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Universals of legal reasoning by judges : a plea for candour in decision-making / Thomas Lundmark.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lundmark, Thomas, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--Methodology.
- Law.
- Judicial process.
- Forms (Law).
- Law--Germany--Methodology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- This volume explores and expounds the usage of rules to justify judicial decisions. It argues for judicial transparency and candour to enhance the persuasiveness and efficacy of judicial precedents, to foster democratic legitimacy, and to permit political accountability.
- Contents:
- Introduction and definitions
- Making, finding, applying, and justifying
- Political judging
- Rules from statutes and cases
- Textual argument
- Historical argument
- Purposive argument
- System-contextual argument
- A plea for transparency and candour
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2024.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 19, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-182748-7
- OCLC:
- 1422578403
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