Includes index.

Contents: Introduction: How to use this text -- The Relationship between language, reasoning skills and legal studies : Skills requried for competent legal study -- The Power of language -- How to handle primary texts effectively: Understanding statutes -- Understanding law reports -- Statutory interpretation: the relationship between cases and statutes -- Understanding European community law -- Understanding law reports from the European court of justice -- Management of secondary texts and a range of differing factual information: summarising, annotating, linking and critiquing a range of differing secondary texts -- How to manage a large amount of information -- Putting it all together: How to identify, evaluate, interpret and construct arguments -- Using primary and secondary texts to construct arguments and answer questions -- Appendices.