Understanding Law - Softcover

John N. Adams; Roger Brownsword

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0421960604 ISBN 13: 9780421960602

Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell, 2006

Synopsis

This work: presents a contextual overview of the English legal system; provides the groundwork for a critical understanding of legal institutions, processes and materials; places the study of law within a broader framework of inquiry focusing on the evaluation and explanation of legal decision making at all levels; examines the civil justice system after Woolf; looks at the impact of the Human Rights Act; analyses the globalisation of law; sets a distinctive manifesto for legal education that is in line with the ACLEC emphasis on "understanding" (rather than passive role learning) as the key to the initial stage of legal education.

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Product Description:

Presents an overview of the English legal system. This work provides the groundwork for an understanding of legal institutions, processes and materials, and places the study of law within a frameworkof inquiry focusing on the evaluation and explanation of legal decision making at various levels. It examines the civil justice system after Woolf.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0421960604
• ISBN 13: 9780421960602
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 335