The Legal Mind: How the Law Thinks - Paperback

by Daniel W. Park (Author)

Why is the law so complicated? Why is it so hard to prove that someone else is lying? How can you get people to believe you're telling the truth? Why does it seem that lawyers always find something to argue about? In short, what is the law thinking?

The Legal Mind is your backstage pass to the logic of the law and the legal system. The Legal Mind explains how the law finds facts and establishes rules in the face of deliberate deception, the fallibility of memory, the frailty of vision, and the ambiguity of language.

In the Legal Mind, learn:

• why seeing should not necessarily lead to believing
• why circumstantial evidence is sometimes the best evidence
• why even the clearest rules almost always leave room for argument and debate.

Smart, engaging, and insightful, The Legal Mind will delight and inform everyone who has ever wanted to know how the law works and why the legal system is the way it is.

Author Biography

Dan Park is a graduate of Yale Law School. He holds a B.A. from Swarthmore College and an M.A. from Stanford University. Dan has practiced law for over 20 years and currently is the Chief Campus Counsel for the University of California, San Diego. Since 2005, he has taught Introduction to the Legal System at UC San Diego Extension. He is a member of the American Law Institute, and his scholarly work has appeared in academic journals published by Stanford and Gonzaga Law Schools and legal newspapers like The Los Angeles Daily Journal. In 2011, The Daily Transcript recognized Dan as one of the top in-house attorneys in San Diego. Dan is also the author of How Would You Rule? Legal Puzzles. Brainteasers & Dilemmas from the Law's Strangest Cases.