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Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory /

MacCormick, Neil.

Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory / by Neil MacCormick. - Oxford [Eng.] : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1978. - xi, 298 p. ; 23 cm. - Clarendon law series .

Contents:
1. Introduction.
2. Deductive Justification.
3. Deductive Justification-Presuppositions and Limits.
4. The Constraint of Formal Justice.
5. Second-Order Justification.
6. Consequentialist Arguments.
7. The Requirement of 'Coherence'.
8. The Requirement of Consistency and the Problem of Interpretation: Clear Cases and Hard Cases.
9. Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory Excursus.
10. Law, Morality and the Limits of Practical Reason.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

0198760809 : £5.75 ($14.95)

78040235

GB***


Law--Methodology.
Law--Philosophy.
Judicial process--Great Britain.
Law--Interpretation and construction.--Great Britain

K213 / .M28

340.1 MAC