Add to ORKGAlthough tragic choices are a common phenomenon in human experience, dominant conceptions of legal reasoning in Western constitutional democracies do not account for the tragic character of legal choices. These conceptions are therefore highly reassuring both for the legal system as a whole as well as for the legal agents concerned. In this paper it is argued that conceptions of legal reasoning should make room for the concept of tragic legal choice. In order to grasp the substantial bearing of this claim, the main characteristics of the concept of a tragic legal choice will also be fleshed out
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The first part of this work analyses the universalist and the particularist conceptions of reasons. ...
The question of excusing in law has been the subject of different philosophical theories of responsi...
As one of humanity’s most vital social systems, Law plays a pivotal role in being the glue which kee...
In this article the concept of the tragic legal choice is established as an indispensable complement...
Legal dilemmas seem to capture a paradox apt to illuminate some important challenges for contemporar...
In this paper I aim to analyse the features and elements of legal argumentation in so called tragic ...
This book offers a general theoretical account of how societies cope with decisions which they regar...
Professor Farnsworth\u27s1 topic is what he calls the law of regretted decisions, those laws that...
Alon Harel’s Why Law Matters is a laudable attempt to sharpen our understanding of how the law deals...
In this paper I propose to investigate into the dilemmatic and potentially tragic dimension of judgi...
Often, in a case of first instance, a judge will reach a decision by an appeal to legal principles. ...
The concept of legal liability is traditionally approached, first in the General Theory of Law, the...
ii Dr. Fred D. Miller Jr., Advisor Tragic dilemmas are cases in which an agent must choose between t...
In this article the paradoxical role of legal science in legal practice is discussed. On the one han...
The Supreme Court of Canada decision in R. v. Ruzic (2001) formulates a new principle of fundamental...
The first part of this work analyses the universalist and the particularist conceptions of reasons. ...
The question of excusing in law has been the subject of different philosophical theories of responsi...
As one of humanity’s most vital social systems, Law plays a pivotal role in being the glue which kee...