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Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- 1. Imitation and analogy / Amaya, Amalia -- 2. Indefeasible analogical argument / Brewer, Scott -- 3. Is analogy a form of legal reasoning? / Brożek, Bartosz -- 4. Analogical reasoning and extensive interpretation / Canale, Damiano / Tuzet, Giovanni -- 5. Analogy and balancing / Duarte, David -- 6. Analogy and balancing / Brożek, Bartosz -- 7. Analogy and balancing once again / Duarte, David -- 8. Argument by analogy in the law / Golding, Martin -- 9. Undoing damage by analogy / Kaptein, Hendrik -- 10. Analogy in the strict liability rules in the Dutch Civil Code / Velden, Bastiaan van der -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book brings together contributions from leading figures in legal studies on analogy and related forms of reasoning in the law. Analogical reasoning--which relies on the concept of two different things being in some way like each other--is hugely important not just in the practice of law, but it is nonetheless strongly contested. This volume raises key questions like: What is the logical, argumentative, rhetorical, or just heuristic force of analogy in law? Is analogy really different from extensive interpretation, reasoning by precedent and appeal to paradigm?

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