Thinking like a lawyer : a new introduction to legal reasoning / Frederick Schauer.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009Description: xiv, 239 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780674062481Subject(s): Law -- MethodologyDDC classification: 340.1 LOC classification: K212 | .S325 2009Online resources: Table of contents only
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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