Contents
Unit One Introduction to the American Legal System
Lesson One Law: Definition, Classification, and Sources
Lesson Two Duality in the American Legal System
Lesson Three The Adversary System in the American Judicial Process
Lesson Four Commencing a Lawsuit
Lesson Five Pre-trial Discovery
Lesson Six The Trial
Lesson Seven Judgment, Enforcement, and Appeal
Lesson Eight Criminal Process
安全閱讀指導
Cases for Supplementary Reading
(1) Grayv. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp
Supreme Court of Illinios, 1961
22 111. 2d 432
(2) Alderman v. Baltimore & OhioR. Co.
United States District Court, Southem District of West Virginia
113 F.Supp. 881 (1953)
(3) Boldt v. Sanders
Supreme Court of Minnesota, 1961
261 Minn. 160
(4) Seattle Times Company v. Rhinehart
Supreme Court of the United States, 1984
104 S.Ct. 2199
(5) Texas Employers' Ins Ass'nv. Price
Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Eastland, 1960
336 S.W. 2d 304
(6) Dobsonv. Masonite Corp
United States Court of Appeals Fifth Clrcuit
359 F. 2d 921 (1966)
(7) Hicksv. United States
United States Court of Appeals, Fotuth Qrcuit, 1966
368 F. 2(1626
(8) Denman v. Spain
Supreme Court of Mississippi 1961
242 Miss. 431
(9) Reeves v. Crownshield
Court of Appeals of New York 1937
274 N.Y. 74
(10) Jones v. Morris Plan Bank of Portsmouth
SuBreme Court of Appeals of Virginia
168 Va. 284 (1937)
(11) Harrisv. New York
401 U.S. 222 (1971)
(12) Olmsteadv. United States
277U.S.48
Unit Two Constitutional Law
Lesson One The Institutions of Govemment
Lesson Two Separation of Powers
Lesson Three Federal - State Relations
Lesson Four Civil Liberties
Gttees for Suppleinentary Reading
(1) Marburyv. Madison
5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137
(2) Youngstown Sheet & TubeCo. v. Sawyer
343 U.S. 579(1952)
(3) City ofPhiladelphia v NewJersey
437U.S. 617
(4) Perry v. Sindermann
408 U.S. 593
(5) Brown v Board of Educatwn ( First Case)
347 U.S. 483
(6) Eversan v Board ofEdncation
330 U.S. 1
(7) New York Times Company v Sullivan
376 U.S. 254
(8) Heart ofAtlanta Motel v United States
379 U.S. 241 (1964)
(9) Katzenbach v. McClung
379 U.S. 294 (1964)
Appendix 1 Key to Exercises
Appendix 11 Text Translations
Appeindix III Glossary
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