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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822467003321

Autore

Alexander Larry <1943->

Titolo

The rule of rules : morality, rules, and the dilemmas of law / / Larry Alexander and Emily Sherwin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2001

ISBN

1-283-06163-5

9786613061638

0-8223-8002-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Altri autori (Persone)

SherwinEmily <1955->

Disciplina

340/.1

340.1

Soggetti

Jurisprudence

Law and ethics

Law - Philosophy

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 (p. [225]-270) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Analysis of jurisprudential debates about the nature of law through a general investigation of the reasons for and optimal structures of authoritative rules and the moral and practical dilemmas created by those rules.