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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “neil maccormick”
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  • Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory

    by Neil MacCormick ...
    Series series Clarendon Law Series
    What makes an argument in a law case good or bad? Can legal decisions be justified by purely rational argument or are they ultimately determined by more subjective influences? These questions are central to the study of jurisprudence, and are thoroughly and critically examined in Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory, now with a new and up-to-date foreword. Its clarity of explanation and argument make ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Rhetoric and The Rule of Law

    A Theory of Legal Reasoning

    by Neil MacCormick ...
    Series series Law, State, and Practical Reason
    Is legal reasoning rationally persuasive, working within a discernible structure and using recognisable kinds of arguments? Does it belong to rhetoric in this sense, or to the domain of the merely 'rhetorical' in an adversative sense? Is there any reasonable certainty about legal outcomes in dispute-situations? If not, what becomes of the Rule of Law? Neil MacCormick's book tackles these questions ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • Institutions of Law

    An EsSay in Legal Theory

    by Neil MacCormick ...
    Series series Law, State, and Practical Reason
    Institutions of Law offers an original account of the nature of law and legal systems in the contemporary world. It provides the definitive statement of Sir Neil MacCormick's well-known 'institutional theory of law', defining law as 'institutional normative order' and explaining each of these three terms in depth. It attempts to fulfil the need for a twenty-first century introduction to legal ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Who's Afraid of a European Constitution?

    by Neil MacCormick ...
    In this short but authoritative book, the nature and purpose of the European Constitution are explained by someone involved in its preparation. The author discusses how it was drafted, and tackles some much debated questions: whether it promises any enhancement of democracy in the EU, whether it implies that the EU is becoming a superstate, and whether it will strengthen the principle of ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Practical Reason in Law and Morality

    by Neil MacCormick ...
    Series series Law, State, and Practical Reason
    The concept of practical reason is central to contemporary thought on ethics and the philosophy of law - acting well means acting for good reasons. Explaining this requires several stages. How do reasons relate to actions at all, as incentives and in explanations? What are values, how do they relate to human nature, and how do they enter practical reasoning? How do the concepts of 'right and wrong ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Interpreting Statutes

    A Comparative Study

    by D. Neil MacCormick, Robert S. Summers ...
    Series series Applied Legal Philosophy
    This book is a work of outstanding importance for scholars of comparative law and jurisprudence and for lawyers engaged in EC law or other international forms of practice. It reviews, compares and analyses the practice of interpretation in nine countries representing Europe as well as the US and Argentina in common and civil law; it also explores implications for general theories of interpretation ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Interpreting Precedents

    A Comparative Study

    Edited by D. Neil MacCormick, Robert S. Summers, Arthur L. Goodhart ...
    Series series Applied Legal Philosophy
    This book contains a series of essays discussing the uses of precedent as a source of law and a basis for legal arguments in nine different legal systems, representing a variety of legal traditions. Precedent is fundamental to law, yet theoretical and ideological as well as legal considerations lead to its being differently handled and rationalised in different places. Out of the comparative study ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Law and Legal Interpretation

    Edited by Fernando Atria Lemaitre, Neil MacCormick ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2003. Leading contemporary essays on interpretation are assembled in this volume, which offsets them against a small number of "classical" works from earlier periods. It has long been recognized that textual sources (constitutions, statutes, precedents, commentaries) are central to developed systems of law and that interpretation of such texts is one highly ... Read more

    $265.99 USD

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    This book sets out a new understanding of the penal law of a liberal legal order. The prevalent view today is that the penal law is best understood from the standpoint of a moral theory concerning when it is fair to blame and censure an individual character for engaging in proscribed conduct. By contrast, this book argues that the penal law is best understood by a political and constitutional ... Read more

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  • Between Authority and Interpretation

    On the Theory of Law and Practical Reason

    by Joseph Raz ...
    In this book Joseph Raz develops his views on some of the central questions in practical philosophy: legal, political, and moral. The book provides an overview of Raz's work on jurisprudence and the nature of law in the context of broader questions in the philosophy of practical reason. The book opens with a discussion of methodological issues, focusing on understanding the nature of jurisprudence ... Read more

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  • Jurisprudence

    by Suri Ratnapala ...
    The third edition of Jurisprudence offers a logically structured, comprehensive, well-researched and accessible overview of legal theory and philosophy. Written primarily for undergraduate students, it examines and demystifies the discipline's major ideas, and promotes a richer understanding of the social, moral and economic dimensions of the law. By locating the major traditions of jurisprudence ... Read more

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  • Philosophy of Law

    An Introduction

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    Philosophy of Law: An Introduction provides an ideal starting point for students of philosophy and law. Setting it clearly against the historical background, Mark Tebbit quickly leads readers into the heart of the philosophical questions that dominate philosophy of law today. He provides an exceptionally wide-ranging overview of the contending theories that have sought to resolve these problems. ... Read more

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