The Tapestry of the Law

The Tapestry of the Law
Author: E. Attwooll
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9401588007

Although its concern is jurisprudence, The Tapestry of the Law is intended to offer neither an original theory of or about law nor an account of other people's theories in textbook form. It is, rather, an attempt to approach the subject without following either of these conventions. The reasons are as follows. Those engaged in legal theory are prone to assert that one cannot properly understand the law unless one takes a jurisprudential approach - preferably their own - to it. Equally, those engaged in exposition of the law may counter that legal theory fails to pay adequate attention to actual law. There is at least some truth in these claims. Analyses, courses and textbooks on both sides do often seem to be produced without reference to the other. Yet such isolation is probably more apparent than real. Most, if not all, so-called "black letter" lawyers do operate on the basis of certain jurisprudential understandings, even if these are not articulated ones. In the frequently quoted words ofF C S Northrop: There are lawyers, judges and even law professors who tell us they have no legal philosophy.

The Tapestry of Reason

The Tapestry of Reason
Author: Amalia Amaya
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 601
Release: 2015-04-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1782255176

In recent years coherence theories of law and adjudication have been extremely influential in legal scholarship. These theories significantly advance the case for coherentism in law. Nonetheless, there remain a number of problems in the coherence theory in law. This ambitious new work makes the first concerted attempt to develop a coherence-based theory of legal reasoning, and in so doing addresses, or at least mitigates these problems. The book is organized in three parts. The first part provides a critical analysis of the main coherentist approaches to both normative and factual reasoning in law. The second part investigates the coherence theory in a number of fields that are relevant to law: coherence theories of epistemic justification, coherentist approaches to belief revision and theory-choice in science, coherence theories of practical and moral reasoning and coherence-based approaches to discourse interpretation. Taking this interdisciplinary analysis as a starting point, the third part develops a coherence-based model of legal reasoning. While this model builds upon the standard theory of legal reasoning, it also leads to rethinking some of the basic assumptions that characterize this theory, and suggests some lines along which it may be further developed. Thus, ultimately, the book not only improves upon the current state of coherence theory in law, but also contributes to the larger debate about how to articulate a theory of legal reasoning that results in better decision-making.

Times Law Reports

Times Law Reports
Author: William Frederick Barry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 810
Release: 1914
Genre: Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN:

The Tapestry Book

The Tapestry Book
Author: Helen Churchill Candee
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2019-11-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This well-researched book is all about the history of the art of tapestry. Ms Candee did her research in American museums in Boston, Chicago, New York, and Washington. Her book describes the tapestries of Europe at different periods in history.

Obscurity and Clarity in the Law

Obscurity and Clarity in the Law
Author: Anne Wagner
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2008
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780754671435

Exploring the intricate and multi-dimensional conception of clarity and obscurity in law, this volume presents and examines the most recent research and theories. It provides practical guidance on how to avoid obscurity in legal drafting, as well as legal interpretation at both the national and international levels.

Legal Method and the Rule of Law

Legal Method and the Rule of Law
Author: Sebastián Urbina
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2002-08-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9789041118707

We cannot see the world as it is because we face it in a 'contaminated' vein. That is, our conceptual scheme and biological constitution condition our world view. The legal normative world we are dealing with has some special features, like the primacy of practical reason over theoretical reason and the primacy of the internal point of view over the external point of view. Although it is not a feature of all legal traditions, 'legal dogmatics' is a privileged way of knowing legal normative object, that is, our legal orders. But we are not undertaking - as legal scholars - an empiricist enterprise because, among other reasons, we are not interested in the reality 'in itself' but in the 'relevant' reality, at least for us. In this respect, we do not only depend on theories (like physicists) but also on legal authoritative sources, that is, power and legitimacy. Legal scholars (and other participants in the legal life) are not neutral observers of their own world, trying to discover some hidden truth. They are committed experts trying to describe, justify and improve the legal order.

Tapestries

Tapestries
Author: George Leland Hunter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 474
Release: 1912
Genre:
ISBN: