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UNINA9910826065003321 |
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Autore |
Llewellyn Karl N (Karl Nickerson), <1893-1962.> |
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Titolo |
The theory of rules / / Karl N. Llewellyn ; edited and with an introduction by Frederick Schauer |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-36268-6 |
9786613362681 |
0-226-48797-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (165 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Law - Decision making - Philosophy |
Law - Methodology |
Decision making - Philosophy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION -- EDITORIAL NOTES -- History and Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER I. The Frame of the Discussion -- CHAPTER II. Rules of Law: Command and Prediction -- CHAPTER III. Rules of Law: The Propositional Form -- CHAPTER IV. Rule of Thumb and Principle -- CHAPTER V. Rule of Conduct, and the Legal Order -- CHAPTER VI. Our Situational Concepts -- CHAPTER VII. The Advocate's Leeway -- CHAPTER VIII. Stabilities within the Leeways -- The Remaining Chapters -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Karl N. Llewellyn was one of the founders and major figures of legal realism, and his many keen insights have a central place in American law and legal understanding. Key to Llewellyn's thinking was his conception of rules, put forward in his numerous writings and most famously in his often mischaracterized declaration that they are "pretty playthings." Previously unpublished, The Theory of Rules is the most cogent presentation of his profound and insightful thinking about the life of rules. This book frames the development of Llewellyn's thinking and describes the difference between what rules literally prescribe and what is actually done, with the gap explained by a complex array of practices, conventions, professional skills, and idiosyncrasies, most of |
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