Legal Argumentation and the Rule of Law

Legal Argumentation and the Rule of Law is a collection of essays originally presented and discussed at the international conference “Legal Argumentation and the Rule of Law” organised at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam on 26 June 2015. The broad topic unifying the contributions contained in the volume edited by E. Feteris, H. Kloosterhuis, J. Plug, and C. Smith concerns the persistent tension between the encompassing idea of the “rule of law”, which is traditionally considered a fundamental legal value, and the widely recognised role that legal reasoning, in turn mainly understood as the set of nonmechanical, or entirely-rule-constrained, forms of deliberation, plays in determining contents and validity of the law.