A Student's Guide to Legal Analysis: Thinking Like a Lawyer

A Student's Guide to Legal Analysis: Thinking Like a Lawyer by Patrick M. McFadden
Provides law students with a way of organizing and thinking about their coursework and about the cases, laws, and regulations they confront every day. a concise, accessible text designed to aid all law students regardless of subject matter based on Read more >

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  • Author(s): Patrick M. McFadden
  • Media: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • Publish Date: 06/01/2001
  • Publication Frequency: N/A
  • Offer Number/PIN: 0735523959
  • ISBN: 9780735523951
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  • Product Line: Aspen Publishers
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Provides law students with a way of organizing and thinking about their coursework and about the cases, laws, and regulations they confront every day.

  • a concise, accessible text designed to aid all law students regardless of subject matter
  • based on the premise that despite the law's complexity, there are three primary questions that recur in different guises throughout legal practice: -Is there a law?- Has it been violated?- What will be done about it?
  • brings order to the chaotic stream of legal issues that law students confront in the cases and materials they study
  • introduces the dynamics of legal argument
  • gets students to recognize the basic questions posed in a legal dispute as well as the predictable reasons lawyers give for reaching one resolution or another
  • contains a helpful glossary of legal terms and extensive Index, as well as a list of suggested readings

Introduction

  1. The Only Three Questions in Law
  2. Is There a Law?
  3. Has the Law Been Violated?
  4. What Will Be Done About a Violation of Law?
  5. From Questions to Answers
    Glossary
    Suggested Readings
    Index

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