The five types of legal argument /
"Beginning law students often wonder what is so hard about learning the law of being a lawyer. It should be easy - you should be able to look up the law on any subject and apply it to the facts. We shouldn't even need lawyers and judges to tell us what the law is. In law school, professors...
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Durham, NC :
Carolina Academic Press,
[2014]
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| Edition: | 3rd ed |
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Table of Contents:
- The purpose of legal education
- The five types of legal arguments
- Text
- Intent
- Precedent
- Tradition
- Policy
- Identifying the five types of legal arguments
- Creating persuasive arguments
- How to attack legal arguments
- Intra-type attacks on textual arguments
- Intra-type attacks on intent arguments
- Intra-type attacks on precedent arguments
- Intra-type attacks on tradition arguments
- Intra-type attacks on policy arguments
- Cross-type arguments
- Foundational cross-type arguments
- Relational cross-type arguments
- Text versus intent
- Precedent versus policy
- Text versus policy
- Text versus precedent
- A logical demonstration of the theory of the five types of legal argument
- Discovering a court's judicial philosophy and your own philosophy of life