Learning Legal Rules introduces law students to the techniques of legal analysis and argument, equipping them with the knowledge and reasoning skills needed for effective study and practice of law. The text has been used in common law countries around the world as a leading legal method guide for over thirty years and provides students with the fundamental analytical skills of being a lawyer.
Established in 1958, the series of the Institut für Zeitungsforschung der Stadt Dortmund (City of Dortmund Institute for Newspaper Research) publishes scientific studies on the development of printed media and journalism. Contributions tackle historical and current topics in the fields of media and communication studies. The series includes monographs, collected volumes as well as reference works, biographies and textual documentation.
The 1980s saw spirited debate in China, as officials and the public pressed for economic and political liberalization. But after Tiananmen, the Communist Party erased the reform debate from memory. Julian Gewirtz shows how the leadership expunged alternative visions of China's future and set the stage for the policing of history under Xi Jinping.