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Legal Reason: The Use of Analogy in Legal Argument
Lloyd L. Weinreb
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Description for Legal Reason: The Use of Analogy in Legal Argument
paperback. In this book, the pervasive use of analogies in the reasoning of lawyers and judges is explained in clear, simple, untechnical prose. Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 141 x 215 x 18. Weight in Grams: 260.
Legal Reason describes and explains analogical reasoning, the distinctive feature of legal argument. It challenges the prevailing view that analogical reasoning is a logically flawed, defective form of deductive reasoning. Drawing on work in epistemology and cognitive psychology, the book shows that analogical reasoning in the law is the same as that used by everyone routinely in ordinary life, and that it is a valid form of reasoning, derived from the innate human capacity to recognize the general in the particular. The use of analogical reasoning in law is dictated by the nature of law, which calls for the application ... Read more
Legal Reason describes and explains analogical reasoning, the distinctive feature of legal argument. It challenges the prevailing view that analogical reasoning is a logically flawed, defective form of deductive reasoning. Drawing on work in epistemology and cognitive psychology, the book shows that analogical reasoning in the law is the same as that used by everyone routinely in ordinary life, and that it is a valid form of reasoning, derived from the innate human capacity to recognize the general in the particular. The use of analogical reasoning in law is dictated by the nature of law, which calls for the application ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781316607329
SKU
V9781316607329
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About Lloyd L. Weinreb
Lloyd L. Weinreb is Dane Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Harvard Law School. His other books include Natural Law and Justice (1987) and Oedipus at Fenway Park: What Rights Are and Why There Are Any (1994).
Reviews for Legal Reason: The Use of Analogy in Legal Argument
'Legal Reason: The Use of Analogy in Legal Argument is for all comers. Weinreb provides excellent advice for beginning law students who are often bewildered by the case method. He engages leading scholars in the never-ending debate over the meaning and efficacy of legal reason. Not done, he reaches the general reader in ways that demystify legal inquiry. This is ... Read more