Casebook

A case or Book Casebook is a specially designed for the jurisprudential teaching textbook. It contains cases including solutions and serves the ideological training in the legal. Sometimes a book about it case contains addition, exam questions, or an introduction to the legal methodology and scientific work or gives advice on the construction of an argument.

Goals and methods, the Casebook

While other teaching methods such as lecture or the textbook, aimed primarily at knowledge transfer and presentation of any jurisdiction, the purpose of a case book is an application-oriented repetition of the subject matter. A [ Right] case is a short life facts in respect of which legal issues to be resolved. The acting in the case of ( natural and legal) persons are more typical than A, B or C designates or bear fictitious names. The task of the students is to work out the legal bestbegründete solution for conflicting interests.

The book case can be classified to the inductive teaching methods and trains the ability of subsumption. From single case is closed on a general, abstract formulated laws provision or rule of law. This feature of the case books is to better understand the often complicated formulated laws provisions. Laws are general and abstract terms, ie they are aimed at a general group of people. The degree of abstraction legistischen formulation seeks general as possible validity, but which also win the misunderstanding and ambiguity greater impact. Cases, however, are formulated specifically and concretely. The specially - specific narrative filled "dry" formulated rules to life. The study of law is often accused of being dry, sober and factual and mostly consist of memorization. This ignores that the Subsumtionsfähigkeit of a user is not in the mere knowledge of the law, but rather the imaginative classification of life issues in legal norms. The training is objective Subsumtionsfähigkeit a case book.

The inductive method of teaching a case book has parallels with the tradition of the Anglo- American legal system, where the case law (English Case Law ) and the case law more importance as sources of law than is the case in continental European legal systems. Specifically, the German legal system is characterized by deductive legal insights, systematics and rational, abstract and conceptual thinking. The use of casebooks in the jurisprudential lessons looks to U.S. universities back on a long history. The so-called Casebook method was first developed at Harvard Law School and goes to Christopher Columbus Langdell, an American jurists of the 19th century, back. The casebook method is now the common teaching method to U.S. law to learn. The leading publishers who publish casebooks, are in the U.S. West Group, Aspen Publishing and LexisNexis and Austria in the WCT University Press.

Demarcation

From Casebook to distinguish as a modern teaching aids are

  • The Judikatenbuch, which is a collection of judgments to real cases, and
  • The Digest, which is a compilation of works of Roman law scholar. The Digests contain cases.

Judikatenbücher and Digests are special case books, which are also used in the jurisprudential doctrine.

  • Textbook
  • Learning Resources
  • Book by content
  • Legal literature
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