Book description
Law students, law professors, and lawyers frequently refer to the process of "thinking like a lawyer," but attempts to analyze in any systematic way what is meant by that phrase are rare. In his classic book, Kenneth J. Vandevelde defines this elusive phrase and identifies the techniques involved in thinkingâŚ
Why read it?
1 author picked Thinking Like a Lawyer as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I value this book because it showed me the importance of reasoning by analogy and using metaphors in critical thinking.
Although a secondary benefit of this book is demystifying how lawyers work, a primary benefit is recognizing how to adapt what already exists in day-to-day problem-solving. By describing how lawyers are trained to draw connections between sometimes disparate situations to argue for a particular ruling, the book showed me ways to be more creative in combining things I already have on handâdata, methods, theoriesâto solve problems and make decisions.
(Imagine a cognitive version of the 1980s TV secret agent MacGyver,âŚ
From Haywood's list on critical thinking books for the intellectually curious.
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