Argument Types and Fallacies in Legal Argumentation

This book provides theoretical tools for evaluating the soundness of arguments in the context of legal argumentation. It deals with a number of general argument types and their particular use in legal argumentation. It provides detailed analyses of argument from authority, argument ad hominem, argum...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bustamante, Thomas (Editor), Dahlman, Christian (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2015, 2015
Edition:1st ed. 2015
Series:Law and Philosophy Library
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • about the authors
  • I. Argument Types or Fallacies?
  • 1. Appeal to Expert Testimony – A Bayesian Approach; Christian Dahlman and  Lena Wahlberg
  • 2. Ad Hominem Fallacies and Epistemic Credibility; Audrey Yap
  • 3. On the Absence of Evidence; Giovanni Tuzet
  • 4. The Uses of Slippery Slope Argument; Jose Juan Moreso
  • 5. Institutional constraints of topical strategic maneuvering in legal argumentation. The case of ‘insulting’;  Harm Kloosterhuis
  • 6. One-Sided Argumentation in the Defense of Marriage Act; Janice Schuetz
  • II. Argument Types and Legal Interpretation
  • 7. Anti-Theoretical Claims about Legal Interpretation: The Argument behind the Fallacy; Thomas Bustamante
  • 8. Frames of Interpretations and the Container-Retrieval View: Reflections on a Theoretical Contest;  Pierluigi Chiassoni
  • 9. Argument Structures in Legal Interpretation: Balancing and Thresholds; Michał Araszkiewicz
  • 10. An Analysis of some Juristic Techniques for Handling Systematic Defects in the Law; Giovanni Battista Ratti
  • 11. Argumentation from reasonableness in the justification of judicial decisions;  Eveline Feteris
  • 12. Legal Argumentation and Theories of Adjudication in the U.S. Legal Tradition: Between Cass Sunstein’s Minimalism, Richard Posner’s Pragmatism and Ronald Dworkin’s Advocacy of Integrity; Bernardo Gonçalves Fernandes.- Index