Liberal Legality
eBook - PDF

Liberal Legality

A Unified Theory of our Law

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Liberal Legality

A Unified Theory of our Law

About this book

In his new book, Lewis D. Sargentich shows how two different kinds of legal argument - rule-based reasoning and reasoning based on principles and policies - share a surprising kinship and serve the same aspiration. He starts with the study of the rule of law in life, a condition of law that serves liberty - here called liberal legality. In pursuit of liberal legality, courts work to uphold people's legal entitlements and to confer evenhanded legal justice. Judges try to achieve the control of reason in law, which is manifest in law's coherence, and to avoid forms of arbitrariness, such as personal moral judgment. Sargentich offers a unified theory of the diverse ways of doing law, and shows that they all arise from the same root, which is a commitment to liberal legality.

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Information

Topic
Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface: Law’s Quest
  8. Introduction Toward Unification
  9. 1 The Idea of Law-Like Law
  10. 2 Argument in a Legal System
  11. 3 Practice of Legality
  12. 4 Pursuit of the Rule of Law
  13. 5 Aspiration and Impulse
  14. 6 Deep Duality: Formal Law
  15. 7 Deep Duality: Law’s Ideals
  16. 8 Two Perils for Law
  17. 9 Fear of Free Ideals
  18. 10 Fear of Open Form
  19. 11 Modern Liberal Practice
  20. 12 Legality Recapitulated
  21. References
  22. Index