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Legal Systems & Skills 2nd edition [Minkštas viršelis]

  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 536 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 07-May-2015
  • Leidėjas: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0198727453
  • ISBN-13: 9780198727453
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 536 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 07-May-2015
  • Leidėjas: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0198727453
  • ISBN-13: 9780198727453
Legal Systems & Skills provides students with a practical guide to all the essential knowledge and skills they will need for their law degree and beyond. Divided into three core areas, it forms a foundation for legal studies and for graduate employment.

Essential Legal Systems: Part I delivers a focused and practical guide to the purpose and application of law. Contemporary and holistic in approach, it covers all the essential topics in legal systems, considering social, moral, ethical, and jurisprudential perspectives. Taking learning further, it helps students to critically evaluate legal systems and their implications for individuals, businesses, and commerce.

Essential Legal Skills: Part II demonstrates step-by-step approaches to acquiring and honing the skills needed for the academic study of law and professional practice. Numerous visual aids and learning features help students to become adept researchers, nimble problem-solvers, dexterous writers, and competent communicators. They will acquire the tools they need to analyse, evaluate, and apply the law, and to thrive in their future careers.

Essential Employability and Commercial Awareness: Part III helps students to see how their knowledge and skills can be practically applied, in the legal world or outside of it. Students are encouraged to reflect on and actively improve their commercial awareness through case studies, practice interview questions, and activities, giving them the skills to thrive in the world of work. Targeted coverage of employability, CV development, and transferrable skills helps students to approach their future careers with confidence and communicate their own competencies effectively.

This book is the essential contemporary toolkit for savvy law students, enabling them to:

Learn how law works;
Develop the essential skills; and
Apply them to succeed.

Online Resource Centre
This text is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre offering a range of stimulating resources, including:
Self-test questions
The authors' guidance on the thought-provoking questions in the book
A library of web links for students
Regular updates in the law

Recenzijos

Review from previous edition [ this book] uses real and fictional examples well, bringing the law to life... it helps students become well-rounded legal graduates, ready for the profession Avis Whyte, Senior Lecturer, University of Westminster an innovative text that doesn't just cover the skills necessary for the academic study of law, but also introduces students to issues of employability and the breadth of skills required in successful legal practice. Dr Victoria Jenkins, Senior Lecturer, Swansea University

