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Analysis of Legal Argumentation Documents

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In law schools, argumentation exercises [Adachi 84, Kitamura 95, Iida 06, Iwata 07, Fukuzawa 10] for acquiring argumentation skills and case studies [Nitta 97] for teaching precedents occupy a large weight, and legal education that integrates argumentation skills and precedent analysis is important.

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Hirata, H., Nitta, K. (2022). Introduction. In: Analysis of Legal Argumentation Documents. Translational Systems Sciences, vol 29. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2928-1_1

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