Learning legal skills and reasoning / Sharon Hanson

Contents:

Part 1: sources of legislation
1 Domestic legislation
2 domestic case law
3 European and international treaties
4 European convention on human rights
5 European Union law

Part 2: finding law- effective legal research
6 How to get the most out of the university print and e-library
7 how to find domestic and European legislation
8 How to find domestic and European cases
9 How to find secondary material: texts about law

Part 3: reading and understanding law
10 How to read and understand domestic cases
11 How to read and understand domestic legislation
12 How to read and understand ECHR and EU law

Part 4:legal reasoning skills
13 How to construct an argument
14 English legal reasoning: theory and practice
15 European legal reasoning

Part 5: general academic skills
16 Study skills
17 General reading skills
18 General writing skills
19 Referencing and avoiding plagiarism
20 General oral skills

Part 6: law assessments: written and oral
21 Writing law essays
22 Writing answers to legal problems
23 Examination strategies
24 Presentation skills
25 Mooting skills
26 negotiation skills

Includes bibliographical references and index.