Learning legal rules : a students' guide to legal method and reasoning /
Holland, James A. (Law teacher)
Learning legal rules : a students' guide to legal method and reasoning / James A. Holland, Julian S. Webb ; foreword by Lord Templeman. - 6th ed. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2006. - xxvi, 376 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Previous ed.: 2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Understanding the law; 2. Finding the law; 3. Reading the law; 4. Law, fact, and language; 5. The doctrine of judicial precedent; 6. How precedent operates: ratio decidendi and obiter dictum; 7. Making sense of statutes; 8. Interpreting statutes; 9. \'Bringing rights home\': legal method and convention rights; 10. European legal method; 11. 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.
9780199282500 (pbk.) : £19.99 9780199282500 (pbk.) : Đ19.99
Law--Methodology--Great Britain
Law--Interpretation and construction--Great Britain
Law--Great Britain
Law--European Union countries
Law.
Systems of law
Legal skills & practice
Legal systems: general
KD660
349.41 HOL
Learning legal rules : a students' guide to legal method and reasoning / James A. Holland, Julian S. Webb ; foreword by Lord Templeman. - 6th ed. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2006. - xxvi, 376 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Previous ed.: 2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Understanding the law; 2. Finding the law; 3. Reading the law; 4. Law, fact, and language; 5. The doctrine of judicial precedent; 6. How precedent operates: ratio decidendi and obiter dictum; 7. Making sense of statutes; 8. Interpreting statutes; 9. \'Bringing rights home\': legal method and convention rights; 10. European legal method; 11. 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.
9780199282500 (pbk.) : £19.99 9780199282500 (pbk.) : Đ19.99
Law--Methodology--Great Britain
Law--Interpretation and construction--Great Britain
Law--Great Britain
Law--European Union countries
Law.
Systems of law
Legal skills & practice
Legal systems: general
KD660
349.41 HOL