The identification of prototypical argumentative patterns in the justification of judicial decisions

Authors
Publication date 31-03-2017
Journal Journal of Argumentation in Context
Volume | Issue number 6 | 1
Pages (from-to) 44-58
Number of pages 15
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
Abstract In this contribution I identify prototypical patterns in the justification of judicial decisions. From a pragma-dialectical perspective, I explain the nature and rationale for the argumentative patterns from the perspective of the institutional function of legal justification and I distinguish different argumentative patterns in clear cases and hard cases in the justification of judicial decisions.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.6.1.03fet
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