Books : How to Write Law Essays and Exams

• A Dictionary of Law (Oxford Paperback Reference)
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• The English Legal System
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The tried and tested techniques contained in this book have increased numerous students' understanding and enjoyment of their law courses, while simultaneously improving their marks. The Online Resource Centre includes student resources, which provide a discussion of different citation styles and referencing; a breakdown of a case; and also answers to frequently asked questions.

About the Author:
Dr S I Strong has over ten years' experience teaching law at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and practising as a solicitor in London and as an attorney in New York and Chicago. Dr Strong has additional experience as an editor and as a teacher of writing, and holds numerous awards for her writing and legal analysis, including the Yorke Prize for outstanding doctoral dissertation from the University of Cambridge. Dr Strong currently acts as counsel with Baker & McKenzie LLP,
where she specializes in resolving international commercial disputes.

Average Rating:

Rating: - entering law studies
personally i found this book to be very helpful, the method of analysing law problem questions and discuss questions are exceptional. however the book does repeat itself and sometimes goes in to to much detail about irrelevant information. Would higly recommend this book to law students who are beginnng their law studies.

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Rating: - A MUST FOR EVERY LAW STUDENT!
This is a great study guide for anyone who wants to improve their marks on their law course. I was struggling with time constraints on all my practice essays, but this system really helped. Not only am I able to write more quickly and more clearly, I find I'm able to get more information into each of my essays simply because I have an organized method of structuring my argument. In addition to the CLEO system, the book had a chapter on grammar and style that explained things that never made sense to me before. My tutor was shocked at how quickly my essays improved after reading this book. Buy this -- you won't regret it.

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Rating: - An OK decent guide to writing law essays
For undergraduate or postgraduate law students in particular, this book mainly focuses on tackling problem questions (i.e. involving advising parties or discussing the rights and liabilities of parties in a scenario) using the author's four-step formula of "CLEO" - Claim, Law, Evaluation and Outcome. Each component of the compound is explained and guides the reader on how to write out each of the four steps using a worked example of a negligence tort law problem question written by the author. Essay questions or "discuss questions" (i.e. discussion or critique questions of the law regarding development or reform) are also dealt with briefly with the same formula, but in a slightly modified version.

The use of this method is moderately ... Read More:

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Rating: - A useful guide to what matters
This book is published with answering both law discussion questions and problem questions, in which the law student is presented with a facts scenario and has to evaluate the merits of each claim, in mind. Naturally, it would be easy to lose focus in discussion and problem questions; I've answered many in my time and will answer many more and I speak from experience. In providing a four-part framework which is universally applicable across the wide array of questions that one may have to attempt in a law paper, this book is invaluable.

The student who adopts the method in this book is far less likely to lose focus as it helps to compartmentalise the key elements of answering a question. Moreover, such an approach is invaluable in exam ... Read More: