| The Bramble Bush: The Classic Lectures on the Law and Law School Contributor(s): Llewellyn, Karl N. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195368452 ISBN-13: 9780195368451 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $31.34 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2008 Annotation: For over 70 years, prospective and enrolled law students have been assigned to read a text that prepares them for what they are about to encounter. That text is The Bramble Bush. This classic answers questions that all students have when starting law school, and virtually takes them inside the classroom like no other text. K.N. Llewellyn offers understanding on the context of law, techniques on how to study the law without losing heart, and how to engage in the material within the classroom. The Bramble Bush is required reading at many top tier law schools and is recommended by many Law School Deans for the insight it provides to new students. An outgrowth of Professor Llewellyn's introductory lectures at Columbia University School of Law, The Bramble Bush continues to be the best introduction to the study of law for both potential and enrolled law students.
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Practical Guides - Law | Legal Education |
| Dewey: 340.071 |
| LCCN: 2007051126 |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 6.27" W x 9.13" (0.87 lbs) 230 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For over seventy years, there has been one book that law students have read to prepare for what they were about to encounter. That book is The Bramble Bush. After all these years and many imitators, The Bramble Bush remains one of the most popular introductions to the law and its study. Llewellyn introduces students to what the law is, how to read cases, how to prepare for class, and how justice in the real world relates to the law. Although laws change every year, disputes between people haven't altered all that much since Llewellyn first penned The Bramble Bush, and the process of moving from private dispute to legal conflict still follows the patterns he described. Moreover, the steps of a legal dispute, from arguments to verdict, to opinion, to review, to appeal, to opinion have changed little in their significance or their substance. Cases are still the best tools for exploring the interaction of the law with individual questions, and the essence of what law students must learn to do has persisted. If anything, many of the points Llewellyn argued in these lectures were on the dawning horizon then but are in their mid-day fullness now. |