Legal Reasoning
Legal Reasoning

Author: Melvin A. Eisenberg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-10-31

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781009162524

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The common law, which is made by courts, consists of rules that govern relations between individuals, such as torts (the law of private wrongs) and contracts. Legal Reasoning explains and analyzes the modes of reasoning utilized by the courts in making and applying common law rules. These modes include reasoning from binding precedents (prior cases that are binding on the deciding court); reasoning from authoritative although not binding sources, such as leading treatises; reasoning from analogy; reasoning from propositions of morality, policy, and experience; making exceptions; drawing distinctions; and overruling. The book further examines and explains the roles of logic, deduction, and good judgment in legal reasoning. With accessible prose and full descriptions of illustrative cases, this book is a valuable resource for anyone who wishes to get a hands-on grasp of legal reasoning.

Legal Reasoning
Legal Reasoning

Author: Martin P. Golding

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2001-03-02

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9781551114224

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In a book that is a blend of text and readings, Martin P. Golding explores legal reasoning from a variety of angles—including that of judicial psychology. The primary focus, however, is on the ‘logic’ of judicial decision making. How do judges justify their decisions? What sort of arguments do they use? In what ways do they rely on legal precedent? Golding includes a wide variety of cases, as well as a brief bibliographic essay (updated for this Broadview Encore Edition).

Demystifying Legal Reasoning
Demystifying Legal Reasoning

Author: Larry Alexander

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-06-16

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 113947247X

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Demystifying Legal Reasoning defends the proposition that there are no special forms of reasoning peculiar to law. Legal decision makers engage in the same modes of reasoning that all actors use in deciding what to do: open-ended moral reasoning, empirical reasoning, and deduction from authoritative rules. This book addresses common law reasoning when prior judicial decisions determine the law, and interpretation of texts. In both areas, the popular view that legal decision makers practise special forms of reasoning is false.

Handbook of Legal Reasoning and Argumentation
Handbook of Legal Reasoning and Argumentation

Author: Giorgio Bongiovanni

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-07-02

Total Pages: 773

ISBN-13: 9048194520

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This handbook addresses legal reasoning and argumentation from a logical, philosophical and legal perspective. The main forms of legal reasoning and argumentation are covered in an exhaustive and critical fashion, and are analysed in connection with more general types (and problems) of reasoning. Accordingly, the subject matter of the handbook divides in three parts. The first one introduces and discusses the basic concepts of practical reasoning. The second one discusses the general structures and procedures of reasoning and argumentation that are relevant to legal discourse. The third one looks at their instantiations and developments of these aspects of argumentation as they are put to work in the law, in different areas and applications of legal reasoning.

Dalhuisen on Transnational and Comparative Commercial, Financial and Trade Law Volume 2
Dalhuisen on Transnational and Comparative Commercial, Financial and Trade Law Volume 2

Author: Jan H Dalhuisen

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-04-07

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1509949240

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“... remains a must read for practitioners and academics interested in more than the substantive law of trans-border commercial activity.” (King's Law Journal) Volume 2 of this new edition covers the transnationalisation of dispute resolution, especially arbitration, and contains a critical analysis of the main challenges to its success, continuing credibility, and effectiveness. The volume distinguishes between commercial, financial, and foreign investment arbitration and concentrates on the status, role, and reasoning of international arbitrators, their limited powers especially in matters of public policy and in property matters, the threat of judicialisation, and the need to connect with mediation and a settlement ethos. The complete set in this magisterial work is made up of 6 volumes. Used independently, each volume allows the reader to delve into a particular topic. Alternatively, all volumes can be read together for a comprehensive overview of transnational comparative commercial, financial and trade law.

Dalhuisen on Transnational and Comparative Commercial, Financial and Trade Law Volume 1
Dalhuisen on Transnational and Comparative Commercial, Financial and Trade Law Volume 1

Author: Jan H Dalhuisen

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-04-21

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 1509949208

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“This is a big book, with big themes and an author with the necessary experience to back them up... Full of insights as to the theories that underlie the rules governing contract, property and security, it is an important contribution to the law of international commerce and finance.” (Law Quarterly Review) Volume 1 of this new edition covers the roots and foundations of private law, the different origins, structure, and orientation of civil and common law, and the social and cultural forces behind it. It analyses the practical needs and market forces behind the emergence of a new transnational commercial and financial legal order, its international finance-driven impulses, concepts, and operation; the theoretical basis of the transnationalisation of the law in the professional sphere in that order; the autonomous sources of the new law merchant or modern lex mercatoria derived from the method of public international law, as well as its relationship to domestic and transnational public policy and public order requirements. The complete set in this magisterial work is made up of 6 volumes. Used independently, each volume allows the reader to delve into a particular topic. Alternatively, all volumes can be read together for a comprehensive overview of transnational comparative commercial, financial and trade law.

Methods of Legal Reasoning
Methods of Legal Reasoning

Author: Jerzy Stelmach

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-09-03

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1402049390

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Methods of Legal Reasoning describes and criticizes four methods used in legal practice, legal dogmatics and legal theory: logic, analysis, argumentation and hermeneutics. The book takes the unusual approach of discussing in a single study four different, sometimes competing concepts of legal method. Sketched this way, the panorama allows the reader to reflect deeply on questions concerning the methodological conditioning of legal science and the existence of a unique, specific legal method.

New Developments in Legal Reasoning and Logic
New Developments in Legal Reasoning and Logic

Author: Shahid Rahman

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-12-16

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 3030700844

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This book intends to unite studies in different fields related to the development of the relations between logic, law and legal reasoning. Combining historical and philosophical studies on legal reasoning in Civil and Common Law, and on the often neglected Arabic and Talmudic traditions of jurisprudence, this project unites these areas with recent technical developments in computer science. This combination has resulted in renewed interest in deontic logic and logic of norms that stems from the interaction between artificial intelligence and law and their applications to these areas of logic. The book also aims to motivate and launch a more intense interaction between the historical and philosophical work of Arabic, Talmudic and European jurisprudence. The publication discusses new insights in the interaction between logic and law, and more precisely the study of different answers to the question: what role does logic play in legal reasoning? Varying perspectives include that of foundational studies (such as logical principles and frameworks) to applications, and historical perspectives.

Rules, Norms, and Decisions
Rules, Norms, and Decisions

Author: Friedrich V. Kratochwil

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1991-04-26

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780521409711

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This book assesses the impact of norms on decision-making. It argues that norms influence choices not by being causes for actions, but by providing reasons. Consequently it approaches the problem via an investigation of the reasoning process in which norms play a decisive role. Kratochwil argues that, depending upon the strictness the guidance norms provide in arriving at a decision, different styles of reasoning with norms can be distinguished. While the focus in this book is largely analytical, the argument is developed through the interpretation of the classic thinkers in international law (Grotius, Vattel, Pufendorf, Rousseau, Hume, Habermas).

Scientific Models of Legal Reasoning
Scientific Models of Legal Reasoning

Author: Scott Brewer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-28

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1136524762

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First published in 1998. This five-volume series contains some of this century's most influential or thought provoking articles on the subject of legal argument that have appeared in Anglo-American philosophy journals and law reviews. This volume offers a collection of essays by philosophers and legal scholars on economics, artificial intelligence and the physical sciences.