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40Readings in the Philosophy of Law (edited book)Garland. 1999.An extraordinary collection of the finest essays in the core areas of legal philosophy, Readings in Philosophy of Law is a perfect introduction to the breadth of issues covered in the philosophy of law. The essays are all classic papers chosen as much for their clarity of thought and comprehensiveness as for their distinctiveness and importance to the subject matters of legal philosophy. This collection is ideal for the professional as well as the student, as it brings together classic essays th…Read more
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33Joel Feinberg, 1926-2004Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 78 (5). 2005.
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23Justice in Immigration (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1995.An interdisciplinary study of the fundamental normative issues underpinning immigration policy.
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22Constraints on the criteria of legalityLegal Theory 6 (2): 171-183. 2000.No one denies that moral principles figure in legal argument and practice. However, the kind of role morality can or must play in law has been a topic of debate not only between positivists and their critics, but also within the positivist camp. The topic was brought into contemporary prominence by Ronald Dworkin, who in TheModelofRulesI made the provocative observation that the legality of norms appears to depend sometimes on their substantive (moral) merits, and not just on their pedigree or s…Read more
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9Beyond Inclusive Legal PositivismRatio Juris 22 (3): 359-394. 2009.In this essay, I characterize the original intervention that became Inclusive Legal Positivism, defend it against a range of powerful objections, explain its contribution to jurisprudence, and display its limitations and its modest jurisprudential significance. I also show how in its original formulations ILP depends on three notions that are either mistaken or inessential to law: the separability thesis, the rule of recognition, and the idea of criteria of legality. The first is false and is in…Read more
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8Risks and WrongsOxford University Press UK. 1992.This classic book by one of America's preeminent legal theorists is concerned with the conflict between the goals of justice and economic efficiency in the allocation of risk, especially risk pertaining to safety.
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8Practice of Principle: In Defence of a Pragmatist Approach to Legal TheoryOxford University Press UK. 2000.Jules Coleman, one of the world's most influential philosophers of law, here expounds his recent views on a range of important issues in legal theory. Coleman offers for the first time an explicit account of the pragmatist method that has long informed his work, and takes on the views of highly respected contemporaries such as Ronald Dworkin and Joseph Raz.
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7Markets, Morals, and the LawCambridge University Press. 1988.This collection of essays by one of America's leading legal theorists is unique in its scope: It shows how traditional problems of philosophy can be understood more clearly when considered in terms of law, economics and political science. There are four sections in the book. The first offers a new version of legal positivism and an original theory of legal rights. The second section critically evaluates the economic approach to law, and the third considers the relationship of justice to liabilit…Read more
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7The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2002.One of the first volumes in the new series of prestigious Oxford Handbooks, The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law brings together specially commissioned essays by twenty-six of the foremost legal theorists currently writing, to provide a state of the art overview of jurisprudential scholarship.
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6Markets, Morals, and the LawOxford University Press UK. 1988.This collection of essays by one of America's leading legal theorists is unique in its scope: It shows how traditional problems of philosophy can be understood more clearly when considered in terms of law, economics and political science.
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6Philosophy and law (edited book)B. Blackwell for the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University. 1987.
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6Hart's Postscript: Essays on the Postscript to `the Concept of Law' (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2000.The Postscript to The Concept of Law contains Herbert Hart's only sustained and considered response to the objections pressed against his views by his distinguished critic, Ronald Dworkin. In this extraordinary collection, many of the leading legal philosophers in the world evaluate the success of Hart's responses to Dworkin on several of these counts. Notable contributors include Joseph Raz of Oxford University and Jules L. Coleman of the Yale Law School.
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6Markets, Morals, and the LawOxford University Press. 1988.This collection of essays by one of America's leading legal theorists is unique in its scope: It shows how traditional problems of philosophy can be understood more clearly when considered in terms of law, economics and political science.
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3Readings in the Philosophy of Law (edited book)Routledge. 1999.An extraordinary collection of the finest essays in the core areas of legal philosophy, _Readings in Philosophy of_ _Law_ is a perfect introduction to the breadth of issues covered in the philosophy of law. The essays are all classic papers chosen as much for their clarity of thought and comprehensiveness as for their distinctiveness and importance to the subject matters of legal philosophy. This collection is ideal for the professional as well as the student, as it brings together classic essay…Read more
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Tort Law and Tort Theory: Preliminary Reflections on MethodIn Gerald J. Postema (ed.), Philosophy and the Law of Torts, Cambridge University Press. pp. 183. 2001.
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MethodologyIn Jules Coleman & Scott J. Shapiro (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law, Oxford University Press. 2002.
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MethodologyIn Jules Coleman & Scott J. Shapiro (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, Oxford University Press. 2002.
Jules Coleman
Constructor University
Florida State University
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The Rockefeller University
Alumnus, 1972