Deconstructing Legal Analysis: A 1L Primer

By Peter Wendel

Peter T. Wendel has taught academic success workshops at over thirty-five law schools throughout the country. In Deconstructing Legal Analysis: A 1L Primer, he provides a variety of time-tested techniques-including a unique model for visualizing legal analysis-to teach students how to think like lawyers and take law school exams.

Deconstructing Legal Analysis: A 1L Primer features:

a unique, visual pedagogical method that illustrates a relational analysis of facts, rules, and public policy an interactive approach that consistently encourages students to write down their answers to carefully guided questionsa great teaching case, Pierson v. Post, showing how a layperson reads a case as compared to how a lawyer would read the same case useful templates and methods for legal analysis and essay-exam writing, such as IRAC and IRRACexam-taking tips and guidance that emphasize flexibility, rather than a formulaic approach

If experience is the best teacher, then Deconstructing Legal Analysis is an essential for academic success in law school.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735584753
• ISBN13: 9780735584754
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Aspen Publishing
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.9"