Legal methods and systems : text and materials / Carl F. Stychin, Linda Mulcahy
Imprint
Edinburgh : Thomson/W. Green, 2012
Edition
4th ed
Descript
XXV, 424 p. ; 25 cm
CONTENT
Introduction to legal methods: approaches to law and legal reasoning -- Constitutional aspects of legal method: the rule of law and the supremacy of parliament -- Constitutional aspects of legal methods: judicial review -- Constitutional aspects of legal methods: the impact of membership in the European Union -- Statutory interpretation: introduction to legislation -- Statutory interpretation: the search for legislative intention -- Statutory interpretation: the impact of the law of the European Union and European human rights law -- Judge-made law: an introduction to common law reasoning -- Judge-made law: a case study on the law of negligence -- The Legal professions -- Dispute resolution: the courts and adjudication -- Non-adjudicatory forms of dispute resolution -- Comparative legal methods and systems