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Cornell Law Faculty Publications

2005

Law and Philosophy

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The Immorality Of Textualism, Andrei Marmor Dec 2005

The Immorality Of Textualism, Andrei Marmor

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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On Giving Legal Form Its Due. A Study In Legal Theory, Robert S. Summers Jun 2005

On Giving Legal Form Its Due. A Study In Legal Theory, Robert S. Summers

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The four theses of this paper are: (1) that an appropriate organizational form is used to design, define, and organize a functional unit of a legal system, (2) that the functional units of a legal system, contrary to the emphasis in Hart and Kelsen, consist of far more than rules, and include institutions, interpretive and other methodologies, sanctions and remedies, and more, (3) that frontal and systematic study of the forms of these units is a major avenue for advancing understanding of them as duly organized wholes, and, (4) that such study reveals that much credit is due these forms, …