
Learning Legal Rules
James A. Holland(Author)
Oxford University Press
5th Edition
Published in August 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
378 pages
978-0-19-925482-8 (ISBN)
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Description
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 find and make use of legal materials and offers an overview of the techniques of legal analysis and argument, and the operation of precedent and statutory interpretation. The authors also examine the permeating influence of EC law and the legal method employed by other European legal systems. The fifth edition has been extensively rewritten and reorganized to ensure that it continues to fit the needs of today's law students. It contains more guidance on interpreting statutes, an extended introductory chapter 1 on "What is Law?", and new material on the Human Rights Act.
It has also been given a new clear text design and layout that incorporates new chapter headings and paragraph headings; summaries of the key points of each chapter; boxed questions at the end of each chapter; more diagrams, especially in the chapters on reasoning, to aid visual learners; and a main table of contents. It also contains a new Online Resource Centre containing key questions and guidance on how to answer them, diagrams, useful legal abbreviations and annotated web links.
It has also been given a new clear text design and layout that incorporates new chapter headings and paragraph headings; summaries of the key points of each chapter; boxed questions at the end of each chapter; more diagrams, especially in the chapters on reasoning, to aid visual learners; and a main table of contents. It also contains a new Online Resource Centre containing key questions and guidance on how to answer them, diagrams, useful legal abbreviations and annotated web links.
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Edition
5th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
This book is aimed chiefly at undergraduates studying courses such as Introduction to Law and Professional Legal Skills. It is also good background reading for CPE students.
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
num. fig.
numerous figures
ISBN-13
978-0-19-925482-8 (9780199254828)
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Learning Legal Rules
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Persons
JAMES HOLLAND, Head of the School of Law and Associate Dean, University of the West of England, Bristol, and JULIAN WEBB, Professor in the School of Law, University of Westminster
Content
1. What is Law?; 2. Finding the Law; 3. Reading the Law; 4. Law, Fact and Language; 5. The Doctrine of Judicial Precedent; 6. How Precedent Operates; 7. Interpreting Statutes - the Rules; 8. "Bringing Rights Home": Legal Method and the Convention Rights; 9. Exploiting Legal Reasoning; 10. European Legal Method