Thinking like a lawyer : a new introduction to legal reasoning - Schauer, Frederick F. (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009)
Introduction: Is there legal reasoning? -- Rules : in law and elsewhere -- The practice and problems of precedent -- Authority and authorities -- The use and abuse of analogies -- The idea of the common law -- The challenge of legal realism -- The interpretation of statutes -- The judicial opinion -- Making law with rules and standards -- Law and fact -- The burden of proof and its cousins.
include index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Law -- Methodology