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Law, Order and Freedom
The central question in legal philosophy is the relationship between law and morality. The legal systems of many countries around the world have been influenced by the principles …
Legal Argumentation Theory: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
This book offers its readers an overview of recent developments in the theory of legal argumentation written by representatives from various disciplines, including argumentation …
Moral Pluralism and Legal Neutrality
lt is a commonplace that law and morality intersect and interpenetrate in all the areas of legal decision-making; that in order to make sense of constitutional, statutory or …
Extending Deontic Logic for the Formalisation of Legal Rules
This book is an adaptation of my PhD thesis Representing L3gVI Rules in Deontic Logic [Royakkers, 1996]. The main alterations are: * The addition of chapter 2 concerning the …
Justice to Future Generations and the Environment
The analysis of justice between generations proposed in this book is based first of all on a critical reading of Rawls' theory of justice, but it also pays attention to the …
Law, Truth, and Reason
This book is an innovative contribution to analytical jurisprudence. It is mainly based on the distinct premises of linguistic philosophy and Carnapian semantics, but also …
Law, Interpretation and Reality
PATRICKNERHOT Since the two operations overlap each other so much, speaking about fact and interpretation in legal science separately would undoubtedly be highly artificial. To …
Law and Democracy in Neil MacCormick's Legal and Political Theory
This volume offers a collection of articles by leading legal and political theorists. Originally intended as a celebration of MacCormick’s work on the occasion of the completion of …
Essays in Legal Theory
As I explain in the introduction, this is the third in aseries of collections of my previously published essays in legal theory. All of the essays here but three have been revised …
Reasonableness and Responsibility: A Theory of Contract Law
If, as John Rawls famously suggests, justice is the first virtue of social institutions, how are we to understand the institution of contract law? This book proposes a Rawlsian …
Legal Indeterminacy and Constitutional Interpretation
In this book, I present the results of an investigation which began with an extended stay at Oxford's Balliol College during the first half of 1995. My visit to Oxford was made …
Justifying Taxes
Justifying Taxes offers readers some of the elements of a democratic tax law, considered within its political and philosophical context in order to determine the extent of …