Program Highlights:
- You Be The Judge
- Taking Action: Law and Democracy
- Investigating the Law Where You Live
- Vocabulary words defined in the margin when they first appear
- Charts and graphs with data analysis activities
- Public policy deliberation added to the teachers edition
- Revise assessment program

Current issues covered in the 9th edition:
- Human rights and international law
- Capital punishment
- Military law and terrorism
- Rights and responsibilities in the workplace
- Discrimination and affirmative action
- Marriage equality and federalism