Indeterminacy debate in legal theory
Can the law constrain the results reached by adjudicators in legal disputes? Some members of the
critical legal studies movement--primarily legal academics in the United States--argued that the answer to this question is "no." The
indeterminacy thesis, in its strongest form, is the proposition that a judge can square any result in a particular case with the existing legal materials through the use of legitimate legal arguments. The indeterminacy thesis can under heavy attack by liberal and conservative defendanders of the rule of law, and the debate eventually subsided.
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