Justification of Legal Change: In Search for a Model of Neutrality

This paper examines neutrality, understood as a necessary requirement for law’s legitimacy. In the conventional, liberal formulation of it, law must neither favor nor depend on any particular conception good. Taking into consideration critique that principle neutrality has received, from within liberalism well rival perspectives, authors search an alternative. The proposed solution is Model Neutrality Non-Arbitrariness (the MNN), according to which making and application seek equilibrium different justifying reasons are backing in question. As such, under MNN conceived virtue legislators judges allows them weigh competing justifications manner appears best case.