1 Reasoning by Consequences:Applying Different Argumentation Structures to the Analysis of Consequentialist Reasoning in Judicial Decisions&Flavia Carbonell 1
2 On the Argumentum ad Absurdum in Statutory Interpretation:Its Uses and Normative Significance&Thomas Bustamante 21
3 Why Precedent in Law (and Elsewhere) Is Not Totally (or Even Substantially) About Analogy&Frederick Schauer 45
4 Fallacies in Ad Hominem Arguments&Christian Dahlman,David Reidhav,and Lena Wahlberg 57
5 The Rule of Law and the Ideal of a Critical Discussion&Harm Kloosterhuis 71
6 Strategic Maneuvering with the Argumentative Role of Legal Principles in the Case of the "Unworthy Spouse"&Eveline T.Feteris 85
7 Legal Argumentation and the Normativity of Legal Norms&Carlos Bernal 103
8 Weighing and Balancing in the Light of Deliberation and Expression&Bruce Anderson 113
9 Construction or Reconstruction?On the Function of Argumentation in the Law&Jaap Hage 125
10 The Argument from Psychological Typology for a Mild Separation Between the Context of Discovery and the Context of Justification&Marko Novak 145
11 Constitutive Rules and Coherence in Legal Argumentation:The Case of Extensive and Restrictive Interpretation&Antonino Rotolo and Corrado Roversi 163
12 Is Balancing a Method of Rational Justification sui generis?&Jan Sieckmann 189
13 Arguing on Facts:Truth,Trials and Adversary Procedures&Giovanni Tuzet 207
About the Authors 225
Name Index 229
Subject Index 231