An Introduction to Legal Reasoning
- ISBN
- 9789391155049
- Publisher
- M. P. P. House
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 104
- Genre
- Law
- Location
- Open Shelf
About the book
In "An Introduction to Legal Reasoning", Edward H. Levi outlines the foundational process of judicial reasoning through reasoning by example. He breaks this logic down into three distinct steps: identifying similarities between past and present cases, extracting a underlying legal rule from those similarities, and applying that rule to the new situation. By examining case law, statutes, and constitutional law, Levi shows that legal rules are intentionally flexible rather than rigid, demonstrating how this incremental development allows the law to maintain stability while evolving alongside society.