Carlson and Imwinkelried's Dynamics of Trial Practice, Problems and Materials, 7th

This trial practice coursebook includes the most in depth analysis of trial strategy available. This book devotes an entire chapter to the concept of strategic case evaluation and integrates that concept into the discussion of every stage of the case. In the individual chapters, the book uses the essentials of strategic analysis to give new meaning to many of the traditional tactical bromides. In addition to the varied casefiles—ranging from workplace sexual harassment to elder abuse and Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy—contained in prior editions, the seventh edition includes several new, substantial civil rights casefiles posing timely First and Second Amendment issues. Each chapter now includes a PREVIEW and a REMINDER as pedagogic aids. At the beginning of each chapter, the PREVIEW alerts the students to the most important and challenging material in the chapter. Near the end of the chapter, the REMINDER poses questions to the students to enable them to determine whether they have grasped the key material in the chapter. The voir dire chapter has been reorganized to make it easier for students to use, and the chapters on direct and cross-examination on expert witnesses have been updated to reflect the most recent developments in expert testimony law, notably the growing importance of the PCAST concept of Validity as Applied.