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    The One-System View and Dworkin’s Anti-Archimedean Eliminativism
    Law and Philosophy 40 (3): 247-276. 2021.
    Many of Dworkin’s interlocutors saw his ‘one-system view’, according to which law is a branch of morality, as a radical shift. I argue that it is better seen as a different way of expressing his longstanding view that legal theory is an inherently normative endeavor. Dworkin emphasizes that fact and value are separate domains, and one cannot ground claims of one sort in the other domain. On this view, legal philosophy can only answer questions from within either domain. We cannot ask metaphysica…Read more
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    Finnis’s theory of law distinguishes between law in the focal sense and law in the legal sense. Law in the focal sense is law that promotes the common good. Citizens may appeal to considerations of...
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    Metaphysics before method?
    Jurisprudence 10 (2): 246-254. 2019.
    Volume 10, Issue 2, June 2019, Page 246-254.