Legal Reasoning and European Laws: the Perspective of Neil MacCormick-Florence, 21 May 2010
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Neil MacCormick has deeply influenced contemporary legal theory. The importance of his studies on practical reasoning in general and on legal reasoning and legal argumentation in particular, on legal institutionalism, on sovereignty, on the theory of rights and on the rule of law can hardly be exaggerated. It must be added that his researches on these different themes do not proceed along parallel lines but are pieces of a unitary perspective on law. This clearly results from his last ambitious research project, on the theme “Law, State and Practical Reason.” A remarkable and constant aspect of MacCormick’s intellectual pathway is his attention to European and Scandinavian jurisprudence and philosophy as well as, obviously, to the AngloAmerican debate. This is a characteristic that is worth stressing in that it marks a major difference between MacCormick and most Anglo-American legal philosophy and jurisprudence scholars.
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