By Dr Emily Finch and Stefan Fafinski

Description

* Covers both academic and practical skills in one manageable volume meaning students need only buy one text and are encouraged to develop overarching and integrated legal skills.

* Self-test questions and practical activities can be incorporated into lectures and seminars to encourage active engagement with the subject and fostering grounded, practical experience of utilising legal skills.

* Written in an informal, lively and entertaining style with concepts illustrated using examples that speak to real life experience and diagrams to complement the written text.

* Each legal skill is set in its wider context with clear links to other legal skills and to academic and legal practice to instil the importance of developing legal skills in context.

* Accompanied by a comprehensive and innovative online resource centre featuring videos of \\\'real life\\\' mooting practice which immediately bring the subject to life.

Legal Skills encompasses all the academic and practical legal skills vital to a law degree in one manageable volume. It is an ideal text for the first-year law student and is also a valuable resource for those studying law at any level.

Clearly structured in three parts, the book covers the full range of legal skills and contains many features designed to support a truly practical approach. Self-test questions, diagrams and definition boxes are set in a user-friendly colour design. Practical exercises give the reader useful \\\'hands on\\\' experience of tackling a variety of legal skills: from using cases to mooting. Each skill is firmly set in its wider academic and professional context to encourage an integrated appreciation of legal skills.

Online Resource Centre

The book is accompanied by an innovative Online Resource Centre offering a range of resources to support teaching and learning. Videos of good and bad \\\'real life\\\' moots in action bring the subject to life for students. Lecturers can track student progress using an online bank of 200 multiple choice questions offering immediate answers and feedback that can be customised and loaded on to the university\\\'s VLE.

Readership: LLB students studying a legal skills module in their first year. The book would also be suitable for those studying law at any undergraduate level or at CPE level.

Contents

PART I: Sources of law

Section A: Legislation

1. Legislation

2. Finding legislation

3. Using legislation

Section B: Cases

4. Case law

5. Finding cases

6. Using cases

Section C: Books, journals, and official publications

7. Books, journals and official publications

8. Finding books, journals and official publications

PART II: Academic legal skills

9. Study skills

10. Writing skills

11. Essay skills

12. Problem skills

13. Revision and examination skills

PART III: Practical legal skills

14. Presentation skills

15. Mooting skills

16. Negotiation skills

Authors, editors, and contributors

Dr Emily Finch, an experienced law lecturer with extensive experience in the teaching of legal skills and

Stefan Fafinski, a law lecturer with a particular interest in innovative uses of technology in teaching

Published Year: 2007 Format: Paper Back ISBN: 978-0-19-920390-1 Publisher: Oxford University Press No of Pages: 424 Our Price: £ 24.99 Reviews: 0 reivew(s).

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