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3 天之前 · Rafał Mańko (Central European University, Democracy Institute) has posted Towards an Ideological History of Private Law or What Legal History Can Gain from Critical Legal …
Legal Theory Lexicon: Living Constitutionalism
2018年11月25日 · Introduction Constitutional discourse in both the academy and the public sphere has recently included quite a bit of talk about "originalism." But what about originalism's …
Legal Theory Lexicon
Introduction. Law students soon learn that the interpretation of legal texts is one of the most important things that lawyers and judges do. In a previous Legal Theory Lexicon entry, a …
Legal Theory Blog
2025年1月11日 · Wilkinson‐Ryan, Hoffman, & Campbell on Contract Experiences of Ordinary Folk. Tess Wilkinson‐Ryan (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School), David A. Hoffman …
Legal Theory Lexicon: The Counter-Majoritarian Difficulty
2012年9月9日 · Introduction. The counter-majoritarian difficulty may be the best known problem in constitutional theory.The phrase is attributed to Alexander Bickel—a Yale Law School …
Legal Theory Blog: Legal Theory Lexicon: Textualism
2021年9月5日 · Introduction One of the most important topics in legal theory is “legal interpretation,” which deals with the derivation of meaning from legal texts. Of course, legal …
Legal Theory Lexicon: Hart
2023年9月24日 · Introduction. How can we look at a legal system? H.L.A. Hart famously deployed the distinction between external and internal perspectives on a legal system in his famous …
Legal Theory Lexicon 051: Vagueness and Ambiguity
2023年12月10日 · Introduction. This week the Legal Theory Lexicon entry focuses on "ambiguity" and "vagueness"--two important concepts for the theory of interpretation. Some legal texts are …
Legal Theory Lexicon: Legal Theory Lexicon 021: Speech Acts
2021年7月4日 · Introduction Speech act theory will forever be associated with the great J. L. Austin, the Oxford philosopher whose work in the 1950s had an enormous influence on …
Legal Theory Lexicon: Legal Theory Lexicon 005: Holdings
2024年11月10日 · Introduction It used to be the case that an endless investigation of the difference between holding and dictum was a central preoccupation of the first year of law …