Legal Analysis: The Fundamental Skill - Softcover

Romantz, David S.; Vinson, Kathleen Elliott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0890899053 ISBN 13: 9780890899052

Publisher: Carolina Academic Pr, 1998

Synopsis

The second edition continues to teach students the critical skills of legal reasoning. This popular book is a practical and clear guide that explains the many ways lawyers analyze the law. The authors demystify legal analysis by examining the foundations and methodology of legal problem solving, and by discussing the different levels of critical thinking necessary to develop effective legal arguments. The book emphasizes the importance of applying the law as opposed to relying excessively on formulaic methods of analysis. New to the second edition, the book will examine rule-based reasoning and the embedded rule; examine deductive analysis and resolving statutory ambiguity; examine case-law reasoning and inductive analysis; examine the role of policy in legal argument; examine the structure and variations of legal argument and CREAC; and offer new examples and exercises.

About this title

About the Author:

David S. Romantz is Director of Legal Methods at the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, The University of Memphis. Kathleen Elliott Vinson is Director of the Legal Practice Skills Program, Suffolk University Law School.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carolina Academic Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0890899053
• ISBN 13: 9780890899052
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144