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  2. Lon L. Fuller - Wikipedia

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    Fuller was a professor of law at Harvard Law School for many years, and is noted in American law for his contributions to both jurisprudence and the law of contracts. His 1958 debate with the British legal philosopher H. L. A. Hart in the Harvard Law Review (the Hart–Fuller debate ) was important in framing the modern conflict between legal ...

  3. Bachelor of Laws - Wikipedia

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    Because of Canada's dual system of laws, some law schools offer joint or dual degrees in common law and civil law: McGill University, Université de Montréal, Université de Sherbrooke and the University of Ottawa. The law degree offered by McGill University is a mandatory joint common law LLB and Quebec civil law BCL degree.

  4. Statutory interpretation - Wikipedia

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    New York Law School Law Review, Vol. 51, Fall 2006. Jon May, "Statutory Construction: Not For The Timid" Archived June 29, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, The Champion Magazine (NACDL), January/February 2006. Corrigan & Thomas, "Dice Loading" Rules Of Statutory Interpretation, 59 NYU Annual Survey Of American Law 231, 238 (2003).

  5. Jurisprudence of interests - Wikipedia

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    The main proponents of the jurisprudence of interests were Philipp Heck, Rudolf Müller-Erzbach, Arthur F. Bentley and Roscoe Pound. [3] The school of legal positivism passed through the phase of the jurisprudence of interests after the jurisprudence of concepts. In the jurisprudence of interests, one interprets a law essentially in terms of ...

  6. Jurisprudence - Wikipedia

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    Jurisprudence, also known as theory of law or philosophy of law, is the examination in a general perspective of what law is and what it ought to be. It investigates issues such as the definition of law; legal validity; legal norms and values; as well as the relationship between law and other fields of study, including economics , ethics ...

  7. Legislative intent - Wikipedia

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    Courts in the United States and elsewhere have developed a number of principles for handling such evidence of legislative intent. For example, many courts have suggested that the comments of those opposing a bill under consideration should be treated with skepticism on the principle that opponents of a bill may often exaggerate its practical consequences.

  8. Legal education - Wikipedia

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    Note that this fused, one-degree (Specialist) educational scheme has coexisted with the two-degree (bachelor's – master's) scheme since Russia and Ukraine launched their higher education reforms to bring the domestic educational systems in closer compliance with the Bologna accords. See also academic degree. The latest educational reforms ...

  9. Original intent - Wikipedia

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    Original intent is a theory in law concerning constitutional and statutory interpretation. It is frequently used as a synonym for originalism; while original intent is one theory in the originalist family, it has some salient differences which has led originalists from more predominant schools of thought such as original meaning to distinguish original intent as much as legal realists do.