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"Balancing as reasoning" and the problems of legally unaided adjudication: a rejoinder to Francisco Urbina

Moller, Kai (2014) "Balancing as reasoning" and the problems of legally unaided adjudication: a rejoinder to Francisco Urbina. International Journal of Constitutional Law, 12 (1). pp. 222-225. ISSN 1474-2640

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Identification Number: 10.1093/icon/mou002

Abstract

The conception of balancing which I outlined in my essay “Proportionality: Challenging the Critics” and developed at greater length in chapter 6 of my book The Global Model of Constitutional Rights connects “balancing” to “reasoning.” When we say, for example, that we have to strike an adequate “balance” between privacy and security, then this is best interpreted as meaning that there is a conflict between the two values and that we must develop a moral argument addressing the question of how much of each should be protected. Thus, in contrast to how some critics would have it, properly understood, the notion of balancing does not necessarily refer to consequentialist reasoning or mechanical ways of quantification and comparison, but simply directs the judge to resolve a conflict in line with sound moral principles...

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://icon.oxfordjournals.org/
Additional Information: © 2014 The Author. Oxford University Press and New York University School of Law.
Divisions: Law
Subjects: K Law > K Law (General)
Date Deposited: 30 Apr 2014 13:35
Last Modified: 14 Sep 2024 06:29
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/56604

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