How Would You Rule?: Test Your Legal Wits Against the Law's Strangest Cases - Paperback

Learn the law by resolving real legal cases.

How Would You Rule invites you to learn the law by challenging you to decide for yourself some of the law's most interesting and strangest cases.

Test your legal wits and sharpen your legal judgment by figuring out how these challenging cases should be decided and then comparing your answers to the actual decisions from the judges who had to make the decisions.

Written in plain language, every legal case in How Would You Rule is told as an engaging and intriguing story. How Would You Rule is perfect for students who aspire to careers in the law, for readers who want to learn how judging really works, and for anyone who loves figuring out puzzles and thinking about justice in a complicated world.

From the Back Cover

What would you do if you had the chance to be the judge in some of the toughest, strangest, and most puzzling cases that have ever come to court? The best way to find out how you would rule is to try it yourself.

• Would you let a person out of a contract to buy a haunted house?


• Would you help a mother break up her daughter's friendship with another girl?


• Would you give refunds to the audience at the world's worst rock concert?

These are just some of the legal challenges and dilemmas you'll find in these pages. You will learn about the law and justice and how hard it can sometimes be to have both at the same time.