The Forward-Looking Requirement of Formal Justice: Neil MacCormick on Consequential Reasoning.
This paper discusses a much-neglected aspect of Neil MacCormick's theory of legal reasoning, namely what he calls ‘consequential reasoning’. For MacCormick, consequential reasoning is both an omnipresent feature of legal reasoning in England and Scotland, as well as being a valuable one. MacCormick...
| Publicado en: | Jurisprudence Vol. 6; no. 3; pp. 429 - 451 |
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Dec2015
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