An Introduction to Legal Reasoning.

Levi, E. H. (1948). An Introduction to Legal Reasoning. University of Chicago Law Review, 15(3), 501-574.

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Journal article

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Primary research

Year

1948

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https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo3637698.html

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biology_ecology, law_governance

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3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Adjudication (Dispute Resolution)

  • This sourceArgues common-law adjudication is reasoning by example from case to case, with the craft of distinguishing material from immaterial facts at its center — supports the knowledge-transfer-by-example claim (D49-007).

• Develops-From Relation
  • … optimizing, the organization being the continuant. In technology-readiness ladders a single technology develops from basic principles through demonstration in an operational environment. In law a doctrine develops through successive elaborations across cases, the doctrine being the continuant and the cases its stages.
• Precedent (Stare Decisis)
  • The craft of precedent is the craft of distinguishing cases, as Levi (1949) lays out in his canonical account of legal reasoning by example.

    This sourceCanonical short treatise on legal reasoning by example: argues that the basic pattern of common-law adjudication is reasoning from case to case by analogy, with the craft of distinguishing material from immaterial facts at the center.

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