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SQEezing the jurisprudence out of the SRA’s super exam: the SQE’s Bleak Legal Realism and the rejection of law’s multimodal truth

“…Indeed, Weinrib himself embraces the argument of circularity, stating that it 'is a consequence of the self-contained nature of intelligibility.' 53 Such formalist accounts of law are almost exclusively focused on questions of private law, 54 in which questions can be framed within the Aristotelean account of corrective justice, with its pseudomathematical structures. On this view, questions of distributive justice, according to the celebrated Aristotelean dichotomy lie outside law in the central formalist account.…”