Jurisprudence: A Beginner's Simple and Practical Guide to Advanced and Complex Legal Theory, 2 The Crit: Critical Stud. J. 62 (2009)

In the first year, we primarily study cases-the practice known as "the case method."The common law is built on cases rather than on code.3We look to the past in order to find rules and patterns that enable us to decide present disputes.So how do we derive a system of law from a collection of decisio