Literature and the Law

The accessibility and adaptability of this text will make it a new classroom favorite for you and your students: - engaging discussion questions following each story prompt instructors and students alike to explore a wide range of topics: professional ethics, justice, the lives of lawyers, the role of lawyers, the legal system, the psychology of lawyering, philosophy, and more- an extensive, annotated list of complementary readings at the end of each chapter offers teachers and students a rich and varied choice beyond the selected texts- an adaptable format makes it suitable for a wide variety of teaching schemes and literary tastes -- it reinforces the strengths that teachers bring to the subject while filling in background information and offering texts for those areas with which they are less familiar, making it an ideal complement to their current teaching materials- a thoroughly detailed Teacher's Manual discusses various approaches to each chapter and includes author reflections based on more than 20 years of classroom experience