Research Handbook on Legal Argumentation

Edited by Luís Duarte d’Almeida, Professor of Jurisprudence, NOVA School of Law, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal; Researcher, CEDIS – R&D Centre on Law and Society; and Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Edinburgh, UK; Ruth Chang, Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford, UK; Lilian Bermejo-Luque, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy I, University of Granada, Spain; Euan MacDonald, Senior Lecturer in Jurisprudence, School of Law, University of Edinburgh, UK; and Fábio Perin Shecaira, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

‘This Handbook provides a tremendously valuable and wide-ranging exploration of the nature of legal argumentation, its aims, constraints, and techniques. The wide range of contributors from common law and civil law jurisdictions adds a critically valuable range of perspectives and intellectual resources. The volume will serve as an essential resource for advanced researchers and a helpful guide to the subject for beginning scholars. Moreover, the clear and accessible writing will engage legal practitioners and promote reflection on the arguments they routinely offer in their everyday legal practice.’

• Contents1 Arguing in law: introduction to the Research Handbook on LegalArgumentation 1Luís Duarte d’Almeida, Ruth Chang, Lilian Bermejo-Luque, EuanMacDonald and Fábio Perin ShecairaPART I ELEMENTS2 Should judges give reasons for their decisions? 13Fábio Perin Shecaira3 Legal interpretation: Concept, conceptions, and interpretative arguments inthe civil law tradition 29Isabel Lifante-Vidal4 Interpretation in the common law 46Barbara Baum Levenbook5 Arguing from precedent and arguing about precedent 63Robert Mullins6 Arguing from foreign precedent in constitutional interpretation 81Tania Groppi7 Principles, balancing, and proportionality 96Chiara Valentini8 Arguing about normative positions 115Mark McBride9 Legal fictions 128Kevin TohPART II TYPES10 Arguing from authority 146Lucas Miotto11 Expert evidence, preemptive reasoning, and the rationality of deference 163Rachel Herdy12 Arguments by analogy 180Luís Duarte d’Almeida and Silvia Zorzetto13 Coherence and legal principles in legal argumentation 197Cláudio Michelon14 A contrario arguments 213Damiano Canale and Giovanni Tuzet15 A fortiori arguments 228J.J. Moreso16 Arguing from consequences 246Flavia Carbonell Bellolio17 Slippery slope arguments 261Luís Duarte d’Almeida and Gema MarcillaPART III LOGICS18 Deontic logic, legal argumentation, and norms as functions 280Maribel Narváez Mora19 Informal logic and legal argumentation 303Katharina Stevens20 Presumptions and burdens of proof 325Josep Aguiló-Regla21 Defeasible legal concepts and judicial argumentation 336Francesca Poggi22 Argumentation in AI and law 352Giovanni Sartor23 Argumentative patterns in law: The pragma-dialectical perspective 374Eveline T. Feteris and H. José PlugPART IV THEORIES24 Argument and artifice: What is special about legal argumentation? 392Euan MacDonald25 Legal argumentation and the nature of law 412Torben Spaak26 The methodology of legal argumentation: A framework 427David Martínez-Zorrilla27 Contemporary research on legal argumentation in China 442Zihan Niu and Minghui Xiong28 What should a theory of legal argumentation accomplish? 454Manuel AtienzaPART V JUDGING WELL29 Feminist approaches to legal argumentation 470Sharon Cowan and Chloë Kennedy30 Virtue and legal reasoning 487Amalia Amaya31 Emotions in common law reasoning 504Maksymilian Del Mar32 The rhetoric of legal argumentation 519Sue E. Provenzano and Kathryn Stanchi33 Hard cases in law 536Piero Ríos Carrillo34 Experimental philosophy and legal reasoning 552Noel Struchiner and Guilherme da Franca Couto Fernandes de Almeida