Learning How to Distinguish Cases: A Basic Skill for Lawyers and Law Students: Thanks

Thanks to the Canadian Centre for Professional Legal Education for recommending my post Learning How to Distinguish Cases: A Basic Skill for Lawyers and Law Students.  There have been hundreds of downloads over the last few days.

This post is from a chapter from my book Think Like a Lawyer: Legal Reasoning for Law Students and Business Professionals (2nd ed.).  This chapter contains much more detail on distinguishing cases, and it includes many exercises to help you practice this skill.  The book also has chapters on reading critically, rule-based reasoning, analogical reasoning, rule synthesis, policy-based reasoning, statutory analysis, writing your analysis, and problem solving.  These chapters have lots of exercises. too.

(Scott Fruehwald)