Berman and Bracci's Step-by-Step Guide to Criminal Law, 2d
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The new second edition of the Step-by-Step Guide to Criminal Law, like the original, is an interactive workbook designed to prepare students to pass criminal law exams in law school and on the bar exam. Doing the reading for and listening to your criminal law professor and practicing with this Step-by-Step Guide to Criminal Law will help you learn all semester long and get ready for success on exams. You can also supplement bar exam preparation for criminal law with this Guide.
The new edition includes multiple choices strategies and practice along with all of the original strategies for essay success. The Step-by-Step Guide to Criminal Law presents the most heavily tested legal rules in a format that mirrors the way those rules arise in typical testing fact patterns. Rule statements are set out in easy-to-memorize form, with a breakdown of element components and logical steps showing how to apply this law to new facts.
Fluency with the legal terminology is also an essential part of exam success. This Step-by-Step Guide includes space to help you learn and memorize definitions of key terms along with an easy-to-use glossary of criminal law terminology. The Guide also contains short-answer Test Yourself questions and answer explanations to determine where your understanding is clear and where you must do additional work.
Last but among the most important steps to success is application. This part of success requires the hard work of deep learning, engaging with problems to test your knowledge, and working to gain a strong command of all testable topics in the context of fact scenarios. To help with this, the Step-by-Step Guide to Criminal Law provides numerous full-length essay questions with sample answers, multiple choices questions, and short-answer questions that you can work through to practice and help master the skill of applying relevant rules to new and different fact patterns.
In addition to the Step-by-Step Guide to Criminal Law, you will also find Step-by-Step Guides to Contracts and Torts. All of these will help take the mystery out of 1L and lead you to success.
The new edition includes multiple choices strategies and practice along with all of the original strategies for essay success. The Step-by-Step Guide to Criminal Law presents the most heavily tested legal rules in a format that mirrors the way those rules arise in typical testing fact patterns. Rule statements are set out in easy-to-memorize form, with a breakdown of element components and logical steps showing how to apply this law to new facts.
Fluency with the legal terminology is also an essential part of exam success. This Step-by-Step Guide includes space to help you learn and memorize definitions of key terms along with an easy-to-use glossary of criminal law terminology. The Guide also contains short-answer Test Yourself questions and answer explanations to determine where your understanding is clear and where you must do additional work.
Last but among the most important steps to success is application. This part of success requires the hard work of deep learning, engaging with problems to test your knowledge, and working to gain a strong command of all testable topics in the context of fact scenarios. To help with this, the Step-by-Step Guide to Criminal Law provides numerous full-length essay questions with sample answers, multiple choices questions, and short-answer questions that you can work through to practice and help master the skill of applying relevant rules to new and different fact patterns.
In addition to the Step-by-Step Guide to Criminal Law, you will also find Step-by-Step Guides to Contracts and Torts. All of these will help take the mystery out of 1L and lead you to success.