Neil Maccormick: 8 books

Is legal reasoning rationally persuasive, working within a discernible structure and using recognisable kinds of arguments? Does it belong to rhetoric in this sense, or to the domain of the merely 'rhetorical' in an adversative sense? Is there any reasonable certainty about legal outcomes in dispute-situations?...

This book is a work of outstanding importance for scholars of comparative law and jurisprudence and for lawyers engaged in EC law or other international forms of practice. It reviews, compares and analyses the practice of interpretation in nine countries representing Europe as well as the US and Argentina...

Institutions of Law offers an original account of the nature of law and legal systems in the contemporary world. It provides the definitive statement of Sir Neil MacCormick's well-known 'institutional theory of law', defining law as 'institutional normative order' and explaining each of these three...

En esta obra, el autor se ha propuesto conciliar las exigencias de certeza y seguridad que postula el Estado de Derecho, con la naturaleza argumentable del Derecho que plantea como tesis central a lo largo del libro. Según afirma: "Existe el riesgo de malinterpretar el 'Estado de Derecho' como...

Este libro, que se traduce por primera vez al español, ha sido unánimemente considerado como una de las obras fundamentales para comprender el desarrollo de la Teoría de la Argumentación Jurídica. Originalmente aparecido en 1978, el mismo año en que Robert Alexy publicara su Theorie der juristischen...

In this short but authoritative book, the nature and purpose of the European Constitution are explained by someone involved in its preparation. The author discusses how it was drafted, and tackles some much debated questions: whether it promises any enhancement of democracy in the EU, whether it implies...

What makes an argument in a law case good or bad? Can legal decisions be justified by purely rational argument or are they ultimately determined by more subjective influences? These questions are central to the study of jurisprudence, and are thoroughly and critically examined in Legal Reasoning and...

The concept of practical reason is central to contemporary thought on ethics and the philosophy of law - acting well means acting for good reasons. Explaining this requires several stages. How do reasons relate to actions at all, as incentives and in explanations? What are values, how do they relate...