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Advanced Introduction to Legal Reasoning

Advanced Introduction to Legal Reasoning

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Elgar Advanced Introductions provide accessible yet rigorous surveys of major fields in the social sciences, business, and law, written by leading scholars. This introduction to legal reasoning offers a comprehensive overview of the subject, covering deductive and unconstrained moral, practical, and empirical reasoning, interpretive methods, and intention-based interpretation. It is a valuable resource for students, legal practitioners, scholars, and judges.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 200 pages
Publication date: 28 May 2021
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd


Elgar Advanced Introductions are captivating and insightful overviews of significant domains in the social sciences, business, and law, authored by esteemed scholars worldwide. These introductions are meticulously crafted to be accessible yet rigorous, providing concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.

This insightful and highly readable Advanced Introduction offers a succinct yet comprehensive overview of legal reasoning, encompassing both reasoning from canonical texts and legal decision-making in the absence of rules. It argues that there are only two methods by which judges decide legal disputes: deductive reasoning from rules and unconstrained moral, practical, and empirical reasoning.

The discussion and analysis of the interpretive methods used in legal decision-making provide guidance for the reader through the debates on analogical reasoning and construction of legal principles. Additionally, a defense of intention-based interpretation of legal rules and natural reasoning in law is presented.

This Advanced Introduction will be an invaluable resource for students seeking an overview of the subject. It will also be useful for legal practitioners, scholars, and judges.

Weight: 266g
Dimension: 220 x 141 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781789903164

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