Thinking like a lawyer : a new introduction to legal reasoning / / Frederick Schauer.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Schauer, Frederick F.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xiv, 239 p.

Table of 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.