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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461783003321

Autore

Atria Lemaitre Fernando

Titolo

On law and legal reasoning / / Fernando Atria

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2001

ISBN

1-4725-6259-3

1-84731-632-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

The European Academy of Legal Theory series

Disciplina

340/.1

Soggetti

Law - Methodology

Law - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-229) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Constitutive Rules, Institutions and the Weightier Matters of the Law -- 2 Gapless Sources -- 3 Meaning and Application -- 4 Fuller v. Fuller -- 5 Nothing at all or Nothing Exceptional -- 6 A Roman Puzzle -- 7 Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory Revisited -- 8 The Powers of Application.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book is about legal theory and legal reasoning. In particular, it seeks to examine the relations that obtain between law and a theory of law and legal reasoning and a theory of legal reasoning. Two features of law and legal reasoning are treated as being of particular importance in this regard: law is institutional, and legal reasoning is formal. These two features are so closely connected that it is reasonable to believe that in fact they are simply two ways of looking at the same issue. This becomes clearer as the focus of the book shifts from the institutional nature of law to the consequences of this for legal reasoning, and which is the principal focus of the book. The author received the European Academy of Legal Theory award in 2000 for the doctoral dissertation on which this work was based."--Bloomsbury Publishing.