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Legal Treatises

Books (both print and online) that summarize or analyze an area of law. Covers scholarly and practical sources.

American Law and Jurisprudence

These are all single-volume works.

American Law: An Introduction. 3rd ed. by Lawrence M. Friedman, Grant M. Hayden
Call Number: KF 387 .F74 2017
American Law and Legal Systems. 2nd ed. by James V. Calvi & Susan Coleman
Call Number: KF 387 .C28 2008
The American Legal System : Perspectives, Politics, Processes, and Policies. 2nd ed. by Albert P. Melone & Allan Karnes
Call Number: KF 386 .M45 2008
American Legal Thought from Premodernism to Postmodernism by Stephen M. Feldman
Call Number: KF 379 .F45 2000
The Canon of American Legal Thought by William W. Fisher and David Kennedy (Eds.)
Call Number: KF 380 .C36 2006
Introduction to the Law and Legal System of the United States. 7th ed. by William Burnham
Call Number: KF 386 .B88 2021
An Introduction to the Legal System of the United States. 4th ed. by E. Allan Farnsworth; Steve Sheppard (Editor)
Call Number: KF 387 .F3 2010
Law in the United States. 2nd ed. by Peter L. Murray & Arthur T. von Mehren
Call Number: KF 385 .V66 2007
Main Currents in American Legal Thought by Bernard Schwartz
Call Number: (Langson) KF 352 .S36 1993
The United States Legal System: An Introduction. 3rd ed. by Margaret Z. Johns & Rex R. Perschbacher
Call Number: KF 385 .J64 2012

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