num_pages: 232
description: This extraordinary paperback provides a highly accessible and appealing orientation to the American legal system and presents basic concepts of civil litigation to first-year law students. &lt;b&gt;Whose Monet? An Introduction to the American Legal System&lt;/b&gt; focuses on a lengthy dispute over the ownership of a painting as a vehicle for introducing students to the basic law school tasks of reading analytically, understanding legal materials, and working with the common law. &lt;p class="copymedium"&gt; &lt;b&gt;The author and his colleagues have used these materials successfully in their classrooms for many years, ensuring their teachability and &lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li class="copymedium"&gt; Whose Monet? can be used as primary course material in orientation courses or seminars, as well as collateral reading for in-semester Legal Process or Civil Procedure courses &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class="copymedium"&gt; The organization is logical and straightforward and the accessible writing style—lucid, descriptive, and conversational—is ideal for incoming students &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class="copymedium"&gt; The major events in a lawsuit are considered, and the text sheds light on how the law is applied in a civil dispute, introducing common law and statutory law and the various courts and their interrelationship (trial/appellate, state/federal) &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class="copymedium"&gt; The author draws on judicial opinions, litigation papers, transcripts, and selections from commentators and various jurisprudential sources, thereby exposing the first-year student to as broad a spectrum of materials as possible &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class="copymedium"&gt; Telling the story of a real lawsuit (DeWeerth v. Baldinger)—from client intake through trial and various appeals—draws students into the legal process by means of an engaging narrative and makes for a truly enjoying teaching experience for professors &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class="copymedium"&gt; The lawyer's role is examined in both its functional and moral What do lawyers do? What does society legitimately expect lawyers to do? &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class="copymedium"&gt; This book is suitable for both classroom and stand-alone assigned reading &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p class="copymedium"&gt; &lt;b&gt;Professor Humbach, with over 30 years of experience teaching and writing articles and instruction programs for first-year property students, includes a separate Teacher's Manual. Drawing upon his own classroom experience with these materials, &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="copymedium"&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li class="copymedium"&gt; suggests "learning objectives" for each chapter &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class="copymedium"&gt; offers different teaching approaches &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class="copymedium"&gt; provides answers to questions in the book &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class="copymedium"&gt; suggests sample syllabi &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
language: English
title: Whose Monet?: An Introduction to the American Legal System
publisher: Aspen Publishers