Practice paper (Caselaw), FHS styleJurisprudenceadvanced

Jurisprudence: FHS-style practice paper

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Instructions: This paper contains 4 questions. Answer the required number of questions within the time limit. Read each question carefully before beginning your answer.

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"Hart's legal positivism, with its emphasis on the rule of recognition as a social fact, cannot account for the role of moral principles in legal reasoning." Critically evaluate this claim with reference to the Hart-Dworkin debate.

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"Law as integrity requires judges to engage in constructive interpretation, making the law the best it can be. But this makes judges legislators, not interpreters." Critically assess Dworkin's theory of adjudication.

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"Legal realism demonstrated that legal reasoning is fundamentally indeterminate. Critical Legal Studies merely drew the political conclusions." Discuss.

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"Raz's service conception of authority provides the most persuasive account of law's claim to legitimacy." Do you agree?

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