The five types of legal argument

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Law Library — 3rd Floor Collection (3rd floor)

Call Number
K212 .H84 2014
Status
Available

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Summary

Huhn demonstrates that there are five different types of legal arguments (based on text, intent, precedent, tradition and policy), and through myriad examples this book teaches law students, lawyers, and judges how to identify, create, attack, and evaluate each type of argument. The book contains useful advice and illustrations on how to weave the different types of arguments together to make them more persuasive. The third edition of the book adds a chapter on the role that reasoning by analogy plays in resolving difficult cases and in the development of the law.

Contents

The purpose of legal education -- The five types of legal arguments -- Text -- Intent -- Precedent -- Tradition -- Policy -- Identifying the five types of legal arguments -- Creating persuasive arguments -- How to attack legal arguments -- Intra-type attacks on textual arguments -- Intra-type attacks on intent arguments -- Intra-type attacks on precedent arguments -- Intra-type attacks on tradition arguments -- Intra-type attacks on policy arguments -- Cross-type arguments -- Foundational cross-type arguments -- Relational cross-type arguments -- Text versus intent -- Precedent versus policy -- Text versus policy -- Text versus precedent -- A logical demonstration of the theory of the five types of legal argument -- Reasoning by analogy is the bridge between formalism and realism -- Discovering a court's judicial philosophy and your own philosophy of life.

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