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How to Do Things with Legal Doctrine

By Pierre Schlag , Amy J. Griffin

Book information

Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9780226726243
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1598906 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
208\216
Topic
Jurisprudence Law
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2020-09-22 08:44:46
AdvocacyDoctrinaldoctrinejurisprudenceLegal Reasoning

Description

Legal doctrine—the creation of doctrinal concepts, arguments, and legal regimes built on the foundation of written law—is the currency of contemporary law. Yet law students, lawyers, and judges often take doctrine for granted, without asking even the most basic questions. How to Do Things with Legal Doctrine is a sweeping and original study that focuses on how to understand legal doctrine via a hands-on approach. Taking up the provocative invitations from the “New Doctrinalists,” Pierre Schlag and Amy J. Griffin refine the conceptual and rhetorical operations legal professionals perform with doctrine—focusing especially on those difficult moments where law seems to run out, but legal argument must go on. The authors make the crucial operations of doctrine explicit, revealing how they work, and how they shape the law that emerges. How to Do Things with Legal Doctrine will help all those studying or working with law to gain a more systematic understanding of the doctrinal moves many of our best lawyers make intuitively.

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