Summary:
Studying law can be a steep learning curve for anyone who is new to the subject. Unlocking Legal Learning is the essential guide for students who are about to embark on a period of legal study.

Taking you from the basics of studying law and what to expect on your first day, Unlocking Legal Learning will show you how to:
* use techniques of note-taking in lectures and seminars
* access and understand legal materials and references
* use legal reasoning
* complete coursework and dissertation assignments
* revise effectively

Unlocking Legal Learning will ensure that you hit the ground running when you start your course and will remain an invaluable guide throughout your time of study.

Further study support, including interactive multiple choice questions, is available on the free website www.unlockingthelaw.co.uk.

Unlocking the Law is the groundbreaking series of textbooks with a unique approach to the study of law. Unlocking the Law textbooks have been written specifically to ensure that readers understand fully the concepts required and are able to apply them with confidence. All titles in the series follow the same format and include the same features so students can move easily from one subject to another.

• Accompanying website including MCQs for this title and other revision material
• Details of techniques for effective study
• Coursework and dissertations are supported with detailed advice on structuring your work, using appropriate reasoning skills and time management
• Highly accessible design and language
• Advice on revising for and taking examinations
• The Unlocking the Law series also covers all the major elements of substantive law they will need to study. The series will continue to support them.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 What learning law is all about
Chapter 2 Lectures and seminars
Chapter 3 Reading
Explaining primary sources and secondary sources
Using primary and secondary sources and some other general tips
Chapter 6 Understanding legal skills and using legal reasoning
Chapter 7 Completing coursework assignments 1 – essays
Chapter 8 Completing coursework assignments 2 – problem questions
Chapter 9 Completing dissertations or projects
Chapter 10 Mooting
Chapter 11 Preparing for examinations – revision
Chapter 12. Sitting examinations
Appendix
Index

About the Author(s):
Rebecca Huxley-Binns LLB is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Nottingham Law School. She has taught law at all levels and is an experienced author.

Leon Riley LLB MBA is the Head of Law at John Leggott College.

Chris Turner LLM is a qualified barrister and Senior Lecturer in Law at Wolverhampton University. He has taught law at all levels and is an experienced author.

Angela Donaldson is Information Specialist for Law at Nottingham Trent University.

Jacqueline Martin LLM has ten years’ experience as a practising barrister and has taught law at all levels.

Jacqueline Martin and Chris Turner are series editors of the Key Facts and Key Cases series, published by Hodder Education.

Readership:
Law undergraduates and those about to take a law course