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Justifying judgment

Vincent Joseph Samar

1998307 pagesabout 5–7 hours
1998
first published
  • 1998University Press of Kansas · 307 pages · ENGISBN 9780700608546

Justifying Judgement reconsiders the relationship between legal and political philosophy, showing that the former is incomplete without the latter. Taking the problem of how to solve difficult cases as his point of departure, Vincent Samar demonstrates the inherent incompleteness of conventional theories of law. He reviews the current state of legal and political theory and advances a metatheory for law that would enable judges to decide such cases by drawing upon the best available theory of politics appropriate to the case's level of abstraction.

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