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: Oregon Legal ResearchHow to Read a Case
How to Read a Case, and other first-year tips
?? Law school holds many wonders, but first the new law student must learn how to decipher case. To help you in that cause Law Professor Orin Kerr of George Washington University Law School has written How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students (11 Green Bag 2d 51 (2007) - free download via SSRN). What?s in a legal opinion It is short, well written, and well worth taking a few minutes to read before the rush of law school life takes hold?.?
In it you will quickly learn:
Common legal terms found in opinions
What you need to learn from reading a case
Why law professors use the case method
Full post as published by Oregon Legal Research on August 22, 2008 (boomark / email).
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