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Legal Rules in Practice: In the Midst of Law's Life
This volume explores the ways in which legal practices are referred to and articulated with legal rules, considering the ways in which rules are invoked, interpreted or blurred, and asking how both legal practitioners and lay participants conceive of and participate in the construction of facts and rules in order to produce decisions.
| Author(s) | Edited by Baudouin Dupret (National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France), Julie Colemans (University of Liege, Belgium), Max Travers (University of Tasmania, Australia). |
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| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Paperback / softback |
| Pages | 290 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 1 Aug 2022 |
| Availability | POD |
This volume explores the ways in which legal practices are referred to and articulated with legal rules, considering the ways in which rules are invoked, interpreted or blurred, and asking how both legal practitioners and lay participants conceive of and participate in the construction of facts and rules in order to produce decisions.
Introduction: legal rules in practice: an exploration into law's life 1. Ruleness Part 1 : Ruleness and its relativity 2. No rule for the application of rules 3. The structure of the legal system and the emergence of the state 4. Equality, hierarchy, and
Baudouin Dupret is Directeur de Recherche at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and guest lecturer at the University of Louvain, Belgium. He has published extensively in the field of the sociology and anthropology of law, legislatio
