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Legal Skills is the essential text for students new to law, helping them make the transition from secondary education and equipping them with the skills they need to succeed from the beginning of their degree, through to final-year exams and dissertations.
List of contents
- Part 1: Getting Started: Sources of Law
- 1: Legislation
- 3: Finding legislation
- 4: Using legislation
- 5: Case law
- 6: Finding cases
- 7: Using cases
- 8: Books, journals and official publications
- 9: Finding books, journals and official publications
- Part 2: Academic legal skills
- 10: Studying
- 11: Writing
- 12: Legal reasoning and ethics
- 13: Referencing and avoiding plagiarism
- 14: Essay writing
- 15: Answering problem questions
- 16: Assessment skills
- 17: Dissertations
- Part 3: Practical legal skills
- 18: Presentation skills
- 19: Mooting skills
- 20: Negotiation skills
- 21: Drafting skills
- 22: Employability skills
About the author
Emily Finch is an experienced law lecturer and has taught criminal law, criminal evidence and cybercrime at a number of institutions. Her overarching research interest is in public perceptions of crime and criminality and the impact of technology on criminal activity, especially the criminogenic potential of the internet. She has a particular interest in jury decision-making and has conducted a number of empirical studies that explore factors that influence jury verdicts in rape, theft and fraud trials. Her current research focus is on dishonesty and the niche vulnerability of older internet users.
Stefan Fafinski has been involved in legal education for over 20 years. His current focus areas as a practitioner are public law and family law.. He is a member of the Parole Board for England and Wales where he chairs hearings and determines public law applications for reconsideration and set-aside. He also sits in the Family Court.
Summary
Legal Skills is the essential text for students new to law, helping them make the transition from secondary education and equipping them with the skills they need to succeed from the beginning of their degree, through to final-year exams and dissertations.
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This is an excellent book; it is written accessibly and has a really helpful mix of diagrams, figures and text. It is comprehensive in its coverage, but the level of detail is sufficient for students in later years to return to it as a useful reference.
