The rule of rules : morality, rules, and the dilemmas of law / / Larry Alexander and Emily Sherwin.
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| Year of Publication: | 2001 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Physical Description: | viii, 279 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.