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Legal Reasoning, Legal Theory and Rights
This book is a selection of articles and chapters published over Martin Golding's academic career. Golding's approach to the philosophy of law is that it contains conceptual and normative issues and in this volume logical issues in legal reasoning are examined, and various theories of law are critically discussed.
Author(s) | By Martin P. Golding. |
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Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Format | Hardback |
Pages | 424 |
Published in | United Kingdom |
Published | 29 Nov 2007 |
Availability | Available |
This book is a selection of articles and chapters published over Martin Golding's academic career. Golding's approach to the philosophy of law is that it contains conceptual and normative issues and in this volume logical issues in legal reasoning are examined, and various theories of law are critically discussed.
Contents: Introduction; My philosophy of law; Part 1 Legal Reasoning: Principled decision-making and the Supreme Court; A note on discovery and justification in science and law; The logical force of arguments by analogy in common law reasoning; Aesthetics
Martin P. Golding is Professor of Philosophy and Law at Duke University, USA.