Practical reason in law and morality

The concept of practical reason is central to contemporary thought on ethics and the philosophy of law - acting well means acting for good reasons. Explaining this requires several stages. How do reasons relate to actions at all, as incentives and in explanations? What are values ...

Rhetoric and the rule of Law

a theory of legal reasoning

When cases come before courts can we predict the outcome? Is legal reasoning rationally persuasive, working within a formal structure and using recognisable forms of arguments to produce predictable results? Or is legal reasoning mere <'rhetoric>' in the pejorative sense, open to use, and abuse, to ...