Argument Types and Fallacies in Legal Argumentation

Introduction. - about the authors. - I. Argument Types or Fallacies? . - 1. Appeal to Expert Testimony A Bayesian Approach; Christian Dahlman and Lena Wahlberg. - 2. Ad Hominem Fallacies and Epistemic Credibility; Audrey Yap. - 3. On the Absence of Evidence; Giovanni Tuzet. - 4. The Uses of Slippery Slope Argument; Jose Juan Moreso. - 5. Institutional constraints of topical strategic maneuvering in legal argumentation. The case of `insulting ; Harm Kloosterhuis. - 6. One-Sided Argumentation in the Defense of Marriage Act; Janice Schuetz. - II. Argument Types and Legal Interpretation. - 7. Anti-Theoretical Claims about Legal Interpretation: The Argument behind the Fallacy; Thomas Bustamante. - 8. Frames of Interpretations and the Container-Retrieval View: Reflections on a Theoretical Contest; Pierluigi Chiassoni. - 9. Argument Structures in Legal Interpretation: Balancing and Thresholds; Micha Araszkiewicz. - 10. An Analysis of some Juristic Techniques for Handling Systematic Defects in the Law; Giovanni Battista Ratti. - 11. Argumentation from reasonableness in the justification of judicial decisions; Eveline Feteris. - 12. Legal Argumentation and Theories of Adjudication in the U. S. Legal Tradition: Between Cass Sunstein s Minimalism, Richard Posner s Pragmatism and Ronald Dworkin s Advocacy of Integrity; Bernardo Gonçalves Fernandes. - Index.