Demystifying Legal Reasoning
Download or Read eBook Demystifying Legal Reasoning PDF written by Larry Alexander and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-16 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Larry Alexander |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2008-06-16 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781139472470 |
| ISBN-13 | : 113947247X |
| Rating | : 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Demystifying Legal Reasoning by : Larry Alexander
Book excerpt: Demystifying Legal Reasoning defends the proposition that there are no special forms of reasoning peculiar to law. Legal decision makers engage in the same modes of reasoning that all actors use in deciding what to do: open-ended moral reasoning, empirical reasoning, and deduction from authoritative rules. This book addresses common law reasoning when prior judicial decisions determine the law, and interpretation of texts. In both areas, the popular view that legal decision makers practise special forms of reasoning is false.
