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An Introduction to the American Legal System, Government, and Constitutional Law

Diane S. Kaplan

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  • ISBN: 9781454857334

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    Page Count 304
    Published 08/10/2015
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    Connected eBook + Print:9781454857334
    Connected eBook: 9798886140439

    Detailed Table of Contents (PDF Download)

    Table of Contents 
    Preface
    Acknowledgements 

    Chapter 1. History of the Constitution of the United States 
    Chapter 2. Article I: The Legislative Branch 
    Chapter 3. Article II: The Executive Branch 
    Chapter 4. Article III: The Judicial Branch 
    Chapter 5. The Constitutional Doctrines of Separation of Powers, Checks and Balances, and Federalism 
    Chapter 6. First Amendment Constitutional Rights 
    Chapter 7. The American Litigation System 
    Chapter 8. The Criminal Litigation Process 

    Appendix A. The Constitution of the United States
    Appendix B. The Declaration of Independence 
    Appendix C. United States of America (Map)

    Glossary 
    Bibliography
    Table of Cases
    Index 

  • Author Information

    Diane S. Kaplan

    Diane Kaplan was an editor of the Yale Law Journal during law school. After graduation, she clerked for the Honorable Hubert L. Will of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and practiced at the Chicago law firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt. Her litigation experience includes state and federal commercial, criminal, Native American, health, mental health, and juvenile law.

    Professor Kaplan is a member of numerous bar and professional associations including the Illinois State Bar, the State Bar of California, the District of Columbia Bar, the Federal Trial Bar for the Northern District of Illinois, and the American Bar Association. In 1996, she was invited to teach Corporations and Civil Procedure as a visiting professor at Boston University School of Law. In 1999, 2004, 2006, and 2014, she presented papers on juvenile and women's law topics at Oxford University in England. She has had five visitorships, four in Beijing and Chanchu China where she taught American Constitutional law and one at Boston University Law School where she taught Civil Procedure and Corporations.

    She has published more than 31 articles and books in the areas of civil procedure, juvenile, corporate and constitutional law. Her first book, An Introduction to the American Legal System, was the first American Law textbook that was an official publication of the People's Republic of China.

    Professor Kaplan joined the faculty in 1983. She teaches Children in the Legal System, Civil Procedure I, and Corporations.

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