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Disciplinary Perspectives & Law
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Reflections on the Question of When, if Ever, Violence is Justified in Struggles for Social or Political Change
July 14, 2026
Susan H. Farbstein, Reflections on the Question of When, if Ever, Violence is Justified in Struggles for Social or Political Change, 27 Harv. Hum. Rts.
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Scott Brewer, Interactive Virtue and Vice in Systems of Arguments: A Logocratic Analysis, 28 Artificial Intelligence & L. 151 (2020).
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Indefeasible Analogical Argument
July 14, 2026
Scott Brewer, Indefeasible Analogical Argument, in Analogy and Exemplary Reasoning in Legal Discourse 33 (Hendrik Kaptein & Bastiaan van der Velden eds., 2018).
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Agonophobia (Fear of Contest) In the Theory of Argument?: The Case of Gary Lawson’s Evidence of the Law
July 14, 2026
Scott Brewer, Agonophobia (Fear of Contest) In the Theory of Argument?: The Case of Gary Lawson’s Evidence of the Law, 97 B.U. L. Rev. 2303…
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The Examined Life of the Law
July 14, 2026
Scott Brewer, Speech: “The Examined Life of the Law,” The Law Program of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society (March 2002).
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Socrates and Jurisprudence
July 14, 2026
Scott Brewer, Socrates and Jurisprudence, Regional Symposium on Contemplative Practice in Higher Education, Amherst College (May 2003).
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Intellectual Integrity in the Legal Process
July 14, 2026
Scott Brewer, Intellectual Integrity in the Legal Process, Provost’s Lecture, SUNY Stony Brook (Spring 2003).
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Is Philosophy in Evidence?
July 14, 2026
Scott Brewer, Is Philosophy in Evidence?, Conference Culture and Inference (Spring 2003).
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Quelques Raisonnements Theoriques dur des Raisonnements Pratiques a Propos du Rasionnement Theorique
July 14, 2026
Scott Brewer, Quelques Raisonnements Theoriques sur des Raisonnements Pratiques a Propos du Rasionnement Theorique, in Fondements Naturels de l’Ethique 267 (Jean-Pierre Changeux ed., Editions Odile…
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Exemplary Reasoning: Semantics, Pragmatics, and the Rational Force of Legal Argument by Analogy
July 14, 2026
Scott Brewer, Exemplary Reasoning: Semantics, Pragmatics, and the Rational Force of Legal Argument by Analogy, in The Philosophy of Legal Reasoning: Logic, Probability, and Presumptions…
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Pragmatism, Oppression, and the Flight to Substance
July 14, 2026
Scott Brewer, Pragmatism, Oppression, and the Flight to Substance, in The Philosophy of Legal Reasoning: Evolution and Revolution in Theories of Legal Reasoning 105 (Scott…
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Rational Force of Legal Argument by Anthology
July 14, 2026
Scott Brewer, Rational Force of Legal Argument by Anthology, in The Philosophy of Legal Reasoning 49 (Scott Brewer ed., Garland 1998).
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Scott Brewer, Traversing Holmes’ Path Toward a Jurisprudence of Logical Form, in “The Path of the Law” and Its Influence: The Legacy of Oliver Wendell…
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Scott Brewer, On the Possibility of Necessity in Legal Argument: A Dilemma for Holmes and Dewey, 34 J. Marshall L. Rev. 9 (2000).
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Scott Brewer, Logocratic Method and the Analysis of Arguments in Evidence, 10 Law, Probability & Risk 175 (2011).
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Exemplary Reasoning: Semantics, Pragmatics, and the Rational Force of Legal Argument by Analogy
July 14, 2026
Scott Brewer, Exemplary Reasoning: Semantics, Pragmatics, and the Rational Force of Legal Argument by Analogy, 109 Harv. L. Rev. 923 (1996).
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The Philosophy of Legal Reasoning
July 14, 2026
The Philosophy of Legal Reasoning (Scott Brewer ed., 1998). (with introduction by Scott Brewer, 5 vols.)…
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Scott, Brewer, Note: Figuring the Law: Holism and Tropological Inference in Legal Interpretation, 97 Yale L.J. 823 (1988).
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Scientific Expert Testimony and Intellectual Due Process
July 14, 2026
Scott Brewer, Scientific Expert Testimony and Intellectual Due Process, 107 Yale L.J. 1535 (1998).
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Introduction
July 14, 2026
Scott Brewer, Gustavo Ribeiro & Giovanni Sartor, Introduction, 13 Law, Probability & Risk 193 (2014).
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Scott Brewer, Choosing Sides in the Racial Critiques Debate — Introduction, 103 Harv. L. Rev. 1844 (1990).