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Neil MacCormick on Interpretation, Defeasibility, and the Rule of Law

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
The paper examines and critically reflects on Neil MacCormick’s theory of legal reasoning, and more specifically with his theory of interpretation. To begin with, I will try to summarize the main tenets of MacCormick’s theory of legal interpretation; I will then move on to consider a specific interpretive problem, that is the place of defeasibility in ...
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MacCormick, Sir (Donald) Neil (1941–2009), jurist and Scottish nationalist

2013
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Neil MacCormick’s Theory of Law: A Non-Objectualist Interpretation

2012
This paper challenges a common opinion whereby Neil MacCormick’s legal theory is an internal revision of Herbert Hart’s approach. I shall not deny that MacCormick’s thought embodies some relevant legal-positivist features. My claim is rather that, important as these assumptions can be, they are not sufficient to classify his theory as positivist.
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Neil MacCormick's Legal Positivism

2009
Il saggio si propone di presentare la concezione del positivismo giuridico dell'importante teorico del diritto scozzese Neil MacCormick. A questo proposito vengono distinte tre diverse fasi dell'evoluzione del suo pensiero sul positivismo giuridico, fasi che corrispondono ad un progressivo allontanamento di questo autore dal percorso intellettuale di ...
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Guidance and constraint: the action-guiding capacity of Neil MacCormick’s theory of legal reasoning

Law and Philosophy, 2006
In this article I explore the action-guiding capacity of MacCormick’s theory of legal reasoning. More specifically, my aim is to determine whether this theory will take us further than the so-called legal method, and, if so, whether it can give us the kind of concrete guidance we need when confronted with a hard case.
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Neil MacCormick's Second Thoughts on Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory. A Defence of the Original View

Ratio Juris, 2011
AbstractThis paper offers a diachronic reconstruction of MacCormick's theory of law and legal argumentation: In particular, two related points will be highlighted in which the difference between the perspective upheld in Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory and the later writings is particularly marked.
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Neil Maccormick, Questioning Sovereignty

Forma de Vida, 2017
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H. L. A. Hart by Neil MacCormick

Journal of Philosophy, 1985
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Law and virtue in a post-sovereign “Commonwealth:” Neil MacCormick and the political theory of constitutional pluralism

Journal of International Political Theory, 2021
Hugo Canihac
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Neil MacCormick e la retorica del diritto

Nelle opere di Neil MacCormick i riferimenti alla retorica e all’opera di Chaïm Perelman sono numerosi. Sinora essi sono stati interpretati come un omaggio al grande studioso e come citazioni occasionali. Attraverso un’analisi dettagliata del “quartetto” Law, State and Practical Reason emergono, invece, numerosi passaggi in cui il giurista scozzese ...
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