Learning Legal Rules by James A Holland
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 uncover and exploit the mysteries of legal materials. This is then used to draw the student into the techniques of legal analysis and argument and the operation of precedent and statutory interpretation. Throughout the book the authors also examine the importance of human rights and the permeating influence of EC.Online Resource Centre Lecturer resources Test bank - a ready-made electronic testing resource which can be customised to your teaching needs feedback Seminar problems - additional seminar exercises to support teaching VLE Content Student resources Gudiance on answering legal problems - working examples of how a lawyer has to approach the material available Guidance on essay writing - supplements the materials available in chapters 2 and 3 Self-test questions - enables students to test their knowledge of issues covered in the book Web links - links to other useful websites Guidance notes on statutory interpretation and case law analysis - an exercise combining elements of case law analysis, reading statutes and statutory interpretation
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Donald Nicolson: taught at the Universities of Cape Town, Warwick and Reading before taking up a post at the University of Bristol in 1992. Here he teaches jurisprudence, legal methods, criminal law and gender and the law. He also has a research interest in evidence theory. He is on the editorial
board of Evidence and Proof and Legal Ethics and the founder and Director of the University of Bristol Law Clinic. Julian Webb: After completing a research degree at Warwick University in the early 1980s, Julian held various teaching and research posts in London before moving to the University of the West of England, Bristol in 1988, where he was consecutively a senior and principal lecturer in the Law Faculty
and, finally, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies. In March 1999 he returned to London as Professor of Law at the University of Westminster, where he continues to teach and research in the areas of dispute resolution, legal ethics and legal education. He is articles editor of
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199282500 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199282501 |
| Title | Learning Legal Rules |
| Author | James A Holland |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2006-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
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