Rhetorical Strategies in Legal Argumentation. Some remarks on the recent decisions of the Portuguese Tribunal Constitucional and the Italian Corte Costituzionale on same-sex marriage
Legal argumentation is usually considered the more formal (or, at least, formalistic) kind of practical argumentation, thanks to the long tradition of “legal syllogism” as its formal instrument, but also to its legal restraint (the formalistic aspect). Yet, in arguments such as those used, for examp...
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The University of Akureyri
2011-03-01
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| Series: | Nordicum-Mediterraneum |
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| Online Access: | http://nome.unak.is/nm-marzo-2012/6-1x/24-articles61/71-rhetorical-strategies-in-legal-argumentation-some-remarks-on-the-recent-decisions-of-the-portuguese-tribunal-constitucional-and-the-italian-corte-costituzionale-on-same-sex-marriage |