Law as an Artifact

Author: Luka Burazin; Kenneth Einar Himma; Corrado Roversi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198821977
Published In: August 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This volume assembles leading scholars from both the continental and analytic schools to examine how their respective theoretical positions relate to the artifactual nature of law.

It offers a complete analysis of what the claim that law - and its units: legal systems, legal norms, and particular legal institutions - is an artifact, in fact, ontologically entails and what consequences, if any, this claim has for philosophical accounts of law.

Examining the artifactual nature of law draws attention to the role that intention, function, and action play in the ontological structure of law, and how these attributes interact with rules. It puts the role of author and authorship at the center of its analysis of legal ontology, and widens the scope that functional analysis can legitimately have in legal theory, emphasizing how the content of law depends on how it is used.

Furthermore, the appeal to artifacts brings to the fore questions about the significance of concepts for the existence of law, and makes available new tools for legal interpretation. The notion of artifactuality offers a starting point from which to approach the basic dilemma of whether it is meaningful to search for essential, necessary, and sufficient features of law, a question that in current legal theory is put when deciding what kind of enterprise legal theory is from a methodological point of view, namely whether it is descriptive or prescriptive.

This volume unearths insights and observations of value to all those looking to deepen their understanding of how the law is understood and experienced.

1: Legal Positivism about the Artifact Law: A Retrospective Assessment, Brian Leiter

2: Law as a Malleable Artifact, Frederick Schauer

3: Law, Fiction, and Reality, Andrei Marmor

4: On the Artifactual - and Natural - Character of Legal Institutions, Corrado Roversi

5: Legal Systems as Abstract Institutional Artifacts, Luka Burazin

6: The Conceptual Function of Law: Law, Coercion, and Keeping the Peace, Kenneth Einar Himma

7: Law is an Institution, an Artifact, and a Practice, Kenneth Ehrenberg

8: A Strange Kind of Artifact, Giovanni Tuzet

9: Not All Law Is an Artifact: Jurisprudence Meets the Common Law, Dan Priel

10: Law, Morality, Art, the Works, Kevin Toh

11: Processes and Artifacts: The Principles are in the Author Herself, Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco

12: Obligations from Artifacts, Brian Bix