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The Rule of Rules : Morality, Rules, and the Dilemmas of Law /

Analysis of jurisprudential debates about the nature of law through a general investigation of the reasons for and optimal structures of authoritative rules and the moral and practical dilemmas created by those rules.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Alexander, Larry, 1943- (Autor), Sherwin, Emily, 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Duke University Press, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. The circumstances of law. Disagreement, uncertainty, and authoritative settlement ; Settlement requisites and the nature of authoritative rules ; Hierarchies of rules
  • pt. II. Acting under rules. The problem of rules ; Interpretation of rules
  • pt. III. Issues of legal reasoning. Reasoning by analogy ; Reasoning in light of precedent ; Reasoning from legal principles
  • pt. IV. The settlement function and jurisprudential debates. Legal positivism and natural law ; Lex, rules, and some miscellaneous problems of jurisprudence.