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Burton, Steven J.

An introduction to law and legal reasoning / Steven J. Burton. - 3rd ed. - Austin : Walters Kluwer Law, 2007. - xiii, 193 p. ; 23 cm.

• Cases and rules
• Analogical legal reasoning
• Deductive legal reasoning
• Combining analogies and deductions
• Legal reasoning and conventions
• Purposes
• Easier and harder cases
• Hardest cases
• The lawyer's perspective
• Legitimacy.

ISBN: 0735562776 (pbk.) 9780735562776 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2006030711

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Law--Methodology.--United States
Law--Philosophy.

Dewey Class. No.: 340.1 BUR