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The five types of legal argument
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- Creator
- Wilson Huhn
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Third edition
- Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2014]
- Physical Details
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- xv, 228 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 1611635888, 9781611635881
- OCLC
- ocn869881371
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The purpose of legal education -- The five types of legal arguments -- Text -- Intent -- Precedent -- Tradition -- Policy -- Identifying the five types of legal arguments -- Creating persuasive arguments -- How to attack legal arguments -- Intra-type attacks on textual arguments -- Intra-type attacks on intent arguments -- Intra-type attacks on precedent arguments -- Intra-type attacks on tradition arguments -- Intra-type attacks on policy arguments -- Cross-type arguments -- Foundational cross-type arguments -- Relational cross-type arguments -- Text versus intent -- Precedent versus policy -- Text versus policy -- Text versus precedent -- A logical demonstration of the theory of the five types of legal argument -- Reasoning by analogy is the bridge between formalism and realism -- Discovering a court's judicial philosophy and your own philosophy of life