Legal Thinking: Its Limits and Tensions

William Read

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1986

Legal Thinking

Its Limits and Tensions

William Read

In the series Anniversary Collection

https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512805543

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This book delineates the limits that define, and the tensions that beset, the process of conceiving how laws connect and interact with morals and facts—about the ways we do think about these connections and interactions, not about the ways we should think.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One. Limits of Legal Thinking
1. Points of View for Legal Thinking Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2. Materials for Legal Thinking Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
3. Problems for Legal Thinking Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Part Two. Tensions in Legal Thinking
4. Tension Between Structures and Freedom Regarding What the Law Requires Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
5. Tension Between Law and Morals Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
6. Tension Between Norms and Facts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Edition: Reprint 2016
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 200
Keywords: Law; Human Rights

eBook

Published: November 11, 2016
ISBN: 9781512805543