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Understanding Law for Public Administration
A comprehensive overview and resource for public administration students and practitioners. This book is a combination of an introduction to basic legal principles, analysis of excerpts from instructive cases, and practical advice. It is an original approach to learning about law for those who work for the public good, the culmination of more than twenty-five years of research, study, counseling, law reform work, and reflection on what the law is and should be and how this can be explained to any reasonably thoughtful person. The book combines substantive coverage of law subjects likely to be encountered in public administration, analysis of illustrative cases, and practical advice. It distills and simplifies complex topics and combines legal theory with practical realities. The book describes the general nature of the laws, cases, and legal principles that public administrators are most likely to encounter. It begins by considering the sources of rules that govern our behavior, the evolution of formal law, and formal sources of law in the United States legal system. The next several chapters discuss constitutional law principles, providing an overview of important issues and analyzing important illustrative cases. The next several chapters follow a similar approach to the main law subjects likely to be encountered in public administration. The remaining chapters cover practical matters, including public ethics, how to deal with lawyers, and how to do legal research.
362 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 10, 2009
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November 19, 2024
Read this as an assignment for my law class. I really enjoyed the case studies that highlighted themes throughout the chapters. As with any law book, the legalese can be tough, but this book managed to filter the terminology into digestible bits.
May 6, 2023
Excellent coverage of all things law related in terms of the foundations of US judicial policy. Easily digestible and readable.
June 22, 2012
An invaluable resource for public employees and students aiming to work in government. Straight-forward and well presented. Other public affairs law books seem to only cover administrative law. This is not the case with this book.
A must buy for those wanting to get the basics of law in government.
A must buy for those wanting to get the basics of law in government.
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