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Thinking Like A Lawyer Abroad: Putting Justice Into Legal Reasoning, James Maxeiner
Thinking Like A Lawyer Abroad: Putting Justice Into Legal Reasoning, James Maxeiner
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Americans are taking new interest in legal reasoning. Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning by Professor Frederick Schauer suggests why. According to Schauer, American legal methods often require decision-makers “to do something other than the right thing.” There has got to be a better way.
Now comes a book that offers Americans opportunities to look into a world where legal methods help decision-makers do the right thing. According to Reinhard Zippelius in his newly published Introduction to German Legal Methods, German legal methods help decision makers resolve legal problems “in a just and equitable manner.”
This …