Skills for Law Students

• Covers the full range of study skills and legal skills, ensuring that students develop a wide range of skills and can use the resource throughout their degree programmes
• Contains over 170 interactive activities, enabling students to put the theory behind each skill into practice. The interactive activities will appeal to students who engage with new teaching methods and have a range of different learning styles
• Students are provided with immediate scores and feedback, enabling them to test their progress and to diagnose their strengths and weaknesses
• Contains over 50 video recordings which add more variety and interest to student learning; they also enable students to see good and bad practice of some of the more practical skills (such as presentation skills and mooting).

Readership: Suitable for all students taking LLB or GDL degree programmes.

Helen Carr, Lecturer, University of Kent at Canterbury, Sarah Carter, Law Librarian, University of Kent at Canterbury, and Kirsty Horsey, Lecturer, University of Kent at Canterbury

1: Introduction
I. Study skills
2: Managing your time
3: Writing good English
4: Taking notes
5: Working in groups
6: Contributing to seminars and tutorials
7: Avoiding plagiarism
8: Thinking critically
9: Thinking creatively
10: Reflecting on your work
II. Research and technical skills
11: Embarking on research
12: Using a law library
13: Sources of law
14: Citing legal authorities
15: Using law books
16: Using legal journals
17: Using legal databases
18: Using reference materials
III. Legal method
19: Reading statutes and the legislative process
20: Understanding judicial interpretation of statutes
21: Reading cases I: the basics
22: Reading cases II: the rule of precedent and the opertation of ratio decidendi
23: Reading cases III: developing a strategy for reading judgments
24: Reading cases IV: a complex case
IV. Academic and assessment skills
25: Writing essays
26: Writing extended essays and dissertations
27: Anwering problem questions
28: Revising for and succeding in exams
V. Practical skills
29: Making presentations
30: Mooting
31: Interviewing
32: Negotiating and alternative dispute resolution
Glossary
Key abbreviations
Index

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