Sheppard offers students a law dictionary based on the first major dictionary of American law by John Bouvier. It has new definitions based on quotations and entries from new cases, books, and statutes, as well as Bouvier's text and other classic materials. Terms are organized alphabetically and by idea or topic according to their relationship in the law, and this quick reference edition has succinct summaries of definitions from the longer versions, ranging from a word to a sentence. It includes a transcription of the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and short biographies of all Supreme Court justices. Aspen Publishers is now Wolters Kluwer Law & Business. Annotation 2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
