Inside the American legal mind : an international practitioner guide to American legal reasoning / Kevin J. Fandl.
2016
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Author
Title
Inside the American legal mind : an international practitioner guide to American legal reasoning / Kevin J. Fandl.
Published
New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
Call Number
KF300 .F36 2016
ISBN
9781138937819 (hardback ; alk. paper)
1138937819 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9780323356473 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0323356478 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781315638034 (ebk)
1138937819 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9780323356473 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0323356478 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781315638034 (ebk)
Description
x, 151 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)907061050
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Gift
Purchased from the income of the Fisch Fund
Gift

The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Fisch Fund
Table of Contents
Introduction
vii
1.
Value in Understanding American Legal Reasoning
1
Legal Reasoning as an Evolution of Ideas
5
Why You Should Study American Legal Reasoning Today
11
Unpredictable Jury
12
It Is So Ordered
43
Grand Juries
43
2.
Commercial History of the Common Law
47
Causa and Consideration
48
3.
Judge vs. the Legislature: Cases and Statutes
59
Judicial Power
60
Evolving Opinions
68
Judicial Review and Federalism
103
4.
Seduction of Deduction: Logic
113
Syllogism
115
Deductive Reasoning
116
5.
Arguing by Analogy: The Creative Lawyer
124
Cross-Cultural Arguments in the U.S. Judicial System: The Case of BG Group and Argentina
125
Background To The Bg Group Dispute
126
Bg Group's Argument
129
Preliminary Arguments
129
Argentina Clearly Consented To Arbitrate
131
Courts Must Respect The Sanctity Of Arbitration Or The Entire System May Fail
133
Argentina, The Bad Apple
137
6.
Concluding Remarks: Inside the Mind of the American Lawyer
141
Index
149