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Three questions concerning modern legal thought provide the framework for this analysis: what should judges do?; what do judges do?; and what can judges do? Contrasting his own answers with traditional responses and moving playfully between debates of high theory, daily practices of appellate judges, and his own enlightening analyses of significant court rulings, Allan C. Hutchinson examines what it means to treat adjudication as an engaged game of rhetorical justification. His resulting argument should enable the reader to grasp more fully the practical operation, political determinants, and the transformative possibilities of law and adjudication.

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Law It's All in the Game sharpens a pressing debate in legal theory and helps show a way out. It is compelling and clear, and a certain classic from a leading theorist of our time. --Lawrence Lessig, Harvard University Law School A significant and important contribution to legal theory that is both well-written and stimulating. Hutchinson's book offers the serious reader a perspective that previously had been missing in the debates about modernism and postmodernism in law--yet it remains refreshingly down to earth and readable. --Gary Minda, Brooklyn Law School A particularly thoughtful attempt to carve out a 'middle way' between the formalist and the political vision of law. --Paul Campos, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Allan C. Hutchinson has been Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto and is now University Research Professor at Cardiff Law School, University of Wales. His books include Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility and Waiting for Coraf: A Critique of Law and Rights.

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