United States Law: An Introduction for International Students

This book presents essential principles of United States law and will be particularly useful for the international student who plans to come to the United States to earn a JD or an LLM. Beginning with a discussion of case law, statutory law, and constitutional law, the book also explains the federal and state court systems in the United States and the procedures for adjudicating civil and criminal cases. In addition the book discusses fundamental principles of torts, contracts, property, choice of law, criminal law and evidence.