Learning legal rules
Subtitle: a students' guide to legal method and reasoning
By: James Holland, LLB, PhD, Barrister, Professor of Employment Law and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Business and Law, University of the West of England, Bristol ; Julian Webb, BA, LLM, LLd, FRSA, Professor of Legal Education, School of Law, University of Warwick
Contributors: Webb, Julian S., author
Edition: Eighth edition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9780199657490
Subjects: Methodology; Law
Description: Bringing together the theory, structure, and practice of legal reasoning in an accessible style, this book explains how to uncover and exploit the mysteries of legal materials. It draws the student into the techniques of legal analysis and argument and the operation of precedent and statutory interpretation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding the law; title: Finding the law; title: Reading the law; title: From reading to writing; title: Law, fact, and language; title: The doctrine of judicial precedent; title: How precedent operates : ratio decidendi and obiter dictum; title: Making sense of statutes; title: Interpreting statutes; title: 'Bringing rights home' : legal method and the convention rights; title: European legal method; title: Exploiting legal reasoning.