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21A. D. Woozley and the Concept of Right Answers in LawRatio Juris 5 (1): 58-66. 1992.Abstract.In the debates about legal determinacy, an important but often neglected issue is what is meant in the legal context by saying that a question has a right answer. By way of a critique of A. D. Woozley's discussion of “right answers,” I try to show how this issue is connected with issues of legal truth, legal mistake, and precedent.
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154Radbruch's Formula and Conceptual AnalysisAmerican Journal of Jurisprudence 56 (1): 45-57. 2011.
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3Natural law theoryIn Dennis M. Patterson (ed.), A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory, Blackwell. 1996.
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114Jurisprudence: theory and contextWestview Press. 1996.This introduction to legal theory provides a broad overview of the main topics and theories and covers the central issues. Written in a straightforward style, the author conveys academically challenging and often controversial ideas in a lucid manner.
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30Teoría del Derecho: tipos y propósitosIsonomía. Revista de Teoría y Filosofía Del Derecho 25 57-68. 2006.
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Physician-Assisted Suicide and FederalismNotre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy 17 (1): 53-70. 2003.
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107Legal positivismIn Martin P. Golding & William A. Edmundson (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory, Wiley-blackwell. 2004.This chapter contains section titled: History and Context Clarifications Alternative Legal Positivisms The Rule of Recognition and the Basic Norm The Divisions Within Contemporary Legal Positivism Debates and Distinctive Views Critiques of Legal Positivism Two Critics: Ronald Dworkin and John Finnis Methodological Questions and the Way Forward Conclusion Note References Further Reading.
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2Jules L. Coleman and Christopher W. Morris, eds., Rational Commitment and Social Justice: Essays for Gregory Kavka Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 19 (5): 318-320. 1999.
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104Will versus reason: Truth in natural law, positive law, and legal theoryIn Kurt Pritzl (ed.), Truth: Studies of a Robust Presence, Catholic University of America Press. 2009.This article is based on a Lecture given as part of the Franklin J. Matchette Foundation Lecture Series on Truth at the Catholic University of America, School of Philosophy, in 2002. It explores what theorists in the natural law tradition and modern legal theorists have argued about what makes propositions of morality and law true, focusing on the rubric of "reason" as opposed to "will." It seems probable, and perhaps inevitable, that theorists about the nature of truth in morality must choose b…Read more
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91Contract Rights and Remedies, and the Divergence between Law and MoralityRatio Juris 21 (2): 194-211. 2008.There is an ongoing debate in the philosophical and jurisprudential literature regarding the nature and possibility of Contract theory. On one hand are those who argue (or assume) that there is, or should be, a single, general, universal theory of Contract Law, one applicable to all jurisdictions and all times. On the other hand are those who assert that Contract theory should be localized to particular times and places, perhaps even with different theories for different types of agreements. Thi…Read more
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85Analyzing law: new essays in legal theory (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1998.Analyzing Law offers an important selection of the most influential and challenging work now being done in legal theory. A central focus of the essays in this work is the contribution of the well-known philosopher Jules Coleman to the various topics which are covered by the contributors.
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45Reason, Morality, and Law: The Philosophy of John Finnis, edited by John Keown and Robert P. George (review)Mind 124 (496): 1309-1312. 2015.
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