Thinking like a lawyer an introduction to legal reasoning amazonde vandevelde kenneth j fremdsprachige bucher wahlen sie ihre cookie einstellungen wir verwenden cookies und ahnliche tools um ihr einkaufserlebnis zu verbessern um unsere dienste anzubieten um zu verstehen wie die kunden unsere dienste nutzen damit wir verbesserungen vornehmen konnen und um werbung anzuzeigen. Professor vandevelde introduces the reader to a brave new world legal reasoning as a first year law student you will become intimately aquatinted with such creatures as contracts constitutional law civil procedure and the peculiar little buggers known affectionately as torts but what you will need most on your adventure you will find strangely absent a map compass thinking like a lawyer in my opinion in simply that vandeveldes text effectively explains what legal reasoning . Thinking like a lawyer is an excellent philosophical analysis of basic legal concepts such as rule precedent analogy and discretion it would make a great gift for any second year law student who wants to step back from her 1000 page casebooks and make sense of the basic building blocks of the law thinking like a lawyer wont help this student or anyone else write briefs argue in court or counsel clients but it will enlarge her mind and deepen her understanding of the . Thinking like a lawyer is by far the best available introduction to legal reasoning of interest to law students and their teachers alike it should be enlightening to the general reader as well who will learn what for better and perhaps for worse distinguishes thinking like a lawyer from other approaches to analyzing social problems