Reasoning with Law

by Andrew Halpin

Book Overview

The reader is invited to follow a route that visits Fish's view of theory and practice, Raz's legal reasoning thesis, theoretical models of judicial review, Dworkin's right answer thesis, the law of the excluded middle and Lukasiewicz's development of three-valued logic, Wittgenstein's language games, and Moore's metaphysical realism. The destination is the practice at the heart of legal reasoning. It is suggested that this manifests the way in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841132446
• ISBN13: 9781841132440
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"