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

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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.

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66315

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Law -- Methodology.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Is there legal reasoning

2. Rules-in law and elswhere

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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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9780674032705

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xiv, 239 p. ; 24 cm