Thinking like a lawyer : a new introduction to legal reasoning / / Frederick Schauer.
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Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | xiv, 239 p. |
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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.