Law For Non Law Students

Author : Keith Owens
Publisher : Cavendish Publishing
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843144007

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Law for Non-Law Students by Keith Owens Pdf

Law for Non-Law Students is written in a clear and readable style and aims to make the law understandable for readers at undergraduate or comparable level. It explains the practical influences under which the law has been formed,so that the student will be better able to understand why the law has developed in the way that it has. It gives lots of straightforward examples as to how the law works in practice and aims to equip students with the ability to appraise the effectiveness of the law in a particular circumstance rather than simply providing a list of rules for the student to regurgitate at exam time. The facts of the more important cases are given in some detail to enable the student to appreciate the range of factors which the court may have taken into account in reaching its decision. The new edition has been updated to take account of all recent developments, both in relation to statute and to case law. Certain chapters, particularly in the area of sale of goods, have been substantially rewritten and expanded in an attempt to give more detail, while at the same time remaining student-friendly. New chapters on Agency and Negligence have been added. brThis new edition should be suitable for most courses which have a law element.

Author : Christopher F. Symes,Flinders University. School of Law
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:893444537

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Basic Legal Skills Needed for Non-law Students by Christopher F. Symes,Flinders University. School of Law Pdf

Author : Robert A. Katzmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199362141

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Judging Statutes by Robert A. Katzmann Pdf

In an ideal world, the laws of Congress--known as federal statutes--would always be clearly worded and easily understood by the judges tasked with interpreting them. But many laws feature ambiguous or even contradictory wording. How, then, should judges divine their meaning? Should they stick only to the text? To what degree, if any, should they consult aids beyond the statutes themselves? Are the purposes of lawmakers in writing law relevant? Some judges, such as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, believe courts should look to the language of the statute and virtually nothing else. Chief Judge Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit respectfully disagrees. In Judging Statutes, Katzmann, who is a trained political scientist as well as a judge, argues that our constitutional system charges Congress with enacting laws; therefore, how Congress makes its purposes known through both the laws themselves and reliable accompanying materials should be respected. He looks at how the American government works, including how laws come to be and how various agencies construe legislation. He then explains the judicial process of interpreting and applying these laws through the demonstration of two interpretative approaches, purposivism (focusing on the purpose of a law) and textualism (focusing solely on the text of the written law). Katzmann draws from his experience to show how this process plays out in the real world, and concludes with some suggestions to promote understanding between the courts and Congress. When courts interpret the laws of Congress, they should be mindful of how Congress actually functions, how lawmakers signal the meaning of statutes, and what those legislators expect of courts construing their laws. The legislative record behind a law is in truth part of its foundation, and therefore merits consideration.

Author : Deborah L. Arron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044580723

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What Can You Do with a Law Degree? by Deborah L. Arron Pdf

Author : Rachel Field,James Duffy,Colin James
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317074748

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Promoting Law Student and Lawyer Well-Being in Australia and Beyond by Rachel Field,James Duffy,Colin James Pdf

University can be a psychologically distressing place for students. Empirical studies in Australia and the USA highlight that a large number of law students suffer from psychological distress, when compared to students from other disciplines and members of the general population. This book explores the significant role that legal education can play in the promotion of mental health and well-being in law students, and consequently in the profession. The volume considers the ways in which the problems of psychological distress amongst law students are connected to the way law and legal culture are taught, and articulates curricula and extra-curricula strategies for promoting wellbeing for law students. With contributions from legal academics, legal practitioners and psychologists, the authors discuss the possible causes of psychological distress in the legal community, and potential interventions that may increase psychological well-being. This important book will be of interest to legal academics, law students, members of the legal profession, post-graduate researchers as well as non-law researchers interested in this area.

Author : Tracey E. George,Suzanna Sherry
Publisher : Wolters Kluwer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 1543805736

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What Every Law Student Really Needs to Know by Tracey E. George,Suzanna Sherry Pdf

With the aim of decreasing students' anxiety and increasing their chances of achieving academic success, What Every Law Student Really Needs to Know: An Introduction to the Study of Law, Third Edition prepares students to get through their first year of law school. It also serves as a valuable reference over an entire law school career, contributing to students' continuing academic success. With a friendly and informal writing style, this guide to law school features insights into how and why law school classes work the way they do, and the tools and techniques to better understand the substance of the first-year courses. It helps students enter law school with an understanding of legal concepts, the American legal system, and court structures, allowing the students not only to succeed, but to thrive in the classroom. New to the Third Edition: Improved graphics Up-to-date information Expanded explanations of difficult concepts Professors and students will benefit from: An introduction to analytic tools and methods of reasoning. Exercises that allow students to independently test their understanding of the material in each section. Visual aids that help students grasp and remember the material. A self-study resource that students may use as they need throughout their entire law school career. Grounding in discrete non-legal topics that are important to the contemporary study of law. A look ahead at the goals of a legal education and the life, duties, and responsibilities of being a lawyer.

