Welcome to the home for Routledge's range of legal skills support.
At Routledge, we understand that a strong grasp of practical legal skills is essential to law students at every level, and a number of our textbooks offer guided support on perfecting these skills. Here you will find links to a variety of online material that is currently available across a range of related companion websites.
- The English Legal System, 11th Edition
- Gary Slapper and David Kelly
- Visit the companion website for the latest edition of our core first-year textbook, The English Legal System, to access guides to the full range of legal skills including mooting, legal research, legal writing, and Using cases, as well as a host of resources relating to the English legal system.
Skills Resources:
- Legal Method, Skills and Reasoning, 3rd Edition
- Sharon Hanson
- A dedicated area for the development of legal method and skills, the companion website for Legal Method, Skills and Reasoning offers a range of student support, including a series of ‘how-to’ talk-through exercises and workbooks relating to each part of the textbook.
- Legal Writing, 2nd Edition
- Lisa Webley
- This new companion website for Legal Writing further enhances the book's value to those students in need of legal writing support. Hosting a range of good and bad sample essays with author commentary, alongside Multiple Choice Questions which help students learn how to reference materials, this site is an ideal starting place for students who wish to improve and develop their written work.
- Legal English, 2nd Edition
- Rupert Haigh
- Specifically related to those who are seeking to improve their legal English, this highly-interactive companion offers a number of opportunities to test your written and oral communication across a variety of legal subject areas. The site also features a useful Careers Hub which links students to useful careers-related websites and gives examples of good and poor covering letters for job applications.