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2 The Works of Neil MacCormick: A Bibliography and a Bibliographical Essay on Scottish Themes
2012Maksymilian Del Mar
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Neil MacCormick – A Personal Memoir
Scottish Affairs, 2009Brilliantly articulate, witty persons of towering intellect and the highest academic achievement are by no means always admirable or likeable individuals. Should they also have considerable political acumen and knowledge, resulting in the holding of a wide range of academic and public offices, the chances of them being people with whom it is a delight ...
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10 Scotland’s Meridian: A Memoir of Neil MacCormick in the Scottish Public Sphere
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MacCormick, Sir (Donald) Neil (1941–2009), jurist and Scottish nationalist
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Neil MacCormick on Interpretation, Defeasibility, and the Rule of Law
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011The 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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LEGAL REASONING AND LEGAL THEORY. By Neil MacCormick. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1978.
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Obituary: Professor Sir Neil MacCormick
Scottish Affairs, 2009Neil MacCormick, who died on 5 April 2009 aged 67, was appointed Regius Professor of Public Law at Edinburgh University at the early age of 31 and held the post for a record, and highly distinguished, 36 years. During his tenure he developed theories on sovereignty and liberal nationalism which he advanced as an MEP and as author of the SNP's ...
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Neil MacCormick’s Theory of Law: A Non-Objectualist Interpretation
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004This 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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Guidance and constraint: the action-guiding capacity of Neil MacCormick’s theory of legal reasoning
Law and Philosophy, 2006In 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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