legal theory
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflegalandtheory
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legal
adjective
uk/ˈliː.ɡəl/us/ˈliː.ɡəl/
connected with ...
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theory
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈθɪə.ri/us/ˈθɪr.i/
a formal statement of the rules on which a subject of study is based or of ideas that are suggested to explain a fact or event or, more generally, an opinion ...
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(Definition oflegalandtheoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoflegal theory
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If positivists concede that evaluative considerations are required forlegaltheory, then the same considerations seem to be involved in knowing the content of law.
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Again, the analogy withlegaltheoryis illuminating.
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They have produced works of the highest quality, such as would have been impossible without a preliminary training inlegaltheory.
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These sections approach the issue of evaluation inlegaltheoryfrom three distinct angles.
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There are few books that offer a better combination of breadth and depth in discussing the important figures inlegaltheory.
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This is arguably wherelegaltheoryis now turning.
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The paper will not undertake a jurisprudential analysis in the sense of examining either the nature of public law orlegaltheory.
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Some people would probably take offense even at the use of their religion in a (somewhat irreverent) fictional example illustratinglegaltheory-and that is foreseeable.
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When it has been metlegaltheorywill not be the less, but the more, worthy of his homage.
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Giving desert its due: social justice andlegaltheory.
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He does not employ or discuss any elements related tolegaltheoryin general, or legal historiography.
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Such a position goes hand in hand with the general attitude that semantics is unimportant forlegaltheoryin general.
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And yet none of the philosophers who argued thatlegaltheorynecessarily involves evaluative considerations seemed troubled by this possibility.
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This study emphasizes actual practice rather thanlegaltheory.
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Butlegaltheoryneeds to classify only a minimal number of types of community.
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It should be noted, however, that we do not share his goal of naturalizinglegaltheory.
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A sounderlegaltheory, however, knocks loudly at our door, and some day we shall awake to find we have been talking in our sleep.
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But more than this, many believe that case law andlegaltheoryprovide positive reasons for treating frozen embryos as property.
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Finally, there was a change inlegaltheorywith wide-ranging implications.
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