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legal formalism: a standalone construct

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Jurisprudence

decision making that treats the written rule as binding even when its result seems to conflict with the rule's purpose.

In jurisprudence, legal formalism refers to decision making that treats the written rule as binding even when its result seems to conflict with the rule's purpose. This meaning comes from Schauer (1988) in The Yale Law Journal.[1]

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  1. Schauer, F. (1988). Formalism. The Yale Law Journal, 97(4), 509. https://doi.org/10.2307/796369

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