Legal Argumentation Theory: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

• Table of Contents.- Introduction; Christian Dahlman and Eveline Feteris.- Reasoning by Consequences: Applying Different Argumentation Structures to the Analysis of Consequentialist Reasoning in Judicial Decisions; Flavia Carbonell.- On the Argumentum ad Absurdum Statutory Interpretation: its Uses and Normative Significance; Thomas Bustamante.- Why precedent in law (and elsewhere) is not totally (or even substantially) about analogy; Frederick Schauer.- Fallacies in Ad Hominem Arguments; Christian Dahlman, David Reidhav and Lena Wahlberg.- The Rule of Law and the Ideal of a Critical Discussion; Harm Kloosterhuis.- Strategic Maneuvering with the Argumentative Role of Legal Principles in the Case of the “Unworthy Spouse”; Eveline Feteris.- Legal argumentation and the normativity of legal Norms; Carlos Bernal.- Weighing and Balancing in the Light of Deliberation and Expression; Bruce Anderson.- Construction or reconstruction? On the Function of Argumentation in the Law; Jaap Hage.- The Argument from Psychological Typology for a Mild Separation between the Context of Discovery and the Context of Justification; Marko Novak.- Constitutive Rules and Coherence in Legal Argumentation: The Case of Extensive and Restrictive Interpretation; Antonino Rotolo and Corrado Roversi.- Is Balancing a Method of Rational Justification sui generis?; Jan Sieckmann.- Arguing on Facts. Truth, Trials and Adversary Procedures.; Giovanni Tuzet.- Index.

From the book reviews: "This collection of essays on legal argumentation theory should attract a broad audience of scholars from legal philosophy, argumentation, and logic. This book offers a broad range of theoretical essays that would be appropriate either as a textbook or for supplemental readings for an advanced level class on legal argumentation. ... the volume should be useful and pertinent for theorists who study legal argumentation in those locations." (Janice Schuetz, Journal of Argument in Context, Vol. 32 (2), 2014)