Legal Methods by Jane C Ginsburg
This updated casebook serves a course in introduction to legal reasoning. It is designed to initiate students in the legal methods of case law analysis and statutory interpretation. In a course of this kind, students should acquire or refine the techniques of close reading, analogizing, distinguishing, positing related fact patterns, and criticizing judicial and legislative exposition and logic. Law students' introduction to law can be unsettling: the sink or swim approach favored by many schools casts students adrift in a sea of substantive rules, forms and methods. By contrast, the Legal Methods course seeks to acquaint students with their new rhetorical and logical surroundings before, or together with, the students' first encounters with the substance of contracts, torts, or other first year courses. This approach may not only be user friendly; it should also prompt students to take a critical distance from the wielding of the methods. In this way, students may avoid (or at least broaden) the tunnel vision that so often afflicts beginning law students.Sam Ricketson is Professor of Law at University of Melbourne, Australia, and practises part-time as a barrister at the Victorian Bar, principally in the area of intellectual property. Professor Ricketson has written, taught and advised widely in the areas of intellectual property law (copyright and
designs, patents, trade marks and unfair competition, and breach of confidence), conflicts of law and corporate law. He has also held various professional as well as governmental appointments in the intellectual property area, including membership of the Commonwealth Copyright Tribunal. He is
currently a panel member of the World Intellectual Property Organisation's dispute resolution body in relation to domain names and a member of the Victorian Law Reform Commission.
Jane Ginsburg is the Morton L Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law at Columbia University School of Law, USA, and the Goodhart Visiting Chair of Legal Science at Cambridge University (2004-05). She has been a member of the Columbia Law School since 1987, where she teaches
copyright law, trade mark law and legal methods, and she is the author or co-author of books on all three subjects. Professor Ginsburg has also taught French and US copyright law and US legal methods at the University of Paris and other French universities.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781609303341 |
| ISBN 10 | 1609303342 |
| Title | Legal Methods |
| Author | Jane C Ginsburg |
| Series | University Casebook Series |
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| Binding type | Hardback |
| Publisher | West Academic Publishing |
| Year published | 2014-04-30 |
| Number of pages | 704 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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