Thinking like a lawyer a new introduction to legal reasoning / [electronic resource] :
Frederick Schauer.
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
- xiv, 239 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Is there legal reasoning? -- Rules : in law and elsewhere -- The practice and problems of precedent -- Authority and authorities -- The use and abuse of analogies -- The idea of the common law -- The challenge of legal realism -- The interpretation of statutes -- The judicial opinion -- Making law with rules and standards -- Law and fact -- The burden of proof and its cousins.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.