The Law Student's Handbook

2. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-956217-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 171 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 627 g

The Law Student's Handbook offers a practical and informative guide to studying law. It introduces the ways in which law is taught, then covers in detail the practical study and academic skills required to study law. The authors complete the picture by looking ahead to legal careers. This is ideal as pre-course reading for prospective law students, and can also be a valuable point of reference during the first year and throughout a law degree.

Hint and key point boxes, as well as checklists encourage students to actively engage with the material, while the Online Resource Centre provides a wealth of additional information such as information about law courses and sources of postgraduate finance.

Online Resource Centre

The Law Student's Handbook is fully supported by an extensive Online Resource Centre containing material which law students at all stages of their study will find invaluable.

Online resources for prospective students

- List of law courses available

- Student testimonials - on getting to grips with a law library, etc.

- Advice on taking the LNAT

Online resources for current law students

- The 'gobbledygook test'

- Suggestions for further reading

- Useful web links (newspapers, estates gazette, etc)

Looking ahead

- Addresses of professional bodies

- Sources of postgraduate finance

Zielgruppe

Suitable for prospective law students, for pre-course reading, for skills courses, and all LLB undergraduates during their law degrees.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilson, Steve

Kenny, Phillip

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Choosing law
1: Choosing law
2: English law and the English courts
3: Current issues in law
4: The way law is taught
5: Varieties of law teaching
Part II: Studying law
6: The law library and the Internet
7: The sources of legal study
8: Preparing written work
9: Advice on completing coursework
10: Citation of legal sources and plagiarism
11: Undergraduate examinations
12: Answering degree level examination questions
Part III: Working in the law
13: Becoming a solicitor
14: Becoming a barrister
15: Alternative careers in law
16: The postgraduate study of law

Über Autor(innen)

Mr Stephen Wilson is Principal Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Northumbria.

Mr Phillip Kenny is the Former Professor of Law and Dean of the School of Law at the University of Northumbria.