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This innovative casebook on legal method and process introduces students to the synthesis of judicial opinions, analysis of statutory issues, and the role of the lawyer, the courts, and the legislature in conflict resolution. The book challenges students with diverse topics in civil procedure, torts, and criminal law. Its Anatomy of a Legal Dispute shows students how a case progresses through the court system and how a seemingly straightforward car accident case may raise complex jurisdiction and judgment collection issues, and issues relating to ancillary proceedings and litigation strategy. The Sixth Edition offers updated advice for students beginning their legal studies and plug-and-play exercises to help faculty bring classroom discussion of precedent into today's context.

"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.

This casebook provides detailed information on legal methods. The casebook provides the tools for fast, easy, on-point research. Part of the University Casebook Series; , it includes selected cases designed to illustrate the development of a body of law on a particular subject. Text and explanatory materials designed for law study accompany the cases.

This book has been written to provide an integrated teaching tool for Legal Method, English Legal System and Introduction to Law courses. Legal Method stimulates interest in the study of law, and introduces students to a range of different ways of thinking about it. The book provides a sourcebook of materials and commentary, along with questions suitable for tutorials and essays, covering both the core doctrinal material, as well as theoretical and empirical perspectives. Case extracts and secondary readings from the traditional legal paradigm are used as well as materials drawn from a range of sources including: . Feminist theory. Political theory. Critical legal studies. American legal realism. Sociology and anthropology Implications of the E.U. for legal method are covered and the book includes chapters on comparative law and legal method and constitutional aspects of legal method