Learning Legal Rules: A Student's Guide to Legal Method and Reasoning / James Holland

By: James HollandMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: United Kingdom : Oxford University Press,  2006. Edition: 6th edDescription: 400 pages ; 25 cmISBN: 9780199282500 DDC classification: 349.41
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
Summary: Bringing together the theory, structure, and practice of legal reasoning in an accessible style, this book explains how to uncover and exploit the mysteries of legal materials. It draws the student into the techniques of legal analysis and argument and the operation of precedent and statutory interpretation.
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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

Bringing together the theory, structure, and practice of legal reasoning in an accessible style, this book explains how to uncover and exploit the mysteries of legal materials. It draws the student into the techniques of legal analysis and argument and the operation of precedent and statutory interpretation.

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