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2Constitutions, originalism, and meaningIn Grant Huscroft & Bradley W. Miller (eds.), The Challenge of Originalism: Essays in Constitutional Theory, Cambridge University Press. 2011.
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77A Dictionary of Legal TheoryOxford University Press. 2004.Modern legal theory contains a wide range of approaches and topics: from economic analysis of law to feminist legal theory to traditional analytical legal philosophy to a range of theories about justice. This healthy variety of jurisprudential work has created a problem: students and theorists working in one tradition may have difficulty understanding the concepts and terminology of a different tradition. This book works to make terminology and ways of thinking accessible. This dictionary covers…Read more
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55Legal philosophy in AmericaIn Cheryl Misak (ed.), The Oxford handbook of American philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2008.This article, written for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy, offers an overview of the most important American contributions to legal philosophy - American legal realism, law and economics, various critical schools of jurisprudence, Lon Fuller, and Ronald Dworkin - while speculating on what might be distinctive of American legal philosophy. One obvious recurring theme is a focus on practical application in general, and adjudication (especially constitutional adjudication) in…Read more
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7Jurisprudence: theory and contextWestview Press. 1996.Legal theory : problems and possibilities -- Individual theories about the nature of law -- Themes and principles -- Modern perspectives on legal theory.
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Defeasibility and open textureIn Jordi Ferrer Beltrán & Giovanni Battista Ratti (eds.), The Logic of Legal Requirements: Essays on Defeasibility, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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