Legal Method

by Ian McLeod

The Palgrave Macmillan Law Masters series is a long-running and successful list of titles offering clear, concise and authoritative guides to the main subject areas, written by experienced and respected authors.

This ninth edition of Legal Method provides a lively introduction to the nature of the English legal system and its sources, and to the techniques which lawyers use when handling those sources. The text assumes no prior knowledge and makes its content accessible by clarity of expression rather than by dilution of content. In addition to more conventional sources, writers as varied as Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and T. S. Eliot are cited.

This is an ideal course companion for both law undergraduate and GDL/CPE students. Includes end of chapter summaries and self-test exercises.

Genres: Law

368 pages, Paperback

First published March 16, 2007

Reviews

[Aisha Ali]

good to understand the legal system

[Yuting Chen]

Read and used it for an exam. Quite helpful for someone who doesn’t not legal background at all.

[Hung Pham]

Fairly good & succinct book on English Legal System

[Marius]

It helped me to understand the logic of the law, which is captured in one of McLeod's introductory lines: "legal method, when properly understood, is a creative process, which provides a fascinating study in reasoning and using language in order to achieve practical results." Ant this is the reason I continued reading the book.