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Legal Systems & Skills

Learn, Develop, Apply

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Paperback, 752 blz. | Engels
Oxford University Press | 5e druk, 2023
ISBN13: 9780192874429
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Hoofdrubriek : Juridisch
Oxford University Press 5e druk, 2023 9780192874429
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The most practical foundation for law students, combining content on the English legal system, academic and professional skills, and commercial awareness and employability.

Legal Systems & Skills is the essential contemporary toolkit for law students, equipping them with the tools they need to thrive in their academic studies and onto employment.

· Accessible and engaging, with a wide range of pedagogical features to help students to apply their knowledge and think critically about the law
· Learning supported by annotated documents, real-life examples, flowcharts, and diagrams, providing visual representations of concepts and processes
· Comprehensive content on employability, including CV preparation and transferable skills, alongside features like 'Practice tip', 'What the professionals say' and 'Selling your skills'
· Expanded coverage on sentencing, the judiciary, new routes into the legal professions, and legal technology
· New content on retained EU law, following post-Brexit changes
· New chapter on revision and assessment including topics on SBAQs, online assessment, and physical and mental wellbeing

Specificaties

ISBN13:9780192874429
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:752
Druk:5
Verschijningsdatum:7-7-2023
Hoofdrubriek:Juridisch

Over Scott Slorach

Scott Slorach is a Professor and Director of Teaching & Learning at York Law School at the University of York. He holds Visiting roles at the University of Strathclyde and the College of Law Australia. A qualified solicitor with City experience, he was author of Corporate Finance (OUP) and is currently co-author of Business Law (OUP). Scott now specializes in the design, delivery and assessment of legal education at all levels; he has held various roles with the SRA, including membership of the SQE working group, Chief External Examiner for business law, LPC assessor, and training committee member. He was recently part of a team reporting to the Irish LSRA as part of its statutory review of legal practitioner education.

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Over Judith Embley

Judith Embley is Associate Professor at the University of Law. She qualified as a solicitor in 1980, practising in a Lincoln's Inn firm and began teaching law in 1999 as a Visiting Lecturer at Bellerby's College and then Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. She joined the University of Law in 2001, where she has taught contract, commercial and business financial law. She is now Module Lead for the LPC commercial law and practice module, the LLB 'companies, governance, tax and insolvency' module, and the LLB transactions module. She is joint author of Commercial and Intellectual Property Law and Practice and Legal Foundations, two of the University of Law's Legal Practice Guides.

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Over Peter Goodchild

Peter Goodchild is an Associate Professor at the University of Law. He read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at St. Anne's College, Oxford, then attended the University of Law and qualified as a solicitor in 1997, into commercial practice. He joined the University of Law in 2000, where he has taught the English legal system, contract, tort, ethics, commercial, IP and business structures law. In addition to over nineteen years of teaching experience, he has wide experience of designing programmes and has been an author of texts on tort, commercial law, IP law and the English legal system.

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Over Catherine Shepard

Catherine Shephard is Senior Lecturer and Subject Leader of corporate practice, company law, and professional skills in practice at Manchester Law School. She read law at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and practised as a solicitor in corporate finance. Catherine has extensive experience of designing, teaching, leading and assessing law, skills and management programmes across academia and practice. Catherine is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a qualified civil and commercial mediator, and a resilience trainer for the Social Mobility Business Partnership charity.

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Inhoudsopgave

Part I Legal Systems
1:Introduction to law
2:Legal systems and sources of law
3:The court system of England & Wales
4:Legislation
5:Case law
6:Legal services and ethics

Part II Legal Skills
7:Reading cases and legislation
8:Research
9:Problem solving and case/matter analysis
10:Persuasive oral communication and presentations
11:Client interviews and meetings
12:Negotiation and mediation
13:Advocacy and mooting
14:Writing and drafting
15:Revision and assessment

Part III Employability and Commercial Awareness
16:Making yourself more employable
17:CVs, applications, and interviews
18:Understanding clients: individuals and businesses
19:Businesses and the business environment
20:Essential economics and finance
21:Law firms as businesses

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