Steven M. Block Civil Liberties Award, Stanford Law School

Irving Hellman, Jr. Special Award, Stanford Law School

Frank Baker Belcher Evidence Award, Stanford Law School

David F. Bowers Prize in American Studies, Princeton University

Criminal (Dis)Appearance

Criminal Charging

Elections, Power, and Local Control: Reining in Chief Prosecutors and Sheriffs

This book gives you everything you need to know about basic criminal procedure principles, presented in a no-nonsense fashion. It includes references to recent, relevant decisions handed down by the United States Supreme Court. In addition, Principles of Criminal Procedure contains helpful study devices such as "focal points" at the beginning of each chapter, and "points to remember" at the end of each section. This is the only study aid you will need to help you understand basic criminal procedure principles in U.S. law.

Principles of Criminal Procedure (Concise Hornbook Series)

This state-of the-art casebook is both easy and fun to use. It is designed to give you the basis for an enjoyable, comprehensive learning experience for your students, providing you with the sort of piquing materials that should prompt interested and insightful classroom discussion. The focus here is on teachability, rather than encyclopedic coverage of the field. The classic Supreme Court opinions are included, as well as numerous problem-style hypotheticals that are based on the facts of cutting-edge lower court rulings. The casebook also uses text boxes inside the judicial opinions to pose questions for class discussion, provide practice pointers, and share useful links to information about the history and impact of the decisions. This mixed presentation of traditional doctrines and debates about current legal issues allows your students to hone their analytical skills, as they learn to construct the arguments of today’s prosecutors and defense counsel in criminal procedure litigation.As with other books in the Interactive Casebook series, an accompanying electronic version allows students immediate access to the full text of cited cases, statutes, articles, and other materials in the Westlaw database.This book includes chapters 1-8 of the main volume.

Criminal Procedure: Investigative, A Contemporary Approach (Interactive Casebook Series)

This state-of the-art casebook is both easy and fun to use. It is designed to give you the basis for an enjoyable, comprehensive learning experience for your students, providing you with the sort of piquing materials that should prompt interested and insightful classroom discussion. The focus here is on teachability, rather than encyclopedic coverage of the field. The classic Supreme Court opinions are included, as well as numerous problem-style hypotheticals that are based on the facts of cutting-edge lower court rulings. The casebook also uses text boxes inside the judicial opinions to pose questions for class discussion, provide practice pointers, and share useful links to information about the history and impact of the decisions. This mixed presentation of traditional doctrines and debates about current legal issues allows your students to hone their analytical skills, as they learn to construct the arguments of today’s prosecutors and defense counsel in criminal procedure litigation.As with other books in the Interactive Casebook Series, an accompanying electronic version allows students immediate access to the full text of cited cases, statutes, articles, and other materials in the Westlaw database.

Criminal Procedure, A Contemporary Approach (Interactive Casebook Series)

This book covers the investigative chapters of the main Criminal Procedure casebook by Weaver Burkoff, Hancock, Hoeffel, Singer and Friedland.

Criminal Procedure, Cases, Problems and Exercises: Investigative Processes, 5th (American Casebook Series)

This supplement to the 4th Edition of Weaver's Criminal Procedure brings the principal text up to date with recent developments in the law.

Criminal Procedure: Cases, Problems and Materials 2012 Supplement (American Casebook Series)

A member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, Tulane University is consistently ranked among the top 50 universities in the nation. With research and educational partnerships that span the globe and its location in historic New Orleans, Tulane offers undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees in the liberal arts, science and engineering, architecture, business, law, social work, medicine and public health and tropical medicine.

Tulane University

Janet (Jancy) Hoeffel specializes in criminal law and procedure, death penalty law and evidence. Her prior work experience includes six years as a public defender for the District of Columbia, where she practiced both trial and appellate advocacy, and as a litigator with a firm in Denver, Colorado.

Her scholarly work has focused on the constitutional regulations of discretionary actors in the criminal justice system. Recent publications include “Miranda’s First Principles,” 50 Texas Tech Law Review 113 (2017) and “Death Beyond a Reasonable Doubt,” 68 Arkansas Law Review 267 (2017). She also recently co-authored two casebooks and a hornbook on criminal investigative and adjudicative procedure.

Hoeffel joined the Tulane Law School faculty in 1999 and served as vice dean from 2009-2012. She received the Felix Frankfurter Award for Distinguished Teaching, the law school’s most prestigious teaching honor, from the Class of 2005. She was one of eight law professors invited to participate in an Innovation Summit on improving assessment tools for law students in 2013. In 2017, she received Tulane University’s highest teaching honor, the President’s Award for Excellence in Professional and Graduate Teaching.

Hoeffel also has served on the Louisiana Public Defender Board, where she rewrote the statewide practice standards for criminal defense attorneys, and the boards of the Innocence Project, the Capital Appeals Project and the Promise of Justice Initiative. She has served as an expert witness on the death penalty and on effective assistance of counsel, testified before the Louisiana legislature and frequently given expert commentary for news media.

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