Legal Skills - Emily Finch

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Résumé :
The best-selling legal skills textbook in the market, Legal Skills is the essential guide for law students, encompassing all the academic and practical skills in one manageable volume.

Biographie:
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 extensive experience in teaching intellectual property law, cyberlaw, and cybercrime. He is interested in the social and legal factors that influence information security and the security challenges presented by networked technologies in general. He is currently a member of the Parole Board for England and Wales.

Sommaire:
Introduction; PART I: Getting Started: Sources of Law; 1 Getting started; 2 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 II: Academic Legal Skills; 10 Study; 11 Writing; 12 Legal reasoning and ethics; 13 Referencing and avoiding plagiarism; 14 Essay writing; 15 Answering problem questions; 16 Revision and examination skills; 17 Dissertations; PART III: Practical Legal Skills; 18 Presentation skills; 19 Mooting skills; 20 Negotiation skills