Chapter 1 Appeal to Expert Testimony – A Bayesian Approach

Chapter 2 Ad Hominem Fallacies and Epistemic Credibility

Chapter 3 On the Absence of Evidence

Chapter 4 The Uses of Slippery Slope Argument

Chapter 5 Institutional Constraints of Topical Strategic Maneuvering in Legal Argumentation. The Case of ‘Insulting’

Chapter 6 One-Sided Argumentation in the Defense of Marriage Act

Chapter 7 Anti-Theoretical Claims About Legal Interpretation: The Argument Behind the Fallacy

Chapter 8 Frames of Interpretations and the Container-Retrieval View: Reflections on a Theoretical Contest

Chapter 9 Argument Structures in Legal Interpretation: Balancing and Thresholds

Chapter 11 Argumentation from Reasonableness in the Justification of Judicial Decisions

Chapter 12 Legal Argumentation and Theories of Adjudication in the U.S. Legal Tradition: A Critical View of Cass Sunstein’s Minimalism, Richard Posner’s Pragmatism and Ronald Dworkin’s Advocacy of Integrity