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Demystifying legal reasoning /

"Demystifying Legal Reasoning defends the proposition that there are no special forms of reasoning peculiar to law. Legal decision makers engage in the same modes of reasoning that all actors use in deciding what to do: open-ended moral reasoning, empirical reasoning, and deduction from authori...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alexander, Larry, 1943-
Otros Autores: Sherwin, Emily, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Colección:Cambridge introductions to philosophy and law.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Demystifying Legal Reasoning defends the proposition that there are no special forms of reasoning peculiar to law. Legal decision makers engage in the same modes of reasoning that all actors use in deciding what to do: open-ended moral reasoning, empirical reasoning, and deduction from authoritative rules. This book addresses common-law reasoning, when prior judicial decisions determine the law, and interpretation of texts. In both areas, the popular view that legal decision makers practice special forms of reasoning is false."--Jacket
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 253 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-245) and index.
ISBN:9780511410154
0511410158
9781139167420
1139167421
9780521878982
0521878985
9780521703956
0521703956