Author	Feteris, Eveline T. author
Title	Fundamentals of Legal Argumentation [electronic resource] : A Survey of Theories on the Justification of Judicial Decisions / by Eveline T. Feteris
Imprint	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1999
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9219-2
Descript	X, 225 p. online resource

Legal argumentation is a distinctively multidisciplinary field of inquiry. It draws its data, assumptions and methods from disciplines such as legal theory, legal philosophy, logic, argumentation theory, rhetoric, linguistics, literary theory, philosophy, sociology, and artificial intelligence. This presents the growing group of interested scholars and students with a problem of access, since, even for those active in the field, it is not common to have acquired a familiarity with relevant aspects of each discipline that enters into this multidisciplinary matrix. Fundamentals of Legal Argumentation offers its readers a unique and comprehensive survey of the various theoretical influences which have informed the study of legal argumentation. It discusses salient backgrounds to this field as well as all major approaches and trends in the contemporary research. It surveys relevant theoretical factors both from various continental law traditions and common law countries

One Research into Legal Argumentation -- Two A Survey of Approaches and Topics -- Three The Logical Approach -- Four Toulminโs Argumentation Model -- Five Perelmanโs New Rhetoric -- Six Habermasโ Theory of Communicative Rationality -- Seven Maccormickโs Theory of the Justification of Legal Decisions -- Eight Alexyโs Procedural Theory of Legal Argumentation -- Nine Aarnioโs Theory of the Justification of Legal Interpretations -- Ten Peczenikโs Theory of Transformations in the Law -- Eleven The Pragma-Dialectical Theory of Legal Argumentation in the Context of a Critical Discussion -- Twelve Towards A Theory of Legal Argumentation in the Context of a Critical Discussion -- Author Index

1. Philosophy
2. Logic
3. Ontology
4. Political science
5. Law -- Philosophy
6. Law
7. Industrial organization
8. Philosophy
9. Logic
10. Theories of Law
11. Philosophy of Law
12. Legal History
13. Philosophy of Law
14. Ontology
15. Industrial Organization