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"Beginning law students often wonder what is so hard about learning the law of being a lawyer. It should be easy - you should be able to look up the law on any subject and apply it to the facts. We shouldn't even need lawyers and judges to tell us what the law is. In law school, professors assign 'hard cases' for their students to read. These are cases where one legal argument gives one result, and another legal argument gives another result. The teaching method that law professors generally use is the 'Socratic method.' Instead of lecturing to their students, law professors ask their students questions that expose the conflicts in the law. Many law students are mystified by this approach, and struggle to learn the techniques of legal reasoning. In this book Wilson Huhn shows why legal reasoning is so fascinating to study and so difficult to master. There are five types of legal arguments, and each type of argument can potentially give a different answer to the same legal question. Furthermore, each type of legal argument has characteristic strengths and weaknesses. Since each type of legal argument has a different structure and is based on different evidence of what the law is, ea
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- Author
- Wilson Ray Huhn
- Publisher
- Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781594605161
- Category
- reference
- Subjects
- Law, Reference, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.85 / 5 (20 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13