Persuasion : getting to the other side /

Persuasion : getting to the other side /

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Author / Creator:	Singer, Joseph William, 1954- author.
Imprint:	Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, LLC, ©2020.
Description:	xiv, 192 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Law -- United States. Persuasion (Rhetoric) Forensic oratory. Legal composition. Forensic oratory. Law. Legal composition. Persuasion (Rhetoric) United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12027007

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ISBN:	9781531012250 1531012256
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This book is primarily intended to help law students learn how to make normative arguments about what the law should be when the legal rules are unclear or outdated. This book categorizes the arguments that lawyers use in debates about ambiguous or contested legal questions. It also explains how judges justify their decisions about what the law should be when the case involves competing values and there are plausible arguments on both sides. The goal is to provide law students a toolkit to help them engage in reasoned arguments about what the law should be"--

Table of Contents:

Why Civil Discourse Matters
How Lawyers Persuade
Rights, Fairness, Justice, Morality
Consequences, Social Welfare, Costs & Benefits
Democracy & the Rule of Law
Precedent
Rules & Standardsble
Interpretation
Framing
Value Specification & Contextualization
Prioritization
Property
Torts & Contracts
Civil Rights