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Thinking like a lawyer : a new introduction to legal reasoning / Frederick Schauer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.Description: xiv, 239 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780674032705
  • 0674032705
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 340/.1 22
LOC classification:
  • K212 .S325 2009
Online resources:
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.
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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.

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