Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.
This insightful and highly readable Advanced Introduction provides a succinct, yet comprehensive, overview of legal reasoning, covering both reasoning from canonical texts and legal decision-making in the absence of rules. Overall, it argues that there are only two methods by which judges decide legal disputes: deductive reasoning from rules and unconstrained moral, practical, and empirical reasoning.
| ISBN: | 9781789903164 |
| Publication date: | 28th May 2021 |
| Author: | Larry Alexander, Emily Sherwin |
| Publisher: | Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 224 pages |
| Series: | Elgar Advanced Introductions |
| Genres: |
Methods, theory and philosophy of law Legal systems: courts and procedures Criminal law: procedure and offences |
Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.
This insightful and highly readable Advanced Introduction provides a succinct, yet comprehensive, overview of legal reasoning, covering both reasoning from canonical texts and legal decision-making in the absence of rules. Overall, it argues that there are only two methods by which judges decide legal disputes: deductive reasoning from rules and unconstrained moral, practical, and empirical reasoning.
Advanced Introduction to Legal Reasoning features in the following genres: Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Legal systems: courts and procedures, Criminal law: procedure and offences
Advanced Introduction to Legal Reasoning is available in Paperback, Hardback, Ebook
Advanced Introduction to Legal Reasoning was written by Larry Alexander, Emily Sherwin and published by Edward Elgar Publishing
Advanced Introduction to Legal Reasoning has 224 pages
Yes it is part of Elgar Advanced Introductions series