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; Michal 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.