Overview

Brian Leiter is widely recognized as the leading philosophical interpreter of the jurisprudence of American Legal Realism, as well as the most influential proponent of the relevance of the naturalistic turn in philosophy to the problems of legal philosophy. This volume collects newly revised versions of ten of his best-known essays, which set out his reinterpretation of the Legal Realists as prescient philosophical naturalists; critically engage with jurisprudential responses to Legal Realism, from legal positivism to Critical Legal Studies; connect the Realist program to the methodology debate in contemporary jurisprudence; and explore the general implications of a naturalistic world view for problems about the objectivity of law and morality. Leiter has supplied a lengthy new introductory essay, as well as postscripts to several of the essays, in which he responds to challenges to his interpretive and philosophical claims by academic lawyers and philosophers.This volume will be essential reading for anyone interested in jurisprudence, as well as for philosophers concerned with the consequences of naturalism in moral and legal philosophy.

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Author:   Brian Leiter (Hines H. Baker & Thelma Kelley Baker Chair and Director of the Law and Philosophy Program, The University of Texas at Austin)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.602kg
ISBN:  

9780199299010

ISBN 10:   0199299013
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   22 March 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: From Legal Realism to Naturalized Jurisprudence A Note on Legal Interdetermincy Part I: American Legal Realism and Its Critics 1: Rethinking Legal Realism: Toward a Naturalized Jurisprudence (1997) 2: Legal Realism and Legal Positivism Reconsidered (2001) 3: Is There an ""American"" Jurisprudence? (1997) Postscript to Part I: Interpreting Legal Realism Part II: Ways of Naturalizing Jurisprudence 4: Legal Realism, Hard Positivism, and the Limits of Conceptual Analysis (1998, 2001) 5: Why Quine is Not a Postmodernist (1997) 6: Beyond the Hart/Dworkin Debate: The Methodology Problem in Jurisprudence (2003) Postscript to Part II: Science and Methodology in Legal Theory Part III: Naturalism, Morality, and Objectivity 7: Moral Facts and Best Explanations (2001) 8: Objectivity, Morality, and Adjudication (2001) 9: Law and Objectivity (2002)"

Reviews

The collection of essays is, then, the reflection of a thoughtful, insightful, and influential body of work. It comprises nine previously published essays and two unpublished postscripts to the essays. It is a superb contribution because of its rigorous scholarship and honest analysis. * Mind, Vol.117 *

`This book will confirm Brian Leiter's place in the front rank of legal theorists in the world today. Leiter is not just someone who writes well about what others have said. He has carved out a new path in legal theory, and set new standards for critical analysis and insight along the way.' Jeremy Horder, Law Commissioner for England and Wales and Professor of Criminal Law, Oxford University

The collection of essays is, then, the reflection of a thoughtful, insightful, and influential body of work. It comprises nine previously published essays and two unpublished postscripts to the essays. It is a superb contribution because of its rigorous scholarship and honest analysis. Mind, Vol.117

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Brian Leiter is Hines H. Baker & Thelma Kelley Baker Chair and Director of the Law and Philosophy Program, The University of Texas at Austin

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