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Thinking like a lawyer : a new introduction to legal reasoning /

by Schauer, Frederick F.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009Description: xiv, 239 p. : 25 cm. ill.ISBN: 9780674032705; 0674032705.Subject(s): Law -- MethodologyOnline 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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include index.

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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