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Research Handbook on Legal Argumentation.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duarte d'Almeida, Luís.
- Series:
- Research Handbooks in Legal Theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--Philosophy.
- Law.
- Reasoning.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (586 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.
- Summary:
- This Research Handbook presents thirty-three original contributions from leading experts around the globe on all aspects of legal argumentation. Each chapter combines theoretical and practical perspectives to introduce and develop its topic.This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Arguing in law: Introduction to the Research Handbook on Legal Argumentation
- PART I: ELEMENTS
- Chapter 2: Should judges give reasons for their decisions?
- Chapter 3: Legal interpretation: Concept, conceptions, and interpretative arguments in the civil law tradition
- Chapter 4: Interpretation in the common law
- Chapter 5: Arguing from precedent and arguing about precedent
- Chapter 6: Arguing from foreign precedent in constitutional interpretation
- Chapter 7: Principles, balancing, and proportionality
- Chapter 8: Arguing about normative positions
- Chapter 9: Legal fictions
- PART II: TYPES
- Chapter 10: Arguing from authority
- Chapter 11: Expert evidence, preemptive reasoning, and the rationality of deference
- Chapter 12: Arguments by analogy
- Chapter 13: Coherence and legal principles in legal argumentation
- Chapter 14: A contrario arguments
- Chapter 15: A fortiori arguments
- Chapter 16: Arguing from consequences
- Chapter 17: Slippery slope arguments
- PART III: LOGICS
- Chapter 18: Deontic logic, legal argumentation, and norms as functions
- Chapter 19: Informal logic and legal argumentation
- Chapter 20: Presumptions and burdens of proof
- Chapter 21: Defeasible legal concepts and judicial argumentation
- Chapter 22: Argumentation in AI and law
- Chapter 23: Argumentative patterns in law: The pragma-dialectical perspective
- PART IV: THEORIES
- Chapter 24: Argument and artifice: What is special about legal argumentation?
- Chapter 25: Legal argumentation and the nature of law
- Chapter 26: The methodology of legal argumentation: A framework
- Chapter 27: Contemporary research on legal argumentation in China
- Chapter 28: What should a theory of legal argumentation accomplish?
- PART V: JUDGING WELL.
- Chapter 29: Feminist approaches to legal argumentation
- Chapter 30: Virtue and legal reasoning
- Chapter 31: Emotions in common law reasoning
- Chapter 32: The rhetoric of legal argumentation
- Chapter 33: Hard cases in law
- Chapter 34: Experimental philosophy and legal reasoning
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- ISBN:
- 1-80392-543-4
- 1-03-537701-2
- 9781035377015
- OCLC:
- 1569798588
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