Allowing for Exceptions: A Theory of Defences and Defeasibility in Law (Oxford Legal Philosophy) - Hardcover

Duarte D'Almeida, Luis

 
9780199685783: Allowing for Exceptions: A Theory of Defences and Defeasibility in Law (Oxford Legal Philosophy)

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How do we draw the line between a rule and its exceptions? This is a long-debated question with important practical consequences, but legal theorists have found it surprisingly difficult to answer. This book tackles this persistent puzzle by offering a new account of exceptions in the law.

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Luís Duarte d'Almeida is Chancellor's Fellow in Law at the University of Edinburgh. He was educated at Lisbon (BA, LLM) and at Oxford (DPhil), and prior to his appointment at Edinburgh he was Junior Research Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and Research Fellow in Legal Philosophy at the University of Girona, Spain. His research is in general jurisprudence, the philosophical foundations of criminal law, and legal reasoning and argumentation.




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