Dimensions of legal reasoning : developing analytical acuity from law school to law practice /
"Although [this book] begins with attention to some of the basics of legal thinking, it progresses quickly to fundamental issues of legal theory and current legal conflict. The book's goal is to delve deep into the thought process of lawyers and judges confronted with difficult controversi...
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Durham, North Carolina :
Carolina Academic Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- The challenge of calling "balls and strikes": the curious case of Gould v. Roberts
- To flatlaw and beyond : appreciating multiple analytic dimensions
- The traditions of legal reasoning : developing analytical legitimacy despite substantive disagreement
- Rethinking the analytic tradition : text, context, hypertext, and subtext
- The challenge of text : the relationship of "is," "ought," and focal meaning
- The challenge of context : what "is" means in both facts and law
- The challenge of hypertext : the struggle within "ought" of multiple perspectives on fundamental values
- The challenge of subtext : considering the judiciary's role in the "game" of legal life
- The right (or rights?) to privacy (or privacies?)
- The never-ending disagreements over statutory interpretation : the primacy of subtext