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Research Handbook on Legal Argumentation

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

ISBN13: 9781803925424
To be Published: October 2025
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
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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.

Subjects:
Jurisprudence, Legal Skills and Method
Contents:
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