Brewer Scott

• Harvard University

The Logocratic Method, and the Logocratic theory that underwrites it, provide a philosophical explanation of three purposes or goals that arguers have for their arguments: to make arguments that are internally strong (the premises follow from the conclusions, to a greater or lesser degree—greatest degree in valid deductive arguments), or that are d...

Legal analysis is dominated by legal arguments, and the assessment of any legal claim requires the assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of those arguments. The ‘logocratic’ method is a systematic method for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of arguments. More specifically, it is a method designed to help the analyst determine what degree...

Scientific information is relevant to, even decisively important in, a rapidly growing percentage of civil and criminal cases. Most judges and juries however lack the background necessary to make independent judgments about scientific evidence. Thus, they solicit and defer to the opinions of expert scientific witnesses. In this Article, Professor B...

Reasoning by analogy is one of the most frequently used techniques of legal argument. In this Article, Professor Brewer presents a detailed model of that reasoning process. With its focus on the special features of analogies that are offered as justificatory arguments, Professor Brewer's model provides clear criteria that lawyers, judges, students,...