Research Catalog

Title

Essays in legal theory / by Robert S. Summers.

Author

Summers, Robert S.

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2000.

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Description

xvi, 441 p.; 25cm.

Series Statement

Law and philosophy library ; v. 46

Uniform Title

Law and philosophy library v. 46.

Subject

Law > Philosophy

Note

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

H.L.A. Hart's "The concept of law" -- Rudolf von Jehring's influence on American legal theory -- Law as a type of "machine" technology -- On identifying and reconstructing a general legal theory -- My philosophy of law -- The formal character of law -- A formal theory of the rule of law -- The formal character of law : statutory rules -- Interpreting statutes and precedents : two comparative studies -- The argument from ordinary meaning in statutory interpretation -- Interpreting statutes : should courts consider materials of legislative history? -- Formal legal truth and substantive truth in judicial fact-finding -- The conceptualization of good faith in American contract law -- Substantive justification in contract cases : the primacy of rightness reasons -- Economics and the autonomy of law, legal analysis and legal theory -- Economists' reasons for common law decisions.

ISBN

0792363671 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00033071^

OCLC

• 43971636
• SCSB-10387194

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library