Learning Legal Rules: A Students Guide to Legal Method and Reasoning 10th ed

Written by leading authors with extensive experience in both teaching and practice, this established and trusted title equips the student with all the techniques of legal research, analysis, and argument they will need for their law course and beyond. Holland & Webb take an engaging and practical approach with examples and exercises throughout which allow students to develop their knowledge and their reasoning skills making this an ideal text for first year students.

Contents:

1: Understanding the law

2: Finding the law

3: Reading the law

4: From reading to writing

5: Constructing the legal argument

6: The doctrine of judicial precedent

7: How precedent operates: ratio decidendi and obiter dictum

8: Making sense of statutes

9: Interpreting statutes

10: ‘Bringing rights home’: legal method and convention rights

11: European legal method