Product Description

Unlocking the Law is the groundbreaking series of textbooks with a unique approach to the study of law. Designed specifically to make the subject matter accessible, the text includes features, activities, key facts charts, diagrams, and clear headings and sub-headings to aid students in understanding the different areas within their course. Unlocking the Law textbooks have been written specifically to ensure that readers understand fully the concepts required and are able to apply them with confidence.

All titles in the series follow the same format and include the same features so students can move easily from one subject to another. The series covers all the core subjects required by the Bar Council and the Law Society for entry onto professional qualifications.

Unlocking the Law remains the most original and accessible textbook series available.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #103661 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-28
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 573 pages

About the Author
Authors:
Chris Turner LLM is a qualified barrister and Senior Lecturer in Law at Wolverhampton University. He has taught law at all levels and is an experienced author whose other titles include Key Facts: EU Law, also published by Hodder Education.

Tony Storey LLM is Senior Lecturer in Law at Nothumbria University and an experienced author whose other titles include Unlocking Criminal Law.

Series editor:
Jacqueline Martin LLM has ten years’ experience as a practising barrister and has taught law at all levels.

Jacqueline Martin and Chris Turner are series editors of the Key Facts, Key Cases and Key Statutes series, all published by Hodder Education.

Customer Reviews

An unusual textbook: clear, interesting and memorable.
The juxtaposition of text alongside extracts from the EC Treaty, secondary legislation, caselaw and quotations from academics and judges, plus case examples provides students with an unimpeded flow of explanation and argument. Organising the material this way avoids concentration-breaking struggles with the indexes of other textbooks (do publishers ever consider the awkwardness of handling `heavyweight' tomes?), cuts away the undergrowth and presents the material in straightforward style. The lucid and intelligent analysis helps to make the subject easier to understand and remember. Interspersed with activity sections and diagrams, the textbook covers material essential for degree and CPE students (the relevant sections would do `A' level students no harm either) and is invaluable for revision purposes. With the considerable benefit of being up to date, a chapter on the topic of Citizenship of the European Union is included, and with each chapter a useful further reading list.

Though quite comprehensive in itself, the textbook is an excellent point from which to dive into a more exhaustive study of European Union law, and makes you want to follow up the issues mentioned. In the preface the authors express the hope that readers will enjoy studying the subject - well I did, and I came away from this book with an understanding that has enabled me to dig deeper.

my review
Overall it is a good all round text with easy to read material. However I have found that it a bit too basic for higher level study as it only covers the basic principles on certain topics. One downside is that it has very little on article 230 which is quite a fundamental principle in EU law. Nevertheless for beginners of EU law it is very useful and i have found it is a good coursework study guide.