Fábio Perin Shecaira, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Faculty of Law, Brazil

• Preface.- Part I: The Main Argument.- 1  Introduction.- 2  What Is a Source of Law?.- 3  Sources and Reasons.- 4  Legal Scholarship as a Source of Law.- 5  Formalism and the Use of Legal Scholarship.- 6 Normative Questions.- 7. Taking Stock.- Part II: Developments.- 8. Sources of Law are not Legal Norms.- 9. Legal Arguments from Scholarly Authority.- 10. Legal Scholarship as the Subject Matter of Jurisprudence.- 11. Legal Sciences and Its Role in Legal Reasoning.- 12. Concluding Thoguhts: Anatomy, Self-containment, and self-sufficiency.

Fábio Perin Shecaira, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Faculty of Law, Brazil

• Preface.- Part I: The Main Argument.- 1  Introduction.- 2  What Is a Source of Law?.- 3  Sources and Reasons.- 4  Legal Scholarship as a Source of Law.- 5  Formalism and the Use of Legal Scholarship.- 6 Normative Questions.- 7. Taking Stock.- Part II: Developments.- 8. Sources of Law are not Legal Norms.- 9. Legal Arguments from Scholarly Authority.- 10. Legal Scholarship as the Subject Matter of Jurisprudence.- 11. Legal Sciences and Its Role in Legal Reasoning.- 12. Concluding Thoguhts: Anatomy, Self-containment, and self-sufficiency.

Fábio Perin Shecaira, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Faculty of Law, Brazil

• Preface.- Part I: The Main Argument.- 1  Introduction.- 2  What Is a Source of Law?.- 3  Sources and Reasons.- 4  Legal Scholarship as a Source of Law.- 5  Formalism and the Use of Legal Scholarship.- 6 Normative Questions.- 7. Taking Stock.- Part II: Developments.- 8. Sources of Law are not Legal Norms.- 9. Legal Arguments from Scholarly Authority.- 10. Legal Scholarship as the Subject Matter of Jurisprudence.- 11. Legal Sciences and Its Role in Legal Reasoning.- 12. Concluding Thoguhts: Anatomy, Self-containment, and self-sufficiency.