Learning legal rules : a student's guide to legal method and reasoning /
Holland, James A., LLB, PhD.
Learning legal rules : a student's guide to legal method and reasoning / James A. Holland, Julian S. Webb ; foreword by Lord Templeman. - 7th ed. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press., c2010. - xxvii, 408 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Understanding the law -- Finding the law -- Reading the law -- From reading to writing -- Law, fact, and language -- The doctrine of judicial precedent -- How precedent operates : ratio decidendi and obiter dictum -- Making sense of statutes -- Interpreting statutes -- "Bringing rights home" : legal method and the Convention rights -- European legal method -- Exploiting legal reasoning. 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.
9780199557745 (pbk. : alk. paper) GBP12.15
Law -- Methodology.
Law-- Great Britain.
Learning legal rules : a student's guide to legal method and reasoning / James A. Holland, Julian S. Webb ; foreword by Lord Templeman. - 7th ed. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press., c2010. - xxvii, 408 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Understanding the law -- Finding the law -- Reading the law -- From reading to writing -- Law, fact, and language -- The doctrine of judicial precedent -- How precedent operates : ratio decidendi and obiter dictum -- Making sense of statutes -- Interpreting statutes -- "Bringing rights home" : legal method and the Convention rights -- European legal method -- Exploiting legal reasoning. 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.
9780199557745 (pbk. : alk. paper) GBP12.15
Law -- Methodology.
Law-- Great Britain.