The argument from authority on the Brazilian Supreme Court: a rhetorical analysis on a historical perspective
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https://doi.org/10.17808/des.55.907Keywords:
Argument from authority, Legal doctrine, Sources of law, Rhetoric, Brazilian Supreme CourtAbstract
The argument from authority is not necessarily a fallacy in law, since it may be an important instrument for the construction of a persuasive speech to be presented by courts. Even though legal scholarship does not represent institutionalized authority, it acquires authority as long as the prestige of some jurists grows through time. This paper is going to present, starting from these premises, an empirical research regarding the argument from authority on the Brazilian Supreme Court between 1960 and 2016, in Resumos/Abstracts 384 Direito, Estado e Sociedade n. 55 jul/dez 2019 order do analyze the ways by which the five most cited authors have been used as grounds for rulings. This research was made possible by a piece of software that collected information from the Court's database and then were classified through indicators according to the kind of argument from authority. Therefore, it was possible to observe a very frequent use of arguments from authority in an irrational way, since legal doctrine was mostly presented as obiter dictum. However, there has been a higher frequency of rational arguments from authority on citations to Constitutional Law scholars, hence showing a higher care with legal discourse on this area.References
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