Synopses & Reviews
The authors combine a compelling, user-friendly writing style with a polished and well-tested pedagogical structure:
- respected authors Lerman and Schrag draw on their broad range of classroom, clinical, research, and policy-making experience
- contemporary approach succinctly covers all essential ethical issues and topics
- thoughtful presentation of ethics topics
- up-to-date text addresses timely issues
- more than seventy appealing, detailed problems based on real cases
- skillful use of cases, with some presented directly (for example, Nix v. Whiteside and Jones v. Barnes), while others, such as Fiandaca and Fisons, appear in the form of contextualized problems and place students in the role of the lawyer who is handling the case
- distinct graphic elements throughout
For instructors, the extensive Teacher's Manual simplifies class preparation:
- contains teaching tips, follow-up problems, suggested role-plays, and short writing exercises
- includes detailed analyses of problems in the text, with both pro and con positions and information about the outcomes of the real cases on which the problems are based
- accompanied by an audio CD, which can be played in class, with readings by the lawyers who participated in the actual cases