Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Reasoning by consequences : applying different argumentation structures to the analysis of consequentialist reasoning in judicial decisions / Flavia Carbonell -- On the Argumentum ad Absurdum in statutory interpretation : its uses and normative significance / Thomas Bustamante -- Why precedent in law (and elsewhere) is not totally (or even substantially) about analogy / Frederick Schauer -- Fallacies in Ad Hominem arguments / Christian Dahlman, David Reidhav, and Lena Wahlberg -- The rule of law and the ideal of a critical discussion / Harm Kloosterhuis -- Strategic maneuvering with the argumentative role of legal principles in the case of the "unworthy spouse" / Eveline T. Feteris -- Legal argumentation and the normativity of legal norms / Carlos Bernal -- Weighing and balancing in the light of deliberation and expression / Bruce Anderson -- Construction or reconstruction? : On the function of argumentation in the law / Jaap Hage -- The argument from psychological typology for a mild separation between the context of discovery and the context of justification / Marko Novak -- Constitutive rules and coherence in legal argumentation : the case of extensive and restrictive interpretation / Antonino Rotolo and Corrado Roversi -- Is balancing a method of rational justification sui generis? / Jan Sieckmann -- Arguing on facts : truth, trials and adversary procedures / Giovanni Tuzet.