A similibus ad similia: Analogical thinking in law

Common Law Theory

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 102-133

  Postema, Gerald J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 47949117061     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511551116.005     Document Type: Chapter

References (40)

1. Francis Bacon, “Letter to Earl of Rutland” in The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon (James Spedding, ed.) (vol. 2) (Longmans, Green, 1861–74), 196.
2. Henry de Bracton, Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England (1250/1259) (Samuel E. Thorne, ed.) (vol. 2) (Harvard University Press, 1976), 21–25.
3. John Doddridge, The English Lawyer (Moore, 1631), 63–4.
4. Abraham Harari, The Place of Negligence in the Law of Torts (Law Book Company of Australasia, 1962), 6.
5. Richard Posner, The Problems of Jurisprudence (Harvard University Press, 1990), 86.
6. J.W. Tubbs, The Common Law Mind: Medieval and Early Modern Conceptions (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), 40.
7. Patrick Atiyah, Common Law and Statute Law, 48 Modern Law Review 1 (1985).
8. Gehan N. Gunasekara, Judicial Reasoning by Analogy with Statutes: Now an Accepted Technique in New Zealand?, 19 Statute Law Review 177 (1998).
9. Zenon Bankowski, “Analogical Reasoning and Legal Institutions” in Patrick Nerhot, ed., Legal Knowledge and Analogy: Fragments of Legal Epistemology, Hermeneutics andLinguistics, (Kluwer, 1990), 207.
10. Richard Posner, Overcoming Law (Harvard University Press, 1995), 518.
11. Ronald Dworkin, In Praise of Theory, 29 Arizona State Law Journal 353–371 (1997).
12. Michael J. Detmold, The Unity of Law and Morality: A Refutation of Legal Positivism (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984), 179.
13. G. E. R. Lloyd, Polarity and Analogy: Two Types of Argumentation in Early Greek Thought(Cambridge University Press, 1966), 397.
14. David Hume, Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals (3rd ed.) (L. A. Selby-Bigge and P. H. Nidditch, eds.)(Oxford University Press, 1975), 308–9.
15. Brian Leiter, Heidegger and the Theory of Adjudication, 106 Yale Law Journal 253–268 (1996).
16. J. S. Ullian, The Web of Belief(Random House, 1978), 89.
17. Philip Pettit, The Reality of Rule-Following, 99 Mind 1 (1990).
18. Peter Westen, On “Confusing Ideas,” 91 Yale Law Journal 1153–1163 (1982).
19. Larry Alexander, The Banality of Legal Reasoning, 73 Notre Dame Law Review 517–526 (1998).
20. Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (St. Martin’s Press, 1965), A132–3.
21. Lewis Carroll, What the Tortoise Said to Achilles, 4 Mind, 278–80 (1895).
22. Robert B. Brandom, Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment (Harvard University Press, 1994).
23. Robert B. Brandom, Articulating Reasons: An Introduction to Inferentialism (Harvard University Press, 2000), 52–4.
24. Howard Margolis, Patterns, Thinking, and Cognition: A Theory of Judgment (University of Chicago Press, 1987), 1.
25. Francis M. Kamm, Theory and Analogy in Law, 29 Arizona State Law Journal405–414 (1997).
26. John Earman and John Roberts, Ceteris Paribus, There Is No Problem of Provisos, 118 Synthese, 470–2 (1999).
27. Dedre Gentner, Keith J. Holyoak and Boicho N. Kokinov, eds., The Analogical Mind: Perspectives from Cognitive Science (MIT Press, 2001).
28. Keith J. Holyoak and PaulThagard, Mental Leaps: Analogy in Creative Thought (MIT Press, 1995).
29. Thomas C. Eskridge, “A Hybrid Model of Continuous Analogical Reasoning” in Keith J. Holyoak and John A. Barnden, eds., Analogical Connections: Advances in Connectionist and NeuralComputation Theory (Ablex, 1994).
30. Mark T. Keane, Analogical Problem Solving (Halsted Press, 1988), 56ff.
31. Karl N. Llewellyn, The Common Law Tradition: Deciding Appeals(Little, Brown and Co., 1960), 19.
32. Edward Levi, The Nature of Judicial Reasoning, 32 University of Chicago Law Review 395–403 (1965).
33. James Boyd White, Justice as Translation: An Essay in Cultural and Legal Criticism (University of Chicago Press,1990), ch. 7.
34. Gerald J. Postema, Melody and Law’s Mindfulness of Time, 17 Ratio Juris 203 (2004).
35. Anthony T. Kronman, The Lost Lawyer: Failing Ideals of the Legal Profession (Harvard University Press, 1993), 183.
36. H. L. A. Hart, The Concept of Law (2nd ed.) (Oxford University Press, 1994), 116.
37. Jeremy Waldron, Does Law Promise Justice?, 17 Georgia State University Law Review 759 (2001).
38. David Lyons, Moral Aspects of Legal Theory: Essays on Law, Justice, and Political Responsibility (Cambridge University Press, 1993), 28–30.
39. Peter Westen, The Empty Idea of Equality, 95 Harvard Law Review 537 (1982).
40. Avishai Margalit, The Ethics of Memory (Harvard University Press, 2002), 113.