{"title":"Analogical Reasoning","authors":"Susan I. McMahon, Sonya G. Bonneau","doi":"10.4324/9781315144016-14","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This chapter from our book Legal Writing in Context aims to demystify analogical reasoning for law students. We break down why, exactly, this muddy and controversial form of reasoning has become such a bedrock of legal analysis and provide specific suggestions for how to construct effective analogies in legal writing.","PeriodicalId":416511,"journal":{"name":"EduRN: Legal Scholarship Education (LSN) (Topic)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"EduRN: Legal Scholarship Education (LSN) (Topic)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315144016-14","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This chapter from our book Legal Writing in Context aims to demystify analogical reasoning for law students. We break down why, exactly, this muddy and controversial form of reasoning has become such a bedrock of legal analysis and provide specific suggestions for how to construct effective analogies in legal writing.