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Evaluation and Legal Theory.

If Raz and Dworkin disagree over how law should be characterised, how are we, their jurisprudential public, supposed to go about adjudicating between the rival theories which they offer us? To what considerations would those theorists themselves appeal in order to convince us that their accounts of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dickson, Julie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Hart Pub., 2001.
Series:Legal theory today.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Half Title Page; Half Title verso; Title Page; Title verso; General Editor's Preface; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. What's the Point of Jurisprudence?; 2. Introducing the Moral Evaluation Thesis; 3. Indirectly Evaluative Legal Theory: Meeting Finnis' Challenge; 4. Finnis and the Moral Justification Thesis; 5. The Beneficial Moral Consequences Thesis and an Introduction to Dworkinian Methodology; 6. What's the Point of Law? Dworkinian Methodology and the Argument from Law's Function; 7. Carrying on the Conversation; Index.