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On the history, theory, and practice of organized crime: The life and work of criminology’s revisionist “Godfather,” Joseph L. Albini (1930-2013)
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‘Now we have the Informing Dogs!’: Crime Networks and Informing Cultures in the 1720s and 1730s
No full textChanging Attitudes and Behaviour in the 'Non-Internet' Digital World and Their Implications for Intellectual Property
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Validity As Bindingness: The Normativity of Legality
Get PDFI shall argue that the concept of (valid) law is a purely normative notion, irreducible to any factual
description. This uncontroversial notion, which is shared by all approaching the law from
the internal point of view, needs to be distinguished from the competing theories on the grounds
of legal bindingness, namely, on the reasons for qualifying a norm as legally valid. I shall consider
some implications of this distinction for legal reasoning and for the role of the jurist
