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Record Nr.

UNINA9910272342103321

Autore

Kaptein Hendrik

Titolo

Analogy and exemplary reasoning in legal discourse / / edited by Hendrik Kaptein and Bastiaan van der Velden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam University Press, 2018

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

90-485-3714-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 pages)

Disciplina

340/.1

Soggetti

Law - Methodology

Analogy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-187) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Imitation and analogy / Amalia Amaya -- Indefeasible analogical argument / Scott Brewer -- Is analogy a form of legal reasoning? / Bartosz Brożek -- Analogical reasoning and extensive interpretation / Damiano Canale and Giovanni Tuzet -- Analogy and balancing : the partial reducibility thesis and its problems / David Duarte -- Analogy and balancing : a reply to David Duarte / Bartosz Brożek -- Analogy and balancing once again : a reply to Bartosz Brożek / David Duarte -- Argument by analogy in the law / Martin Golding -- Undoing damage by analogy : as if (almost) nothing happened, with notes on the meaning of everything / Hendrik Kaptein -- Analogy in the strict liability rules in the Dutch civil code / Bastiaan van der Velden.

Sommario/riassunto

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?