European University Institute – Harvard Law School
Session 1.1.2
Monday, 1 July, second morning session: 11h-12h30
Logic and argumentation (Giovanni Sartor)
Themes covered in this session:
The structure of arguments
Arguments and counterarguments: rebutting, undercutting and premise attack
Deductive and defeasible arguments
Dialectical status of arguments
slides
Logic and Argumentation, Henry Prakken and Giovanni Sartor (link)
Readings
Henry Prakken (2017), Logics of argumentation and the law (link) ( in H. Patrick Glenn and Lionel Smith, editors: Law and the New Logics. Cambridge University Press 2017, pp. 3-31).
Giovanni Sartor (2018), Defeasible legal argumentation (link)