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Logic for Lawyers
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20 October
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23 October
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Refine and develop your ability to logically
identify and weigh critical issues.
Previous attendee feedback:
“Prof Lind engaged the audience and imparted the
information well. Thoroughly enjoyed presentation –
helped top the brain cells up!”
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Logic for Lawyers
Most lawyers’ logical intuitions are strong enough to permit smooth navigation
most of the time through webs of complex legal arguments without error. Still,
unfamiliarity with logic and argument form limits a lawyer’s analytical oversight. This
makes him or her vulnerable to committing or overlooking mistakes of reasoning that
can affect the outcome of cases.
Studying the principles of inductive and deductive reasoning thus significantly
benefits trial work, contract drafting, adjudicative practice – any area that calls itself
“law”. To be sure, appeals to sentiment or self-interest, and “value-judgments”
influence the law. Yet as one appellate court has stated, “Every legal analysis
should begin at the point of reason, continue along a path of logic and arrive at a
fundamentally fair result.”
Attend this workshop to learn a practical framework and gain specific analytical tools for
working with legal arguments. The workshop provides sufficiently complete, but short and
concise descriptions of those argument forms and logical fallacies (errors of reasoning) most
relevant to legal practice.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
To help you:
• Refine and develop your ability to logically identify and weigh critical issues.
• Formulate reasoned and cogent arguments.
PROGRAMME
9.00 – 10.15
SESSION 1
10.15 – 10.45
MORNING TEA
10.45 – 12.30
SESSION 2
12.30 – 1.30
LUNCH
1.30 – 2.30
SESSION 3
• Workshop goals
• Introduction to inductive reasoning and deductive logic
–– Introduction to the terms and basic forms of argument
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The comfort and cunning of deductive reasoning
Categorical syllogisms
If’s, And’s, and Or’s
–– Hypothetical, conjunctive, and disjunctive syllogisms
2.30 – 2.45
AFTERNOON TEA
2.45 – 4.00
SESSION 4
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Case law analysis.
F O R M AT
The workshop will include a mix of lecture, discussion, and case law analysis. Emphasis will
be placed on developing a practical understanding of the forms of argument most common in
legal practice.
C O U R S E M AT E R I A L S
Some reading material will be sent to participants prior to the workshop. The course materials
will be given to participants when they register on the day.
FEE (INCL GST)
The fee for this one-day workshop is $520 for NZLS members and NZLS Associate members
and $570 for non-members. This includes tea and coffee on arrival, morning tea, lunch,
afternoon tea, and the course materials.
PRESENTER
PROFESSOR DOUGLAS LIND, UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, THE
N AT I O N A L J U D I C I A L C O L L E G E , N E VA DA ,
Professor Lind is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Idaho. He previously practised law for a number of years, specialising in
environmental law, as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Missouri,
and in private practice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received his BA,
magna cum laude, from the University of Minnesota, his JD from Washington University, St
Louis, and his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. At Idaho, Professor Lind has taught the
subjects of philosophy of law, logic, ethical theory, environmental philosophy, pragmatism, and
the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. He regularly teaches courses on logic, legal reasoning,
and judicial decision-making at The National Judicial College, through state judicial institutes
and bar associations across the United States, and in Australia and New Zealand. His recent
publications include: “Pragmatism and Anthropomorphism: Reconceiving the Doctrine of the
Personality of the Ship,” University of San Francisco Maritime Law Journal (2009); “Constitutional Adjudication as a Craft-Bound Excellence”, in Dennis Patterson, ed, Wittgenstein and
Law (2004); “Azdak, The Rascal Judge”, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence (2000).
The second edition of his book, Logic and Legal Reasoning, was published in 2007 by The
National Judicial College Press.”
Numbers for this workshop are limited to 32 participants.
Registrants will be taken on a first come, first served basis.