A Short Introduction to Judging and to Legal Reasoning

This Short Introduction looks at judging and reasoning from three perspectives: what legal reasoning has been; what legal reasoning is from the view of judges and jurists; and what legal reasoning is from the view of a social scientist epistemologist or humanities specialist. Geoffrey Samuel begins by identifying the main institutional focal points of legal reasoning ( ius, regulae iuris, Interpretatio, utilitas and actiones ). While examining legal reasoning from both an internal and external v