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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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
Ã2009.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.