The Practice of Principle In Defence of a Pragmatist Approach to Legal Theory (Clarendon Law Lectures)

Jules Coleman

ISBN 10: 0199264120 / ISBN 13: 9780199264124

Editore: Oxford University Press, U.S.A. 2006-07-20, 2006

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Titolo: The Practice of Principle In Defence of a ...

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, U.S.A. 2006-07-20

Data di pubblicazione: 2006

Legatura: Paperback

Condizione: New

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Jules Coleman, one of the world's most influential philosophers of law here expounds his recent views on a range of important issues in legal theory. Coleman offers for the first time an explicit account of the pragmatist method that has long informed his work, and takes on the views of highly respected contemporaries such as Ronald Dworkin and Joseph Raz.

The first part of the book builds on Coleman's well-known 'corrective justice' account of tort law, highlighting the sophisticated pragmatist methodology that he brings to bear on legal theory and pressing further his critique of the law and economics school of legal analysis. The second part advances a new articulation of the jurisprudential view associated most closely with Coleman - Inclusive Legal Positivism. Many of Coleman's most controversial claims are here defended as part of a comprehensive new account of law as a conventional practice. The third part takes up the question whether conceptual analysis of the law - an approach that has long dominated philosophical thinking on the topic - is even possible. Rejecting recent arguments that it must be replaced by a normative or naturalized jurisprudence, Coleman defends his distinctive form of pragmatist conceptual analysis.

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Review from previous edition ... an illuminating and enthralling read ... Among other virtues, The Practice of Principle presents perhaps the most developed statement of inclusive legal positivism to date. In doing so, it advances our understanding not only of that position, but also of the various positions arrayed against it. (Modern Law Review, 1 Sept 2001)