Epilogue: Main trends in research of legal argumentation

Abstract

Research of legal argumentation concentrates on the justification of judicial decisions. The central question is how legal decisions can be justified in a rational way and what the soundness conditions are that such a rational justification should meet. In various disciplines, theories of legal argumentation have been developed that are important for the analysis of legal argumentation with the aim of evaluating the argumentation in light of such soundness conditions.