Product DescriptionLegal Systems and Skills provides students with the essential knowledge and skills they require to underpin their legal studies, providing a foundation for graduate employability both within and outside the legal service profession. It develops students' understanding in 3 core areas:*Essential legal systems: delivering a holistic and contemporary understanding of the purpose and practical application of law, with consideration of social, moral, and jurisprudential perspectives. Contemporary application is a key theme and students are encouraged to consider the currentfunction of legal systems and their effect on individuals, businesses and commerce.*Essential legal skills: demonstrating step-by-step approaches to enhancing the skills law students require academically and in subsequent employment. Students are assisted in developing their own strategies to research, read and understand law more effectively, to analyse and apply the lawto solve legal problems, and to communicate legal concepts and solutions in writing and orally.*Essential professional development and commercial awareness: encouraging students to develop professional skills early in their studies. A dedicated chapter on employability skills introduces students to the skills and competencies which all employers, but particularly those in the legalservices sector, value. Four unique chapters on commercial awareness challenge students to reflect on and actively improve their own commercial awareness through a number of business case studies, practice interview questions and activities, making this section of the book perfect for self-directedstudy.Delivering a wealth of illustrative examples, diagrams, jargon-busters, and thought-provoking questions to enhance critical skills, Legal Systems and Skills is the essential contemporary toolkit for savvy law students.Online ResourcesThis text is accompanied by an innovative online resource centre offering a range of stimulating resources, including:* Podcasts providing a variety of perspectives on the legal system* Self-test questions* The authors' guidance on the thought-provoking questions in the book* A library of weblinks for studentsReview"There is a clear gap in the market for a text like this and I believe that this text will quickly establish itself." ―Roger Thomas, LLB Law Course Leader, Anglia Ruskin University"I like the authors' approach; I feel commercial awareness is something that should be introduced from the start of the degree. I don't feel it was emphasised enough at the start of my course and I am only just getting to grips with its importance as I begin to look at training contracts." ―Harriet Chapman, law student, Northumbria University"I can imagine this book becoming a bit of a law student bible. 'Commercial awareness' is the buzz word of the moment." ―Alice Reilly, law student, Cardiff University"The emphasis on employment, I think, is a great addition and something quite unique to law textbooks. With other books it is difficult to see the relevance of certain types of law so the practical explanations and case studies are very useful. I much prefer this type of learning." ―Kate Taylor, University of Huddersfield"This book provides an easily accessible one-stop-shop that could be referred to for both academic and employment-seeking purposes, bridging the gap that currently exists between such resources. It allows law students to develop commercial awareness from day one of their studies." ―Joseph Wood, law student, Durham UniversityAbout the AuthorScott Slorach, Professor, University of Law, and Visiting Professor, Strathclyde University,Judith Embley, Associate Professor, University of Law,Peter Goodchild, Associate Professor, University of Law,Catherine Shephard, Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityProfessor Scott Slorach is the Board Member for Innovation, Design and Production of legal education programmes at the Univer