STRUCTURE OF LEGAL ARGUMENT AND PROOF Cases, Materials and Analyses 2nd Edition
Covington, James S., Jr.
Item: 332830
ISBN: 0-8377-3109-7, 978-0-8377-3109-4
Pages: xxvi, 459 pp.
Published: 2006
Designed to give law students a foundation in methods of critical analysis of legal argument and proof to improve on their use of intuitive analysis. Organized around classic deductive and inductive argument, the text explains legal reasoning by hypothesis, the syllogism, analogy and generalization. The text examines common fallacies in reasoning, which must be understood if one is to have an adequate understanding of legal argument. The book introduces theories of proof used in trials and provides methods for analyzing legal rules and abstractions that are essential to beginning legal studies. There are grapic representations and cases that provide meaning for essential ideas such as relevance, weight and burden of proof.
