Understanding and Explaining Adjudication

✍ Scribed by William Lucy

Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Leaves: 410
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This is the first book that attempts to analyze and define the methodology and values of contemporary accounts of adjudication, which can be divided into orthodox philosophies on the one hand and heretical accounts on the other. The author offers an incisive and original analysis of how these supposedly incompatible accounts actually differ.

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