Explanations, Nutshells, Understanding and perhaps Blond's. I've worked with all of them. Delaney's "Learning Criminal Law" is superior to all of them!
To anyone who ever took LEEWS, Fleming's, or read Delaney's "How to Do Your Best On Law School Exams" and wished for more practice this is your answer! I liked many of the Example & Explanations series because they had hypos at the end of the chapters. I loved "Learning Criminal Law" ... Read More
