Jailhouse Logic Notes on Legal Reasoning and Argument

Student notes on legal reasoning and argument including classical and modern solutions for legal and argumentative writers, this text surveys a broad literature, and offers a practical toolbox to polish your writing . It includes a new intuitive treatment of Aristotelian syllogism, with graphical explanations of argument and logic helpful to writers in the humanities as well as those paralegals and lawyers in practice. Free of the padding found often in the professional books on the topic, it is a relatively concise summary of several important topics, making the reading or purchase of other books unnecessary, it should become an important introduction and reference to students and practioners alike.