Now in its Third Edition, <b>An Introduction to Law and Legal Reasoning</b> continues to be the ideal go-to for the first year law student. It is a short, practical book that introduces beginning law students and others to contemporary law and legal reasoning. By presenting these topics through various discussions of cases and examples, it provides students with a solid source to reference for years to come.<p class=copymedium> <b>A dependable, practical source, that:</b> <li class=copymedium>Covers analogical and deductive reasoning, as well as the roles of legal conventions, purposes, and policies in legal reasoning <li class=copymedium>Discusses cases of varying difficulty to diversify the learning process <li class=copymedium>Presents law and legal reasoning primarily through discussions of cases and examples that avoid the abstraction characteristic of most competing books <li class=copymedium>Emphasizes the law as used in practice by lawyers and judges <li class=copymedium>Provides an explicit and systematic introduction to law and legal reasoning <li class=copymedium>Offers a source suitable for use as supplementary reading in any first year course, in legal research and writing courses, in paralegal courses, and in other settings</ul><p class=copymedium> <b>This great new edition has been carefully updated to include:</b> <li class=copymedium>A new chapter, "Hardest Cases," that highlights cases notorious in the press <li class=copymedium>Updates throughout that guarantee the most current legal information</ul>...
