Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law Volume 1

Author: Leslie Green; Brian Leiter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199606450
Published In: June 2011
Format: Hardback
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The first volume in a prestigious new series
Features work from an international team of leading scholars
Presents cutting-edge research in the philosophy of law
All papers newly written and published here for the first time
Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Law is an annual forum for some of the best new philosophical work on law, by both senior and junior scholars from around the world. The essays range widely over issues in general jurisprudence (the nature of law, adjudication, and legal reasoning), the philosophical foundations of specific areas of law (from criminal law to evidence to international law), the history of legal philosophy, and related philosophical topics that illuminate the problems of legal theory. OSPL will be essential reading for philosophers, academic lawyers, political scientists, and historians of law who wish to keep up with the latest developments in this flourishing field.

Readership: Scholars and students in philosophy of law; academic lawyers; moral, political, and social philosophers.

Contents:: 1: David Enoch: Reason-Giving and the Law; 2: Mark Greenberg: The Standard Picture and Its Discontents; 3: Kevin Toh: Legal Judgments as Plural Acceptance of Norms; 4: Riccardo Guastini: Rule-Scepticism Restated; 5: John Gardner: Can There be a Written Constitution?; 6: Larry Laudan: The Rules of Trial, Political Morality and the Costs of Error: Or, Is Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Doing More Harm than Good?; 7: Marcia Baron: Self-Defense: The Imminence Requirement; 8: Thomas Nadelhoffer: Criminal Law, Philosophy, and Psychology: Working At the Cross-roads.

Edited by Leslie Green, University of Oxford, Balliol College, and Brian Leiter, University of Chicago

Leslie Green has visited and taught at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Berkeley, Columbia, NYU, Chicago and the University of Texas at Austin. He is now Professor of the Philosophy of Law and Pauline and Max Gordon Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. His research interests include jurisprudence, moral and political philosophy and constitutional theory.

Brian Leiter is John P. Wilson Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Naturalizing Jurisprudence: Essays on American Legal Realism and Naturalism in Legal Philosophy (Oxford, 2007) and was for nearly eight years an editor of the journal Legal Theory.

Contributors:

Marcia Baron, Indiana University, Bloomington
David Enoch, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
John Gardner, University of Oxford
Mark Greenberg, University of California at Los Angeles
Riccardo Guastini, University of Genoa
Larry Laudan, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Thomas A. Nadelhoffer, Duke University and Dickinson College
Stephen R. Perry, University of Pennsylvania
Kevin Toh, University of Texas at Austin