Thinking Like a Lawyer : : A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning / / Frederick Schauer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Schauer, Frederick,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Preface --; 1 Introduction: Is There Legal Reasoning? --; 2 Rules—in Law and Elsewhere --; 3 The Practice and Problems of Precedent --; 4 Authority and Authorities --; 5 The Use and Abuse of Analogies --; 6 The Idea of the Common Law --; 7 The Challenge of Legal Realism --; 8 The Interpretation of Statutes --; 9 The Judicial Opinion --; 10 Making Law with Rules and Standards --; 11 Law and Fact --; 12 The Burden of Proof and Its Cousins --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674054561; 9783110442212; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674054561?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Frederick Schauer.

This primer on legal reasoning is aimed at law students and upper-level undergraduates. But it is also an original exposition of basic legal concepts that scholars and lawyers will find stimulating. It covers such topics as rules, precedent, authority, analogical reasoning, the common law, statutory interpretation, legal realism, judicial opinions, legal facts, and burden of proof.