Five Types of Legal Argument

Name: Five Types of Legal Argument
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ISBN: 9780890891070

ISBN-10: 0890891079

ISBN-13: 9780890891070

Edition: 2002

Authors: Wilson R. Huhn

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Organized simply and logically, The Five Types of Legal Argument shows readers how to identify, create, attack, and evaluate the five types of legal arguments (text, intent, precedent, tradition and policy). It also describes how to weave the arguments together to make them more persuasive and how to attack legal arguments. In this book, Huhn demonstrates exactly why the legal reasoning in a case is difficult to analyze. Each type of legal argument has a different structure and draws upon different evidence of what the law is. Thus this book does not merely introduce readers to law and legal reasoning, but shows how the five different legal arguments are constructed so that various…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: The Voices of the Law


The Purpose of Legal Education


The Five Types of Legal Arguments


Text


Intent


Precedent


Tradition


Policy


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


Discovering a Court's Judicial Philosophy and Your Own Philosophy of Life


Index of Authors and Judges


Index of Cases


Topical Index