Common Law Theory

Informationen zum Autor Douglas E. Edlin is Associate Professor of Political Science at Dickinson College. Klappentext An international team of scholars analyse the common law through three of its classic themes: rules! reasoning and constitutionalism. Zusammenfassung In this book! legal scholars! philosophers! historians and political scientists from Australia! Canada! New Zealand! the United Kingdom and the United States analyse the common law through three of its classic themes: rules! reasoning and constitutionalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Douglas E. Edlin; Part I. Common Law Rules: 1. Judges as rulemakers Larry Alexander and Emily Sherwin; 2. Some types of law John Gardner; Part II. Common Law Reasoning: 3. The principles of legal reasoning in the common law Melvin A. Eisenberg; 4. A similibus ad similia: analogical thinking in law Gerald J. Postema; 5. Reasoned decisions and legal theory David Dyzenhaus and Michael Taggart; Part III. Common Law Constitutionalism: 6. Common law, natural law, and the constitution James R. Stoner, Jr; 7. Text, context, and constitution: the common law as public reason T. R. S. Allan; 8. The myth of the common law constitution Jeffrey Goldsworthy.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas E. Edlin, Douglas E. (Dickinson College Edlin, Edlin Douglas E.
• Assisted by: Douglas E. Edlin (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.10.2010
• EAN: 9780521176156
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17615-6
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law; Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / General, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law