Argument Types and Fallacies in Legal Argumentation

Chapter 1 Appeal to Expert Testimony – A Bayesian Approach

Chapter 2 Ad Hominem Fallacies and Epistemic Credibility

Chapter 3 On the Absence of Evidence

Chapter 4 The Uses of Slippery Slope Argument

Chapter 5 Institutional Constraints of Topical Strategic Maneuvering in Legal Argumentation. The Case of ‘Insulting’

Chapter 6 One-Sided Argumentation in the Defense of Marriage Act

Chapter 7 Anti-Theoretical Claims About Legal Interpretation: The Argument Behind the Fallacy

Chapter 8 Frames of Interpretations and the Container-Retrieval View: Reflections on a Theoretical Contest

Chapter 9 Argument Structures in Legal Interpretation: Balancing and Thresholds

Chapter 10 An Analysis of Some Juristic Techniques for Handling Systematic Defects in the Law

Chapter 11 Argumentation from Reasonableness in the Justification of Judicial Decisions

Chapter 12 Legal Argumentation and Theories of Adjudication in the U.S. Legal Tradition: A Critical View of Cass Sunstein’s Minimalism, Richard Posner’s Pragmatism and Ronald Dworkin’s Advocacy of Integrity