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Teaching Legal Analysis Using A Pluralistic Model Of Law, Wilson R. Huhn
Teaching Legal Analysis Using A Pluralistic Model Of Law, Wilson R. Huhn
Wilson R. Huhn
The purpose of this Article is to describe a pluralistic model of reasoning that may be used to teach the skills of legal analysis. There are different ways to categorize legal arguments. Perhaps the most common method is to identify different legal arguments with specific schools of jurisprudence or moral philosophy. This is the standard approach followed by leading scholars such as Lon Fuller. In a classic article, Fuller illustrated how a murder case could be analyzed utilizing jurisprudential frameworks such as positivism, natural law, social contract, practical wisdom, and legal realism. Another example of this method of characterizing legal …