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Rhetoric and the Rule of Law: A Theory of Legal Reasoning, by Neil Maccormick. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005, xvi + 280 + (index) 6 pp. (£40.00 hardback). ISBN 0-19-826878-5.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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17. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
18. In both LRLT and RRL (with the exception of chapter 11) MacCormick side steps complexities that arise from disputes about the facts/relevant evidence.
19. In fact, MacCormick thinks almost any case can become ‘hard’; his conception of hard cases is thus probably more nuanced than, for example, Ronald Dworkin’s (see Taking Rights Seriously (London: Duckworth 1978), ch. 4).