TY - BOOK AU - the late Neil MacCormick TI - Rhetoric and The Rule of Law: A Theory of Legal Reasoning (Law, State, and Practical Reason)  SN - 9780199571246  U1 - 340.11 CY - United Kingdom N2 - Is legal reasoning rationally persuasive, working within a discernible structure and using recognisable kinds of arguments? Does it belong to rhetoric in this sense, or to the domain of the merely 'rhetorical' in an adversative sense? Neil MacCormick tackles these questions to provide a comparative analysis of legal reasoning ER -