Legal Systems & Skills

5. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-19-287442-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 752 Seiten, Format (B × H): 190 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 1412 g

The most practical foundation for law students, combining content on the English legal system, academic and professional skills, and commercial awareness and employability.

Legal Systems & Skills is the essential contemporary toolkit for law students, equipping them with the tools they need to thrive in their academic studies and onto employment.

· Accessible and engaging, with a wide range of pedagogical features to help students to apply their knowledge and think critically about the law
· Learning supported by annotated documents, real-life examples, flowcharts, and diagrams, providing visual representations of concepts and processes
· Comprehensive content on employability, including CV preparation and transferable skills, alongside features like 'Practice tip', 'What the professionals say' and 'Selling your skills'
· Expanded coverage on sentencing, the judiciary, new routes into the legal professions, and legal technology
· New content on retained EU law, following post-Brexit changes
· New chapter on revision and assessment including topics on SBAQs, online assessment, and physical and mental wellbeing

Digital formats and resources
The fifth edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources.
· The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks
· The online resources include self-test questions and links to useful websites for each chapter, interactive diagrams, guidance on the practical exercises, and sample interview questions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shephard, Catherine

Slorach, Scott

Embley, Judith

Goodchild, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Berufs- und Gebührenrecht freie Berufe Rechtsanwälte und Notare
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre

Über Autor(innen)

Scott Slorach (consultant editor) is a Professor and Director of Teaching & Learning at York Law School, University of York. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde, and has previously held visiting roles in Australia and Singapore. A qualified solicitor with City experience, he is currently co-author of Business Law (OUP). Scott specializes in the design, delivery, assessment, and review of legal education at all levels; he has held various roles with the SRA, and worked on projects with a range of HE institutions, regulators, and law firms.

Judith Embley recently retired as an Associate Professor at the University of Law. She qualified as a solicitor in 1980, practising in a Lincoln’s Inn firm, and began teaching law in 1999 as a Visiting Lecturer at Bellerby’s College and then Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. She joined the University of Law in 2001, where she has taught contract, commercial, and business financial law. She now contributes to the design of graduate and postgraduate course materials and assessments as a visiting lecturer. She is joint author of Commercial and Intellectual Property Law and Practice and Legal Foundations, two of the University of Law’s Legal Practice Guides.

Peter Goodchild is an Associate Professor and National Programme Director for Law Conversion Courses at the University of Law. He read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at St. Anne's College, Oxford, then attended the University of Law and qualified as a solicitor in 1997, into commercial practice. He joined the University of Law in 2000, where he has taught the English legal system, contract, tort, ethics, commercial, IP, and business structures law. Peter is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In addition to over twenty years of teaching experience, he has wide experience of designing programmes and has been an author of texts on tort, commercial law, IP law, and the English legal system.

Catherine Shephard is a Reader in Practice-Informed Legal Education at Manchester Law School. She read law at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and practised as a solicitor in corporate finance. Catherine’s work responds to the increasing emphasis on skills and the growing alignment between academic and professional legal education. Drawing on her experience in professional legal practice and leadership in professional and academic legal education, Catherine communicates her ideas through books, journal articles, professional practice publications, conference papers, presentations, and in the classroom. Catherine enjoys working collaboratively with leading law firms, in-house legal departments, legal education providers, widening participation charities, PSRBs, and her colleagues and students.