Five Types of Legal Argument, Second Edition

Name: Five Types of Legal Argument, Second Edition
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ISBN: 9781594605161

ISBN-10: 1594605165

ISBN-13: 9781594605161

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: Wilson Huhn

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The Five Types of Legal Argument succeeds both as a work of legal theory and as a practical guide to legal reasoning for law students, lawyers and judges. Huhn shows readers how to identify, create, attack, and evaluate the five types of legal arguments (text, intent, precedent, tradition and policy) and how to weave the different types of arguments toge the theoretical and practical themes of the work. Huhn introduces two additional ways of attacking legal arguments, and in a new chapter he utilizes principles of deductive logic to demonstrate the validity of the theory of the five types of legal arguments. The principal strength of this book is its clarity. Organized simply and logically,…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Publication date: 1/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



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


A Logical Demonstration of the Theory of the Five Types of Legal Argument


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


Index to Authors and Judges


Index to Cases


Topical Index