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Learning Criminal Law as Advocacy Argument: Complete with Exam Problems & Answers
enlarge	Author: John Delaney Publisher: John Delaney Publications Category: Book Buy New: $32.00 Buy New/Used from $25.00 Avg. Customer Rating: (6 reviews) Sales Rank: 267359 Format: Student Edition Language: English (Published) Media: Paperback Edition: 1st. Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 445 ISBN: 0960851461 EAN: 9780960851461 ASIN: 0960851461 Publication Date: May 1, 2004 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Editorial Reviews: Product Description The need for this book is straightforward: More than most other books about criminal law, this presentation focuses on "Learning Criminal Law as Advocacy Argument." In each criminal-law topic, it presents in building-block form the limited repertoire of core issues and related arguments so that you can concentrate on learning and practicing those that your professor has stressed in class, in her materials, and on her old exams. You can know the issues on the exam before you go into the exam room.

Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews... Top Notch June 17, 2008 I can not say enough good things about Delaney's books, especially this one. Learning Criminal Law is an amazing tool by itself, but the thing that makes it really special is the way that it ties together all of the material in the previous two books in this series. Learning Criminal Law applies the concepts presented in Learning Legal Reasoning and How to Succeed on Law School Exams to substantive criminal law. Not only will this book help you learn criminal law, but it will also cement the Legal Reasoning and Examsmanship methods. The advocacy argument approach is also very engaging. I highly recommend this book!!! Very Helpful Book March 16, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful This book did not just teach me criminal law by presenting legal arguments, which I find to be a more engaging way of learning. It also taught me how to answer law school exams. The author arranges questions so one starts with easier questions and progress to harder ones - the ones you may see on a real law school exams or the bar exam - with model answers given and explained. I can feel that the author wants the readers to understand his material and do well in law school. It is a very helpful book and I highly recommend it. absolutely great. combine with PLS. February 3, 2008 3 out of 3 found this review helpful This book is essential to your first year criminal law course. As another reviewer, Childers, notes: you need to learn not only the substantive criminal law, but how to write like a lawyer. The E&Es are close but they won't get you there. You need to practice advocacy argument from both sides for every issue. You need to know how to quickly drop in a comment about policy for extra points. You need to practice interweaving facts with their respective elements, and when to devote a lot of space to a problem and when not to. This book goes well with studying/examsmanship methods noted in Planet Law School, Delany's examsmanship book, LEEWs or Flemmings. It presents each substantive area and goes from simpler fact patterns to the more complex. Every problem shows example student answers, sometimes one strong and one week, and critiques them to let you know what they are doing wrong and what they are doing right. Use this every week for your hypo practice. You don't just "read" this book, but you make a copy of the fact pattern for you and your study buddies, practice it like an exam, and then compare to Delaney's model answers. There are still some other books I'd recommend, AFTER buying this book, to supplement your selection for 1st year criminal law. Understanding Criminal Law by Joshua Dressler covers a lot more substantive ground. With this you won't need a commercial outline. Also Criminal Law: Model Penal Code by Markus Dubber goes into the substantive workings and policy behind MPC more thoroughly than any other source out there. But turn to Delaney's Criminal Law first as an introduction to a topic. And then turn to it after going of the substantive law your class is covering (referring to the other books I mentioned), playing with the hypos and getting ready for the exam. excellent book September 10, 2007 1 out of 1 found this review helpful I really like the advocacy argument learning style. It's much more interactive and learning through advocacy arguments will definitely prep me for a good advocacy answer come exam time. Unique among law school study aids! May 23, 2007 4 out of 4 found this review helpful Every law student will recognize the series Examples & Explanations, Nutshells, Understanding and perhaps Blond's. I've worked with all of them. Delaney's "Learning Criminal Law" is superior to all of them! To anyone who ever took LEEWS, Fleming's, or read Delaney's "How to Do Your Best On Law School Exams" and wished for more practice this is your answer! I liked many of the Example & Explanations series because they had hypos at the end of the chapters. I loved "Learning Criminal Law" because Delaney teaches with hypos on just about every page. Like the previous reviewer, I must have said to myself a thousand times, "I wish there were Delaney primers in my other subjects."

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