A Primer on Legal Reasoning / / Michael Evan Gold.
After years of teaching law courses to undergraduate, graduate, and law students, Michael Evan Gold has come to believe that the traditional way of teaching - analysis, explanation, and example - is superior to the Socratic Method for students at the outset of their studies.In courses taught Socrati...
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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Brief Contents
- Detailed Contents
- Introduction
- § 1. Issues
- § 2. Identifying the Governing Rule of Law
- § 3. Levels of Abstraction
- § 4. Deduction
- § 5. Induction
- § 6. Arguments in General
- § 7. Arguments Classifi ed by Function
- § 8. Arguments Based on Evidence
- § 9. Policy Arguments
- § 10. Doctrinal Arguments
- § 11. Analogies and Precedents: The Structure and Criteria for Evaluation of Legal Analogies
- § 12. Distinctions: Distinguishing Precedents, Disanalogies, and Precedents and Levels of Abstraction
- § 13. Holding and Dictum
- § 14. Reductios ad Absurdum
- § 15. Subjective and Objective Standards
- § 16. Interpreting Statutes
- § 17. Prima Facie Case, Affi rmative Defense, Burden of Proof
- § 18. Application of Law to Fact
- § 19. A Model of Legal Argument
- Answers