Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory

Author: Oxford University Press, UK
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: How are arguments in a legal case judged as good or bad according to what standards? Can a court's judgment be proven through pure rational argument alone, or does its proof ultimately depend on some more subjective factors? These are the core questions of jurisprudence, and Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory provides a comprehensive and critical examination of them. When the book was reprinted in 1994, the author revised the preface. Its clear and forceful exposition and argumentation have already established it as a classic, making it of great value to jurists, philosophers, and all readers interested in the legal process, human rational reasoning, or practical logic.