Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9780960851447
ISBN number: 0960851445
Label: John Delaney Publications
Manufacturer: John Delaney Publications
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 132
Printing Date: September 01, 2006
Publishing house: John Delaney Publications
Sale Popularity Level: 60758
Studio: John Delaney Publications
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This widely used book in many printings begins with answers to forty commonly asked questions of first-year law students. It specifies a six-step approach to briefing a case with specific guidelines for accomplishing each step. The process of briefing cases is then demonstrated with excellent and poor briefs of increasing complexity. Emphasis is placed initially on the techniques of briefing as an introduction to the learning of legal reasoning, the very first priority of the very first year of law school. In addition, the book also demonstrates the relevance of more advanced modes of legal reasoning, including positivist, pragmatic, policy oriented, natural-law and other perspectives applied in decoding and understanding cases. In its introduction of jurisprudential perspectives, Learning Legal Reasoning transcends the typical technical/positivist orientation of most first-year materials.
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I'm going into my 2nd year and bought this book because I didn't get the grades I wanted as a 1L. I was a straight-A undergrad (English major) and scored 96th percentile on the LSAT, so I had high expectations of myself. The problem was, I didn't really "get" what my professors expected of me. This book nails it. I learned of it last week by desperately reading through law student Listmanias on Amazon when the last of my grades came through and I knew I needed some help if I wanted to do better subsequent year. I had never heard of the book and don't know anyone who has read it-- it seems to be self-published, and I ordered it directly from his company; I don't think you'll see it in your school bookstore (I didn't).
I actually don't even know if his advice would resonate as well with me as a 1L as it does now, so I'd encourage other current law students looking to improve their grades to read it, especially if you're like me and struggling to understand why you didn't do better than you expected. But I definitely wish I'd read it last year-- my classes would have made a lot more sense. On the very first page of Chapter 1, Delaney proposes a definition of "what law is" to explain what the very first year of law school is about: "Law is a process of legal reasoning for decision-making about particular controversies." Believe it or not, I truly didn't get that my very first year; I thought I just needed to "spot the issues." But there's a lot more to it than that, and I'm glad I found something that spells it all out in a way that none of my professors did. I've only just started reading so I can't report on all the content, but I wanted to encourage anyone just starting or looking to improve their grades to pick this one up before school starts. Good luck in school!
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Fantastic book on the introduction to law. Buy it and read it rather than waste your time with books like Law School Confidential and its technicolour briefs. Also check out Delaney's other books (How to Do Well on Law School Exams and Learning Criminal law), which are written in the same easy to follow and enjoyable style. Two thumbs up.
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Read this book the summer before law school. You'll understand more and more of it as you go through your very first year, and it will help you tie the very first year courses together.
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This was very helpful right before I started school. I went through some of the chapters a few weeks before and then went back to it when I was actually preparing my very first briefs for class. If you use this book, you should have a good start on anything the prof asks.
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The publication company shipped very quickly and that was helpful to me because I ordered the book a few weeks before I started lawschool and I was pretty stressed out. The book was easy to read and the exercises flowed smoothly from the reading. I feel that the book helped me prepare without causing me more stress.
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