/lit/ - Literature

>>20349604

I’m going to use this thread to asp make questions related to Law and Law practice.

My question:

>Is there any book that teaches one how to ask questions in court so as to make witnesses confess what they are trying to hide? Any book on how to use questions to lead a person to the results you want?

>>20349670
>>Is there any book that teaches one how to ask questions in court so as to make witnesses confess what they are trying to hide? Any book on how to use questions to lead a person to the results you want?
“Guiltypersonsaywhat?”

>>20349604
>What are some good book recommendations to understand the basic concepts of Law?

Writing from an American pov:

Grant Gilmore, The Ages of American Law

L.H. LaRue, Constitutional Law as Fiction. Deconstructs the rhetoric on which certain very important Supreme Court rulings rest. Concise, excellent.

One-L by Scott Turow is the classic book on the experience of being a first-year law student.

The Bramble Bush by Karl Llewellyn is another minor classic for law students, somewhat dated, but still having considerable value. It touches somewhat on understanding the basic concepts of law.

Posner, Law and Literature. A fun read, as is his book, 'Cardozo: A Study in Reputation'. Throughout both books Posner offers his learned commentary on the subject of law in general.

I might add, if you were going to an American law school, I would say that understanding "the basic concepts of law," while admittedly an interesting subject, matters very little, and indeed could derail you a bit as a first-year student.

Here's an interesting article, "Fetch Some Soupmeat," on the business of interpreting words in legal and other contexts: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/72828643.pdf

And here's a good essay on Lysander Spooner, the radical abolitionist turned anarchist who argued, among other things, that the US Constitution is at least implicitly anti-slavery: https://oll.libertyfund.org/page/liberty-matters-randy-barnett-lysander-spooner#leadessay