Cracking the Case Method: Legal Analysis for Law School Success

by Paul Bergman, Patrick Goodman, Thomas Holm

Book Overview

Cracking the Case Method is a concise and down-to-earth guide to the intellectual content of law school instruction, particularly in the first year. Readers will discover why and how law school instructors use appellate court cases as vehicles for teaching legal analysis. This book explains that legal analysis is a process by which judges and lawyers use argument (or rhetoric) to connect stories to legal conclusions, and reveals how to read judges'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1600421598
• ISBN13: 9781600421594
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Vandeplas Pub.
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.6"