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Natural Law Theories

Philosophy Compass, 2016
Abstract This article considers natural law perspectives on the nature of law. Natural law theories are united by what Mark Murphy calls the natural law thesis : law is necessarily a rational standard for conduct.
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Law in Theory, Law in Practice

Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, 2019
Letters written by early modern missionaries played an important role in the development of global intellectual networks and inquiry into religion, language, cartography, and science. But the historical ethnography of law has not recognized the role that Jesuits played in creating the field of comparative law.
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Feminist Theory And The Law

2009
Abstract American feminists have identified law as an instrument of male supremacy since their first national gathering at Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. Critiques of law thus became an important part of the early feminist movement, which succeeded in eradicating the most blatant examples of legal sexism.
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Laws and Theories

Philosophy, 1938
Is there any important distinction between a law and a theory? Some usages suggest that there is. Thus, everyone speaks of Boyle's Law (not theory) and of the dynamical theory (not law or laws) of gases. But the most summary inquiry will show that the distinction is not maintained consistently by individual authors, still less as between different ...
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Economic theory of tort law

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
Economic analysis of tort law is central to the rise of the law and economics movement, bringing economic thinking into the heart of legal theory. Early economic analysis of tort law accomplished this fit through insistence on several distinct features.
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The Planning Theory of Law

2013
100th edition announcement.- Authors Biographies.- Introduction Damiano Canale & Giovanni Tuzet.- 1. Looking for the Nature of Law: On Shapiro's Challenge Damiano Canale.- 2. The Possibility Puzzle and Legal Positivism Francesca Poggi.- 3. What is Wrong with Legal Realism? Giovanni Tuzet.- 4. Rule of Recognition, Convention and Obligation. What Shapiro
CANALE, DAMIANO, TUZET, GIOVANNI
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The Theory of Law

1979
The bulk of Hayek’s work in social philosophy over the past twenty years has been in the theory of law. He has given accounts of the nature of law, as formal treatises in the science of jurisprudence, and has also linked legal philosophy with other aspects of his thought; notably the methodology of social science and the theory of justice.
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Theories and Laws

1979
In chapter 4, section vii there was a brief account of the hypotheticodeductive method. The hypothesis, perhaps a very tentative one, is put forward as a way of relating or of explaining certain observed facts. The hypothesis may be in the form of an empirical generalisation whereby observations become more ordered, or it may be in the form of a theory,
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A Theory of Criminal Law Theories

2010
AbstractThis chapter develops a theory of what a theory of and area of law, criminal law included, should look like. It describes what kind of thing an area of law might be, and previews the book's conclusions as to the correct views on these matters.
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(Population) Health Law in Theory

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 2016
AbstractThis essay explores the viability of using the population health legal norm developed by Professor Wendy Parmet in her book Populations, Public Health, and the Law as a basis for theorizing health law. Based on the application of five criteria, the essay concludes that a population health legal norm has potential as a framework for theorizing ...
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