Scott Brewer

Scott Brewer, Choosing Sides in the Racial Critiques Debate — Introduction, 103 Harv. L. Rev. 1844 (1990).

Scott Brewer, Symposium on the Renaissance of Pragmatism in American Legal Thought — Afterword, 63 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1911 (1990).

Scott Brewer, Justice Marshall’s Justice Martial, 71 Tex. L. Rev. 1121 (1993).

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…

Scott Brewer, Pragmatism, Oppression, and the Flight to Substance, 63 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1753 (1990).

Scott Brewer, Interactive Virtue and Vice in Systems of Arguments: A Logocratic Analysis, 28 Artificial Intelligence & L. 151 (2020).

Scott Brewer, Satisfaction and Posner’s Morin Opinion: Aliquando bonus dormitat posnerus?, 120 Harv. L. Rev. 1123 (2007).

Scott Brewer, Gustavo Ribeiro & Giovanni Sartor, Introduction, 13 Law, Probability & Risk 193 (2014).

Scott Brewer, Scientific Expert Testimony and Intellectual Due Process, 107 Yale L.J. 1535 (1998).

Prerequisites: None Exam: No Exam What is it to lead a fulfilled life? This was the central question for ancient philosophers, in both the east…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Ours is a time fraught with uncertainty about the stability and legitimacy of political and legal institutions and the…

Students enrolling in Spring groups are required to submit a signed Writing Group Registration Form to the Registrar’s Office by February 3, 2023.…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-home Jurisprudence is the silent and controlling partner in every judge’s and every lawyer’s reasoning about law. A judge,…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course will introduce and explore basic themes in jurisprudence. Topics…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam We rely on reasoned inferences with reliable evidence to manage everyday life — to decide, for example, what precautions…

Prerequisites: No special background is required. Cross-registrants are welcome. Anyone seeking information about this course should feel free to contact Professor Scott Brewer at sbrewer@law.harvard.edu.

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-home Jurisprudence is the silent and controlling partner in every judge’s and every lawyer’s reasoning about law. A judge,…

Prerequisites: No special background is required. Cross-registrants are welcome. Anyone seeking information about this course should feel free to contact Professor Scott Brewer at sbrewer@law.harvard.edu.

Jack B. Weinstein, Norman Abrams, Scott Brewer & Daniel S. Medwed, Evidence, 2019 Rules and Statute Supplement (2019).

Scott Brewer, Indefeasible Analogical Argument, in Analogy and Exemplary Reasoning in Legal Discourse 33 (Hendrik Kaptein & Bastiaan van der Velden eds., 2018).

Jack Weinstein, Norman Abrams, Scott Brewer & Daniel Medwed, Evidence (Foundation Press 10th ed. 2017).

Scott Brewer, Speech: “The Examined Life of the Law,” The Law Program of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society (March 2002).

Scott Brewer, Socrates and Jurisprudence, Regional Symposium on Contemplative Practice in Higher Education, Amherst College (May 2003).

Scott Brewer, Is Philosophy in Evidence?, Conference Culture and Inference (Spring 2003).

Scott Brewer, Intellectual Integrity in the Legal Process, Provost’s Lecture, SUNY Stony Brook (Spring 2003).

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…

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…

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…

Scott Brewer, Rational Force of Legal Argument by Anthology, in The Philosophy of Legal Reasoning 49 (Scott Brewer ed., Garland 1998).

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…

Scott Brewer, Logocratic Method and the Analysis of Arguments in Evidence, 10 Law, Probability & Risk 175 (2011).

Scott Brewer, On the Possibility of Necessity in Legal Argument: A Dilemma for Holmes and Dewey, 34 J. Marshall L. Rev. 9 (2000).

Scott Brewer, Exemplary Reasoning: Semantics, Pragmatics, and the Rational Force of Legal Argument by Analogy, 109 Harv. L. Rev. 923 (1996).

The Philosophy of Legal Reasoning (Scott Brewer ed., 1998). (with introduction by Scott Brewer, 5 vols.)…