A primer on legal reasoning /
After years of teaching law courses to undergraduate, graduate, and law students, Michael Evan Gold has come to believe that the traditional way of teaching - analysis, explanation, and example - is superior to the Socratic Method for students at the outset of their studies.In courses taught Socrati...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2018]
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Elektronická verze přístupná pouze pro studenty a pracovníky MU Cover |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Brief Contents
- Detailed Contents
- Introduction
- § 1. Issues
- § 2. Identifying the Governing Rule of Law
- § 3. Levels of Abstraction
- § 4. Deduction
- § 5. Induction
- § 6. Arguments in General
- § 7. Arguments Classifi ed by Function
- § 8. Arguments Based on Evidence
- § 9. Policy Arguments
- § 10. Doctrinal Arguments
- § 11. Analogies and Precedents: The Structure and Criteria for Evaluation of Legal Analogies
- § 12. Distinctions: Distinguishing Precedents, Disanalogies, and Precedents and Levels of Abstraction
- § 13. Holding and Dictum
- § 14. Reductios ad Absurdum
- § 15. Subjective and Objective Standards
- § 16. Interpreting Statutes
- § 17. Prima Facie Case, Affi rmative Defense, Burden of Proof
- § 18. Application of Law to Fact
- § 19. A Model of Legal Argument
- Answers