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Thinking like a lawyer : a new introduction to legal reasoning / Frederick Schauer.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schauer, Frederick F.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--Methodology.
- Law.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 239 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674032705
- 0674032705
- OCLC:
- 243605799
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