A Student's Guide to Legal Analysis: Thinking Like a Lawyer - Softcover

McFadden, Patrick M.

 
9780735523951: A Student's Guide to Legal Analysis: Thinking Like a Lawyer

Synopsis

Provides law students with a way of organizing and thinking about their coursework and about the cases, laws, and regulations they confront every day.

  • a concise, accessible text designed to aid all law students regardless of subject matter
  • based on the premise that despite the law's complexity, there are three primary questions that recur in different guises throughout legal practice: -Is there a law?- Has it been violated?- What will be done about it?
  • brings order to the chaotic stream of legal issues that law students confront in the cases and materials they study
  • introduces the dynamics of legal argument
  • gets students to recognize the basic questions posed in a legal dispute as well as the predictable reasons lawyers give for reaching one resolution or another
  • contains a helpful glossary of legal terms and extensive Index, as well as a list of suggested readings

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