Unlocking Legal Learning is an essential textbook for undergraduate students new to legal study. By explaining the different fields of this intricate subject and helping you to develop the skills to engage with it successfully, Unlocking Legal Learning will provide you with an essential foundation for your studies and future career. This third edition is fully up-to-date and incorporates new styles of assessment and learning resources.
Support for your studies in Unlocking Legal Learning includes:
Detailed information on how to succeed in mooting competitions, coursework, and dissertation assignments
Numerous tips on how to take good notes and revise effectively for exams
Advice on how to tackle problem-based questions and work well in groups
Guidance on how to access and understand legal materials and references in print and online
The Unlocking the Law series is designed to make the law accessible and covers all the core subjects required by the Bar Council and the Law Society for entry onto professional qualifications as well as popular option units.
Studying law can be a steep learning curve for anyone who is new to the subject. Unlocking Legal Learning is the essential guide for students who are about to embark on a period of legal study. Taking you from the basics of studying law and providing you with an essential foundation, Unlocking Legal Learning will show you how to:
* use techniques of note-taking in lectures and semimars
* access and understand legal materials and references (both hard copies and online)
* succeed in mooting competitions, coursework and dissertation assignments
* tackle problem-based questions and work effectively in groups
* revise effectively for exams
This third edition is fully up-to-date with changes in the law and now incorporates new styles of assesment and the latest developments in learning resources.
The Unlocking the Law series is designed specifically to make the law accessible. Each chapter opens with a list of aims and objectives, contains activities such as quick quizzes and self-test questions, key facts charts to consolidate your knowledge, diagrams to aid learning and numerous headings and sub-headings to make the subject manageable. Cases and judgments are prominently displayed, as are primary source quotations. New features include: summaries to check your understanding of each chapter, a glossary of legal terminology, essay questions with answer plans and exam questions with guidance on answering. All titles in the series follow the same formula and include the same features so students can move easily from one subject to another. The series covers all the core subjects required by the Bar Council and the Law Society for entry onto professional qualifications as well as popular option units.
The popular website www.unlockingthelaw.co.uk provides free resources such as multiple choice questions, key questions and answers and revision mp3s.
