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The number one best-selling legal skills guide, covering all the practical and academic skills a student needs throughout their studies.
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.
Key Features· Written in an accessible and friendly style, structured in three parts: Sources of Law, Academic Legal Skills, and Practical Legal Skills
· Self-test questions and practical activities throughout allow students to take a hands-on approach to learning a wide range of legal skills
· Diagrams, screenshots and examples used frequently to illustrate key concepts
· New chapter on drafting skills, introducing writing skills necessary in legal practice
· New 'skills beyond study' feature which helps students identify the transferability of legal skills
· Updated coverage of the impact of Brexit and retained EU law
· New section on taking care of yourself during the assessment period and how to find support for mental health and accessibility
· Videos on presentation, mooting, and negotiation refreshed
Digital Formats and resourcesThe 10th edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats: the e-book and Law Trove offer a mobile experience and convenient access along with self-test questions, practical exercises, videos, functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support. For more information about e-books, please visit www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks
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.
