Law, Truth, and Reason: A Treatise on Legal Argumentation

By Raimo Siltala

Book Overview

1. Introduction.- 2. An Isomorphic Theory of Law: A Relation of Structural Similarity between the Two Fact-Constellations Compared.- 3. Coherence Theory of Law: Shared Congruence among Arguments Drawn from the Institutional and Societal Sources of Law.- 4. "Between the Evident and the Irrational" The New Rhetoric and Legal Argumentation Theory.- 5. Philosophical Pragmatism: Law, Judged in Light of Its Social Effects.- 6. Analytical Legal Positivism: Retracing the Original Intentions of the Legislator under Legal Exegesis.- 7. Legal Realism: The Law in Action, Not the Law in Books, as the Subject Matter of Legal Analysis.- 8. Legal Conventionalism: Law as an Expression of Collective Intentionality.- 9. "Die Rechtss tze in ihrem systematischen Zusammenhang zu erkennen" - The Thrust of Legal Formalism.- 10. Natural Law Philosophy: Law as a Subordinate to Social Justice and Political Morality in Society.- 11. Radical Decisionism: Social Justice on a Strictly Contextualist Basis.- 12. Intermission.- 13. Law and Metaphysics.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400718713
• ISBN13: 9789400718715
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"