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The End Of Legitimacy, Mary Ellen O'Connell
The End Of Legitimacy, Mary Ellen O'Connell
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IRAQ: ONE YEAR LATER
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS by Mary Ellen O'Connell, 261
THE USE OF FORCE IN IRAQ: ILLEGAL AND ILLEGITIMATE by Anne-Marie Slaughter, 262-63
THE IRAQ WAR AND THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW by Richard Falk, 263-66
THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE UN AFTER IRAQ by Thomas M Franck, 266-69
THE END OF LEGITIMACY by Mary Ellen O'Connell, 269-70
THE PROBLEMS OF LEGITIMACY-SPEAK by James Crawford, 271-73
Abortion And Legal Rationality, John M. Finnis
Abortion And Legal Rationality, John M. Finnis
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This article concerns the legitimacy of various legal schemes for dealing with abortion. Legitimacy in one sense is secured simply by complying with the formal criteria for valid law-making: enactment within power and in due form. But jurists have learned (or re-learned) that more can be said about legitimacy, without betraying the purity of their discipline by moralizing and advocacy. From this development in jurisprudential thought emerges the range of questions and criteria deployed in the present study.