Subjects:

Legal Skills and Method

Contents:

Introduction to legal method:

Approaches to law and legal reasoning.

Comparative law and legal method.

Constitutional aspects of legal method:

The rule of law and the supremacy of Parliament.

Judicial review.

The impact of membership in the European Union.

The devolution of powers.

Statutory interpretation:

Introduction to legislation.

The search for legislative intention.

The impact of European Union and European Human Rights law.

Judge made law:

An introduction to common law reasoning.

A case study on the law of negligence.

People, Systems and Method:

The Legal Professions.

Dispute Resolution:

The Courts and Adjudication.

Mediation and ADR.

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This book has been written to provide an integrated teaching tool for Legal Method, English Legal System and Introduction to Law courses. Legal Method stimulates interest in the study of law, and introduces students to a range of different ways of thinking about it.

The book provides a sourcebook of materials and commentary, along with questions suitable for tutorials and essays, covering both the core doctrinal material, as well as theoretical and empirical perspectives. Case extracts and secondary readings from the ""traditional"" legal paradigm are used as well as materials drawn from a range of sources including:-

• Feminist theory
• Political theory
• Critical legal studies
• American legal realism
• Sociology and anthropology