Allowing for exceptions : a theory of defences and defeasibility in law / Luís Duarte d'Almeida.
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Title
Allowing for exceptions : a theory of defences and defeasibility in law / Luís Duarte d'Almeida.
Published
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Copyright
©2015
Call Number
K5455 .D827 2015
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780199685783 (hbk.)
0199685789 (hbk.)
0199685789 (hbk.)
Description
xii, 291 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)908425341
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-287) and indexes.
Series
Record Appears in
Gift
Purchased from the income of the Cardozo Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Cardozo Fund
Table of Contents
pt. I
Defeasibility in Question
1
1.
The Irreducibility Thesis
3
1.1.
Introduction
3
1.2.
Hart on Defeasible Concepts
8
1.3.
The Irreducibility Thesis
13
1.4.
Two Questions
17
2.
The Issue of Defeasibility
23
2.1.
Two Notions of Defeasibility
23
2.2.
Defences and Exceptions
32
2.3.
Defeasibility and the Application of Legal Concepts
34
2.4.
Agenda
45
pt. II
Defeasibility in Theory
47
3.
The Proof-Based Account
49
3.1.
Preliminaries
49
3.2.
Introducing the Proof-Based Account
53
3.3.
Substantive Representations of Exceptions
58
3.4.
`Probanda' and `Non-Refutanda'
65
3.5.
First Conclusions
73
3.6.
Refinements
77
4.
Exceptions and the Burden of Proof
83
4.1.
Three Objections
83
4.2.
The Burden of Proof: Problems with the Received View
85
4.3.
Making Better Sense of the Notion
89
4.4.
Defences, `Proof', and Evidential Burdens
94
4.5.
Developing the Analysis
103
4.6.
The `Logic' of Exceptions
122
5.
Implicit Exceptions
135
5.1.
The Problem
135
5.2.
The Common View
138
5.3.
Two Senses of `Rules'
143
5.4.
The Common View Dismissed
151
6.
Ceteris Ignotis Clauses
169
6.1.
Completing the Proof-Based Account
169
6.2.
On Overrides
179
6.3.
On `That's it' Clauses
181
6.4.
Concluding Remarks
183
pt. III
Defeasibility in Action
185
7.
Actions and Accusations
187
7.1.
Introduction
187
7.2.
Responsibility and Action
192
7.3.
`Yes, but ...'
204
7.4.
Defeasibility in Accusatory Contexts
209
7.5.
Lines of Development
214
8.
Criminal Answerability and the Offence/Defence Distinction
219
8.1.
Criminal Defences in the German Model
219
8.2.
Offences and Crimes
234
8.3.
Defences, Convictions, and Accusations
239
8.4.
`O Call Me Not to Justify the Wrong'
252
8.5.
Prima Facie Wrongs and Prima Facie Judgments
259
8.6.
In Conclusion
266
Bibliography
269
Index of Subjects
289
Index of Names
293