legal theorist
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflegalandtheorist
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legal
adjective
uk/ˈliː.ɡəl/us/ˈliː.ɡəl/
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theorist
noun[C]
uk/ˈθɪə.rɪst/us/ˈθiː.ɚ.ɪst/
someone who develops ideas about the explanation ...
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(Definition oflegalandtheoristfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This is doubly disturbing for someone who thinks of himself or herself as alegaltheorist.
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It follows that in having any theoretical disagreements, according to a semanticlegaltheorist, discussants fail to have genuine disagreements and in effect talk at cross-purposes.
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Once she is reminded of certain platitudes about vagueness, thelegaltheoristneeds no further help from philosophers of language and logic.
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Moreover, thelegaltheoristwill simultaneously be able to explain why we consider law legal systems that do embrace the ideals of justice.
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Leiter does not speak of thelegaltheoristpassively reproducing participants' self-understandings but rather claims that he or she must "attend to"76 and "account for"77 them.
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This tendency remains despite the frequency with which international legal theorists write about legitimacy or justice.
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How do legal theorists understand what judges are doing?
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A discourse of laws has less interest to contemporary legal theorists.
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Hutchinson is alegaltheoristand has devoted a lot of time to examining the failure of law.
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Typically, legal theorists who ascribe authority to law have practical authority in mind.
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Most lawyers and legal theorists acknowledge the existence of absolute borderline cases.
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Legal theorists tend to start at the other end.
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Legal theorists tend to assume that the judge is the only decision-maker who matters in adjudication.
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Moreover, simply existing is not the limit of a legal theorist's ambition.
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The methodological task seems fundamental because is has the potential to enable legal theorists to reach both agreement and meaningful disagreement and to advance our understanding of substantive jurisprudential views.
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What happened in law (an alliance between religious evangelicals and pragmatic/critical legal theorists in defense of political democracy) was also happening in philosophy and political theory.
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Indeed, contemporary legal theorists devote little attention to the legislative process; they focus mainly on the activities of judges.
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Legal theorists generally take for granted some version of the claim that the relation between law practices and the content of the law is reason-based.
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