Thinking Critically About Law – A Student's Guide

You arrive at university to embark upon your journey to ‘think like a lawyer’, but is simply knowing the law enough to gain you the best marks?What do you need to do, exactly, to achieve a first-class law degree and promising professional career?For top marks, what do your lecturers mean when they say you need to deepen your ‘critical analysis’ to answer assessment questions?When should you put your own viewpoints forward? When, and how, should you draw upon the work of others?What do your examiners mean when they give you feedback saying that your work is ‘too descriptive’?This book explores what it means to think critically and offers practical tips and advice for students to develop the process, skill and ability of thinking critically while studying law, as well as beyond that in the workplace. The second edition of Thinking Critically About Law utilises art, music, poetry and prose to explore essential questions about studying law and what it means to think critically, offering pr