[PDF] Advanced Introduction To Legal Reasoning eBook

Author : Larry Alexander
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,27 MB
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 1789903157

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This insightful and highly readable Advanced Introduction provides a succinct, yet comprehensive, overview of legal reasoning, covering both reasoning from canonical texts and legal decision-making in the absence of rules. Overall, 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.

Author : Steven J. Burton
Publisher : Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,93 MB
Release : 2007-01-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 1454834048

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Now in its Third Edition, An Introduction to Law and Legal Reasoning continues to be the ideal go-to for the first year law student. It is a short, practical book that introduces beginning law students and others to contemporary law and legal reasoning. By presenting these topics through various discussions of cases and examples, it provides students with a solid source to reference for years to come.

Author : Kenneth J. Vandevelde
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 13,46 MB
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429973888

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Law students, law professors, and lawyers frequently refer to the process of "thinking like a lawyer," but attempts to analyze in any systematic way what is meant by that phrase are rare. In his classic book, Kenneth J. Vandevelde defines this elusive phrase and identifies the techniques involved in thinking like a lawyer. Unlike most legal writings, which are plagued by difficult, virtually incomprehensible language, this book is accessible and clearly written and will help students, professionals, and general readers gain important insight into this well-developed and valuable way of thinking. Updated for a new generation of lawyers, the second edition features a new chapter on contemporary perspectives on legal reasoning. A useful new appendix serves as a survival guide for current and prospective law students and describes how to apply the techniques in the book to excel in law school.

Author : Ernst H. Ballin
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 1788977173

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Written by Ernst Hirsch Ballin, this original Advanced Introduction uncovers the foundations of legal research methods, an area of legal scholarship distinctly lacking in standardisation. The author shows how such methods differ along critical, empirical, and fundamental lines, and how our understanding of these is crucial to overcoming crises and restoring trust in the law. Key topics include a consideration of law as a normative language and an examination of the common objects of legal research.

Author : Edward H. Levi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 48,1 MB
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 022608986X

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An updated edition of the classic text by the former US attorney general and University of Chicago Law School dean. Originally published in 1949, An Introduction to Legal Reasoning is widely acknowledged as a classic text. As its opening sentence states, “This is an attempt to describe generally the process of legal reasoning in the field of case law and in the interpretation of statutes and of the Constitution.” In elegant and lucid prose, Edward H. Levi does just that in a concise manner, providing an intellectual foundation for generations of students as well as general readers. This updated edition includes a substantial new foreword by leading contemporary legal scholar Frederick Schauer that helpfully places this foundational book into its historical and legal contexts, explaining its continuing value and relevance to understanding the role of analogical reasoning in the law. This volume will continue to be of great value to students of logic, ethics, and political philosophy, as well as to members of the legal profession and everyone concerned with problems of government and jurisprudence.

Author : Martin P. Golding
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,89 MB
Release : 2001-03-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 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).

Author : Frederick Schauer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 2012-04-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674062485

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This primer on legal reasoning is aimed at law students and upper-level undergraduates. But it is also an original exposition of basic legal concepts that scholars and lawyers will find stimulating. It covers such topics as rules, precedent, authority, analogical reasoning, the common law, statutory interpretation, legal realism, judicial opinions, legal facts, and burden of proof.

Author : John Delaney
Publisher : John Delaney Publications
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 20,21 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Law
ISBN : 0960851445

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Publisher description: This widely used book in many printings begins with answers to forty commonly asked questions of first-year law students. It specifies a six-step approach to briefing a case with specific guidelines for accomplishing each step. The process of briefing cases is then demonstrated with excellent and poor briefs of increasing complexity. Emphasis is placed initially on the techniques of briefing as an introduction to the learning of legal reasoning, the first priority of the first year of law school. In addition, the book also demonstrates the relevance of more advanced modes of legal reasoning, including positivist, pragmatic, policy oriented, natural-law and other perspectives applied in decoding and understanding cases. In its introduction of jurisprudential perspectives, Learning Legal Reasoning transcends the typical technical/positivist orientation of most first-year materials.