Legal Systems & Skills: Learn, Develop, Apply (4th edn)
Judith Embley, Peter Goodchild, Catherine Shephard, and Scott Slorach
Abstract
Legal Systems & Skills provides essential knowledge and skills for underpinning legal studies, providing a foundation for graduate employability both within and outside the legal service profession. It develops students’' understanding in three core areas: legal systems, legal skills, and professional development and commercial awareness. The first part of the book looks at legal systems, sources of law, legislation, case law, and legal services and ethics. The next part considers, in the context of academia and practice, how to read and understand law, legal research, problem solving, oral communication and presentations, client interviews and meetings, negotiation and mediation, mooting, advocacy and criminal advocacy competitions, and writing and drafting. The final part examines employability skills, commercial awareness, business, economics and finance, law firms, and clients.
Keywords:
legal studies,
legal skills,
skills for practice,
law student skills,
commercial awareness,
case law,
problem solving,
communication,
legal research,
legal services,
law firms,
legislation,
employability,
legal systems,
law student,
lawyer,
legal practice,
contentious work,
non-contentious work,
case analysis,
matter analysis
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Print Publication Date:
- Jun 2020
- Print ISBN-13:
- 9780198834328
- Published online:
- Sep 2020
- DOI:
- 10.1093/he/9780198834328.001.0001
Authors
Judith Embley,
author
Associate Professor, University of Law
Peter Goodchild,
author
is Associate Professor and Programme & Student Lead for the GDL and MA Law at the University of Law (Bloomsbury)
Catherine Shephard,
author
Senior Lecturer, Manchester Law School, Manchester Metropolitan University
Scott Slorach,
editor
Professor and Director of Learning & Teaching, York Law School, University of York
