Rhetoric and The Rule of Law: A Theory of Legal Reasoning
Author:   Neil MacCormick (Formerly Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations, the University of Edinburgh)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   304
Publication Date:   03 September 2009
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Rhetoric and The Rule of Law: A Theory of Legal Reasoning


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Author:   Neil MacCormick (Formerly Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations, the University of Edinburgh)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.472kg
ISBN:  

9780199571246


ISBN 10:   0199571244
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   03 September 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1: Prologue: Institutional Theory and the Lawmaker's Perspective 2: The Rule of Law and the Arguable Character of Law 3: On the Legal Syllogism 4: Defending Deductivism 5: Universals and Particulars 6: Judging by Consequences 7: Arguing about Interpretation 8: Using Precedents 9: Being Reasonable 10: Coherence, Principles, and Analogies 11: Legal Narratives 12: Arguing Defeasibly 13: Judging Mistakenly?

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Rhetoric and the Rule of Law is a fine work. It is stimulating: it makes the reader want to argue and test its tenets. It is too good to be read only by legal theorists. Joe Thomson, Edinburgh Law Review, Vol 13, Its erudite elegance means that it will serve as an excellent introduction to jurisprudence for undergraduates, as well as providing a major contribution to legal philosophy. MacCormick reaffirms the dialectic between the universal and the particular. James Lee, University of Birmingham, Jurisprudence


Rhetoric and the Rule of Law is a fine work. It is stimulating: it makes the reader want to argue and test its tenets. It is too good to be read only by legal theorists. Joe Thomson, Edinburgh Law Review, Vol 13, Its erudite elegance means that it will serve as an excellent introduction to jurisprudence for undergraduates, as well as providing a major contribution to legal philosophy. MacCormick reaffirms the dialectic between the universal and the particular. James Lee, University of Birmingham, Jurisprudence


Its erudite elegance means that it will serve as an excellent introduction to jurisprudence for undergraduates, as well as providing a major contribution to legal philosophy. MacCormick reaffirms the dialectic between the universal and the particular. * James Lee, University of Birmingham, Jurisprudence * Rhetoric and the Rule of Law is a fine work. It is stimulating: it makes the reader want to argue and test its tenets. It is too good to be read only by legal theorists. * Joe Thomson, Edinburgh Law Review, Vol 13, *


Author Information

Neil MacCormick was formerly the Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations (1972-2008) at the University of Edinburgh. he was appointed Queen's Counsel (QC) honoris causa, England and Wales in 1999 and was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2001 in recognition of services to scholarship in Law. He is the holder of the Royal Medal for Humanities and Social Sciences, Royal Society of Edinburgh 2004. From 1999-2004 he served as Member of the European Parliament.

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