Frontmatter
CONTENTS
Preface
1 Introduction: Is There Legal Reasoning?
2 Rules-in Law and Elsewhere
3 The Practice and Problems of Precedent
4 Authority and Authorities
5 The Use and Abuse of Analogies
6 The Idea of the Common Law
7 The Challenge of Legal Realism
8 The Interpretation of Statutes
9 The Judicial Opinion
10 Making Law with Rules and Standards
11 Law and Fact
12 The Burden of Proof and Its Cousins
Index