Learning Legal Rules: A Students Guide to Legal Method and Reasoning 7th ed

Subjects:

Legal Skills and Method

Contents:

1: Understanding the law

2: Finding the law

3: Reading the law

4: Law, fact, and language

5: The doctrine of judicial precedent

6: How precedent operates: ratio decidendi and obiter dictum

7: Making sense of statutes

8: Interpreting statutes

9: 'Bringing rights home': legal method and convention rights

10: European legal method

11: Exploiting legal reasoning

12: Legal writing;

Learning Legal Rules brings together the theory, structure, and practice of legal reasoning in a readily accessible style.

The book explains how to uncover and exploit the mysteries of legal materials. This is then used to draw the student into the techniques of legal analysis and argument and the operation of precedent and statutory interpretation. Throughout the book the authors also examine the importance of human rights and the permeating influence of EC.

The seventh edition of this well-established text has been fully updated and includes a new chapter on legal writing to help students prepare for their essays and exams. In line with modern teaching practices, there is further guidance on the use of online legal resources, while the material on the accompanying web site has also been expanded.