Legal Argumentation Theory: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Flavia Carbonell (auth.), Christian Dahlman, Eveline Feteris (eds.)

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 238
Series: Law and Philosophy Library 102
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book offers its readers an overview of recent developments in the theory of legal argumentation written by representatives from various disciplines, including argumentation theory, philosophy of law, logic and artificial intelligence. It presents an overview of contributions representative of different academic and legal cultures, and different continents and countries. The book contains contributions on strategic maneuvering, argumentum ad absurdum, argumentum ad hominem, consequentialist argumentation, weighing and balancing, the relation between legal argumentation and truth, the distinction between the context of discovery and context of justification, and the role of constitutive and regulative rules in legal argumentation. It is based on a selection of papers that were presented in the special workshop on Legal Argumentation organized at the 25th IVR World Congress for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy held 15-20 August 2011 in Frankfurt, Germany.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Reasoning by Consequences: Applying Different Argumentation Structures to the Analysis of Consequentialist Reasoning in Judicial Decisions....Pages 1-19
On the Argumentum ad Absurdum in Statutory Interpretation: Its Uses and Normative Significance....Pages 21-43
Why Precedent in Law (and Elsewhere) Is Not Totally (or Even Substantially) About Analogy....Pages 45-56
Fallacies in Ad Hominem Arguments....Pages 57-70
The Rule of Law and the Ideal of a Critical Discussion....Pages 71-83
Strategic Maneuvering with the Argumentative Role of Legal Principles in the Case of the “Unworthy Spouse”....Pages 85-101
Legal Argumentation and the Normativity of Legal Norms....Pages 103-112
Weighing and Balancing in the Light of Deliberation and Expression....Pages 113-123
Construction or Reconstruction? On the Function of Argumentation in the Law....Pages 125-143
The Argument from Psychological Typology for a Mild Separation Between the Context of Discovery and the Context of Justification....Pages 145-162
Constitutive Rules and Coherence in Legal Argumentation: The Case of Extensive and Restrictive Interpretation....Pages 163-188
Is Balancing a Method of Rational Justification sui generis ?....Pages 189-206
Arguing on Facts: Truth, Trials and Adversary Procedures....Pages 207-223
Back Matter....Pages 225-233

✦ Subjects

Fundamentals of Law; Philosophy of Law; Semantics; Legal Aspects of Computing; Interdisciplinary Studies

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