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On Legal Rationality

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I shall now try to develop some ideas about the different levels in legal rationality, that is, that of legal scholars, judges, and the parties in the process. Tightly related with the former, there is the role of coherence and its relative weight, according to situations and the people who use it.

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  1. Alexy, Robert: “Problems of discoursive rationality in Law”, paper presented in the 14th World Congress in Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy,, Edinburgh, 1989, p. 4.

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Urbina, S. (1996). On Legal Rationality. In: Reason, Democracy, Society. Law and Philosophy Library, vol 25. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2846-1_4

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