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Revised from Ball/Oberman Crim Law Casebook (Fourth Edition)
This book has been revised from the Ball/Oberman Crim Law Casebook (Fourth Edition).
Students - please note that the book currently only contains Parts 1 - 3 and will continue to be updated throughout the semester.
What follows is a portion of the Introduction to the First Edition written by Professors Ball and Oberman.
This casebook is the result of a collaboration with a team of 11 law students, who worked with us over the course of the pandemic summer of 2020.
*We are deeply indebted to the following individuals, among others, whose work helped constitute the foundation upon which we've built: Joshua Dressler; Stephen Garvey; Cynthia Lee; Angela Harris; Jeannie Suk; Tim Wu; Amna Akbar, Alice Ristroph, Paul Butler, Allegra McLeod, Jocelyn Simonson. Thanks to Karen Tani for telling us about the Open Casebook platform! Thanks to our associate dean and colleague Mike Flynn, who found time for our work amidst the chaos of leading our school through the pandemic chaos. And thanks to our students and co-authors, who are the driving force behind this project: Cydney Chilimidos; Miriam Contreras; Jenai Howard; Christina Iriart; Angela Madrigal; Leah Mesfin; Zachary Nemirovsky; Nicholas Newman; Nathanial Perez; Michael Pons; and Phillip Yin.
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