The Practice of Principle: In Defence of a Pragmatist Approach to Legal Theory

Coleman, Jules L.

ISBN 10: 0198298145 / ISBN 13: 9780198298144

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2003

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Text is unmarked; pages are bright. Binding is tight and square. Covers are ever so slightly shelf worn. No dust jacket. 226pp.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Practice of Principle: In Defence of a Pragmatist Approach to Legal Theory
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0198298145
• ISBN-13: 9780198298144
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket
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Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

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 presing 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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jules Coleman is Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence and Philosophy, Yale University. He is the editor of the journal Legal Theory.