Legal Methods: Understanding and Using Cases and Statutes
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Publication Date
2014
Description
How should students begin their legal education? Professor Peter Strauss's innovative materials build on a Columbia Law School commitment reaching back to Karl Llewellyn's Bramble Bush – that legal education should start with orientation to the materials lawyers use and the institutions they deal with.
Like its predecessors, the third edition builds both case analysis and statutory interpretation skills, with an increasing emphasis on the latter. After a general introduction, four chapters deal with three historical stages in American legal development Karl Llewellyn and Grant Gilmore had identified – "Discovery" at the nation's beginnings; "Faith" as judges turned formalist in the late Nineteenth Century; "Anxiety" as progressive legislation challenged judges and legal realism emerged – and "Modern Times," the current day. Each chapter presents both case and statutory materials – simple at first and gradually becoming more complex, with statutes increasingly dominating.
Disciplines
Law | Legal Education | Legislation
ISBN
9781609301996
Publisher
Foundation Press
City
St. Paul, MN
Recommended Citation
Strauss, Peter L., "Legal Methods: Understanding and Using Cases and Statutes" (2014). Faculty Books. 44.
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/44