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# Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory (Clarendon Law Series)

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Since its first appearance in 1979, this work has established itself as a classic of legal philosophy. This study focuses on current jurisprudential debate between the "positivist" views of Herbert Hart and the "rights thesis" of Ronald Dworkin. MacCormick provides a critical analysis of the Dworkin position while also modifying Hart's. It stands firmly on its own as a contribution to an extensive literature. Now available in paperback, and with a new foreword by the author, this popular book will continue to be of use to students and teachers of law, legal theory, and philosophy.

Review: The most influential wor in legal argumentation - No one has written about legal argumentation so clearly (by taking many judicial cases into account) as Professor Neil MacComick has did in this famous work. It contains an accurate description of how judges decide the "hard cases", that is, those who could not be decided with the logic and techniques of formalism or legalism.
Review: Important book, but short on content - I was assigned this book to read for a course in the philosophy of law at a UK university in 1980. The book is important, even now, forty years later, but there's actually not much content. it weighs in at just over a couple of hundred pages and much of that is taken up with examples from cases rather than philosophical argument. I bought it for something less than 15 British pounds. How can it now be $84. We are often reminded that ignorance of the law is no excuse. How are we to avoid being ignorant if the price of acquiring knowledge of the law exceeds to resources of all but the rich?

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #887,777 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #175 in Jurisprudence (Books) #1,744 in Law (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 11 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The most influential wor in legal argumentation
*by C***Z on June 18, 2013*

No one has written about legal argumentation so clearly (by taking many judicial cases into account) as Professor Neil MacComick has did in this famous work. It contains an accurate description of how judges decide the "hard cases", that is, those who could not be decided with the logic and techniques of formalism or legalism.

### ⭐⭐ Important book, but short on content
*by A***E on June 19, 2024*

I was assigned this book to read for a course in the philosophy of law at a UK university in 1980. The book is important, even now, forty years later, but there's actually not much content. it weighs in at just over a couple of hundred pages and much of that is taken up with examples from cases rather than philosophical argument. I bought it for something less than 15 British pounds. How can it now be $84. We are often reminded that ignorance of the law is no excuse. How are we to avoid being ignorant if the price of acquiring knowledge of the law exceeds to resources of all but the rich?

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ masterpiece
*by A***N on August 18, 2021*

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