1st Edition
Inside the American Legal Mind An International Practitioner Guide to American Legal Reasoning
By Kevin J. Fandl
Copyright 2016
162 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
162 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
162 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Inside the American Legal Mind:An International Practitioner Guide to American Legal Reasoning clearly explains how to navigate within U.S. legal practice. A combination of common law legal history with the straight-shooting American style has resulted in an approach to issue analysis that is structurally different from other fields and from the civil law systems common in other countries.... Read more
1. The Value in Understanding American Legal Reasoning, 2. The Commercial History of the Common Law, 3. The Judge vs. the Legislature (Cases and Statutes), 4. The Seduction of Deduction (Logic), 5. Arguing by Analogy: The Creative Lawyer, 6. Concluding Remarks—Inside the Mind of the American Lawyer
Biography
Kevin J. Fandl is a Professor of Legal Studies and Global Business Strategy at the Fox School of Business at Temple University. He had previously served as Chief of Staff for international trade and intellectual property at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In 2011, he founded the Global Legal Education Institute, which delivers intensive practical law courses to foreign legal practitioners and advanced law students around the world.
