5th Edition
Learning Legal Skills and Reasoning
PART 1: SOURCES OF LAW
1 Domestic legislation
2 Domestic case law
3 European and international law
4 Human rights
PART 2: WORKING WITH THE LAW
5 General study skills
6 Finding material
7 Reading and understanding domestic legislation
8 Reading and understanding cases
PART 3: APPLYING YOUR RESEARCH
9 Constructing an argument
10 Writing law essays (including referencing)
11 Answering legal problem questions
12 Oral presentations and mooting
13 Examinations
PART 4: SKILLS FOR RESOLVING DISPUTES
14 Negotiation skills
15 Mediation
16 Drafting skills
Biography
Tobias Kliem is the Head of Arden University’s Berlin Campus. Previously, he worked as Programme Lead in Law at Oxford Brookes University and as a Senior Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University. His research interests and teaching expertise lie in the field of constitutional, European and international law.
Ben Waters is Principal Lecturer in Law at Canterbury Christ Church University; he is also a qualified Solicitor (non-practising) and an accredited Mediator. He has a particular interest in dispute resolution and specifically mediation, areas in which he has active teaching, scholarly and research interests.
