Rhetoric and the Rule of Law: A Theory of Legal Reasoning

by Neil MacCormick

Book Overview

When cases come before courts can we predict the outcome? Is legal reasoning rationally persuasive, working within a formal structure and using recognizable forms of arguments to produce predictable results? Or is legal reasoning mere "rhetoric" in the pejorative sense, open to use, and abuse, to achieve whatever ends unscrupulous politicians, lawyers and judges desire? If the latter what becomes of the supposed security of living under the rule of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199571244
• ISBN13: 9780199571246
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"