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The Law Student's Handbook
By
Steve Wilson and Phillip Kenny
Description
* This handbook is designed to help
develop essential legal study skills in an accessible and
user-friendly format
* Features such as tip boxes,
margin notes, and summary points, help to clarify the information and
encourage active learning by students
* The online resource centre
provides a wealth of additional information, such as law courses and
sources of postgraduate finance, as well as multiple choice
questions, to create a complete learning and reference resource for
law students
* The focus on key study and
academic skills provides students with the means to understand and
fully engage with the substantive areas of law that make up their law
degrees
The Law Student\\\'s Handbook offers a
practical and informative guide to studying law. It introduces the
ways in which law is taught, then covers in detail the practical
study and academic skills required to study law. The authors complete
the picture by looking ahead to legal careers. This is ideal as
pre-course reading for prospective law students, and can also be a
valuable point of reference during the first year and throughout a
law degree.
Summary points, tip boxes, and margin
notes encourage students to actively engage with the material, while
the Online Resource Centre provides a wealth of additional
information such as information about law courses and sources of
postgraduate finance. The online multiple-choice questions offer
students the chance to check their understanding and appreciation of
the issues involved in studying law.
Online Resource Centre
- Law courses available
- The gobbledygook test
- Addresses of professional bodies
- Sources of postgraduate finance
- Further reading
- Useful web links (newspapers, estates
gazette, etc)
- Student testimonials - on getting to
grips with a law library, etc.
- Activities - putting some of the
skills into practice through multiple-choice questions
Readership: Suitable for
prospective law students, for pre-course reading, for skills courses,
and all LLB undergraduates during their law degrees.
Contents
1. Choosing law
2. English law and the courts
3. Current issues in law
4. The way law is taught
5. Varieties of law teaching
6. The law library and the internet
7. The sources of legal study
8. Preparing written work
9. Advice on completing coursework
10. Citation of legal sources and
plagiarism
11. Undergraduate examinations
12. Answering degree level examination
questions
13. Becoming a solicitor
14. Becoming a barrister
15. Alternative careers in law
16. The postgraduate study of law
Authors, editors, and contributors
Steve Wilson, Principal
Lecturer, School of Law, University of Northumbria and
Phillip Kenny, Professor of Law
and Dean of Law School, University of Northumbria
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