Melvin A. Eisenberg (Berkeley University of California)

Legal Reasoning

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Legal Reasoning concerns the modes of reasoning utilized in the common law, which is made by courts and consists of the rules that govern the relations between individuals, such as contracts. The book is addressed to legal scholars, law students, pre-law students, and the general public.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 200g
• ISBN-13: 9781009162500
• ISBN-10: 1009162500
• Artikelnr.: 63561494

Autorenporträt

Melvin Aron Eisenberg is Jesse H. Choper Professor of Law Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley Law School. He is the author of The Nature of the Common Law and Foundational Principles of Contract Law.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. A brief introduction to the common law
2. The rule-based model of legal reasoning
3. Reasoning from precedent and the principle of stare decisis
4. How it is determined what rule a precedent establishes
5. Reasoning from authoritative although not legally binding legal rules
6. The role of social morality, social policy, and empirical propositions in legal reasoning and the judicial adoption of new legal rules based on social propositions
7. Legal rules, principles, and standards
8. The malleability of legal rules
9. Hiving off new legal rules, creating exceptions to established rules, and distinguishing
10. Reasoning from analogy
11. The roles of logic, deduction, and good judgement in legal reasoning
12. Reasoning from hypotheticals
13. Overruling.