Law's Empire

Name: Law's Empire
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ISBN: 9780674518360

ISBN-10: 0674518365

ISBN-13: 9780674518360

Edition: 1986

Authors: Ronald Dworkin

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With the incisiveness and lucid style for which he is renowned, Ronald Dworkin has written a masterful explanation of how the Anglo-American legal system works and on what principles it is grounded. Law's Empire is a full-length presentation of his theory of law that will be studied and debated--by scholars and theorists, by lawyers and judges, by students and political activists--for years to come. Dworkin begins with the question that is at the heart of the whole legal system: in difficult cases how do (and how should) judges decide what the law is? He shows that judges must decide hard cases by interpreting rather than simply applying past legal decisions, and he produces a general…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English

Ronald Dworkin was Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University.




What Is Law?


Why It Matters


Disagreement about Law


The Plain-Fact View


A Threshold Objection


The Real World


Semantic Theories of Law


The Real Argument for Semantic Theories



Interpretive Concepts


The Semantic Sting


An Imaginary Example


A First Look at Interpretation


Interpretation and Author's Intention


Art and the Nature of Intention


Intentions and Practices


Stages of Interpretation


Philosophers of Courtesy


A Digression: Justice


Skepticism about Interpretation



Jurisprudence Revisited


A New Picture


Concepts and Conceptions of Law


Skeptical Conceptions and Wicked Law


Grounds and Force of Law



Conventionalism


Its Structure


Its Appeal


Legal Conventions


Two Kinds of Conventionalism


Does Conventionalism Fit Our Practice?


Does Conventionalism Justify Our Practice?



Pragmatism and Personification


A Skeptical Conception


Does Pragmatism Fit?


Law without Rights


The Claims of Integrity


Community Personified



Integrity


Agenda


Does Integrity Fit?


Is Integrity Attractive?


The Puzzle of Legitimacy


Obligations of Community


Fraternity and Political Community


Untidy Endnotes



Integrity in Law


A Large View


The Chain of Law


Law: The Question of Emotional Damages


A Provisional Summary


Some Familiar Objections


Skepticism in Law



The Common Law


The Economic Interpretation


Complexities


The Question of Justice


The Utilitarian Duty


The Egalitarian Interpretation


Equality and Comparative Cost


Private People and Public Bodies



Statutes


Legislative Intention


Speaker's Meaning Convictions


Hercules' Method


Legislative History


Statutes over Time


When Is the Language Clear?



The Constitution


Is Constitutional Law Built on a Mistake?


Liberals and Conservatives


Historicism


Passivism Hercules on Olympus


Theories of Racial Equality


Deciding Brown


Deciding Bakke


Is Hercules a Tyrant?



Law Beyond Law


Law Works Itself Pure


Law's Dreams


Epilogue: What Is Law?


Notes


Index