The rule of rules : morality, rules, and the dilemmas of law /
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2001.
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| Series: | Legal classics library.
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| Online Access: | HeinOnline Legal Classics Library |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. The circumstances of law. Disagreement, uncertainty, and authoritative settlement ; Settlement requisites and the nature of authoritative rules ; Hierarchies of rules
- part II. Acting under rules. The problem of rules ; Interpretation of rules
- part III. Issues of legal reasoning. Reasoning by analogy ; Reasoning in light of precedent ; Reasoning from legal principles
- part IV. The settlement function and jurisprudential debates. Legal positivism and natural law ; Lex, rules, and some miscellaneous problems of jurisprudence.