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Learning Legal Reasoning: Briefing, Analysis and Theory (Delaney Series)
by: John Delaney

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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780960851447
ISBN: 0960851445
Label: John Delaney Publications
Manufacturer: John Delaney Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 132
Publication Date: September 01, 2006
Publisher: John Delaney Publications
Sales Rank: 95589
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 first priority of the 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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- Wish I Had Read This Before My First Year
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 next 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 ... Read More

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- Buy this book, forget the technicolor briefs
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 technicolor 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 the summer before
Read this book the summer before law school. You'll understand more and more of it as you go through your first year, and it will help you tie the first year courses together.

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- Use Right Before You Begin
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 first briefs for class. If you use this book, you should have a good start on anything the prof asks.

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