Legal Nonfiction Genre – What’s the best definition for the legal genre? Books in the legal nonfiction genre are about laws, how they work, and how they are made. The books in this genre are about the legal system in an education and informative way. They can be text books for law students, informational tomes for lawyers about new laws, or books that break down laws for the understanding of people who have no experience in law.
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Legal Nonfiction Genre – Examples
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1. Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
2. Disorder in the American Courts: Great Fractured Moments in Courtroom History by Charles M. Sevilla
3. Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America’s First Sensational Murder Mystery by Paul Collins
4. Failing Law Schools by Brian Z. Tamanaha
5. Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss
6. Fundamental Cases: The Twentieth-Century Courtroom Battles that Changed our Nation by Alan M. Dershowitz
7. How Judges Think by Richard A. Posner
8. How to Argue & Win Every Time: At Home, At Work, In Court, Everywhere, Everyday by Gerry Spence
9. Letters to a Young Lawyer by Alan M. Dershowitz
10. McElhaney’s Litigation by James W. McElhaney
11. McElhaney’s Trial Notebook by James W. McElhaney
12. Men In Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America by Mark R. Levin
13. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
14. Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices by Noah Feldman
15. The Art of Persuasion: Winning Without Intimidation by Bob Burg
16. The Articulate Advocate: New Techniques of Persuasion for Trial Lawyers by Brian K. Johnson
17. The Autobiography of an Execution by David R. Dow
18. The Bust Book: What to Do Until the Lawyer Comes by Kathy Boudin
19. The Effective Deposition: Techniques and Strategies That Work by David M. Malone
20. The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis by Steven J. Harper
21. The Winning Brief: 100 Tips for Persuasive Briefing in Trial and Appellate Courts by Bryan A. Garner
22. The Winning Oral Argument: Enduring Principles With Supporting Comments from the Literature by Bryan A. Garner
23. Trial Techniques by Thomas A. Mauet
24. Trial: Theories, Tactics, and Techniques by Haydock
25. Writing, Rhetoric, and the Art of Persuasion by Michael D.C. Drout
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