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The question whether a particular rule is also a legal rule can have a large practical importance because the answer may determine whether the rule will be enforced by state organs. Lawyers have developed a number of standards to determine whether a rule has the status of law, and these standards are known as the sources of law. In this chapter, we will take a closer look at these sources of law. More particularly, we will address the following questions: what is a source of law (Sects. 2.1 and 2.2), and which sources of law are recognized (Sects. 2.3–2.7)?
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Hage, J. (2014). Sources of Law. In: Hage, J., Akkermans, B. (eds) Introduction to Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06910-4_2
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