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The Addressee Problem

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Some legal rules are addressed to citizens, others to judges. According to certain morphological rules citizen-addressed rules can be transformed into judge-addressed rules and vice versa. Such transformation rules are formulated in this chapter.

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  1. 1.

    Bentham (1970).

  2. 2.

    Bentham (1970), chapter VI: “Of the parties which may be affected by the law”.

  3. 3.

    Hedenius (1978), p. 48.

  4. 4.

    Wellman (1978), p. 218 f.

  5. 5.

    See Frändberg (2014), p. 181.

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Frändberg, Å. (2018). The Addressee Problem. In: The Legal Order. Law and Philosophy Library, vol 123. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78858-6_4

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