Legal methods
Subtitle: cases and materials
By: by Jane C. Ginsburg ; illustrations by Adine Kernberg-Varah.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Series: University casebook series
Publisher: Foundation Press; Thomson/West
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York; [St. Paul, Minn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 666
ISBN-13: 9781599415390
Subjects: Law -- United States -- Cases; Law -- United States -- Interpretation and construction; Law -- United States -- Methodology
Genres: Cases.
Description: "This casebook supports an introductory course in 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. This book 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."--Publisher's website.