TY  - BOOK
AU  - MacCormick,Neil
TI  - Rhetoric and the rule of law: a theory of legal reasoning
SN  - 9780199571246
U1  - 340.11 20
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Oxford (Inglaterra)
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Derecho
KW  - Metodología
KW  - Filosofía
KW  - Filosofía del derecho
N1  - Institutional theory and the lawmaker's perspective -- The rule of law and the arguable character of law -- On the legal syllogism -- Defending deductivism -- Universals and particulars -- Judging by consequences -- Arguing about interpretation -- Using precedents -- Being reasonable -- Coherence, principles, and analogies -- Legal narratives -- Arguing defeasibly -- Judging mistakenly?; View table of contents on the Internet via the World Wide Web
N2  - Is legal reasoning rationally persuasive, working within a discernible structure and using recognisable kinds of arguments? Does it belong to rhetoric in this sense, or to the domain of the merely 'rhetorical' in an adversative sense? Neil MacCormick tackles these questions to provide a comparative analysis of legal reasoning
ER  -