Contents:
Forward ix;
Further Reading xvii;
Table of cases xxi;
I Introduction 1;
II Deductive Justification 19;
III Deductive Justification–Presuppositions and Limits 53;
IV The Constraint of Formal Justice 73;
V Second-Order Justification 100;
VI Consequentialist Arguments 129;
VII The Requirement of ‘Coherence’: Principles and Analogies 152;
VIII The Requirement of Consistency and the Problem of Interpretation: Clear Cases and Hard Cases 195;
IX Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory 229;
Excursus 259;
X Law, Morality, and the Limits of Practical Reason 265;
Appendix: On the Internal Aspect of norms 275;
Index to Statutes Cited 293;
General Index 294.