Reason in law

"Cover" -- "Title Page" -- "Copyright Page" -- "Table of Contents" -- "Foreword" -- "Preface" -- "About the Authors" -- "1 What Legal Reasoning Is, and Why It Matters" -- "An Overview of Law and Politics" -- "The Law Is All Around Us" -- "The Rule of Law Keeps the Peace" -- "The Critical Importance of Judicial Impartiality" -- "A Definition of Law" -- "A Definition of Legal Reasoning" -- "Legal Reasoning Does Not Discover the "One Right Answer"" -- "The Four Elements of Legal Reasoning" -- "Case Facts" -- "Social Background Facts" -- "Rules of Law" -- "Widely Shared Values" -- "Sources of Official Legal Texts" -- "The Choices that Legal Reasoning Confronts" -- "Illustrative Case" -- "Questions about the Case" -- "2 Change and Stability in Legal Reasoning" -- "Sources of Unpredictability in Law" -- "The Disorderly Conduct of Words" -- "The Unpredictability of Precedents" -- "Is Unpredictability in Law Desirable?" -- "Vertical and Horizontal Stare Decisis: A Stabilizing and Clarifying Element in Law" -- "Illustrative Cases" -- "Questions about the Cases" -- "3 Common Law" -- "Origins of Common Law" -- "Reasoning by Example in Common Law" -- "The Cherry Tree" -- "The Pit" -- "The Diving Board" -- "Keeping the Common-Law Tradition Alive" -- "Making Common Law without Close Precedents" -- "Horizontal Stare Decisis in Common Law" -- "The Common-Law Tradition Today" -- "Illustrative Case" -- "Questions about the Case" -- "4 Statutory Interpretation" -- "What Are Statutes?" -- "Four Misguided Approaches to "First Instance" Statutory Interpretation" -- "Literalism: Sticking to the Words" -- "The Golden Rule" -- "Canons of Statutory Construction" -- "Legislative Intent" -- "Purpose: The Key to Wise Statutory Interpretation" -- "The Centrality of Statutory Purpose" -- "Determining Purpose: Words Can Help" -- "Determining Purpose: The Audience