A pragma-dialectical approach of legal argumentation: The role of pragmatic argumentation in the justification of judicial decisions

Authors
Publication date 2015
Host editors
  • F.H. van Eemeren
  • B. Garssen
Book title Scrutinizing argumentation in practice
ISBN
  • 9789027211262
Series Argumentation in context, 9
Pages (from-to) 199-120
Publisher Amsterdam: John Benjamins
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
Abstract
In this contribution I discuss the role of pragmatic argumentation referring to consequences, goals and values in complex structures of legal justification. From a pragma-dialectical perspective I describe the stereotypical patterns of legal justification in hard cases and specify the different ways in which these stereotypical patterns can be implemented in different contexts in which judges give a decision that they justify by referring to consequences, goals and values.

Keywords: argumentation, legal values, legal argumentation, goal argumentation, argumentation from consequences, pragmatic argumentation, justification of legal decisions, pragma-dialectics
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1075/aic.9.06fet
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