AuthorGinsburg, Jane C
TitleIntroduction to law and legal reasoning / by Jane C. Ginsburg ; illustrations by Adine Kernberg Varah
Imprint New York, N.Y. : Foundation Press ; [St. Paul, Minn.] : Thomson/West, 2004
Edition Rev. ed. (College ed. to Legal methods, Rev. 2nd ed.)
Descript xxi, 650 p. : ill. ; 26 cm

CONTENT

Case law -- Legislation -- Administrative law -- Comparative law -- Case law: the analysis and synthesis of judicial decisions: Common law decision-making -- How precedent works over time -- Review problems -- The Interpretation of statutes: Stating and resolving statutory issues -- "Plan meaning rule" -- The contexts of statutes and their interpretation -- Weight of prior interpretations -- Retroactivity of statutes


SUBJECT

  1. Law -- Methodology
  2. Law -- Philosophy
  3. Case method

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Law Library (3rd Floor)K/Comp.275 G56i 2004 CHECK SHELVES