Rules and Reasoning: Essays in Honour of Fred Schauer - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1901362981 ISBN 13: 9781901362985

Publisher: Hart Publishing, 1998

Synopsis

The essays in this volume are all concerned with the arguments about law as a system of rule-based decision-making,particularly the ideas advanced by legal philosopher Frederick Schauer. Schauer's work has not only helped revive interest in legal formalism but has also helped relocate arguments about the relationship between posited rules and morality. The contributors to this volume, themselves distinguished theorists, have concentrated on three aspects of Schauer's work: the nature of jurisprudential description; his theory of presumptive positivism; and the application of his theory of rule-based decision-making to other areas of legal and moral thought. Contributors: Larry Alexander, Brian Bix, Philip Bobbitt, Marianne Constable, Michael C. Dorf, Jeremy Elkins, Claire Oakes Finkelstein, Leo Katz, Jason Johnston, Dennis Patterson.

About this title

Synopsis:

This collection of jurisprudential essays explores the possibility and value of adhering to rules in judicial decisionmaking. Responding to Frederick Schauer's work on rules and legal reasoning, the book expands the debate into postmodernism, practical reason, criminal law jurisprudence, moral philosophy, and law and economics. Schauer and the analytic tradition within which he writes meets Foucault, Wittgenstein, Game Theory, Dworkinians and Jesuits.

About the Author:

Linda Ross Meyer is Professor of Law at Quinnipiac College,School of Law, Hamden, Connecticut.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1901362981
• ISBN 13: 9781901362985
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Meyer Linda Ross