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Author Mertz, Elizabeth

Title The language of law school : learning to "think like a lawyer" / Elizabeth Mertz
Published Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 308 pages)
Contents Notes on Transcription; I: INTRODUCTION; II: SIMILARITY: LEGAL EPISTEMOLOGY; III: DIFFERENCE: SOCIAL STRUCTURE IN LEGAL PEDAGOGY; IV: CONCLUSION: READING, TALKING, AND THINKING LIKE A LAWYER; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary In this linguistic study of law school education, Mertz shows how law professors employ the Socratic method between teacher and student, forcing the student to shift away from moral and emotional terms in thinking about conflict, toward frameworks of legal authority instead
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-300) and index
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Subject Law -- Study and teaching -- United States
Law -- United States -- Methodology
LAW -- Legal Education.
Law -- Methodology
Law -- Study and teaching
Methodologie
Rechtssprache
Juristenausbildung
Juristische Fakultät
United States
USA
United States.
Amerikanisches Englisch.
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