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    This document outlines the key skills needed for legal arguments, including arguing about texts, precedents, facts, and policies. It discusses issue spotting by asking the right questions to determine relevant propositions, what they mean, and how they apply. Good skills for distilling the law include restating legal propositions in your own words, testing your understanding, and putting propositions in context while disregarding irrelevant details. Issue spotting shortcuts involve focusing on confusing parts, ambiguity, new information, and assumptions.

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    This document outlines the key skills needed for legal arguments, including arguing about texts, precedents, facts, and policies. It discusses issue spotting by asking the right questions to determine relevant propositions, what they mean, and how they apply. Good skills for distilling the law include restating legal propositions in your own words, testing your understanding, and putting propositions in context while disregarding irrelevant details. Issue spotting shortcuts involve focusing on confusing parts, ambiguity, new information, and assumptions.

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    MODULE 3

    THE SKILLS YOU’LL NEED

    ARGUEMENT

    Arguments about texts Policy Arguments

    Arguments about Arguments about facts


    precedents
    ISSUE SPOTTING

    DISTILLING Right Questions


    THE LAW 1) Ask which propositions are
    relevant
    LEGAL Good distilling 2) Ask what the propositions
    PROPOSITIONS requirements mean
    1) Propositions of legal 1) Put proposition into your 3) Ask how propositions apply
    doctrine own words
    2) Propositions of Bad 2) Test your understanding ISSUE SPOTTING
    law
    SHORTCUTS
    3) Put propositions into
    3) Propositions of
    context 1) Focus on what confuses
    Theory and Policy you
    4) Disregard propositions 2) Ambiguity is an argument
    that don’t matter waiting to happen
    3) Focus on what is new

    4) Focus on assumptions

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