• Covers both academic and practical skills in one manageable volume meaning students need only buy one text and are encouraged to develop an overarching and integrated understanding of academic and practical legal skills
• Self-test questions and practical activities can be integrated into lectures and seminars to encourage active engagement with the subject and fostering grounded, practical experience of utilising legal skills
• Written in an informal, lively and entertaining style with concepts illustrated using examples that speak to real life experience and diagrams to support the written text
• Each legal skill is set in its wider context with clear links to other legal skills and to academic and legal practice to instil the importance of developing legal skills in context
• Accompanied by a comprehensive and innovative online resource centre featuring videos of 'real life' mooting practice which immediately bring the subject to life

New to this edition

• A new chapter on writing dissertations provides support and advice for students embarking on a legal dissertation
• A new chapter on referencing and plagiarism provides a clear and accessible introduction to these important topics and is accompanied by questions on the online resource centre to enable students to test their understanding
• A new introductory section outlines the approach of the book and the importance of legal skills in both academic study and future employability

Readership: LLB students studying a legal skills module in their first year of the course. The book would also be suitable for those studying law at any undergraduate level or at CPE level.

Emily Finch, an experienced law lecturer with extensive experience in the teaching of legal skills, and Stefan Fafinski, a law lecturer with a particular interest in innovative uses of technology in teaching

Review(s) from previous edition

"'An excellent text, ideal for anyone new to the study of the law. Extremely accessible' - Dr Lee Roach, University of Portsmouth

"'If you are studying law, you need this book. It is like an encyclopaedia of all the things that you need to know to do well on your degree'" - Second year law student, Amazon

Introduction
PART I: Sources of law
Section A: Legislation
1: Legislation
2: Finding legislation
3: Using legislation
Section B: Cases
4: Case law
5: Finding cases
6: Using cases
Section C: Books, journals, and official publications
7: Books, journals and official publications
8: Finding books, journals and official publications
PART II: Academic legal skills
9: Study skills
10: Writing skills
11: Referencing and avoiding plagiarism
12: Essay writing
13: Dissertations
14: Answering problem questions
15: Revision and examination skills
PART III: Practical legal skills
16: Presentation skills
17: Mooting skills
18: Negotiation skills