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Thoughtfulness and the Rule of Law
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ISBN: 0674294858 067429484X Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press,

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Political theorist Jeremy Waldron makes a bracing case against identifying rule of law with predictability. Seeing the rule of law as just one value to which democracies aspire, he embraces thoughtfulness rather than rote rule-following, flexibility even at the cost of vagueness, and emphasizing procedure and argument over predictable outcomes.


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Law Is a Moral Practice
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ISBN: 0674294874 0674294866 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press,

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What is law, and why does it matter? Scott Hershovitz says that law is a moral practice--a tool for adjusting our moral relations. This claim is simple on its face, but it has stark implications for the rule of law. At once erudite and entertaining, Hershovitz's argument engages with the most important legal and political controversies of our time.


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Philosophy of law
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ISBN: 9780691141671 0691141673 1282976486 1400838703 1782689508 9786612976483 Year: 2011 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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In Philosophy of Law, Andrei Marmor provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary debates about the fundamental nature of law--an issue that has been at the heart of legal philosophy for centuries. What the law is seems to be a matter of fact, but this fact has normative significance: it tells people what they ought to do. Is the normative content of a law entirely determined by the facts that make it a law? Are there some normative moral constraints on what the law can be? And can we fully characterize and define the law without assuming a moral conception about what the law oug


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Philosophy of law
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In Philosophy of Law, Andrei Marmor provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary debates about the fundamental nature of law--an issue that has been at the heart of legal philosophy for centuries. What the law is seems to be a matter of fact, but this fact has normative significance: it tells people what they ought to do. Is the normative content of a law entirely determined by the facts that make it a law? Are there some normative moral constraints on what the law can be? And can we fully characterize and define the law without assuming a moral conception about what the law oug

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