Legal Argumentation and Evidence Robert J. Shoop Judith von Halle asks urgent

Judith von Halle asks urgent and difficult questions and offers shattering insights for humanity’s further development

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Legal Argumentation and Evidence Robert J. Shoop Judith von Halle asks urgentA leading expert in informal logic, Douglas Walton turns his attention in this new book to how reasoning operates in trials and other legal contexts, with special emphasis on the law of evidence. The new model he develops, drawing on methods of argumentation theory that are gaining wide acceptance in computing fields like artificial intelligence, can be used to identify, analyze, and evaluate specific types of legal argument. In contrast with