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Professor Weinrib on Corrective JusticeIn S. Panagiotou (ed.), Justice, Law and Method in Plato and Aristotle. pp. 153-159. 1987.
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Constitutional Rights and Democracy: A Reply to Professor BellamyGerman Law Journal 14 1039-1051. 2013.In his rich and thoughtful paper, Richard Bellamy sketches a theory of individual rights that ascribes to them an inherently democratic character that “is best captured by a republican view of liberty as non-domination, rather than the standard liberal account of liberty as non-interference.” According to this view, “rights involve an implicit appeal to democratic forms of reasoning.” That is, the only justifiable “foundation of rights must be some form of ongoing democratic decision making that…Read more
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In Pursuit of Pragmatic Legal TheoryCanadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 15 (1): 125-150. 2002.A critical review of Jules Coleman's The Practice of Principle: In Defence of a Pragmatist Approach to Legal Theory. Coleman's book has two principal objectives: to defend both Inclusive Legal Positivism and Coleman's influential views on the role of corrective justice in explaining tort law; and to show how philosophical pragmatism can usefully be employed in defending such views. In this article I both outline and critique the main elements of Coleman's book. I also explore ways in which some …Read more
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Defeasibility and legal positivismIn Jordi Ferrer Beltrán & Giovanni Battista Ratti (eds.), The Logic of Legal Requirements: Essays on Defeasibility, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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Il positivismo giuridico e la natura dei diritti costituzionaliEdizioni scientifiche italiane. 2018.
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Ethical Theory in BusinessIn D. Poff & W. Waluchow (eds.), Business Ethics in Canada, Prentice Hall. pp. 1-33. 1987.
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Normative reasoning from a point of viewIn Kenneth Einar Himma, Miodrag A. Jovanović & Bojan Spaić (eds.), Unpacking Normativity - Conceptual, Normative and Descriptive Issues, Hart Publishing. 2018.
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Methodology of Legal TheoryAshgate. 2010.The last decade has witnessed a particularly intensive debate over methodological issues in legal theory. The publication of Julie Dickson's Evaluation and Legal Theory (2001) was significant, as were collective returns to H.L.A. Hart's 'Postscript' to The Concept of Law. While influential articles have been written in disparate journals, no single collection of the most important papers exists. This volume - the first in a three volume series - aims not only to fill that gap but also propose a …Read more
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