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Legal theory

the view that legal rules do not really constrain judges and that law is best understood as predictions of what courts will decide.

In legal theory, rule-skepticism refers to the view that legal rules do not really constrain judges and that law is best understood as predictions of what courts will decide. This meaning comes from Hart (1961) in The concept of law.[1]

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Hart, H. L. A. (1961). The concept of law. Clarendon Press. ISBN 9788673470207

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