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Concept of legal certainty
pp. 171-194
Abstract
This chapter sets out to establish a concept of legal certainty, defining legal certainty as a guarantee of observance founded on the paradigm of semantic-argumentative controllability. Such control, it is argued, depends on elements, dimensions and aspects to be jointly assessed. Accordingly, legal certainty entails processes of determination, legitimation, argumentation and justification that assure the semantic-argumentative controllability of state action, on one hand, and the respectability of the individual's law-based actions on the other, as well as reflexively grounding the argumentation referring to such actions.
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Ávila Humberto (2016) Certainty in law. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 171-194
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-33407-3_6
Full citation:
Ávila Humberto (2016) Concept of legal certainty, In: Certainty in law, Dordrecht, Springer, 171–194.