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Introduction to Law
Introduction to Law
General introduction to legal method, sources, statutory interpretation, and legal reasoning.
1
Sources of English law
Legislation, common law, equity, and the hierarchy of legal authority
28 min
2
The court system and precedent
The hierarchy of UK courts, the doctrine of stare decisis, ratio versus obiter, the Practice Statement 1966, and the Supreme Court's approach to precedent.
21 min
3
Statutory interpretation
Canons, rules, and purposive approaches to the construction of legislation in English law.
26 min
4
Legal reasoning and analogy
Legal reasoning and analogy
28 min
5
Judges and judicial creativity
The constitutional limits and jurisprudential reality of judicial law-making in English courts.
22 min
6
Law and morality
The enduring tension between law's formal validity and its substantive moral claims.
35 min
7
Equity and the common law
The fusion of administration and the enduring distinctiveness of equitable principles and remedies.
24 min
8
Legal method — writing case notes and essays
Legal method — writing case notes and essays
28 min