Master of Legal and Forensic Psychology: Legal Basics

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The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals is a subject index to selected international and comparative law periodicals and collections of essays. It is produced at the Berkeley Law Library, University of California Berkeley for the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL).

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Contents: "Your first case -- Your first argument -- Case analysis -- Case synthesis -- Statutes : "are Pringles potato chips?" -- "Oh, no; I forgot ethics" -- Deep thoughts, for later -- Cases as puzzles -- Briefs -- Briefs analyzed and much more -- Classes : "what if the dog were an alligator?" -- Study aids, study groups, outlining, and messy casebooks -- Fear and loathing in the first year -- Taking exams : the only skill worth having -- Practice test -- A tale of two answers -- Multiple choice exams -- Zen and exams -- Stories -- Goals, getting better, and getting started -- SIR transitions and writing tips -- Murder your darlings -- Writing exercises -- "May it please the court"-Gulp -- Case planning : the interplay of law and fact- backwards -- Complaints, answers, pretrial motions, and discovery -- Trials -- K v. Landlord, greatest hits -- Oh, One last thing."

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