Legal Skills
Product Details
Author: Dr Emily Finch, Stefan Fafinski
Hardcover: 424 pages
Publisher: OUP Oxford (26 April 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0199203903
ISBN-13: 978-0199203901
Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 18.8 x 2.4 cm
Product Description
Legal Skills encompasses all the academic and practical legal skills vital to a law degree in one manageable volume. It is an ideal text for the first-year law student and is also a valuable resource for those studying law at any level. Clearly structured in three parts, the book covers the full range of legal skills and contains many features designed to support a truly practical approach. Self-test questions, diagrams and definition boxes are set in a user-friendly colour design. Practical exercises give the reader useful ‘hands on’ experience of tackling a variety of legal skills: from using cases to mooting.
Each skill is firmly set in its wider academic and professional context to encourage an integrated appreciation of legal skills. Online Resource Centre The book is accompanied by an innovative Online Resource Centre offering a range of resources to support teaching and learning. Videos of good and bad ‘real life’ moots in action bring the subject to life for students. Lecturers can track student progress using an online bank of 200 multiple choice questions offering immediate answers and feedback that can be customised and loaded on to the university’s VLE.
About Dr. Emily Finch
Dr Emily Finch is a law lecturer at Brunel University with extensive experience in the teaching of legal skills. She won an award for Teaching Excellence at the University of Reading in 2003 and was also nominated in the ‘Rising Star’ category of the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme of the Higher Education Academy. In 2003 she led a team to victory in the National Client Interviewing Competition of England and Wales who went on to represent England and Wales in the international final. She is an accomplished author and has published extensively in the areas of stalking, drug-assisted rape and identity fraud.
