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Thinking like a lawyer : a new introduction to legal reasoning
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- Creator
- Frederick Schauer
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 239 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0674032705, 9780674054561, 9780674032705, 0674054563
- OCLC
- ocn243605799, ocn654432665, on1294426405, ocn649915461
- 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