Electronic article providing guidance on reading legal opinions written by Orin S. Kerr who is a Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. The article was published in the Green Bag: an Entertaining Journal of Law in Autumn 2007 and is aimed at new law students in the United States. There are sections explaining what a judicial opinion is and looking at the caption, the case citation, who wrote the opinion, the facts of the case, the law of the case, concurring or dissenting opinions, common legal terms and types of disputes. The author also explains the importance of studying legal opinions and what can be learnt from them. The article can be freely downloaded in PDF from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) and several other host sites.
How to read a legal opinion: a guide for new law students
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