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| Description | | - Introduces the key topics in legal method and skills, enabling students to understand and put into practice key skills they will need throughout their degree course
- Includes a dedicated chapter on ratio decidendi
and obiter dictum
, which are difficult and yet vital concepts which first-year students may struggle to understand and put into practice
- Includes material on human rights and the influence of the EU, which sets the English legal system in its wider context and introduces these key topics from the outset
- An Online Resource Centre provides updates, guidance on answering legal problems, guidance on essay writing, self-test questions, and web links, offering students valuable support at the start of their course and allowing them to develop their written skills
| New to this edition- New 2-colour text design makes the book more user-friendly and allows the student to distinguish easily between text and exercises
- A test bank of 200 multiple choice questions and answers provides additional support to lecturers and students using the book and helps to test students' knowledge and to develop their understanding of key topics
- Now includes extra material on how cases are reported in chapter 5 which provides valuable background for students before they begin to study the doctrine of precedent
- Includes new exercises, diagrams, and improved sub-headings throughout
- Chapters on the EU and Human Rights have been updated to include recent changes
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Among the many new skills law students have to acquire, using legal method and solving legal problems are possibly the most important. Yet all too often these legal skills are ignored, and it is assumed that students will acquire them as they progress through their course.
Learning Legal Rules
brings together the theory, structure, and practice of legal reasoning in a readily
accessible style. The book explains how to uncover and exploit the mysteries of legal materials. This is then used to draw the student into the techniques of legal analysis and argument and the operation of precedent and statutory interpretation. Throughout the book the authors also examine the importance of human rights and the permeating influence of EC.
Online Resource Centre
Lecturer resources
Test bank - a ready-made electronic testing resource which can be customised to your teaching needs feedback
Seminar problems - additional seminar exercises to support teaching
VLE Content
Student resources
Gudiance on answering legal problems - working examples of how a lawyer has to approach the material available
Guidance on essay writing - supplements
the materials available in chapters 2 and 3
Self-test questions - enables students to test their knowledge of issues covered in the book
Web links - links to other useful websites
Guidance notes on statutory interpretation and case law analysis - an exercise combining elements of case law analysis, reading statutes and statutory interpretation
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Readership: Suitable for undergraduates taking courses in legal method or the English legal system. Also suitable for anyone interested in the basic principles of the English legal system.
| 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
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
James Holland, Professor of Law, University of the West of England, Bristol and
Julian Webb, Professor of Legal Education, University of Warwick
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