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1、TheLanguageofLawSchoolThispageintentionallyleftblankTheLanguageofLawSchoolLearningto“ThinkLikeaLawyer”ElizabethMertz120073OxfordUniversityPress,Inc.,publishesworksthatfurtherOxfordUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship,andeducation.OxfordNewYorkAucklan
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5、cm.Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.ISBN-13978-0-19-518286-6;978-0-19-518310-8(pbk.)ISBN0-19-518286-3;0-19-518310-X(pbk.)1.Law—Studyandteaching—UnitedStates.2.Law—UnitedStates—Methodology.I.Title.KF279.M472007340.071'173—dc222006045325135798642PrintedintheUnit
6、edStatesofAmericaonacid-freepaper..Formydaughters,JennyandBeccaThispageintentionallyleftblankPrefaceThisisastudywhosegenesisdatesbacktothedayIfirsttookmyseatinaCon-tractsclassroomasafirst-yearlawstudent,andthatcametofruitionasIforthefirsttimetaughtContractstofirst-year
7、lawstudents.Havingparticipatedinbothendsoftheprocesshasaddeddepthtomyunderstandingofthelawschoolexperience.Asafirst-yearstudent,ItooknotesinmyContractsclassintwocol-umns;thefirstkepttrackoftheconceptsmyprofessorwasendeavoringtoim-pressonus,andthesecondwasarunninganthro
8、pologist’scommentaryonthestudiesthatsomeoneshoulddotoinvestigatethesocialandlinguisticprocessesatworkincontractlaw—an
