Thinking like a lawyer :
Schauer, Frederick F.
Thinking like a lawyer : a new introduction to legal reasoning / Frederick Schauer. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009. - xiv, 239 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
9780674032705 0674032705
2008035011
Law--Methodology.
K212 / .S325 2009
340/.1
Thinking like a lawyer : a new introduction to legal reasoning / Frederick Schauer. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009. - xiv, 239 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
9780674032705 0674032705
2008035011
Law--Methodology.
K212 / .S325 2009
340/.1