Law and objectivity [[electronic resource] /] / Kent Greenawalt
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| Autore: |
Greenawalt Kent <1936->
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| Titolo: |
Law and objectivity [[electronic resource] /] / Kent Greenawalt
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| Pubblicazione: | New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 1995, c1992 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (301 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 340 |
| Soggetto topico: | Law - Interpretation and construction |
| Objectivity | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | First published in 1992. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; 1 Introduction; I: Legal Rules and Determinate Answers to Legal Questions; II: How the Law Treats People; III: Law's Relation to Broader Sources That Make It Objective in Various Respects; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In modern times the idea of the objectivity of law has been undermined by skepticism about legal institutions, disbelief in ideals of unbiased evaluation, and a conviction that language is indeterminate. Greenawalt here considers the validity of such skepticism, examining such questions as: whether the law as it exists provides determinate answers to legal problems; whether the law should treat people in an ""objective way,"" according to abstract rules, general categories, and external consequences; and how far the law is anchored in something external to itself, such as social morality, poli |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Law and objectivity |
| ISBN: | 1-280-53368-4 |
| 9786610533688 | |
| 0-19-802320-0 | |
| 0-19-535692-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910451150503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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