Naturalizing jurisprudence
Subtitle: essays on American legal realism and naturalism in legal philosophy
By: Brian Leiter.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780199299010; 9780199206490
Subjects: Law -- Philosophy.; Realism.; Naturalism.; Jurisprudence -- United States.; Naturalisme.; Realisme (filosofie); Verenigde Staten.
Other titles: Essays on American legal realism and naturalism in legal philosophy.
Description: Gathering together Brian Leiter's most influential essays on the subject of American legal realism, this book provides an overview of his redefinition of legal realism and its relationship with other models of legal and philosophical thought, from naturalism in philosophy to critical legal studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: From legal realism to naturalized jurisprudence; title: A note on legal indeterminacy; title: Part I. American legal realism and its critics; title: Rethinking legal realism: toward a naturalized jurisprudence (1997); title: Legal realism and legal positivism reconsidered (2001); title: Is there an "American" jurisprudence? (1997); title: Postscript to Part I: Interpreting legal realism; title: Part II. Ways of naturalizing jurisprudence; title: Legal realism, hard positivism, and the limits of conceptual analysis (1998, 2001); title: Why Quine is not a postmodernist (1997); title: Beyond the Hart/Dworkin debate: the methodology problem in jurisprudence (2003); title: Part III. Naturalism, morality, and objectivity; title: Moral facts and best explanations (2001); title: Objectivity, morality, and adjudication (2001); title: Law and objectivity (2002).