How to read a legal opinion: a guide for new law students

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Guidance for American law students, by Orin S. Kerr, Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School. Originally published in The Green Bag in Autumn 2007 and posted here on SSRN in 2008, the article has 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.
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