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The purpose of the following pages is not to address all the specific points foreseen in Giovanni Sartor\u2019s paper, let alone to address his sophisticated formal analysis. I merely aim at providing for some comments around some topics of Sartor\u2019s paper. I start by briefly commenting on the main premises and goals of Sartor\u2019s paper. I move on to focus on the structural differences between rules and principles by stressing that the difference resides in the generic (unspecific) hypothetical action foreseen in the antecedent of the latter. Subsequently, I briefly go through the concept of factors (namely principle-promoting and principle-demoting factors) against the conceptual background of the defining properties of cases: those which, within the Universe of Properties, are present or absent in legal cases. Lastly, I finish by expanding on some possibilities (and lack thereof) concerning the use of a fortiori arguments in the comparison between past (source) and present (target) balances.<\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"imagem-da-publicacao":"https:\/\/lisbonpubliclaw.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Chapter_Balancing-Principles-1.png","areas-de-investigacao":"Teoria do Direito","investigador-responsavel":["1732","1744"],"editor-externo":"","editor":["1759"],"autores-externos":"","referencia-biografica":"Lopes, P.M. (2018). Balancing Principles and A Fortiori Reasoning. In: Duarte, D., Silva Sampaio, J. (eds) Proportionality in Law. Springer, Cham.","projeto-a-que-pertence":"Lisbon Legal Theory","selecionar_o_projeto_a_que_pertence":[],"titulo-do-livro-revista":"Proportionality in Law: An Analytical Perspective","ano":"2018","isbn":"978-3-319-89647-2","editora":"Springer","link-para-download":"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-319-89647-2"},"cluster":[34],"categoria-da-publicacao":[24],"grupo-de-investigacao":[13],"class_list":["post-3359","publicacoes","type-publicacoes","status-publish","hentry","cluster-lisbon-legal-theory","categoria-da-publicacao-capitulo-de-livro","grupo-de-investigacao-teoria-e-filosofia-do-direito"],"yoast_head":"\nBalancing principles and a fortiori reasoning - Lisbon Public Law<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The purpose of the following pages is not to address all the specific points foreseen in Giovanni Sartor\u2019s paper, let alone to address his sophisticated formal analysis. 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