Analogy and exemplary reasoning in legal discourse
- ISBN: 9789462985902
- Editorial: Amsterdam University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2018
- Lugar de la edición: Amsterdam. Países Bajos
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 196
- Idiomas: Inglés
This book brings together contributions from leading figures in legal studies on analogy and related forms of reasoning in the law. Analogical reasoning-which relies on the concept of two different things being in some way like each other-is hugely important not just in the practice of law, but it is nonetheless strongly contested. This volume raises key questions like: What is the logical, argumentative, rhetorical, or just heuristic force of analogy in law? Is analogy really different from extensive interpretation, reasoning by precedent and appeal to paradigm?.