Legal Systems & Skills

6. Revised Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-0-19-896240-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 752 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm

A contemporary, practice-focused foundation that integrates English legal system with the core academic, professional, and employability skills students need to progress confidently from study into legal practice.

Legal Systems & Skills is the essential toolkit for law students: a comprehensive introduction that unites system, skills, and employability, with annotated documents, insights from legal practitioners, and hints on selling your skills, plus updated coverage on artificial intelligence in legal study and practice.

- Structured three-part design with accessible and engaging pedagogy that helps students to apply their knowledge,
- Annotated documents, real-life examples, flowcharts, and diagrams support learning by visualising concepts and processes.
- 'Essential debate' boxes and practical exercises throughout encourage students to think critically about the law.
- Practical focus throughout, enhanced by features such as 'What the professionals say', 'Practice tip', and 'Selling your skills'.
- Provides comprehensive content on employability and commercial awareness, including CV preparation, transferable skills, and interview strategy.

New to this edition
- New opening chapter provides a guide through the transition into legal education, showing how the skills developed will support degree success and future careers.
- New practitioner-recorded podcasts encourage students to link theory with practice.
- Enhanced, integrated coverage of the use of AI in university and workplace contexts, with cross-linking between relevant skills and system topics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Slorach, Scott

Embley, Judith

Shephard, Catherine

Goodchild, Peter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Successful transition into studying law at university

- Part I Legal Systems

- 2: Introduction to law

- 3: Legal systems and sources of law

- 4: The court system of England and Wales

- 5: Legislation

- 6: Case law

- 7: Legal services and ethics

- Part II Legal Skills

- 8: Reading cases and legislation

- 9: Research

- 10: Problem solving and case/matter analysis

- 11: Persuasive oral communication and presentations

- 12: Client interviews and meetings

- 13: Negotiation and mediation

- 14: Advocacy and mooting

- 15: Writing and drafting

- 16: Revision and assessment

- Part III Employability and Commercial Awareness

- 17: Making yourself more employable

- 18: CVs, applications, and interviews

- 19: Understanding clients: individuals and businesses

- 20: Businesses and the business environment

- 21: Essential economics and finance

- 22: Law firms as businesses

Über Autor(innen)

Scott Slorach (consultant editor) is a Professor and Director of Teaching & Learning at York Law School at the University of York, and a qualified solicitor with City experience. He has specialised for over 30 years in the design and delivery of legal education, working with a range of HE institutions, regulators, and law firms in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.

Judith Embley recently retired as an Associate Professor at the University of Law. She qualified as a solicitor in 1980, practising in a Lincoln's Inn firm and began teaching law in 1999 as a Visiting Lecturer at Bellerby's College and then Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. She joined the University of Law in 2001, where she has taught contract, commercial, and business financial law. She is joint author of the University of Law's Legal Practice Guide, Commercial and Intellectual Property Law.

Peter Goodchild is an Associate Professor and Programme Director for Law Conversion Courses at the University of Law. He read Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at St. Anne's College, Oxford, then attended the University of Law and qualified as a solicitor in 1997, into commercial practice. He joined the University of Law in 2000, where he has taught the English legal system, contract, tort, ethics, commercial, IP, and business structures law. Peter is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In addition to over 20 years of teaching experience, he has wide experience of designing programmes and has been an author of texts on tort, commercial law, IP law, and the English Legal System.

Catherine Shephard is a Reader in Practice-Informed Law and Education at Manchester Met. She read law at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and practised as a solicitor in corporate law. Catherine’s work centres around the theme of connection across the student journey, from before transition into university, to well beyond the achievement of graduate outcomes and into professional life. Catherine is an experienced lecturer and trainer in corporate law and skills, an accredited civil-commercial mediator, and leads commercial pro bono and outreach work. She enjoys communicating her ideas widely, in writing and in person, working collaboratively with leading practitioners, legal education providers, widening participation charities, professional, statutory and regulatory bodies, and of course her colleagues and students.