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Exploring Law's Empire
The Jurisprudence of Ronald Dworkin
Edited by Scott Hershovitz
342 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-954614-5
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Paperback
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22 May 2008
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- 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.
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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
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Stephen Breyer: Introduction: The International Constitutional Judge
1: Christopher L. Eisgruber: Should Constitutional Judges Be Philosophers?
2: James E. Fleming: The Place of History and Philosophy in the Moral Reading of the American Constitution
3: Rebecca L. Brown: How Constitutional Theory Found its Soul: The Contributions of Ronald Dworkin
4: S. L. Hurley: Coherence, Hypothetical Cases, and Precedent
5: Scott Hershovitz: Integrity and Stare Decisis
6: Dale Smith: The Many Faces of Political Integrity
7: Jeremy Waldron: Did Dworkin Ever Answer the Crits?
8: Stephen Perry: Associative Obligations and the Obligation to Obey the Law
9: John Gardner: Law's Aims in Law's Empire
10: Mark Greenberg: How Facts Make Law
11: Mark Greenberg: Hartian Positivism and Normative Facts: How Facts Make Law II
Ronald Dworkin: Response
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