Alexander / Sherwin The Rule of Rules

Morality, Rules, and the Dilemmas of Law
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8002-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alexander, Larry

Sherwin, Emily

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. The Circumstances of Law

1. Disagreement, Uncertainty, and Authoritative Settlement

2. Settlement Requisites and the Nature of Authoritative Rules

3. Hierarchies of Rules

Part II. Acting Under Rules

4. The Problem of Rules

5. Interpretation of Rules

Part III. Issues of Legal Reasoning

6. Reasoning by Analogy

7. Reasoning in Light of Precedent

8. Reasoning from Legal Principles

Part IV. The Settlement Function and Jurisprudential Debates

9. Legal Positivism and Natural Law

10. Lex, Rules, and Some Miscellaneous Problems of Jurisprudence

Notes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Larry Alexander is Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego.Emily Sherwin is Professor of Law at the University of San Diego.