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Liberal Legality: A Unified Theory of our Law - Sargentich, Lewis D.
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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 ...

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Liberal Legality: A Unified Theory of our Law 2019, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781108442367

Trade paperback

Liberal Legality: A Unified Theory of Our Law 2018, Cambridge University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9781108425452

Hardcover