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Exploring Law's Empire Scott Hershovitz (Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan)

Exploring Law's Empire By Scott Hershovitz (Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan)

Exploring Law's Empire by Scott Hershovitz (Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan)


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Exploring Law's Empire is a collection of essays by leading legal theorists who examine Ronald Dworkin's work in the theory of law and constitutionalism. The volume concludes with a lengthy response to the essays by Dworkin himself. For the student of Dworkin's work, this book represents an ideal companion to his major texts.

Exploring Law's Empire Summary

Exploring Law's Empire: The Jurisprudence of Ronald Dworkin by Scott Hershovitz (Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan)

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.

About Scott Hershovitz (Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan)

Scott Hershovitz is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. He received a D.Phil. in Law from the University of Oxford in 2001, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He has published in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and Legal Theory.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The International Constitutional Judge ; 1. Should Constitutional Judges Be Philosophers? ; 2. The Place of History and Philosophy in the Moral Reading of the American Constitution ; 3. How Constitutional Theory Found its Soul: The Contributions of Ronald Dworkin ; 4. Coherence, Hypothetical Cases, and Precedent ; 5. Integrity and Stare Decisis ; 6. The Many Faces of Political Integrity ; 7. Did Dworkin Ever Answer the Crits? ; 8. Associative Obligations and the Obligation to Obey the Law ; 9. Law's Aims in Law's Empire ; 10. How Facts Make Law ; 11. Hartian Positivism and Normative Facts: How Facts Make Law II ; Response

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NLS9780199546145
9780199546145
0199546142
Exploring Law's Empire: The Jurisprudence of Ronald Dworkin by Scott Hershovitz (Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan)
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Paperback
Oxford University Press
2008-05-22
352
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