8 THE ITALIAN LAW JOURNAL NO. 1 (2022)
‘Stand by Your Rules’: The Problem of Rule Skepticism
by James Gordley Some have thought of law as a body of rules which need no exceptions. Others have thought of rules as overgeneralizations. Eighteenth century rationalists and nineteenth century positivists went the first of these extremes. Twenty and twenty-first century skeptics went to the second. Medieval jurists saw the problem. Early modern jurists saw how it might be resolved. DOI 10.23815/2421-2156.ITALJ ISSN 2421-2156
