Presents an overview of the English legal system. This work provides the groundwork for an understanding of legal institutions, processes and materials, and places the study of law within a framework of inquiry focusing on the evaluation and explanation of legal decision making at various levels. It examines the civil justice system after Woolf

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Why do people consult the law? Why do we consult lawyers? Law's Evolution and Human Understanding articulates a fresh conception of law that builds on Oliver Wendell Holmes' celebrated insights concerning law's predictive potential. The book considers important implications of this new understanding for how we individually make moral choices, how we read law, and some of the many other ways that law affects our lives.

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