Research Handbook on Legal Argumentation

Name: Research Handbook on Legal Argumentation
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9781803925424
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Author: Luís Duarte d''Almeida; Ruth Chang; Lilian Bermejo-Luque; Euan MacDonald; Fábio Perin Shecaira
ISBN: 9781803925424

Edited by Luís Duarte d''Almeida · Ruth Chang · Lilian Bermejo-Luque · Euan MacDonald · Fábio Perin Shecaira

Edward Elgar Publishing December 2025

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ISBN-13: 9781803925424
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication: December 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This Research Handbook presents thirty-three original contributions from leading experts around the globe on all aspects of legal argumentation. Each chapter combines theoretical and practical perspectives to introduce and develop its topic.

The volume explores the connections between legal argumentation, general jurisprudence, and argumentation theory. The result: the most detailed, comprehensive, and international overview of the field to date. The Research Handbook is organised into five parts. The first examines the core elements of legal argumentation. The second analyses many types of argument commonly used in law. The third situates legal argumentation within broader argumentation theory. The fourth examines its links with general jurisprudence. The fifth and final part takes a more holistic approach to what is involved in judging well.

This Research Handbook will interest not only students and scholars of legal argumentation, legal philosophers, and argumentation theorists, but also lawyers, judges, and other practitioners seeking to better understand their art.

1.
Arguing in law: introduction to the Research Handbook on Legal Argumentation 1: Luís Duarte d’Almeida, Ruth Chang, Lilian Bermejo-Luque, Euan MacDonald and Fábio Perin Shecaira; PART I ELEMENTS; 2.
Should judges give reasons for their decisions? 13: Fábio Perin Shecaira; 3.
Legal interpretation: Concept, conceptions, and interpretative arguments in the civil law tradition 29: Isabel Lifante-Vidal; 4.
Interpretation in the common law 46: Barbara Baum Levenbook; 5.
Arguing from precedent and arguing about precedent 63: Robert Mullins; 6.
Arguing from foreign precedent in constitutional interpretation 81: Tania Groppi; 7.
Principles, balancing, and proportionality 96: Chiara Valentini; 8.
Arguing about normative positions 115: Mark McBride; 9.
Legal fictions 128: Kevin Toh; PART II TYPES; 10.
Arguing from authority 146: Lucas Miotto; 11.
Expert evidence, preemptive reasoning, and the rationality of deference 163: Rachel Herdy; 12.
Arguments by analogy 180: Luís Duarte d’Almeida and Silvia Zorzetto; 13.
Coherence and legal principles in legal argumentation 197: Cláudio Michelon; 14.
A contrario arguments 213: Damiano Canale and Giovanni Tuzet; 15.
A fortiori arguments 228: J.J. Moreso; 16.
Arguing from consequences 246: Flavia Carbonell Bellolio; 17.
Slippery slope arguments 261: Luís Duarte d’Almeida and Gema Marcilla; PART III LOGICS; 18.
Deontic logic, legal argumentation, and norms as functions 280: Maribel Narváez Mora; 19.
Informal logic and legal argumentation 303: Katharina Stevens; 20.
Presumptions and burdens of proof 325: Josep Aguiló-Regla; 21.
Defeasible legal concepts and judicial argumentation 336: Francesca Poggi; 22.
Argumentation in AI and law 352: Giovanni Sartor; 23.
Argumentative patterns in law: The pragma-dialectical perspective 374: Eveline T. Feteris and H. José Plug; PART IV THEORIES; 24.
Argument and artifice: What is special about legal argumentation? 392: Euan MacDonald; 25.
Legal argumentation and the nature of law 412: Torben Spaak; 26.
The methodology of legal argumentation: A framework 427: David Martínez-Zorrilla; 27.
Contemporary research on legal argumentation in China 442: Zihan Niu and Minghui Xiong; 28.
What should a theory of legal argumentation accomplish? 454: Manuel Atienza; PART V JUDGING WELL; 29.
Feminist approaches to legal argumentation 470: Sharon Cowan and Chloë Kennedy; 30.
Virtue and legal reasoning 487: Amalia Amaya; 31.
Emotions in common law reasoning 504: Maksymilian Del Mar; 32.
The rhetoric of legal argumentation 519: Sue E. Provenzano and Kathryn Stanchi; 33.
Hard cases in law 536: Piero Ríos Carrillo; 34.
Experimental philosophy and legal reasoning 552: Noel Struchiner and Guilherme da Franca Couto Fernandes de Almeida