Think Like a Lawyer: Legal Reasoning for Law Students and Business Professionals: Preface, Table of Contents, and Chapter One

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin S. Fruehwald
Keyword(s):  
Legal Reasoning ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Business Professionals

The nature of legal reasoning: a brief reply to Dr Wilson

Legal Studies ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil MacCormick
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Propositional Logic ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Legal Reasoning ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Legal Argument ◽  
Symbolic Forms ◽  
The Subject

Both Dr Wilson and Dr Patricia White in another review have made sound and telling criticisms of my efforts in Chapter 2 of Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory at translating legal argument into the technical forms of logic. At the time of writing the book, I was apprehensive about the likely resistance at least of lawyers and law-students to any excessive resort to technicalities of symbolism; it therefore seemed wise to simplify matters by ignoring differenees between propositional logic and the logic of predicates and of relations, thc latter being at least ostensibly the more complex and difficult, albeit more rigorously fitted to the subject matter. I hoped that my perhaps unduly cryptic footnote 5 on page 28 (noted by Dr Wilson at her footnote 29) was a sufficient acknowledgment of the technical difficulties which I was thus sweeping under the carpet. Like Dr White, but unlike Dr Wilson, I took the view that my main point about the deductive character of the arguments I had in view was unaffected by the technical infelicity from a logician's point of view of my resort to the symbolic forms of propositional logic.

scholarly journals Effects of conceptual knowledge and availability of information sources on law students’ legal reasoning

2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fleurie Nievelstein ◽  
Tamara van Gog ◽  
Henny P. A. Boshuizen ◽  
Frans J. Prins
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Knowledge ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Legal Reasoning ◽  
Law Students

scholarly journals SOME FEATURES OF THE SOCRATIC METHOD APPLICATION TO TEACHING LEGAL ENGLISH REASONING WRITING TO LAW STUDENTS

2017 ◽  
pp. 44-48
Author(s):  
Inna Zaiarna
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Legal Reasoning ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Teaching Tool ◽  
Socratic Method ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Writing Assignments ◽  
Models Of Teaching ◽  
Good Writing

Background: Although the Socratic method, in some form or another, has been the dominant teaching tool for teaching legal reasoning and analysis in most U.S. law schools, it is not generally thought of as a tool for the teaching legal English reasoning writing to Ukrainian law students, and relatively little has been written about its use in that context. Purpose: The purpose of the analysis is to determine some features of the Socratic Method application to teaching Legal English reasoning writing to law students. Results: Good writing results from good thinking. It makes sense, then, that tools used to teach good thinking should be combined with tools used to teach good writing when law students are learning how to conduct written legal analysis.Socratic Method is the style of teaching through cases and questions. The professor never explains anything, but instead challenges the student’s explanation by questioning the student. If the professor is doing his job well, the questions will further and further refine the student’s thinking, exploring nuances that the student didn’t initially realize existed. Integrating Socratic Method with the writing process can make the process of teaching legal English reasoning writing the most effective while combines training of both analytical and written communication skills. The teacher can first follow writ­ing process principles and require the students to complete their writing assignments in a series of focused drafts. Next, the teacher can intervene in the students’ thought processes by responding to early drafts with Socratic questions that prompt the students to formulate their thoughts precisely. Discussion: This study reveals some features of the Socratic Method application to teaching Legal English reasoning writing to law students and creates the necessary background for further research, particularly in terms of developing new models of teaching legal English reasoning writing to law students.

College Characteristics and Support for Educational Diversity Among Law Students

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nisha C. Gottfredson ◽  
Abigail T. Panter ◽  
Charles E. Daye ◽  
Walter A. Allen ◽  
Linda F. Wightman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Law Students ◽  
Educational Diversity ◽  
College Characteristics
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