About the authors xi
Preface xii
New to the edition xiii
How to use this book... xiv
How to use the Online Resource Centre xvii
Acknowledgements xviii
Part I Legal Systems
1 Introduction to law
3(31)
Introduction
3(1)
1.1 Law in context
4(3)
1.2 Law, morality, and society
7(8)
1.3 Jurisprudence
15(3)
1.4 How legitimate is law?
18(5)
1.5 The Rule of Law
23(7)
1.6 The Separation of Powers
30(4)
2 Sources of law in England & Wales
34(22)
Introduction
34(1)
2.1 What is the `legal system'?
35(3)
2.2 Sources of law in England & Wales
38(2)
2.3 Development of the English legal system
40(10)
2.4 Classifications of law in England & Wales
50(3)
2.5 Summary of important terms in English law
53(3)
3 The court system of England & Wales
56(27)
Introduction
56(1)
3.1 Key themes
57(4)
3.2 Introduction to the courts of England & Wales
61(1)
3.3 The criminal courts of England & Wales
62(8)
3.4 The civil courts of England & Wales
70(5)
3.5 Other important courts
75(3)
3.6 Other judicial forums in England & Wales
78(1)
3.7 Alternatives to litigation
79(4)
4 Legislation
83(42)
Introduction
83(1)
4.1 Parliamentary sovereignty
84(1)
4.2 Types of legislation
85(5)
4.3 The creation and enforcement of statutes
90(4)
4.4 Statutory interpretation
94(15)
4.5 EU law
109(10)
4.6 The Human Rights Act 1998
119(6)
5 Case law
125(24)
Introduction
125(1)
5.1 Common law contrasted with civil law
125(3)
5.2 The doctrine of precedent
128(12)
5.3 Judges as legislators
140(9)
6 Legal services
149(28)
Introduction
149(1)
6.1 The importance of lawyers
149(3)
6.2 Lawyers as professionals
152(2)
6.3 The legal profession in England & Wales
154(3)
6.4 Ethics and regulation
157(4)
6.5 History of the legal profession in England & Wales
161(3)
6.6 The free-market revolution in legal services
164(13)
Part II Legal Skills
7 Reading and understanding law
177(36)
Introduction
177(1)
7.1 Practicalities of reading
178(1)
7.2 Sources of law
179(1)
7.3 Statutes
179(14)
7.4 Statutory instruments
193(6)
7.5 Case law
199(11)
7.6 European Union law
210(3)
8 Legal research
213(20)
Introduction
213(1)
8.1 The purpose of legal research
214(3)
8.2 Strategy: planning your research
217(4)
8.3 Research techniques
221(5)
8.4 Recording and presenting your research
226(7)
9 Problem solving
233(22)
Introduction
233(1)
9.1 Dealing with problem-solving questions
234(8)
9.2 Problem and fact analysis
242(5)
9.3 Advising in practice: presenting options
247(8)
10 Advocacy, mooting, and professional communication
255(29)
Introduction
255(1)
10.1 What are communication skills?
256(3)
10.2 Using communication skills
259(1)
10.3 Advocacy
260(4)
10.4 Mooting
264(3)
10.5 Criminal advocacy competitions
267(2)
10.6 Face-to-face communication
269(1)
10.7 Presentations
269(4)
10.8 Meeting a client for the first time
273(7)
10.9 Communicating by telephone
280(4)
11 Writing and drafting
284(31)
Introduction
284(1)
11.1 Writing legal essays
284(10)
11.2 Further developing writing skills during your studies
294(1)
11.3 Characteristics of good writing
295(4)
11.4 Professional writing
299(2)
11.5 Drafting
301(5)
11.6 Dictation
306(1)
11.7 Writing and drafting templates
307(8)
Part III Employability and Commercial Awareness
12 Making yourself more employable
315(34)
Introduction
315(1)
12.1 Personal characteristics
316(5)
12.2 Commercial awareness
321(9)
12.3 Team-working
330(3)
12.4 Delegation
333(3)
12.5 Client care
336(3)
12.6 Networking
339(4)
12.7 Marketing
343(1)
12.8 Information technology
344(1)
12.9 Social media
344(5)
13 Understanding clients: individuals and businesses
349(43)
Introduction
349(1)
13.1 Why individuals and businesses have recourse to the law
350(4)
13.2 Typical life events: individuals and the law
354(11)
13.3 Typical life events: businesses and the law
365(9)
13.4 Forms of individual finance
374(10)
13.5 Forms of business finance
384(8)
14 Businesses and the business environment
392(27)
Introduction
392(1)
14.1 Types of business structure
393(8)
14.2 Business organisation and management
401(8)
14.3 The business environment
409(10)
15 Essential economics and finance
419(41)
Introduction
419(1)
15.1 Basic economics
420(13)
15.2 Banks, money, and the financial markets
433(9)
15.3 Business accounts
442(9)
15.4 Introduction to insolvency
451(9)
16 Law firms as businesses
460(27)
Introduction
460(1)
16.1 Law firms in a business context
461(14)
16.2 Consumers of legal services
475(12)
17 CVs, applications, and interviews
487(16)
Introduction
487(1)
17.1 The application process
488(1)
17.2 Timing your application
488(1)
17.3 Your application
489(2)
17.4 Your CV
491(2)
17.5 The covering letter
493(1)
17.6 The application form
493(3)
17.7 Psychometric tests
496(1)
17.8 Interviews
496(3)
17.9 Conclusion
499(4)
Appendix 503(6)
Index 509
Scott Slorach is the Director of Learning & Teaching at York Law School at the University of York. He holds Visiting Professorial roles at the University of Strathclyde and the Singapore Institute of Legal Education, and is a Visiting Fellow at the College of Law, New South Wales. He has over twenty years' experience in design and delivery of undergraduate, postgraduate and professional legal education programmes. A qualified solicitor with City experience, he was author of Corporate Finance (OUP) and is currently co-author of Business Law (OUP). Judith Embley is Associate Professor at the University of Law. She qualified as a solicitor in 1980, practising in a Lincoln's Inn firm and began teaching law in 1999 as a Visiting Lecturer at Bellerby's College and then Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. She joined the University of Law in 2001, where she has taught contract, commercial and business financial law. She is now a course developer and is joint author of Commercial and Intellectual Property Law and Practice, one of the University of Law's Legal Practice Guides. Peter Goodchild is an Associate Professor at the University of Law. He read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at St. Anne's College, Oxford, then attended the University of Law and qualified as a solicitor in 1997, into commercial practice. He joined the University of Law in 2000, where he has taught the English legal system, contract, tort, commercial, and business structures law. In addition to over ten years of teaching experience, he has wide experience of designing programmes and is a co-author of texts on commercial law, IP law and the English legal system. Catherine Shephard is Senior Lecturer, Programme Director of Legal Practice Management and Subject Leader of corporate practice and legal skills and practice at Manchester Metropolitan University. She read law at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, practised as a solicitor in corporate finance and has extensive experience of designing, delivering and assessing a wide range of skills, law and management programmes to solicitors in practice and to students at Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Law. Catherine has a Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education with distinction, was the author of Public Companies and Equity Finance, and is on the expert database of BBC North.