Universals of Legal Reasoning by Judges: A Plea for Candour in Decision-Making

by Thomas Lundmark

Universals in Legal Reasoning by Judges explores and expounds the usage of rules to justify judicial decisions. Inspired by Savigny's canons of interpretation, and informed by the author's years of study and teaching in Germany, the book constructs a matrix for all legal argumentation in place of the so-called rules of interpretation, classifying justificatory arguments into four categories: textual, historical, purposive, and system-contextual. Along...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198785674
• ISBN13: 9780198785675
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages