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Sharpening the Legal Mind - William Powers

Sharpening the Legal Mind

How to Think Like a Lawyer

(Autor)

John Deigh (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
240 Seiten
2023
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-2641-1 (ISBN)
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An introduction to what every law student and practitioner needs to know about legal reasoning.
The way lawyers think about the law can seem deeply mysterious. They see nuance and meaning in statutes and implications in judicial opinions that are opaque to the rest of us. Accessible and thought provoking, Sharpening the Legal Mind explains how lawyers analyze the cases and controversies that come before the courts.

Written by William Powers Jr., the former president of the University of Texas at Austin, this book is an authoritative introduction to the academic study of law and legal reasoning, including insights into the philosophy of law and the intellectual history of legal thought. Powers discusses the methods lawyers use to interpret the law, the relation between law and morals, and the role of courts in shaping the law. In eight chapters, he follows the historical debate on these issues and others through different generations and movements in American legal thought—formalism, realism, positivism—to critical legal studies and postmodern theory. The perfect read for anyone looking for a primer on legal reasoning, Sharpening the Legal Mind demystifies the debates and approaches to thinking like a lawyer that profoundly influence the rule of law in our lives.

William Powers Jr. (1946–2019) was a legal scholar, teacher, and the 28th president of UT Austin. He investigated the corruption of Houston-based Enron and outlined his findings in the "Powers Report." John Deigh is a professor of law and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Sources of Moral Agency; Emotions, Values and the Law; From Psychology to Morality; and An Introduction to Ethics.

Editor’s Preface
1. “I Want My Old Mind Back”
2. “The Case of the Speluncean Explorers”
3. Law’s Contours
4. Law and Morals: Positivism and Natural Law
5. Historical Schools of Thought: The American Revolution to World War II
6. Historical Schools of Thought: The Legal Process School in the Mid-Twentieth Century
7. Two Background Moral Theories
8. Historical Schools of Thought: Critical Legal Studies and Post Modern Legal Theories
9. Methodological Polytheism
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Austin, TX
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10 1-4773-2641-3 / 1477326413
ISBN-13 978-1-4773-2641-1 / 9781477326411
Zustand Neuware
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