American Law and the Legal System: Equal Justice under the Law
Chapter 1:The Expanding Legal Profession. Chapter 2: Ideas That Have Shaped Our Law. Chapter 3: The Basic Structure of Our Federal System. Chapter 4: The Courts: Legal Reasoning and Research. Chapter 5: An Introduction to Family, Property, and Contract Law. Chapter 6: Initiating Legal Process in an Illustrative Civil Case. Chapter 7: Pretrial Process in Civil Cases. Chapter 8: Trial: Argument and Adjudication. Chapter 9: Evaluation of the Civil Process. Chapter 10: Introduction to Criminal Legal Process. Chapter 11: The Pretrial Process in Criminal Cases. Chapter12: A Murder Trial. Chapter 13: Evaluating the Criminal Process. Chapter 14: Administrative Due Process. Conclusion. Appendix A: The Constitution of the United States of America. Appendix B: Illustrative Cases in Law. Appendix C: Witness Statements. Glossary of Key Terms. Index.