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Washington University Global Studies Law R eview Volume 11 | Issue 1 J anuary 2012 Thinking Like a Lawyer Abroad: Putting Justice into Legal Reasoning J ames R . Maxeiner Follow this and additional works at : /law_globalstudies Part of the Comparative and Foreign Law Commons Re ommended Citation J ames R . Maxeiner, Thinking L ike a Lawy er Abroad: Putting Justice into Leg al Reasoning, 11 Wash. U. Global Stud. L. Rev. 55 (2012), /law_globalstudies/vol11/iss1/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open a ess by the Law School at Washington University Open Scholarship. It has been a epted for inclusion in Washington University Global Studies Law R eview by an authorized administrator of Washington University Open Scholarship. For more information, please ontact digital@. THINKING LIKE A LAWYER ABROAD: PUTTING JUSTICE INTO LEGAL REASONING JAMES R. MAXEINER ABSTRACT Americans are taking new interest in legal reasoning. Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning by Professor Frederick Schauer suggests why. According to Schauer, American legal methods often require decision-makers “to do something other than the right thing.”1 There has got to be a better way. Now comes a book that offers Americans opportunities to look into a world where legal methods help decision-makers do the right thing. According to Reinhard Zippelius in his newly translated Introduction to German Legal Methods, German legal methods help decision makers resolve legal problems “in a just and equitable manner.”2