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LexisNexis Practice Guide: New Jersey
Collateral Consequences (2016 Edition)
Professor Todd A. Berger
(with J.C. Lore) Lexis Nexis, 2016
With its concise writing style, streamlined
chapter format, extensive appendices,
extensive references to leading and
related cases, cross references to relevant
analytical content, and authoritative
guidance, you’ll find more of everything
that makes a practice guide valuable and
easy for you to use.
Written by experienced practitioners,
the Practice Guide offers concise
explanations of collateral consequences
flowing from specific New Jersey criminal
convictions, general classes of offenses
and general types of offenses, as well as
unique practice strategies, checklists, and
appendices to ensure that the practitioner
identifies and addresses all the collateral
consequences related to each crime.
Each Practice Guide chapter
combines authoritative legal analysis
with an expert author’s practical insights,
distilled from years of litigation practice.
New Jersey Collateral Consequences
includes a multitude of Practice Tips that
transition smoothly from legal analysis to
practical application of a point of law.
Chapter parts begin with a detailed
practice checklist defining the essentials
of a major task. Checklists capture the
essential steps (the what, when, and how)
of each task, with cross-references to
relevant authority, forms, and discussion
of the topic within the chapter itself.
How Civility Works
Professor Keith Bybee
Stanford University Press, 2016
Is civility dead? Americans ask this
question every election season, but their
concern is hardly limited to political
campaigns. Doubts about civility
regularly arise in just about every aspect
of American public life. Rudeness runs
rampant. Our news media is saturated
with aggressive bluster and vitriol. Our
digital platforms teem with expressions
of disrespect and trolls. Reflecting
these conditions, surveys show that
a significant majority of Americans
believe we are living in an age of unusual
anger and discord. Everywhere we look,
there seems to be conflict and hostility,
with shared respect and consideration
nowhere to be found. In a country that
encourages thick skins and speaking
one’s mind, is civility even possible, let
alone desirable?
In How Civility Works, Keith J.
Bybee elegantly explores the “crisis”
in civility, looking closely at how civility
intertwines with our long history of
boorish behavior and the ongoing
quest for pleasant company. Bybee
argues that the very features that make
civility ineffective and undesirable also
point to civility’s power and appeal.
Can we all get along? If we live by
the contradictions on which civility
depends, then yes, we can, and yes,
we should.
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