Legal Methods

Legal decisions are accepted if they are well-reasoned. This work provides lawyers with more than 100 legal argumentation figures that are used by lawyers worldwide to justify their legal decisions. German law is exemplary for the technique of Legal Interpretation and Legal Construction, which is applied in Europe and all over the world. The aim of the new publication is to put lawyers in a position to develop – step by step – legal solutions and to increase the cogency of his/her argumentation.

Addressed will be in an interdisciplinary and legal-doctrinal context, legal sources, classic and modern figures of argumentation, the challenging concretization and construction of law, influence of the constitution and European law as a higher-ranking law, determination of the limits of permissible further development of the law, and very relevant for practice the hermeneutics of facts.

Combination of classic and modern methodology, a lively presentation with numerous examples from literature and jurisprudence, cases for in-depth reflection.

This work addresses students, legal clerks, and post-graduate students, but also judges, lawyers and administrative lawyers as well as all those interested in legal reasoning.

Dr Thomas M. J. Möllers is Professor of Law at the University of Augsburg, Managing Director of the Center for European Legal Studies (CELOS) and Jean Monnet Ad Personam Chair holder.