pt. I

Argument Types or Fallacies?

1.

Appeal to Expert Testimony -- A Bayesian Approach / Lena Wahlberg

3

2.

Ad Hominem Fallacies and Epistemic Credibility / Audrey Yap

19

3.

On the Absence of Evidence / Giovanni Tuzet

37

4.

The Uses of Slippery Slope Argument / Jose Juan Moreso

53

5.

Institutional Constraints of Topical Strategic Maneuvering in Legal Argumentation. The Case of `Insulting' / Harm Kloosterhuis

67

6.

One-Sided Argumentation in the Defense of Marriage Act / Janice Schuetz

77

pt. II

Argument Types and Legal Interpretation

7.

Anti-Theoretical Claims About Legal Interpretation: The Argument Behind the Fallacy / Thomas Bustamante

95

8.

Frames of Interpretations and the Container-Retrieval View: Reflections on a Theoretical Contest / Pierluigi Chiassoni

111

9.

Argument Structures in Legal Interpretation: Balancing and Thresholds / Michal Araszkiewicz

129

10.

An Analysis of Some Juristic Techniques for Handling Systematic Defects in the Law / Giovanni Battista Ratti

151

11.

Argumentation from Reasonableness in the Justification of Judicial Decisions / Eveline T. Feteris

179

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 / Bernardo Goncalves Fernandes

203

Index

219