How to Write Law Essays and Exams

How to Write Law Essays and Exams
Author: Stacie Strong
Publisher:
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2003
Genre: Examinations
ISBN: 9780406964021

This work provides students at all levels with a practical and proven method of analysing and answering essay and exam questions so that they can maximise their potential. The book provides a framework for analysing legal problems, and teaches students how to identify relevant legal authorities, distinguish and harmonise conflicting legal precedents and evaluate the applicability of the law to the facts of the question in hand. It can be used by students at any stage of their legal education and will teach skills that will continue to be of use in the workplace. A practical guide, the text includes cases and worked examples, enabling students to adopt good essay writing techniques.

Essays on the Doctrinal Study of Law

Essays on the Doctrinal Study of Law
Author: Aulis Aarnio
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2011-07-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9400716559

Essays on the Doctrinal Study of Law is a summary of the author’s 40 years of research in the fields of civil law and the philosophy of law. The main focus is on the two main tasks in the doctrinal study of law: the interpretation and systematisation of legal norms. In this regard, Professor Aarnio deals with the theory of argumentation as well as with its foundations - i.e., with the ontology, epistemology and methodology of legal thinking - and develops the ideas that were first presented in The Rational as Reasonable (Kluwer 1987) in all of these dimensions. The work includes an updated discussion on the writings of Robert Alexy, Jûrgen Habermas, Ronald Dworkin and Alf Ross. A focal point of view concerns the distinction between positivism and non-positivism, in which the core of the criticism focuses on Scandinavian realism.

55 Successful Harvard Law School Application Essays

55 Successful Harvard Law School Application Essays
Author: Staff of the Harvard Crimson
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2007-06-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780312366117

Here, 55 of the successful applicants to Harvard Law School share the essays that helped them make the cut. Each is analyzed by the staff of the "Harvard Crimson" and accompanied by no-nonsense advice to help readers craft their own winning essays.

Narrative, Violence, and the Law

Narrative, Violence, and the Law
Author: Robert M. Cover
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1992
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780472064953

Essential writings of the leading scholar of law and violence

Law School Essays That Made a Difference, 6th Edition

Law School Essays That Made a Difference, 6th Edition
Author: The Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2015-02-10
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 080412583X

The inside word on law school admissions. To get into a top law school, you need more than high LSAT scores and excellent grades—you also need a personal statement that shines. Law School Essays That Made a Difference, 6th Edition, gives you the tools to craft just that. This book includes: • 70 real essays written by 63 unique law students attending Columbia, Harvard, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, and other top law schools—along with each applicant’s test scores, GPA, and admissions profile • An overview of law school admissions and tips for prepping your applications • Insider advice: Interviews with admissions pros at 17 top law schools, including Berkeley, Northwestern, UCLA, and many more Law School Essays That Made a Difference, 6th Edition, includes essays written by students who enrolled at the following law schools: American University Washington College of Law Boston College Law School Boston University School of Law Columbia University School of Law Cornell University School of Law Duke University School of Law Emory University School of Law Georgetown University Law Center Harvard University Law School New York University School of Law Northwestern University School of Law The University of Chicago Law School University of Michigan Law School University of Pennsylvania Law School University of Virginia Law School Yale University Law School

The New Lawyer Companion

The New Lawyer Companion
Author: Katie Cowan
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9781988546537

The New Lawyer Companion is a volume of essays for law students and people with law degrees on topics covering law school, your mind and mental health, career design, your first year working, and culture change and the future of law.

The American Illness

The American Illness
Author: F. H. Buckley
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 654
Release: 2013-05-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0300195079

DIVThis provocative book brings together twenty-plus contributors from the fields of law, economics, and international relations to look at whether the U.S. legal system is contributing to the country’s long postwar decline. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the interactions between economics and the law—in such areas as corruption, business regulation, and federalism—and explains how our system works differently from the one in most countries, with contradictory and hard to understand business regulations, tort laws that vary from state to state, and surprising judicial interpretations of clearly written contracts. This imposes far heavier litigation costs on American companies and hampers economic growth./div

Law Books in Action

Law Books in Action
Author: Angela Fernandez
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2012-04-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1847319238

'Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise' explores the history of the legal treatise in the common law world. Rather than looking at treatises as shortcuts from 'law in books' to 'law in action', the essays in this collection ask what treatises can tell us about what troubled legal professionals at a given time, what motivated them to write what they did, and what they hoped to achieve. This book, then, is the first study of the legal treatise as a 'law book in action', an active text produced by individuals with ideas about what they wanted the law to be, not a mere stepping-stone to codes and other forms of legal writing, but a multifaceted genre of legal literature in its own right, practical and fanciful, dogmatic and ornamental in turn. This book will be of interest to legal scholars, lawyers and judges, as well as to anyone else with a scholarly interest in law in general, and legal history in particular.

George Fletcher's Essays on Criminal Law

George Fletcher's Essays on Criminal Law
Author: George P. Fletcher
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2013-01-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199941238

This volume collects, for the first time, a selection of criminal law scholar George Fletcher's most famous previously published shorter works as well as some that are less known but equally important. Each of the twelve essays by Fletcher is paired with one or more new critical commentaries on that essay. These critical commentaries trace the impact of the respective essay in the development of the criminal law and assess its future significance.