The Five Types of Legal Argument

About this book

Huhn demonstrates that there are five different types of legal arguments (based on text intent precedent tradition and policy) and through myriad examples this book teaches law students lawyers and judges how to identify create attack and evaluate each type of argument. The book contains useful advice and illustrations on how to weave the different types of arguments together to make them more persuasive. The third edition of the book adds a chapter on the role that reasoning by analogy plays in resolving difficult cases and in the development of the law.