Aspen Publishers offers international resource exploring legal analysis and communication in the United States
(NEW YORK, N.Y., July 9, 2008) – Aspen Publishers has released a new, comprehensive resource to help international lawyers prepare for practice in the U.S. legal system. The International Lawyer’s Guide to Legal Analysis and Communication in the United States uses a global perspective to put the basic principles of legal reasoning and communication into context. Aspen Publishers, part of the Wolters Kluwer Law & Business group, is a leading information provider for legal and business professionals and law students (www.aspenpublishers.com).
“This is an ideal resource for teaching international legal professionals about the U.S. study of law,” said Jennifer Armstrong, Aspen Publishers’ marketing director. “It employs basic coverage, solid pedagogy, and a multicultural perspective that can’t be found elsewhere.”
The International Lawyer’s Guide to Legal Analysis and Communication in the United States provides readers with:
• A concise introduction to the U.S. legal system, the common law as U.S. precedent and the anatomy of a U.S. lawsuit;
• Practical guidance for law study in the United States, including how to brief a case for class and other suggestions about the law school classroom;
• A special chapter on the U.S. concept of plagiarism and proper attribution to authority;
• Instruction on drafting client letters and demand letters, including effective word, phrasing and structural choices for emphasis;
• An overview of statutory interpretation theories;
• Coverage of drafting both fact-based and law-based analyses;
• An overview of basic citation rules, including citing to international and online materials;
• Chapters on the U.S. approach to drafting contracts, emphasizing international transactions; and
• Techniques for taking law school examinations.
In addition, this authoritative guide includes engaging examples and exercises as well as an informative glossary of terms.
The International Lawyer’s Guide to Legal Analysis and Communication in the United States also serves as an effective classroom teaching tool with materials that can be easily adapted to a one-semester or two-semester writing course, using a one chapter/one idea concept. The authors take a building-block approach to legal analysis based on the common law. Each chapter focuses on a key concept that builds on what was covered in the previous chapter.
About the Authors
Deborah B. McGregor is Assistant Director of Legal Analysis, Research and Communication and Clinical Associate Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis, where she teaches legal analysis, research and communication; integrated legal analysis and torts; advanced persuasive writing and oral advocacy; torts; and legal process. Previously, McGregor engaged in private practice focusing in the area of probate law and estate planning. Thereafter, she taught legal writing at the Indiana University School of Law – Bloomington before joining the law school faculty in Indianapolis. McGregor was appointed assistant director of the legal writing program in 1991. McGregor is the only legal writing professor to receive the student bar association’s Best New Teacher’s Award. She received Indiana University’s Trustee’s Teaching Award and has twice received both the Teaching Excellence Recognition Award and the Black Law Student Association’s John Morton-Finney/Brenda Elise Bowles Award. McGregor has been an active member of the Legal Writing Institute. Since 1987 she has given over 30 presentations at regional, national and international conferences and has conducted training workshops for law professors in Ukraine and taught LLM students in Egypt.
Cynthia M. Adams is Clinical Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Latin American Law Program at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis, where she teaches contract drafting; legal analysis and communication; integrated contracts; civil procedure; trusts and estates; and legal process. Adams is an active member of the Indiana Bar Association and the Indianapolis Bar Association. She also is a member of the Legal Writing Institute and serves as the Chair-Elect for the American Association of Law Schools Section on Graduate Programs for Foreign Lawyers. She was one of the first faculty members to receive Indiana University’s Trustee’s Teaching Award in recognition of teaching excellence and is a three-time recipient of the law school’s Teaching Excellence Recognition Award. Adams has made many presentations at regional, national and international conferences. Previously, Adams practiced law with Stark Doninger Mernitz and Smith, focusing on general business, acquisitions and mergers, commercial loans, and trusts and estates. She also served as an adjunct professor of English at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis and Butler University.
For More Information
For more information or to order The International Lawyer’s Guide to Legal Analysis and Communication in the United States, call 800-638-8437, click here or visit www.aspenpublishers.com. Price is $72 (paperback).
About Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
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