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Legal opinion
About: Legal opinion is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1816 publications have been published within this topic receiving 20769 citations.
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01 Jan 1990TL;DR: This paper found that people obey the law if they believe it's legitimate, not because they fear punishment, which is the conclusion of Tom Tyler's classic study, "People obey law primarily because they believe in respecting legitimate authority".
Abstract: People obey the law if they believe it's legitimate, not because they fear punishment--this is the startling conclusion of Tom Tyler's classic study. Tyler suggests that lawmakers and law enforcers would do much better to make legal systems worthy of respect than to try to instill fear of punishment. He finds that people obey law primarily because they believe in respecting legitimate authority. In his fascinating new afterword, Tyler brings his book up to date by reporting on new research into the relative importance of legal legitimacy and deterrence, and reflects on changes in his own thinking since his book was first published.
3,783 citations
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16 Dec 2010
968 citations
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01 Jan 1978
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine what makes an argument in a law case good or bad, and can legal decisions be justified by purely rational argument or are they ultimately determined by more subjective influences.
Abstract: What makes an argument in a law case good or bad? Can legal decisions be justified by purely rational argument or are they ultimately determined by more subjective influences? These questions are central to the study of jurisprudence, and are thoroughly and critically examined in Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory, now with a new and up-to-date foreword. Its clarity of explanation and argument make this classic legal text readily accessible to lawyers, philosophers, and any general reader interested in legal processes, human reasoning, or practical logic.
528 citations
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01 Jan 1949
TL;DR: By citing a large number of cases, the author makes his presentation of the proceses of judicial interpretation particularly lucid.
Abstract: This volume will be of interest and value to students of logic, ethics, and political philosophy, as well as to members of the legal profession and to everyone concerned with problems of government and jurisprudence. By citing a large number of cases, the author makes his presentation of the proceses of judicial interpretation particularly lucid.
490 citations
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20 May 2004
TL;DR: In this paper, the location of legal theory, the functional closure of the legal system, and the position of courts in the legal systems are discussed. And the Self-description of the Legal System is given.
Abstract: Preface Introduction 1. The Location of Legal Theory 2. The Operative Closure of the Legal System 3. The Function of Law 4. Coding and Programming 5. Justice: a Formula for Contingency 6. The Evolution of Law 7. The Position of Courts in the Legal System 8. Legal Argumentation 9. Politics and Law 10. Structural Couplings 11. The Self-description of the Legal System 12. Society and its Law Index
482 citations