Book Review: Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning, by Frederick Schauer

Baghoomians, Irene

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Book Review: Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning, by Frederick Schauer

Irene Baghoomians

University of Sydney - Faculty of Law

October 7, 2010

Sydney Law Review, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 499-503, 2009
Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 10/96

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This book review focuses on Frederick Schauer’s Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning and interrogates both the strengths as well as the shortcoming of the book in the context of contemporary legal education in common law countries.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 7

Keywords: legal reasoning, legal education, thinking like a lawyer; critiques of conventional legal reasoning books, law students

JEL Classification: K10, K30

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Date posted: October 8, 2010

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Baghoomians, Irene, Book Review: Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning, by Frederick Schauer (October 7, 2010). Sydney Law Review, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 499-503, 2009; Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 10/96. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1689269

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