The five types of legal argument
By: by Wilson Huhn.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781594605161
Subjects: Law -- United States -- Methodology; Judicial process -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The purpose of legal education; title: The five types of legal arguments; title: Text; title: Intent; title: Precedent; title: Tradition; title: Policy; title: Identifying the five types of legal arguments; title: Creating persuasive arguments; title: How to attack legal arguments; title: Intra-type attacks on textual arguments; title: Intra-type attacks on intent arguments; title: Intra-type attacks on precedent arguments; title: Intra-type attacks on tradition arguments; title: Intra-type attacks on policy arguments; title: Cross-type arguments; title: Foundational cross-type arguments; title: Relational cross-type arguments; title: Text versus intent; title: Precedent versus policy; title: Text versus policy; title: Text versus precedent; title: A logical demonstration of the theory of the five types of legal argument; title: Discovering a court's judicial philosophy and your own philosophy of life.