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Title: American Judicial System, The: A Very Short Introduction
Author: ZELDEN CHARLES
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 15/06/2021
Imprint: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Price: $20.95
Publishing status: Active
At some point, everyone living in the United States has some type of interaction with the American judicial system. For most, this contact is relatively minor: contesting a traffic ticket, suing or being sued in civil court, being a witness in a civil or criminal trial, or serving on a jury. Others are caught up in the criminal justice system – as defendants, as victims, as witnesses, as jurors, or as relatives of a victim or a defendant. For still others,
contact comes via an important policy issue affecting their lives in the hands of judges and justices sitting in judgment in marble temples to the law. Yet whatever the level of contact, the American
judicial system affects peoples’ lives. What courts and judges do matters. This book provides a very short, but complete introduction to the institutions and people, the rules and processes, which makeup the American judicial system. Jargon free and aimed at a general reader, this Very Short Introduction explains the ‘where,’ ‘when,’ and ‘who’ of American courts. It also makes clear the ‘how’ and ‘why’ behind the law as it affects everyday people. It is, in a
word, a starting place to understanding the third branch of American government at both the state and federal levels; a guide to those wishing to know the basics of the American judicial system; and a cogent
synthesis of how the various elements that make up the law and legal institutions fit together.
Series: Very Short Introductions
ISBN: 9780190644918
Pages: 160