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Exploring Law's Empire

Exploring Law's Empire The Jurisprudence of Ronald Dworkin

Name: Exploring Law's Empire
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780199546145
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Author: Scott Hershovitz
ISBN: 9780199546145

By Scott Hershovitz

Oxford University Press May 2008

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ISBN-13: 9780199546145
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: May 2008
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Offers a comperehensive analysis of Dworkin's contribution across his main interests in legal theory and constitutional law
Contributors include leading figures in the field, such as Jeremy Waldron, John Gardner and Stephen Perry
Includes an extended reply from Ronald Dworkin responding to the essays and elaborating his views on a number of central questions in the philosophy of law
Represents ideal further reading for advanced students and scholars of Dworkin's work

Exploring Law's Empire is a collection of essays examining the work of Ronald Dworkin in the philosophy of law and constitutionalism. A group of leading legal theorists develop, defend and critique the major areas of Dworkin's work, including his criticism of legal positivism, his theory of law as integrity, and his work on constitutional theory.

The volume concludes with a lengthy response to the essays by Dworkin himself, which develops and clarifies many of his positions on the central questions of legal and constitutional theory. The volume represents an ideal companion for students and scholars embarking on a study of Dworkin's work.

Readership: Academics and postgraduate students of legal and political philosophy.

Contents:: 1 Introduction , Scott Hershovitz; 2; 1. Thick and Thin Concepts of Law , John Gardner and Elisa Holmes; 2. How Facts Make Law , Mark Greenberg; 3. Philosophy Inside Out , Nicos Stavropoulos; 3 Integrity and Equality in Law; 4. Equality and Integrity , Stephen Perry; 5. Conceptions of the Rule of Law in Dworkin's Jurisprudence , Jeremy Waldron; 6. Checkerboard Solutions , Dale Smith; 7. Philosophy/Legal History , Jurgen Habermas; 4 Constitutional Law and Legal Reasoning; 8. What's Moral about Dworkin's Moral Reading? , Chris Eisgruber; 9. Importing Philosophy into the Constitution , Rebecca Brown; 10. Wrong Again: The Principle of Stare Decisis , Scott Hershovitz; 11. The Role of Hypothetical Cases in Legal Reasoning , Susan Hurley; 5 Response and Agenda for the Future , Ronald Dworkin

About the Author

Edited by Scott Hershovitz, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan

Contributors:

Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Christopher L. Eisgruber, Princeton University
James E. Fleming, Fordham University School of Law
Rebecca L. Brown, Vanderbilt Law School
The late S. L. Hurley, University of Bristol and All Souls College, Oxford
Scott Hershovitz, University of Michigan
Dale Smith, Monash University, Australia
Jeremy Waldron, New York University
Stephen Perry, University of Pennsylvania
John Gardner, University of Oxford
Mark Greenberg, University of California
Ronald Dworkin, New York University and University College, London