This event will focus on the practice of legal argumentation. We will examine how different courts approach legal argumentation, guided by a central question: what is the goal of judicial argumentation – persuasion, or something else?
The discussion will cover the approaches taken by U.S. federal courts; the variety of methods used by Tribal courts in the United States; the role and significance of metaphor in legal argumentation; and whether courts in Central and Eastern Europe can be considered formalistic.
The event is organized in cooperation with the Baltic-American Freedom Foundation.