Sharpening the Legal Mind : : How to Think Like a Lawyer / / William Powers; ed. by John Deigh.
The way lawyers think about the law can seem deeply mysterious. They see nuance and meaning in statutes and implications in judicial opinions that are opaque to the rest of us. Accessible and thought provoking, Sharpening the Legal Mind explains how lawyers analyze the cases and controversies that c...
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| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editor’s Preface
- one. “I Want My Old Mind Back”
- two. “The Case of the Speluncean Explorers”
- three. Law’s Contours
- four. Law and Morals: Positivism and Natural Law
- five. Historical Schools of Thought: The American Revolution to World War II
- six. Historical Schools of Thought: The Legal Process School in the Mid-Twentieth Century
- seven. Two Background Moral Theories
- eight. Historical Schools of Thought: Critical Legal Studies and Postmodern Legal Theories
- nine. Methodological Polytheism
- Notes
- Index