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Karl N. Llewellyn was a revered law professor who taught for most of his career at Columbia Law School and the University of Chicago. Renowned as a scholar in many fields, he was a principal author of the Uniform Commercial Code, the nationwide system of commercial law still followed throughout the United States. Steve Sheppard is the William H. Enfield Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas. Among his writings, he is the coauthor, with George Fletcher, of American Law in a Global Context: The Basics, also published by Oxford University Press.

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For over 70 years, prospective and enrolled law students have been assigned to read a text that prepares them for what they are about to encounter. That text is The Bramble Bush.
This classic answers questions that all students have when starting law school, and virtually takes them inside the classroom like no other text. K.N. Llewellyn offers understanding on the context of law, techniques on how to study the law without losing heart, and how to engage in the material
within the classroom.
The Bramble Bush is required reading at many top tier law schools and is recommended by many Law School Deans for the insight it provides to new students. An outgrowth of Professor Llewellyn's introductory lectures at Columbia University School of Law, The Bramble Bush continues to be the best
introduction to the study of law for both potential and enrolled law students.

Inhalt

• Introduction to the Oxford Edition: The Bramble Bush and You by Steve Sheppard

• Foreword (1950 Edition)

• Preface (1930 Edition)

• Acknowledgments (1950 Edition)

• Acknowledgments (1930 (Edition)

• Part One: The Bramble Bush

• Chapter I

• What Law Is About

• Chapter II

• This Case System: What Lies Behind the Case

• Chapter III

• This Case System: What to Do with the Cases

• Chapter IV

• This Case System: Precedent

• Chapter V

• Ships and Shoes and Sealing Wax

• Chapter VI

• And Law School Offers What?

• Part Two: The Other Side

• Chapter VII

• Law and Civilization

• Chapter VIII

• Beyond Bread and Butter

• Chapter IX

• The Second Year

• Chapter X

• Before Sunrise

• They That Come After

• Afterword

• Index