Language of Law School

Name: Language of Law School
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ISBN: 9780199884704

Learning to "Think Like a Lawyer"

Sociolinguistics Law and society, sociology of law Legal skills and practice

Author: Elizabeth Mertz

Language: English

Published by: Oxford University Press

Published on: 3rd February 2007

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 4 Mb

ISBN: 9780199884704

In this linguistic study of law school education

Mertz shows how law professors employ the Socratic method between teacher and student, forcing the student to shift away from moral and emotional terms in thinking about conflict, toward frameworks of legal authority instead.

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