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Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning
This primer on legal reasoning is aimed at law students and upper-level undergraduates. But it is also an original exposition of basic legal concepts that scholars and lawyers will find stimulating. It covers such topics as rules, precedent, authority, analogical reasoning, the common law, statutory interpretation, legal realism, judicial opinions, legal facts, and burden...more
Hardcover, 239 pages
Published
April 1st 2009
by Harvard University Press
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Jan 26, 2013
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When I saw this book in my local bookstore it caught my eye, not only because I am a Law student but as one that I know could help me as I someday continue on to law school as well as think that it would have helped while I was in Pre-Law school.
The reason I wish that I got the opportunity to read it for a class is because it gave further explanation on how to research and brief cases as well as other legal topics that could have been further discussed upon in classes.
I highly recommend this...more
The reason I wish that I got the opportunity to read it for a class is because it gave further explanation on how to research and brief cases as well as other legal topics that could have been further discussed upon in classes.
I highly recommend this...more
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I don't think that my body of legal knowledge is such that I can assess this book on a 5-point scale. I picked it up for the chapter on statutory interpretation, and I found many of its anecdotes fun but not especially eye opening. I much prefer "The Language of Law School" as an introduction to legal reasoning as distinct from other modes of inquiry and analysis.
All law students should be required to read this book at some point during law school to provide a broader context for their studies. The book provides so much more than can be learned from the traditional case method. The silly title notwithstanding, this is not a how-to book, but a dense, but compact study on the prominent features of legal reasoning (precedent, stare decisis, burden of proof, standards of review, presumption, deference, etc.) which has as its goal the Rule of Law (sometimes a...more
I've only read what's available on the sample and, when the book buying moratorium ends, I will definitely buy this one.
Wish I had read this before 1L year.
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