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Legality, by Scott Shapiro. Cambridge: MA/London: Belknap Press, 2011, viii + 455 + (index) 17 pp (£29.95 hardback). ISBN 978-0-674-05566-7.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Thomas Bustamante
Thomas Bustamante*
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Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Legal Studies , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , September 2012 , pp. 499 - 507
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Copyright © Society of Legal Scholars 2012

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1. Legality, p 398.

2. Ibid, p 2.

3. Ibid, p 8.

4. Ibid.

5. Ibid, p 9.

6. Ibid, p 29.

7. Ibid, p 149.

8. Ibid, p 120.

9. Ibid, p 127.

10. Ibid, pp 128–129.

11. Ibid, p 129; emphasis added.

12. Ibid, pp 132–133.

13. Ibid, p 143.

14. Ibid, p 170.

15. Ibid.

16. Ibid, p 171; emphasis added.

17. Ibid, p 156.

18. Ibid, p 177.

19. Ibid, p 225.

20. Ibid, p 213.

21. Ibid, p 275.

22. Ibid, pp 302–303.

23. Ibid, p 334.

24. Ibid, p 331. The ‘economy of trust’ is understood, in Shapiro's book, as ‘the distribution of trust upon which a plan is predicated’ (p 335).

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27. Legality, p 283.

28. Dworkin, above n 25, p 33.

29. Legality, p 291.

30. Tennessee Valley Authority v Hill, 437 US 153 (1978).

31. Legality, p 288.

32. Ibid, p 289.

33. Ibid, p 302.

34. Ibid, p 303.

35. Ibid, p 304.

36. Ibid, p 305.

37. Ibid, p 293.

38. Ibid, p 296.

39. Ibid.

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