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• Title:Rhetoric and the rule of law : a theory of legal reasoning / Neil MacCormick.
  
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• Author/Creator:MacCormick, Neil.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: K213 .M284 2005 (LC)
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Law--Methodology.
  Law (Philosophical concept)
  Rule of law.
  
• Description:xvi, 287 p. ; 25 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  
• ISBN:9780198268789 (alk. paper)
  0198268785 (alk. paper)
  
• Contents:1. Prologue : institutional theory and the lawmaker's perspective
  2. rule of law and the arguable character of law
  3. On the legal syllogism
  4. Defending deductivism
  5. Universals and particulars
  6. Judging by consequences
  7. Arguing about interpretation
  8. Using precedents
  9. Being reasonable
  10. Coherence, principles, and analogies
  11. Legal narratives
  12. Arguing defeasibly
  13. Judging mistakenly?