ABSTRACT
Successful legal study depends upon the simultaneous development of the following different but complimentary skills: • excellent language skills; • knowledge of the relevant area of law; • highly competent argument identification, construction and evaluation skills. The primary focus of this legal method book will be the legal text. Texts of the law (statutes, law reports) and texts about the law (textbooks, journals, articles) will be the objects of analysis. They will be studied in order to understand the construction of legal rules, to acquire skills of argument construction, analysis and critique, to appreciate links between and within the texts, to use this knowledge to solve practical and theoretical legal problems and to aid legal reasoning.
