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Now in its fourth edition, Researching Texas Law has become an essential in the arsenal of the legal researcher in Texas. Authored by Baylor law professors Brandon D. Quarles and Matthew C. Cordon, Researching Texas Law covers both research strategy and topics and information specific to the Texas researcher. Researching Texas Law is not geared solely to law students, but practitioners as well. The legal research process and case law research receive their own complete, yet brief explanations. The case law chapter also includes a concise explanation of finding writ and petition history for civil and criminal cases, a practice unique to Texas and it’s multi-level appeals process.   From there the book goes straight to some of an attorney’s most important tools: court rules, jury instructions, briefs and records, and jury verdicts and settlements. The jury instructions section is especially useful, with lots of resources for jury charges specific to certain areas of law. O...

Still yearning for more on the criminal justice system after Confessions of an Innocent Man and When Justice Fails ? Looking for another perspective from that of the (fictionally) wrongfully accused or social science researchers? Not to fret… Rehabilitation and Incarceration: In Search of Fairer and More Productive Sentencing offers a unique, judicial perspective from the late Hon. Harold Baer Jr., who served on the New York Supreme Court and later “The Mother Court.” In Rehabilitation and Incarceration , U.S. District Judge Harold Baer Jr. explains the crisis of mass incarceration; how it came about; and the pressing need and means to reduce prison populations and recidivism, promote rehabilitation and re-entry into society, and protect public safety. Having presided over the experimental re-entry court of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Baer brings to Rehabilitation and Incarceration insight from his extraordinary experience in takin...