Law's Quandary

Name: Law's Quandary
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ISBN: 9780674025738

ISBN-10: 0674025733

ISBN-13: 9780674025738

Edition: 2004

Authors: Steven D. Smith

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This lively book reassesses a century of jurisprudential thought from a fresh perspective, and points to a malaise that currently afflicts not only legal theory but law in general. Steven Smith argues that our legal vocabulary and methods of reasoning presuppose classical ontological commitments that were explicitly articulated by thinkers from Aquinas to Coke to Blackstone, and even by Joseph Story. But these commitments are out of sync with the world view that prevails today in academic and professional thinking. So our law-talk thus degenerates into "just words"--or a kind of nonsense. The diagnosis is similar to that offered by Holmes, the Legal Realists, and other critics over the…

Book details

List price: $39.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 222
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Steven D. Smith is Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego and Co-Executive Director of the USD Institute for Law and Religion.



Preface



Law and Metaphysics?



Just Words?



Ontological Dynasties



(How) Is Law for Real?



Does ""the Law"" Exist?



the Jurisprudence of Modernity



The Metaphysics of Legal Meaning



How Does Law Mean?



Author(s) Wanted



Mind the Gap



Law in a Quandary


Epilogue: Confusion and Confession


Notes


Index