Coherence and determinacy are both apparent desiderata for bodies of law and legal systems. Unfortunately, in legal systems of any complexity, increasing the degree of one invariably brings about a lessening of the other. For theories of law - such as Ronald Dworkin\u27s - that emphasize the importance of coherence in judicial reasoning, while requiring as a condition of legitimacy that legal rights pre-exist judicial decisions, this must be an unwelcome fact
In traditional theories, legal principles are normative guides to mitigate judicial discretion in ca...
A long tradition in legal theory views the judicial role as centrally including the duty to make the...
Deconstruction has already happened on the Supreme Court. Not only can no member of the Court reall...
Coherence and determinacy are both apparent desiderata for bodies of law and legal systems. Unfortun...
It would seem axiomatic that the law should be coherent in the sense that it should be consistent an...
Coherentism, in philosophy generally, is of either an epistemological or a metaphysical type. The ep...
Although coherence has become one of the key concepts in contemporary legal theory, its meaning is t...
Coherence is in vogue. Coherence accounts of truth and of knowledge have been in contention for many...
This book is a thorough treatise concerned with coherence and its significance in legal reasoning. T...
The core of scientific theories are laws. These laws often make use of theoretical terms, linguistic...
This Article proposes a novel technique for characterizing the relative determinacy of legal decisio...
This paper analyses and criticizes Joseph Raz's attacks on coherentist theories. It is argued that R...
Recently legal scholarship has been heavily influenced by coherence theories of law and adjudication...
Este trabajo examina el concepto de coherencia y el papel que ésta juega en el razonamiento jurídico...
The concept of ‘coherence’ has become a fundamental principle in Australian law. On numerous occasio...
In traditional theories, legal principles are normative guides to mitigate judicial discretion in ca...
A long tradition in legal theory views the judicial role as centrally including the duty to make the...
Deconstruction has already happened on the Supreme Court. Not only can no member of the Court reall...
Coherence and determinacy are both apparent desiderata for bodies of law and legal systems. Unfortun...
It would seem axiomatic that the law should be coherent in the sense that it should be consistent an...
Coherentism, in philosophy generally, is of either an epistemological or a metaphysical type. The ep...
Although coherence has become one of the key concepts in contemporary legal theory, its meaning is t...
Coherence is in vogue. Coherence accounts of truth and of knowledge have been in contention for many...
This book is a thorough treatise concerned with coherence and its significance in legal reasoning. T...
The core of scientific theories are laws. These laws often make use of theoretical terms, linguistic...
This Article proposes a novel technique for characterizing the relative determinacy of legal decisio...
This paper analyses and criticizes Joseph Raz's attacks on coherentist theories. It is argued that R...
Recently legal scholarship has been heavily influenced by coherence theories of law and adjudication...
Este trabajo examina el concepto de coherencia y el papel que ésta juega en el razonamiento jurídico...
The concept of ‘coherence’ has become a fundamental principle in Australian law. On numerous occasio...
In traditional theories, legal principles are normative guides to mitigate judicial discretion in ca...
A long tradition in legal theory views the judicial role as centrally including the duty to make the...
Deconstruction has already happened on the Supreme Court. Not only can no member of the Court reall...