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Argument Types and Fallacies in Legal Argumentation

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Editors:
  1. Thomas Bustamante

    1. Faculdade de Direito, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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  2. Christian Dahlman

    1. Faculty of Law, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

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  • Offers useful tools that can be applied in the evaluation of legal arguments
  • Includes important recent advances on various argument types and fallacies
  • First book on various argument types and fallacies to focus on legal argumentation
  • Includes contributions written by top international scholars in legal theory (Frederick Schauer, Pierluigi Chiassoni, Jose Juan Moreso, Giovanni Tuzet and others)
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Law and Philosophy Library (LAPS, volume 112)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Argument Types or Fallacies?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Appeal to Expert Testimony – A Bayesian Approach

      • Christian Dahlman, Lena Wahlberg
      Pages 3-18

    3. Ad Hominem Fallacies and Epistemic Credibility

      • Audrey Yap
      Pages 19-35

    4. On the Absence of Evidence

      • Giovanni Tuzet
      Pages 37-51

    5. The Uses of Slippery Slope Argument

      • José Juan Moreso
      Pages 53-65

    6. Institutional Constraints of Topical Strategic Maneuvering in Legal Argumentation. The Case of ‘Insulting’

      • Harm Kloosterhuis
      Pages 67-75

    7. One-Sided Argumentation in the Defense of Marriage Act

      • Janice Schuetz
      Pages 77-91

  3. Argument Types and Legal Interpretation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Anti-Theoretical Claims About Legal Interpretation: The Argument Behind the Fallacy

      • Thomas Bustamante
      Pages 95-110

    3. Frames of Interpretations and the Container-Retrieval View: Reflections on a Theoretical Contest

      • Pierluigi Chiassoni
      Pages 111-128

    4. Argument Structures in Legal Interpretation: Balancing and Thresholds

      • Michał Araszkiewicz
      Pages 129-150

    5. An Analysis of Some Juristic Techniques for Handling Systematic Defects in the Law

      • Giovanni Battista Ratti
      Pages 151-177

    6. Argumentation from Reasonableness in the Justification of Judicial Decisions

      • Eveline T. Feteris
      Pages 179-201

    7. Legal Argumentation and Theories of Adjudication in the U.S. Legal Tradition: A Critical View of Cass Sunstein’s Minimalism, Richard Posner’s Pragmatism and Ronald Dworkin’s Advocacy of Integrity

      • Bernardo Gonçalves Fernandes
      Pages 203-218

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 219-222
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About this book

This book provides theoretical tools for evaluating the soundness of arguments in the context of legal argumentation. It deals with a number of general argument types and their particular use in legal argumentation. It provides detailed analyses of argument from authority, argument ad hominem, argument from ignorance, slippery slope argument and other general argument types. Each of these argument types can be used to construct arguments that are sound as well as arguments that are unsound. To evaluate an argument correctly one must be able to distinguish the sound instances of a certain argument type from its unsound instances. This book promotes the development of theoretical tools for this task.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculdade de Direito, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Thomas Bustamante

  • Faculty of Law, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Christian Dahlman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Argument Types and Fallacies in Legal Argumentation

  • Editors: Thomas Bustamante, Christian Dahlman

  • Series Title: Law and Philosophy Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16148-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-16147-1Published: 20 April 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35487-3Published: 05 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-16148-8Published: 07 April 2015

  • Series ISSN: 1572-4395

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0315

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 222

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Philosophy of Law

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