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The Unruliness Of Rules, Peter A. Alces
The Unruliness Of Rules, Peter A. Alces
Michigan Law Review
Analytical jurisprudence depends on a posited relation between rules and morality. Before we may answer persistent and important questions of legal theory - indeed, before we can even know what those questions are - we must understand not just the operation of rules but their operation in relation to morality. Once that relationship is formulated, we may then come to terms with the likes of inductive reasoning in Law, the role of precedent, and the fit, such as it is, between Natural Law and Positivism as well as even the coincidence (or lack thereof) between inclusive and exclusive positivism. That …
Shuman: Legal Positivism: Its Scope And Limitations, Edgar Bodenheimer
Shuman: Legal Positivism: Its Scope And Limitations, Edgar Bodenheimer
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Shuman: Legal Positivism: Its Scope and Limitations . By Samuel I. Shuman
Rudolf Von Jhering, Iredell Jenkins
Rudolf Von Jhering, Iredell Jenkins
Vanderbilt Law Review
It is often the fate of the giants of thought to have their names live on while their doctrines are neglected, and even for their reputations to wax as their influence wanes. Indeed, this happens at some periods to the work that all such men leave behind them; it is esteemed but not appreciated, acknowledged but not cultivated. The precise reasons for this fall into oblivion vary with every individual case, but there is one factor that is common and constant: the prominence within the work of these men of ideas that push inquiry beyond the comfortable limits that are …