Overview
- Provides access to recent developments in the theory of legal argumentation
- Offers a wide spectrum of the relevant topics and approaches, including reasoning by consequences, pluralism, proportionality, and process strategic maneuvering
- Presents representative contributions from disparate academic and legal cultures including Brazil, Canada, Chile, Slovenia, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, and the USA
Part of the book series: Law and Philosophy Library (LAPS, volume 102)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- (Ir)rationality of Judicial Decision-Making
- Advocacy in Legal Argumentation
- Argumentation ad Absurdum
- Coherence in Legal Argumentation
- Fallacies in Arguments
- Kelsen Discovery and Justification
- Legal Argumentation
- Legal Argumentation and the Rule of Law
- Legal Interpretation and Argumentation
- Legal Methodology and Argumentaion
- Legal Philosophy and Argumentation
- Legal Rationality and Argumentation
- Pluralism, Proportionality and Process
- Pragma-Dialectical Perspective
- Rational Justification
- Reasoning by Consequences
- Strategic Maneuvering with Argumentation
About this book
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.
Reviews
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“This collection of essays on legal argumentation theory should attract a broad audience of scholars from legal philosophy, argumentation, and logic. This book offers a broad range of theoretical essays that would be appropriate either as a textbook or for supplemental readings for an advanced level class on legal argumentation. … the volume should be useful and pertinent for theorists who study legal argumentation in those locations.” (Janice Schuetz, Journal of Argument in Context, Vol. 32 (2), 2014)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Legal Argumentation Theory: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Editors: Christian Dahlman, Eveline Feteris
Series Title: Law and Philosophy Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4670-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4669-5Published: 12 September 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8235-7Published: 15 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4670-1Published: 14 September 2012
Series ISSN: 1572-4395
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0315
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 236
Topics: Fundamentals of Law, Philosophy of Law, Semantics, Legal Aspects of Computing