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The five types of legal argument
Title
The five types of legal argument / by Wilson Huhn.
ISBN
9781531024413
1531024416
9781531024420
Edition
Fourth edition.
Publication
Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, LLC, [2022]
Physical Description
xvi, 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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 book describes and explains how lawyers use logic, reasoning by analogy, and policy analysis in resolving progressively more difficult cases. The fourth edition of the book includes new chapters that illustrate policy arguments through the use of graphs and advises law students how to answer essay exam questions"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Huhn, Wilson. Five types of legal argument. Fourth edition. Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, LLC, [2022]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 13, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The voices of the law
The purpose of legal education
The five types of legal arguments
Text
Intent
Precedent
Tradition
Policy
Graphing the purposes of the law
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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