The Art of Legal Reasoning is carefully designed to help you get the most out of your cases and your practice. Legal reasoning is applied logic. While your logical intuitions may well be strong enough to generally permit smooth navigation through webs of complex legal arguments without error, unfamiliarity with logic and argument limits your analytical oversight, making you vulnerable to committing or overlooking mistakes of reasoning that can affect the outcome of cases.

Douglas Lind recognizes that you have precious little time to study logic as an independent subject. This course provides short and concise descriptions of argument forms and logical fallacies (errors of reasoning) most relevant to legal practice. The principles of inductive and deductive reasoning Lind teaches apply equally to: trial work, contract drafting, adjudicative practice, any area of practice that calls itself "law.

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