An Introduction to Legal Reasoning: Second Edition
About this audiobook
Originally published in 1949, An Introduction to Legal Reasoning is widely acknowledged as a classic text. As its opening sentence states, “This is an attempt to describe generally the process of legal reasoning in the field of case law and in the interpretation of statutes and of the Constitution.” In elegant and lucid prose, Edward H. Levi does just that in a concise manner, providing an intellectual foundation for generations of students as well as general readers.
For this edition, the book includes a substantial new foreword by leading contemporary legal scholar Frederick Schauer that helpfully places this foundational book into its historical and legal contexts, explaining its continuing value and relevance to understanding the role of analogical reasoning in the law. This volume will continue to be of great value to students of logic, ethics, and political philosophy, as well as to members of the legal profession and everyone concerned with problems of government and jurisprudence.
About the author
EDWARD H. LEVI (1911–2000) was attorney general of the United States from 1975 to 1977, president of the University of Chicago, and dean of the University of Chicago Law School.
Frederick Schauer is the David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning (Harvard, 2009), Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes (Harvard, 2003), and Playing By the Rules: A Philosophical Examination of Rule-Based Decision-Making in Law and in Life (Oxford, 1991), and is the editor of Karl N. Llewellyn’s The Theory of Rules (Chicago, 2011)
