{"product_id":"demystifying-legal-reasoning-hardback-9780521878982","title":"Demystifying Legal Reasoning (Hardback) 9780521878982","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDemystifying Legal Reasoning\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book defends the proposition that there are no special forms of reasoning peculiar to law.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLarry Alexander (Author), Emily Sherwin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521878982, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 June 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.7 x 2.2 cm, 0.47 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDemystifying Legal Reasoning defends the proposition that there are no special forms of reasoning peculiar to law. Legal decision makers engage in the same modes of reasoning that all actors use in deciding what to do: open-ended moral reasoning, empirical reasoning, and deduction from authoritative rules. This book addresses common law reasoning when prior judicial decisions determine the law, and interpretation of texts. In both areas, the popular view that legal decision makers practise special forms of reasoning is false.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Law and its Function: 1. Moral controversy\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Common Law Reasoning: Deciding Cases When Prior Judicial Decisions Determine the Law: 2. Ordinary reason applied to law: natural reasoning and deduction from rules\u003cbr\u003e 3. The mystification of common-law reasoning\u003cbr\u003e 4. Common law practice\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Reasoning from Canonical Legal Text: 5. Interpreting statutes and other posited rules\u003cbr\u003e 6. Infelicities of the intended meaning of canonical texts and norms constraining interpretation\u003cbr\u003e 7. Non-intentionalist interpretation\u003cbr\u003e 8. Is constitutional interpretation different? Why it isn't and is\u003cbr\u003e 9. All or nothing.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Jurisprudence \u0026amp; philosophy of law [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Jurisprudence \u0026amp; philosophy of law\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Jurisprudence%20\u0026amp;%20philosophy%20of%20law%20%5BLAB%5D%22\"\u003eLAB\u003c\/a\u003e], Law [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Law\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Law%20%5BL%5D%22\"\u003eL\u003c\/a\u003e], Social \u0026amp; political philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; political philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20political%20philosophy%20%5BHPS%5D%22\"\u003eHPS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265320997144,"sku":"9780521878982","price":47.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521703956.jpg?v=1692021697","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/demystifying-legal-reasoning-hardback-9780521878982","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}