Author : Scott Turow
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429939560

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One L by Scott Turow Pdf

One L, Scott Turow's journal of his first year at law school and a best-seller when it was first published in 1977, has gone on to become a virtual bible for prospective law students. Not only does it introduce with remarkable clarity the ideas and issues that are the stuff of legal education; it brings alive the anxiety and competiveness--with others and, even more, with oneself--that set the tone in this crucible of character building. Each September, a new crop of students enter Harvard Law School to begin an intense, often grueling, sometimes harrowing year of introduction to the law. Turow's group of One Ls are fresh, bright, ambitious, and more than a little daunting. Even more impressive are the faculty. Will the One Ls survive? Will they excel? Will they make the Law Review, the outward and visible sign of success in this ultra-conservative microcosm? With remarkable insight into both his fellows and himself, Turow leads us through the ups and downs, the small triumphs and tragedies of the year, in an absorbing and thought-provoking narrative that teaches the reader not only about law school and the law but about the human beings who make them what they are. In the new afterword for this edition of One L, the author looks back on law school from the perspective of ten years' work as a lawyer and offers some suggestions for reforming legal education.

Author : The Law School Girl
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1087415713

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Law School Exams by The Law School Girl Pdf

This booklet was not just written by law students FOR students, IT WAS WRITTEN BY THE TOP 2% LAW STUDENTS IN T3 LAW SCHOOLS who have applied this advice themselves. This booklet will offer you firsthand and realistic step-by-step advice, that top 2% law students use to ace their exams efficiently. This secret advice is known by the top 2-5% students and not usually shared by professors or students who graduated a long time ago (before the 2000's). Our book will teach you: 1. How to avoid wasting your time writing your law school exams; 2. How to write complete answers VERY quickly to ACE your exams; 3. How to argue and think creatively like the top 2-5% students in law school; 4. How to phrase your answers, like real lawyers and top 2% law graduates. NO GRADE is given to hard workers that do not perform EXCELLENTLY under pressure That is where WE come in. We TEACH YOU to put all your hard work throughout your semester in writing, and get the A you deserve. Before you read this book, DON'T forget to read our first book in this series where you learn how to study for your exam like a straight A law student (like ourselves) We did not graduate in the 90's, we graduated in 2017! So you are GUARANTEED the very LATEST and realistic firsthand advice from the very top law students in T3 schools who made it BIG yet started from the bottom. The mainstream advice offered by professors and most law students only brought us Cs no matter how hard we worked. However, when we used OUR own success code, we ended up at the Top 2%, efficiently. FIND OUT how to crack the law school code, learn our efficient strategies. It will SAVE you some time and energy. Thanks to our advice, you will be able to do everything you WISH you had time for in law school. You will say to yourself "IF ONLY I KNEW THIS EARLIER". Whether you're in pre-law or currently a law student, this is your easy ticket to straight As. Don't miss out! Anyone can learn this strategy. Click "Add to Cart" right now and order yours today! Let us know in the reviews, by email: [email protected], or on instagram @thelawschoolgirl if this book was helpful and if you have any further questions. We are ready and available to help you become an A student.

Author : Robert H. Miller
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781250107879

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Law School Confidential by Robert H. Miller Pdf

I WISH I KNEW THEN WHAT I KNOW NOW! Don't get to the end of your law school career muttering these words to yourself! Take the first step toward building a productive, successful, and perhaps even pleasant law school experience—read this book! Written by students, for students, Law School Confidential has been the "must-have" guide for anyone thinking about, applying to, or attending law school for more than a decade. And now, in this newly revised third edition, it's more valuable than ever. This isn't the advice of graying professors or battle-scarred practitioners long removed from law school. Robert H. Miller has assembled a blue-ribbon panel of recent graduates from across the country to offer realistic and informative firsthand advice about what law school is really like. This updated edition contains the very latest information and strategies for thriving and surviving in law school—from navigating the admissions process and securing financial aid, choosing classes, studying and exam strategies, and securing a seat on the law review to getting a judicial clerkship and a job, passing the bar exam, and much, much more. Newly added material also reveals a sea change that is just starting to occur in legal education, turning it away from the theory-based platform of the previous several decades to a pragmatic platform being demanded by the rigors of today's practices. Law School Confidential is a complete guide to the law school experience that no prospective or current law student can afford to be without.

Author : Christopher Gane,Robin Hui Huang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134804740

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Legal Education in the Global Context by Christopher Gane,Robin Hui Huang Pdf

This book discusses the opportunities and challenges facing legal education in the era of globalization. It identifies the knowledge and skills that law students will require in order to prepare for the practice of tomorrow, and explores pedagogical shifts legal education needs to make inside and outside of the classroom. With contributions from leading experts on legal education from various jurisdictions across the globe, the work combines theoretical depth with practical insights. Seeking to understand the changing landscape of legal education in the era of globalization, the contributions find that law schools can, and must, adopt educational strategies that at least present students with different understandings of what studying and practicing law is meant to be about. They find that law schools need to offer their students choices, a vision of practice that is not driven entirely by the demands of the marketplace or the needs of major international law firms. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this book makes a significant contribution to the impact of globalization on legal education, and how students and law schools need to adapt for the future. It will be of great interest to academics and students of comparative legal studies and legal education, as well as policy-makers and practitioners.

