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Legal Analysis

100 Exercises for Mastery, Practice for Every Law Student

by Cassandra L. Hill, Katherine T. Vukadin

Tags: Introduction to Law, Lawyering Skills/Study Aids, Legal Writing

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Teacher's Manual available

592 pp  $67.00

ISBN 978-1-42248-324-4
eISBN 978-0-32717-400-4

Legal Analysis: 100 Exercises for Mastery, Practice for Every Law Student offers 100 paced exercises to sharpen students' legal analysis skills.

Professors will find:

  • A bank of 100 legal analysis exercises at the ready, whenever students' analysis skills need attention or refinement
  • Exercises adaptable to any paradigm, that increase the depth of students' writing
  • Varied assignments that contain thoughtful sample answers and helpful annotations
  • Learning objectives and outcomes for each chapter
  • Assessment and grading rubric for each chapter
  • Go-to material ready for any class period
  • 100 exercises that can be used as is or expanded to fit professors' preferences
  • Sample annotated answers for 50 of the exercises that their students can use to assess their own performance
  • A Teacher's Manual for professors with sample annotated answers for the remaining 50 exercises and helpful variations on exercises
  • Online resources for ready access to authority

Students will receive:

  • Tools students need to develop a keen understanding of rule-based and analogical reasoning
  • 100 unique and fresh exercises to practice and self-assess their performance, using their own law school's analysis paradigm
  • Self-assessment opportunities to ensure progress in analysis
  • Learning objectives and outcomes for the legal analysis exercises
  • Writing assignments with self-contained feedback
  • Online resources for easy access to exercise cases, statutes, and regulations and helpful tips on improving legal analysis and writing skills

Academic support professionals can expect:

  • 100 progressive legal analysis exercises for students to complete
  • Go-to material assignable to any student
  • Self-contained exercises that do not require particular knowledge of substantive law
  • Sample annotated answers for 50 of the exercises that students can review
  • A Teacher's Manual for professors with sample annotated answers for the remaining 50 exercises
  • Online resources for access to authority