Legal Method (Palgrave Law Masters) - Softcover

McLeod, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333676963 ISBN 13: 9780333676967

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1996

Synopsis

The second edition of Ian McLeod's highly successful Legal Method has been fully revised and up-dated in respect of both English and Community sources of law, and continues to provide a lively introduction to the nature of law and legal reasoning. The book, which is both a self-contained study and an invaluable foundation for legal education, is divided into three parts: Ideas and Institutions, Case-Law and Precedent, and Statute Law and Statutory Interpretation. The constant theme is how uncertainties arise within the law and how the course resolves them. The text has been made accessible by lucid explanation rather than by dilution. The sources cited range from W.S. Gilbert and G.K. Chesterton to Alexander Pope and T.S. Eliot, in addition to a wealth of more conventional legal authorities. Reviewing the first edition, the Statute Law Review commented that the author has 'managed, unlike the authors of many contemporary students, to integrate the European Community legal dimension'.

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Review

'This book continues to be the most erudite and yet readable book of its kind' -Leonard Jason-Lloyd, Visiting Fellow at the Midlands Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, Loughborough University, UK 
 
'...accessible and extremely well written.' - Nicola Rees and Emily Marshall, The Law Teacher

Book Description

Long-running popular text providing a lively introduction to English Legal Method. It makes the subject accessible by clarity of expression whilst remaining authoritative

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333676963
• ISBN 13: 9780333676967
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 384