Author : David M. Beatty
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995-12-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781442655171

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Constitutional Law in Theory and Practice by David M. Beatty Pdf

David Beatty draws on more than twenty years' teaching experience to produce a comprehensive introduction to the basic rules in constitutional law, accessible to law and non-law students alike. He reviews the leading cases handed down by the Supreme Court of Canada and the Privy Council concerning the original BNA Act of 1867 and the Canadian Charter of Rights enacted in 1982. As well, Beatty reviews many of the most important decisions made by other courts around the world and analyses the function judges and courts perform in liberal democratic societies when they enforce written constitutions including bills of rights. The initial chapter introduces the reader to the subject of constitutional law – what it is all about, what its function is, and how it interacts with the constitutional text. The book goes on to examine Canadian federalism law and the Supreme Court of Canada's experience in the first decade in the life of the Charter of Rights. Beatty also examines significant human rights cases decided by the major courts around the world, in order to illustrate how the same principles and methods of reasoning are used to resolve disputes about the validity of laws no matter what the issue is or where it arises. The book concludes by showing how a theory of constitutional law which emphasizes the social duties which politicians must respect rather than individual rights should be responsive to the concerns of those who are more sceptical about the virtues of law and the courts as well as those who fear the cultural imperialism of western legal concepts. Beatty proposes a radically new way to think about the idea of ‘rights,’ one which emphasizes the social duties that are inherent in every conception of rights. The book argues that by reorienting our thinking about what rights and the rule of law are all about, it is easier to see that rather than being in conflict or tension with each other, democratic decision making and judicial review are supportive of a common set of values and ideals.

Author : Ned Lecic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-30
Category : Children
ISBN : 1771992379

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The Law Is (Not) for Kids by Ned Lecic Pdf

"In this practical guide to the law for Canada's young people, Ned Lecic and Marvin Zuker provide an all-encompassing manual meant to empower and educate children and youth. The authors address questions about how rights and laws affect the lives of young people at home, at school, at work, and in their relationships and draw attention to the many ways in which a person's life can intersect with the law. Deliberately refraining from moralizing, the authors instead advocate for children and their rights and provide examples of how young people can get them enforced. In addition to being critical information for youth about citizenship, The Law is (Not) for Kids is a valuable resource for teachers, counsellors, lawyers, and all those who support youth in their encounters with the law."--

Author : James E. Penner,Herbert Newman Mozley,George Crispe Whiteley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199218994

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The Law Student's Dictionary by James E. Penner,Herbert Newman Mozley,George Crispe Whiteley Pdf

The Law Student's Dictionary is an invaluable reference work for all law students. The terms have been chosen with the specific needs of the undergraduate student in mind, providing a full insight into legal terminology and ensuring students are familiar with terms they will encounter during their studies. The dictionary includes substantial entries on core student topics which outline the conceptual importance of key areas, to give students an idea of how these terms have been shaped by, and in turn shape, how lawyers think. Some older terms are also included - -although they are not used to frame the current law, students will come across these words of historical significance in the course of their studies. The text features cross-referencing of terms and definitions, giving students the opportunity to expand and contextualize their knowledge, and the material is presented in a new two-color page design, which allows for quick and easy navigation.

Author : Fali S. Nariman
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789381398005

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Before Memory Fades by Fali S. Nariman Pdf

Before Memory Fades by Fali S. Nariman is a revelatory, comprehensive and perceptive autobiography – candid, compelling and authoritative.Internationally admired and respected, Fali S. Nariman is a senior advocate of the Supreme Court of India. He began his career at the Bombay High Court in November 1950, and has since been active in the legal profession. Over the years, he has held several prestigious posts at both the national and international levels. He became a Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) in November 1999. He is the recipient of the Padma Bhushan (1991) and the Padma Vibhushan (2007). Starting with his formative years, when he had the good fortune to interact with many eminent judges and advocates, Fali S. Nariman moves on to deal with a wide variety of important subjects, such as, the sanctity of the Indian Constitution and attempts to tamper with it. crucial cases that have made a decisive impact on the nation, especially on the interpretation of the law, the relationship between the political class and the judiciary, the cancer of corruption and how to combat this menace, the author outlines measures to restore the now-low credibility of the legal profession, he also delineates his role in several high-profile cases. In recognition of his track record, the Government of India nominated him to the Rajya Sabha. He describes the highlights of his tenure there. Both members of the legal profession and the lay reader will find the contents informative and useful.

Author : Charles Cooper
Publisher : Fine Print Press, Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Career changes
ISBN : 1888960167

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Later-in-life Lawyers by Charles Cooper Pdf

Law school is a scary place for any new student. For an older ("nontraditional") student, it can be intimidating as well as being ill-designed for the needs of an older, second-career student with children and a mortgage. In its second edition, this book compiles unique advice from the author and dozens of current and former law students, on such matters as dealing with families and children, the LSAT and GPAs for the older student, the law school application process and law school rankings for non-traditional students, paying for law school, surviving first year and non-academic hurdles, and the occasional skeleton in the non-traditional closet. The second edition adds a 50-page discussion on the current financial crisis, student loans, and surviving the dismal job market for law graduates. Its price is unchanged, at US$18.95.