Methods of legal reasoning

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Stelmach, Jerzy (Συγγραφέας), Brozek, Bartosz (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Θέματα: Law.; Logic.; Political science.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Law > Philosophy.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Philosophy of Law.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

The book attempts to describe and criticize four methods used in legal practice, legal dogmatics and legal theory: logic, analysis, argumentation and hermeneutics. Apart from a presentation of basic ideas connected with the above mentioned methods, the essays contained in this book seek to answer qu...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I. Controversy over legal methodology in the 19th and 20th centuries. 1. Three stances. 2. Methods of legal reasoning. 3. Logic – analysis – argumentation – hermeneutics
• Part II. Logic. 1. Introduction. 2. Classical logic: propositional logic and first order predicate logic. 3. Deontic logic. 4. Logic of action and logic of norms. 5. Defeasible logic. 6. Summary
• Part III. Analysis. 1. Introduction. 2. Linguistic analysis. 3. Economic analysis of law. 4. Summary
• Part IV. Argumentation. 1. Introduction. 2. Two conceptions of a legal discourse. 3. Legal argumentation
• Part V. Hermeneutics. 1. Introduction. 2. Hermeneutics as epistemology. 3. Hermeneutics as ontology. 4. The understanding of the law
• Part VI. Methods of legal reasoning from a post-modern perspective. 1. A summary. 2. Dilemmas of the contemporary philosophy of law. 3. The epistemological approach. 4. Unfinished projects.