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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2009Description: xiv, 239 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780674032705
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 340.1
Contents:
Intoduction : 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 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.

Intoduction : 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 statutes

The judicial opinion

Making law with rules and standards

law and fact

The burden of proof and its cousins

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