Legal Institutions and Methods 2nd Edition eBk

Legal Institutions and Methods 2nd Edition eBk

By Anita Mackay, Pascale Chifflet

eBook - ProView

$123.00* RRP

Date: 02/02/2021

Code: 9780455245027

Lawbook Co., AUSTRALIA

Available Formats

Format Title Date Code Price
Book+eBook Legal Institutions and Methods 2nd Edition Bk+eBk 02/02/2021 42800436 $159.01 Add to cart
eBook - ProView Legal Institutions and Methods 2nd Edition eBk 02/02/2021 9780455245027 $123.00 Add to cart
Book Legal Institutions and Methods 2nd Edition 11/01/2021 9780455245010 $123.00 Add to cart

Description

Legal Institutions and Methods is a first year text book introducing students to the Australian legal system, sources of law, access to justice and legal research, writing and study skills. This second edition has been updated throughout with current content. A new introductory section on the legal profession which contains an insightful examination into the wellbeing of law students and legal professionals has also been included.

Dr Anita Mackay and Dr Pascale Chifflet have sourced material from Thomson Reuters and other publications to create this custom book for students at La Trobe University.

This textbook is available to other institutions as a prescribed or recommended text, or for any student or person wishing to gain an introductory understanding of the law combined with practical study skills.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Legal institutions

  1. What is Law?
  2. Introduction to the Australian legal system
  3. Sources of law: parliament
  4. Sources of law: courts

Part 2: Analysing and interpreting sources of law

  1. Reading and analysing cases
  2. Introduction to statutory interpretation
  3. Approach to solving legal problems: IRAC

Part 3: Introduction to the legal profession

  1. Lawyers’ obligations and ethical responsibilities
  2. Wellbeing for law students and legal professionals

Part 4: Access to justice

  1. Access to law
  2. Indigenous Australians

Part 5: Legal research, writing and study skills

  1. Introduction to legal research
  2. Finding case law
  3. Finding legislation
  4. Using secondary sources
  5. Study skills
  6. Preparing for exams
*

eBooks and packages including an eBook may not be returned once the software key has been supplied. Your rights as a customer to access and use the ProView™ software and a ProView eBook are subject to acceptance of the ProView content licence agreement.

NB

  • An email with a registration key and instructions for accessing your eBook will be sent after checkout. For existing ProView users the eBook will appear in your library after checkout.

  • Forthcoming/pre-order eBooks will be available after the publication date.

  • The ProView app is not currently available on Kindle. See the latest system requirements

Got a Promo Code?