Handbook of Legal Reasoning and Argumentation [Hardcover]

This handbook addresses legal reasoning and argumentation from a logical, philosophical and legal perspective. The main forms of legal reasoning and argumentation are covered in an exhaustive and critical fashion, and are analysed in connection with more general types (and problems) of reasoning. Accordingly, the subject matter of the handbook divides in three parts. The first one introduces and discusses the basic concepts of practical reasoning. The second one discusses the general structures and procedures of reasoning and argumentation that are relevant to legal discourse. The third one looks at their instantiations and developments of these aspects of argumentation as they are put to work in the law, in different areas and applications of legal reasoning.

This well-balanced handbook offers the first deep analysis of the main forms of legal reasoning and argumentation from both a logical-philosophical and legal perspective. The book covers these forms in an exhaustive and critical fashion.

Contributors. - Introduction.- PART I Basic Concepts for Legal Reasoning.- Chapter 1 Reasons (and Reasons in Philosophy of Law); Giorgio Bongiovanni.- Chapter 2 Reasons in Moral Philosophy; Carla Bagnoli.- Chapter 3 Legal Reasoning and Argumentation; Douglas Walton.- Chapter 4 Norms in Action: a Logical Perspective; Emiliano Lorini.- Chapter 5 Of Norms; Jaap Hage.- Chapter 6 Values; Carla Bagnoli.- Chapter 7 The Goals of Norms; Cristiano Castelfranchi.- Chapter 8 Authority; Kenneth E. Himma.- Chapter 9 The Authority of Law; Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco.- PART II Kinds of Reasoning and the Law.- Chapter 1 Deductive and Deontic Reasoning; Antonino Rotolo.- Chapter 2 Inductive, Abductive, and Probabilistic Reasoning; Burkhard Schafer and Colin Aitken.- Chapter 3lÓ,