A Primer on Legal Reasoning /
"An introduction to the most important forms of legal reasoning using the principles of analytical or critical thinking"--
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, New York :
ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,
2018.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Issues
- Identifying the governing rule of law
- Levels of abstraction
- Deduction
- Induction
- Arguments in general
- Arguments classified by function
- Arguments based on evidence
- Policy arguments
- Doctrinal arguments
- Analogies and precedents
- Distinctions
- Holding and dictum
- Reductios ad absurdum
- Subjective and objective standards
- Interpreting statutes
- Prima facie case, affirmative defense, burden of proof
- Application of law to fact
- A model of legal argument.