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    A short introduction to judging and to legal reasoning / Geoffrey Samuel, Professor, Kent Law School, UK, and Professor affilié, École de droit, Sciences-Po, Paris, France.

    • Title:A short introduction to judging and to legal reasoning / Geoffrey Samuel, Professor, Kent Law School, UK, and Professor affilié, École de droit, Sciences-Po, Paris, France.
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    • Author/Creator:Samuel, Geoffrey, 1947- author.
    • Published/Created:Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2016]
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Law--Great Britain--Methodology.
      Law--Great Britain--Cases.
    • Description:xiii, 191 pages ; 25 cm
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-168) and index.
    • ISBN:1785365916
      9781785365911 (cased)
      9781785365928 (eBook)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. What judging and legal reasoning have been
      1.1. Roman legal reasoning
      1.2. Medieval jurists
      1.3. Later jurists
      1.4. Legal reasoning in the later civil law
      1.5. Legal formalism (dogmatics)
      1.6. Common lawyers
      1.7. Legal reasoning in the common law
      1.8. Interpretation of statutes
      1.9. Legacy of the past
      Further reading and questions
      2. Judging and legal reasoning today (`official portrait') (1)
      2.1. Rule model
      2.2. Applying the rule model
      2.3. Interpretation model
      2.4. Interpreting texts
      2.5. Rules of interpretation
      2.6. Interpreting cases
      Further reading and questions
      3. Judging and legal reasoning today (`official portrait') (2)
      3.1. Rights model
      3.2. Abuse of rights
      3.3. Policy model
      3.4. Interest model
      3.5. Remedies model
      3.6. Equitable remedies
      3.7. Remedies and reasoning
      3.8. Reflections on the official portrait
      Further reading and questions
      4. `unofficial portrait'
      4.1. Realist vision
      4.2. Facts and reasoning
      4.3. Fact reconstruction and remedies
      4.4. Interpretation and schemes of intelligibility
      4.5. Reasoning through images
      4.6. Reasoning and the persona
      4.7. Excursus: persona and fiction
      4.8. Image: construction and representation (representation theory)
      Further reading and questions
      5. relationship between the official and unofficial portraits (1)
      5.1. Authority paradigm
      5.2. Authority and coherence
      5.3. Authority and justice
      5.4. Authority and policy
      5.5. Authority and structuralism
      5.6. Authority as restraint
      5.7. Authority and evidence
      Further reading and questions
      6. relationship between the official and unofficial portraits (2)
      6.1. Inquiry paradigm and schemes of intelligibility
      6.2. Explanation (causation) versus meaning (hermeneutics)
      6.3. Inquiry paradigm and human beings
      6.4. Level of observation
      6.5. Actionalism and methodological individualism
      6.6. Structuralism versus hermeneutics (reception theory)
      6.7. Postmodern and post-axiomatic approaches
      6.8. Law as fiction (fiction theory)
      Further reading and questions.
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