The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law

After reading Nathan's magnus illustratum ..., you will have a firm understanding of American criminal law. Indeed, you may well have a better grasp than most lawyers. From the Foreword by Scott H. Greenfield of Simple Justice: A New York Criminal Defense Blog

"An undercover has to tell you if he's a cop. Otherwise it's entrapment, right?"

Wrong! That's just one of many popular myths about criminal law that get repeated on street corners, in locker rooms, and on websites every day -- all of them wrong.

Based on his popular Illustrated Guide to Law webcomic series, Nathaniel Burney debunks all of those myths and teaches everything you never learned about the law. Not just what the law is, but why it's like that and how it works.

The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law is a complete law school course that keeps the laughter in manslaughter. You start with the absolute basics (what is crime?) and are soon deep in complex concepts like conspiracy, self-defense, and yes, entrapment -- all explained with clarity, humor, and passion.