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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Dedication -- Introduction -- 1 The New Analytical Jurists -- I: INTRODUCTION -- II: SCOPE OF THE NEW ANALYTICAL JURISPRUDENCE -- A. Analysis of the Conceptual Status Quo -- B. Construction of a Conceptual Framework or Schema -- C. Rational Justification -- D. Purposive Implication -- III: METHODOLOGY OF THE NEW ANALYTICAL JURISTS -- IV: DOCTRINAL COMMITMENT AND POSITIVISTIC BIAS -- V: PRACTICAL UTILITY OF THE NEW ANALYTICAL JURISPRUDENCE -- 2 How Law is Formal and Why it Matters -- I: HOW LAW IS FORMAL -- II: WHY APPROPRIATE FORM MATTERS SOME -- III: WHY APPROPRIATE FROM MATTERS SOME FURTHER PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- 3 Evaluation and Improving Legal Processes - A Plea for 'Process Values' -- I: INTRODUTION -- II: LEGAL PROCESSES AS SEPARATE OBJECTS OF EVELUATION DISTINCT FROM RELATED PHENOMENA -- III: STANDARDS FOR EVELUATING LEGAL PROCESSES -- IV: STANDARDS FOR EVALUATING LEGAL PROCESSES -- V: THE MONUSE AND MISUSE OF PROCESS VALUES IN ACTUAL PRACTICE -- VI: IMPLEMENTING PROCESS VALUES THROUGH LAW -- 4 Two Types of Substantive Reasons: the core of a Theory of Common - Law Justification -- I: THE VARIETY OF GOOD REASONS -- II: THE COMPLEXITY OF JUSTIFICATORY STRUCTURES -- III: THE PRIMACY OF SUBATANTIVE REASONS -- IV: CONSTRUCTION, EVALUSTION, AND LEGITIMACY OF GOAL REASONS -- 5 Good Faith in General Contract Law - A Philosophical Approach -- I: INTRODUTION -- II: NATURE OF ACTING IN GOOD FAITH -- III: SCOPE OF OBLIGATIONS TO ACT IN GOOD FAITH -- Supplemental Citations -- Name Index

Focusing on legal structures as they developed in Western societies, this book looks at four paradigms of the forms of a varied selection of functional legal units: legislatures and courts, statutory rules, contracts and property, legal methodologies for interpreting law, and enforcive devices such as sanctions and remedies

1. Introduction / Robert S. Summers, Ithaca -- 2. On method and methodology / Zenon Bankowski, Edinburgh [and others] -- 3. Statutory interpretation in Argentina / Enrique Zuleta-Puceiro, Buenos Aires -- 4. Statutory interpretation in the Federal Republic of Germany / Robert Alexy, Kiel and Ralph Dreier, Göttingen -- 5. Statutory interpretation in Finland / Aulis Aarnio, Helsinki -- 6. Statutory interpretation in France / Michel Troper, Paris, Christophe Grzegorczyk, Paris and Jean-Louis Gardies, Nantes -- 7. Statutory interpretation in Italy / Massimo La Torre, Bologna, Enrico Pattaro, Bologna and Michele Taruffo, Pavia -- 8. Statutory interpretation in Poland / Jerzy Wróblewski, Łódz -- 9. Statutory interpretation in Sweden / Aleksander Peczenik, Lund and Gunnar Bergholz, Lund -- 10. Statutory interpretation in the United Kingdom / Zenon Bankowski, Edinburgh and D. Neil MacCormick, Edinburgh -- 11. Statutory interpretation in the United States / Robert S. Summers, Ithaca -- 12. Interpretation and comparative analysis / Robert S. Summers, Ithaca and Michele Taruffo, Pavia -- 13. Interpretation and justification / D. Neil MacCormick, Edinburgh and Robert S. Summers, Ithaca.