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Title
Law and objectivity / Kent Greenawalt.
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Call Number
K296 .G74 1992
ISBN
019506741X
9780195067415
9780195067415
Description
x, 288 pages ; 22 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)23690037
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-280) and index.
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Table of Contents
1Introduction
3
I
Legal Rules and Determinate Answers to Legal Questions
2The Import of Normative Language and Rules-- Nonlegal Illustrations
11
3Determinate Applications of Legal Rules
34
4Determinate Answers Under General Statutory and Constitutional Standards and Principles of Common Law
59
5Law's Determinacy in Light of General Theories of Prediction, Rule Following, and Interpretation
68
II
How the Law Treats People
6Standards of Judgment: External or Internal, Personal or Reasonable
93
7Fairness in Classification
121
8The Generality of Law
141
III
Law's Relation to Broader Sources That Make It Objective in Various Respects
9Law's Relation to Cultural Morality, Economic Efficiency, and Sound Political Morality
163
10Objectivity in Legal Reasoning
193
11Correct Answers to Legal Questions
207
Conclusion
233
Notes
237
Bibliography
275
Index
281