Law's Sources
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 2 September 2025
- ISBN 9780198981152
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages154 pages
- Size 240x165x15 mm
- Weight 400 g
- Language English 617
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Short description:
Law's Sources offers an examination - part legal philosophy, part legal history - of sources of law and sources of information and opinion about law. Focusing on common law jurisdictions, Duxbury considers thorny questions raised by sources, not simply as matters of legal theory but also of judicial decision-making and practical legal reasoning.
MoreLong description:
Law has sources - sources of actual law, and sources of information and opinion about law. Familiarity with these so-called primary and secondary sources is integral to law-application, and to making the strongest case possible for how particular laws should be interpreted and understood. Yet law's sources raise thorny questions. Are the norms that courts enforce as law always attributable to primary sources? Can a bright-line distinction be drawn between what judges apply as law and what they rely on when interpreting what they apply? When, and how, do secondary sources get upgraded to acquire primary status? Do some sources have neither primary nor secondary status? How is scholarship used as a secondary source?
Law's Sources considers these and other questions, not simply as matters of legal theory but as aspects of judicial decision-making and practical legal reasoning. Chapter 1 traces the historical conceptualization of legal sources as criteria of legal validity. Chapter 2 examines laws as norms and sources. Chapter 3 considers the tenacity of the 'sources thesis'. Chapters 4 and 5 defend the distinction between primary and secondary sources and examine instances in which secondary sources are made to function like primary sources of law. Chapter 6 considers the legal status of Restatement provisions in US courts and how Restatements are sometimes treated as binding authority. Chapter 7 examines the complexities concerning the identification of applicable law by law-enforcing officials. Chapter 8 considers how judges view and utilize scholarship as epistemic and persuasive authority.
Table of Contents:
Source(s)
The source-law distinction
The tenacity of the sources thesis
The concept of the secondary source
Secondary sources as sources of law
Code source
Source identification: some difficulties
Scholarship as a secondary source
