Playing by the Rules (Häftad)
avFrederick Schauer
ISBN: 9780198258315 - UTGIVEN: 199302This is a philosophical but non-technical analysis of the very idea of a rule. Although focused somewhat on the role of rules in the legal system, it is also relevant to the place of rules in morality, religion, etiquette, games, language, and family governance. In both explaining the idea of a rule[...]
Profiles, Probabilities, and Stereotypes (Häftad)
avFrederick Schauer
ISBN: 9780674021181 - UTGIVEN: 200605This book employs a careful, rigorous, yet lively approach to the timely question of whether we can justly generalise about members of a group on the basis of statistical tendencies of that group. For instance, should a military academy exclude women because, on average, women are more sensitive to [...]
Thinking Like a Lawyer (Häftad)
avFrederick Schauer
ISBN: 9780674062481 - UTGIVEN: 2012-04This primer on legal reasoning is aimed at law students and upper-level undergraduates. But it is also an original exposition of basic legal concepts that scholars and lawyers will find stimulating. It covers such topics as rules, precedent, authority, analogical reasoning, the common law, statutory[...]
The Force of Law (Inbunden)
avFrederick Schauer
ISBN: 9780674368217 - UTGIVEN: 2015-02Many legal theorists maintain that laws are effective because we internalize them, obeying even when not compelled to do so. In a comprehensive reassessment of the role of force in law, Frederick Schauer disagrees, demonstrating that coercion, more than internalized thinking and behaving, distinguis[...]
Karl Llewellyn and the Realist Movement (Pocket)
avWilliam Twining, Frederick (FRW) Schauer, William Twining
ISBN: 9781107644786 - UTGIVEN: 2014-06First published in 1973, Karl Llewellyn and the Realist Movement is a classic account of American Legal Realism and its leading figure. Karl Llewellyn is the best known and most substantial jurist of the group of lawyers known as the American Realists. He made important contributions to legal theory[...]
