Educating Oneself in Public: Critical Essays in Jurisprudence

by Michael S. Moore

Overview

This book is a sophisticated, detailed, and original examination of the main ideas that have dominated Anglo-American legal philosophy since the Second World War. The author probes such themes as: whether there can be right answers to all disputed law cases; how laws and other rules impact on the practical rationality of actors subject to their authority; whether general principles justifying the law must themselves be thought of as part of the law binding on legal actors; and the possibility of an interpretivist jurisprudence that is continuous with law practice in a given culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198268796
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/14/2000
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

University of Pennsylvania

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION1. OverviewPART 1 Legal Positivism2. Introduction to The Concept of Law3. Hart's Concluding Scientific Postscript4. The Three Concepts of Rules5. Authority, Law, and Razian ReasonsPART 2 LEGAL SCEPTICISM6. The Need for a Theory of Legal TheoriesPART 3 NATURAL LAW7. Legal Principles Revisited8. Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Legal Theory9. Law as a Functional KindPART 4 INTERPRETIVIST JURISPRUDENCE10. The Interpretive Turn in Modern Theory: A Turn for the Worse? 11. Interpreting Interpretation